Lake michigan. You can see the polar vortex in action and lawrence weve been hearing a lot about this polar vortex. What exactly is it . That has been the big buzz word over the last couple of days. A polar vortex is not uncommon. In fact they continue to psych it will poles around cycle the poles around and most of the area. Just this year its a little extensive more extensive in fact. Weve seen all the cold arctic air, tens of thousands of feet deep spreading all the way to the deep south. In fact that cold air bringing very rare temperatures all the way to the south. Some record cold temperatures in fact these numbers very unusual to see the cold air. Not only that the cold temperatures is expected a high of only 2 degrees in minneapolis today. 7 degrees in chicago. Only 14 in new york city. To go along with that though weve got some very strong winds. So a windchill warning up for much of those areas as well as thats going to make the skin freeze in a matter of minutes. With more on the arctic blast, heres marlie hall in new york. Reporter its so cold in embarrass, minnesota frost is forming on peoples faces. This is the natural way of life for you. So you just live with it and you just put on another bundle of clothes and come on out. Reporter what may be a natural way of life in embarrass is unnatural for the rest of us. Its very cold. Unbearably cold actually. Reporter a polar vortex is bringing cold air and biting winds from the north pole. Forecasters say about 187 million americans are in a deep freeze. The big story about all this has been the breadth of the cold. So many folks seeing unusually cold air and windchill warnings and advisories, not often you see that map with that much coverage. Reporter its been racing south and east and here in new york City Temperatures plummeted more than 40 degrees in the last 24 hours. New yorkers are waking up to single digit temperatures and windchills below zero. The weather is partly to blame for jet blues decision monday to ground all of its planes coming into and out of new york and boston. In Chicago American Airlines said it canceled flights because the fuel was freezing. Marlie hall for cbs news, new york. Flight cancellations and delays are also scrambling the plans of travelers right here in the bay area and kpix 5s mark kelly is at sfo this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning michelle. I just checked the big board inside sfo. And it looks like for jet blue passengers, this could be a happier travel day for them. All the jet blue flights including the ones to new york and boston scheduled to be on time this morning. But not all passengers here are going to be so lucky today. Four flights from sfo to the east coast canceled. Eight arrivals from the east coast to sfo canceled. All the flights are out of newark, milwaukee, chicago, boston, and jfk. Now this has been a wild couple of days for all these airlines. 19 canceled flights here at sfo in total yesterday. Many of those chicagobound. And many passengers have to waitdays now the for waitdays now for their next flight. Theres nothing i can do. I suggested to family to a different state but they cant do it. Reporter so the good news is at least for jet blue passengers it looks like their flights are going to be on time. Coming up at 5 30 were going to talk to the jet blue passengers here in line now and see what they have to say. Mark kelly, kpix 5. If your plane was canceled dont show up at the airport. The airline will call you or contact them to rebook. Niners and charlotte this weekend. It is 7 degrees there. Although its going to warm up i guess. It will be a lot warmer tango bay elizabeth. I knee, isnt that brutal . I used to live in north carolina, all the friends there are posting on facebook get me out of here. We should be so grateful in the weather conditions here. And hitting the roads this morning, things are really quiet. No need for any ice scrapers and its all good. And things are quiet in the south bay except for the one problem. It is on the right hand shoulder though. So even with this accident out there its not even causing a delay. Its northbound 101 at tully but a headsup if you pass by it in the next few minutes. If youre about to hit your morning commute. Thatsout there. And chp is going to the scene now. But in the meantime the rest of the bay area heres a live look at 101 traffic. This is past candle stick and obviously everything is good and even down towards the airport. I cant guarantee the flight is going to be on time but everything is quiet getting there. All moving at the speed limit. Milpitas commute. Heres a live look at westbound 237. No delays still leaving there and were used to looking valley drivers. And westbound 580 we have just begun to see a few brake lights now. This is leaving the pass and next to the delays begin on 205 in tracy and continue to north glen. Then we see the sensors show green again. Once you get into the Livermore Valley and a quick check of the bridges. This is the san mateo bridge. 14 minutes in either direction between heyward and foster city. Back to you guys. Police say they have found the woman who played a key role if finding David Douglas and the little girl hes accused of kidnapping last friday. Police say pittsburg target store Security Guard spotted him the morning of the abduction. She decided to write down his license number because he was acting to strangely. He was pacing back and forth. He was like changing his clothes in the parking lot. He started messing around with his backpack and at one point he was sitting in the car and like shaking his steering wheel. When ramirez heard about the amber alert later this night, shell called the police with a license plate number and a short time later officers found him and the girl at the antioch marina. Douglas admitted in a jailhouse interview afterwards with the Bay Area News Group that he kidnapped the girl. A student pleaded not guilty to hate crime and battery charges. 18yearold Logan Beaschler was in court yesterday. He and three others are accused of harassing their African American roommate. The group allegedly champed a bike lock on the victims neck and tormented him with racial slurs. All four have been suspended from the school and beaschler faces up to a year in jail if convicted. The other suspects have not entered a plea. A Chinese National has been arrested for an arson attack on the chinese consulate in San Francisco. The building was heavily damaged in the new years day fire. The fbi says yon fang called police and confessed two days later. The suspect told authorities he was hearing voices in chinese leading him to believe the consulate was involved. Hes facing two charges of maliciously damaging property. Jahi mcmath is at a new medical Facility Office being transferred from after being transferred from Childrens Hospital oakland. She is now with a Catholic Organization willing to care for the child. Theyre keeping the location is secret though because the family received Death Threats from all around the country. Its a sad sad thing when you are fighting for somebodys rights and people feel this need to vomit their hatred. Mcmaths family says the girl had not had food in weeks and they say the brain dead teen is in bad shape. They claim the lack of nutrition cent today criminated to her contributed to her condition. In news around the bay an 85yearold pipe from 1929 burst in San Franciscos sunnyside neighborhood. People on two blocks had to do without Running Water for hours yesterday as city crews fixed the problem. Marin county board of supervisors will meet today to discuss transportation and visitor access to my woods. People in the area say visitors clog roads and that impacts businesses. Locals and many county leaders would like to see a cap on how many people can visit the Muir Woods National monument. This meeting is at 9 30 in san rafael in the chambers. Coming up shes back at it. Madonna sparking an online backlash after posting a photo of her son to instagram. And four k tvs, and all the goofy interesting stuff at ces. Im kiet do with a live look at the Consumer Electronics show coming up in a report after the break. And has radiation from japans fukushima plant finally reached californias coasts . 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New satellite orbiting earth right now. The private Company Space x launched it from cape canaveral. Florida. This was yesterday and the sigh come 6 telecommunications slight will help provide satellite will help provide to northeast asia. Its happening today the opening of the annual Consumer Electronics show. The big thing down in las vegas. Yeah, its the biggest tech event of the year. And kpix 5 reporter kiet do is at intel headquarters in santa clara. The next big things will be the wearable electronics, right . Reporter yeah were live here because the company made some big announcements regarding wearable tech and were talking at watches and headsets. They also announced a dedicated chip to put inside these devices. Along with a Million Dollar prize to anybody who invents the best product out there. Now intel along with 2700 other companies from 130 countries are in las vegas right now. Las vegas is a tech playground as inventors from around the world unveil tens of thousands of gadgets at this years Consumer Electronics show. The biggest ones and both literally and figuratively are the ultra hdtvs. Reporter mark is executive director of the online tech magazine end gadget. He says tv its are stretching well sets are stretching well beyond 100 inches and manufacturers are bending the rules with curved tvs. Designed to improve the viewing experience. The manufacturers have a hard time convincing consumers that they need one . Well, initially i think that you know, a lot of people just upgraded to hd a few years ago. So a lot of people are not quite red did to upgrade ready to upgrade to yet another standard for tvs. Reporter wearable tech is big this year too. But its the quirky devices that can leave heads spinning. French designer bars invented the jumping sumo a tablet controls the tiny robot and its got a mounted camera to bring the action to you. You playing video games and you playing whats game deseener has designed for you but you can design for yourself whatever you want. Reporter ces runs through friday. And 150,000 people will be there. Cbs and cnet have this thing covered look for stories throughout the week. All right weve seen 4 k tvs in the store, the picture looks pretty amazing, whats the catch and what is that all about . Reporter yeah, you know, to really see the benefit of 4 k tvs, you have to get a really big screen. Something in the neighborhood of 50 plus inches and also nobodys broadcasting in 4 k right now. Not even cbs. So really theres not a lot of whole content out there but theyre working on it as you know. Get ahead of the curve. Kiet do thank you. Well, take a look at the picture, this is madonnas 13 yearold son in the middle with two of his friend each holding a bottle of liquor. The instagram picture was posted by her herself. The caption said the party is just begun. Bring it. 2014. Well, her fans thought they were outraged madonna later posted quote no one was drinking. We were just having fun. Calm down. And get a sense of humor. Well, madonna is trending this morning. Also trending, polar vortex, the historic freeze that paralyzed the midwest is moving eastward now. Gay marriage, the Supreme Court halted same sex marriage in utah on monday. Michael bay the transformers megadirector fled the stage after his teleprompter malfunctioned. And floridas yeah. Florida state the seminoles they rallied in the Fourth Quarter to win bcs title and remember you can follow us on twitter cbssf. I stayed up to watch the end of the game. I like it though went to bed before it but what a finish and i know liz you were glued to the tube. Youre a big Florida State. I went to bed early last night for a change. I heard the cheering coming from the living room though. Hitting the roads nothing exciting out there right now. Very excite and even quiet and even the overnight roadwork past 5 00 a lot of that has been picked up. Good to go right now past downtown oakland exits and continuing heading southbound those headlights are southbound traffic. And it looks like that all the way down toward 92 into heyward. In fact all of your East Bay Drive times for the most part are still pretty much in the clear. Westbound 24 at telegraph. You can see everything moves nicely out of the tunnel. Into the mcarthur maze and out to the bay bridge toll plaza. No metering lights yet. But they turned them on yesterday. The meters lights are back in business as people head back to work after the holidays. Heres a live look for the computers and once again westbound 237 moving well. Out into Silicon Valley and westbound 585 this is one of the first spots the back up and you can see the delays beginning to about north glen. Thing are bet every into the valley and interchange. Thats your latest traffic. Heres lawrence with another check of the forecast. Liz at least you can see the clouds outside. Havent seen much of that during the winter and hopefully getting rain here soon. Right now the clouds continuing to roll on by if youre headed out the door. Going to see more of the clouds into the afternoon. And even some slightly cooler temperatures outside as High Pressure holding on. Just enough to keep most of the rain away but that could change. More clouds on the way with some weaker weather systems. And at least a chance of showers as we get into thursday. Heres your latest system passing across the bay area. Some clouds out there now then a weak trough thats going to slide on through bringing us more clouds through the afternoon as well. Around the state theres a chance you could see some showers to eureka about 54 degrees. 60s into the Central Valley and about 60 degrees in the monterey bay. Interestingly the computer models try and bring this system on shore. Maybe some light sprinkles north of the Golden Gate Bridge today but not going to be much. I think otherwise were going to keep things dry. But i think it promises Better Weather at least a better chance of rain coming up in the near future. Temperatures today will be cooler though. 63 in santa clara and milpitas and about 59degrees with the sea breeze at pacifica. The numbers coming down for some record numbers we had this past weekend. Still about 64 degrees in oakland and 60 in San Francisco. Next couple of days at least we introduce a slight chance of showers into thursday. I think a better chance of some rain drops as we head in towards saturday. Then return to sunshine and unusually warm temperatures near 70 degrees by monday. All right, lets check out your sunrise time today is at 7 25. Sunsets at 5 07 and days are getting longer guys. We like that. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you lawrence. 5 18 now. A startup is whipping up new inventions to solve the states lack of water problem. Mo oasis has invented bounty jell. They can release the crops when the crops water when the crops need it the most. After irrigation the water is turned into a jell that releases moisture slowly down into the roots. In california, population doubling and there is no more water. The amount we have is what we have. So to use that, thats the game changer. Not only in california but on a global base sis. The substance has been field tested at uc davis and farms and they report astounding results astounding results. A 25 higher crop yield. Mo oasis needs to raise 10 million in capital to begin full scale production. Well, a viral Youtube Video is spreading concern that radiation from japans plant may have reached californias coast. Take a look for yourself. The videos creator is on pacificas state beach and is using a geiger county to measure radiation. As he walks toward the water the counter shows radiation levels dramatically increase. A uc berkeley professor says not to worry, those levels are occurring naturally. Someone going around for the first time with a Geiger Counter is likely to discover these great variations in levels from time to time. Thats absolutely no correlation with anything that happened in fukushima. Researchers at the labs and state Health Officials deny theres any fallout from fukushima. Not even to bay area fish. 5 20. Forget seeing red. This fall saw orange, what the woman saw about her scary encounter coming up. Hey just ahead i have a question for you. What would you rather do . Be on the losing side of the bcs National Title game or not make the game at all . Both auburn and Florida State took their shots down in pasadena last night. We got highlights. Od luck usat cleane