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Right now in the new york harbor aboard a ferry that throughout the course of the morning has been breaking through small chunks of ice. Talking to some of the crew earlier in the day and they actually had to send out tugboats and theyre breaking up the ice in certain portions just so the ferry can get through. Its so cold i cant take it anymore. Reporter a blast of cold air sending temperatures plummeting to lows not seen in years. In upstate new york the winter shill cold enough to faushlpartially freeze over niagara falls. Not cold enough to keep away tourists. Everybody said it was frozen and i had to see for myself. You see how it is. Beautiful. Reporter in massachusetts, beauty took a back seat as falling ice caused a small gas line explosion at a facility housing alzheimer patients. Several apartments damaged by the blast, but no one hurt. Not far from there, rescuers able to save a man and two dogs who nearly drowned after getting stuck in an icy marsh. With windchills expected to drop near minus 40 in some places people are beginning to feel the toll of this relentless cold snap. Really havent been above freezing in quite a while. Freezing. I just want us to go. No way. All the way across. Reporter along the jersey shore, officials flooded with calls about pipes in homes freezing and bursting open. Fortunately my house inside is dry. Im one of the fortunate one. A matter of getting the pipe fixed after this. Reporter still, the extreme weather hasnt stopped some people in new york from staying positive. Its still worth living here. Only a few months. Before you know it its springtime. Reporter its unbelievably cold, and as it is out here this morning, tomorrow could be worse. Right now the prediction with windchill anywhere from minus 10 to minus 20 tomorrow and, gayle if that was not bad enough there are predictions for snow. Reporter vinita thanks. This friesz freezeeezing weather is blamed for at least 19 deaths this past week many in tennessee where the cold is relentless. Our affiliate is in nashville where another snow and ice storm is coming. Cuthbert langley, good morning. Reporter good morning. Travel behind me looks okay right now that could change later today, because this is a story around much of middle didnt and it the state of tennessee. You can see large piles of ice still on the sidewalks and roads. In fact, this chunk right here is about an inch thick. Later today we are expecting precipitation and for the second time this week an ice storm warning in effect beginning at noon. Crews are out again this morning ahead of the storm clearing and salting the roads. Some parts of the state could see up to four inches of snow. But the biggest concern here is the amount of ice we could see throughout the day. Especially with these freezing temperatures and the timing of the storm is key. While Officials Say folks could be able to get to work this morning, the drive home could be a completely different story. Those temperatures here have not been above freezing for almost a week straight and nearly 6,000 people are without power still this morning. To put it lightly, its been a long few days and as you said these freezing temperatures coupled with the Power Outages is blamed for at least 11 deaths across the state of tennessee, hypothermia being called the cause for at least six of those deaths. Gayle . Got it cuthbert langley, one of the best names on the show. Good to see you. Windchills in the midwest overnight as low as minus 15 in some areas. This relentless cold is treesing the great lakes. This morning 98 of lake erie is covered by ice and that doesnt happen often. Dean reynolds is in chicago where the weather is causing its own lake effect. Good morning. Reporter good morning, and to our viewers in the west good morning. Standing in front of Lake Michigan about 60 frozen over they say. They also say its going to be in the 20s here in chicago later today, which is practically tropical considering that yesterday we didnt even break 7. Subzero windchills here in chicago are making it hard to walk, work or do just about anything outside. Im 55 years omd and never felt a february like this in my life. Reporter officials from aaa spent much of the day dealing with congestion out on the roads. Very busy throughout the midwest. All because of the cold. Reporter the brutal weather is being blamed for dozens of accidents. An assist to covert with a multi vehicle accident. Reporter two people safely umed from this car after it crumbled beneath a semi in michigan, as windchills hit negative 24 in chicago thursday Lake Michigan started to look more like the arctic sea. Its not exactly jampacked. Reporter for Justin Baumgartner a manager at chicagos Millennium Park ice rink, business moved as a glacial pace yesterday. As cold as it gets. Reporter like justin many in the weatherbeaten midwest are accustomed to the chilly temperatures. Three sweatshirts long johns and my jeans. Reporter and share the same attitude. Got to deal with it. Sprinkle comeg springs coming. Reporter interesting win the fashion statements. One of my favorite pap cross bean yosemite sam and anukea of the north. Wouldnt you say . It works for you. Really good. What a beautiful shot with the sun coming up in winter wonderland. Looks good. Dean looks good. And chief weathercaster for wcbs is here in studio 57. Lonnie, good morning. I think a lot of folks asking, what its going on with all of this cold air . Its not all cold air. Keep in mind, the cold air drops in from canada sets up on the eastern half of the United States, but the jet stream for you folks on the west coast, the big ridge is set up all that warm air fills in. Look at alaska. Alaska for the iditarod dogsled race theres not enough snow to start in anchorage. Had to move it to fairbanks. The northeast fills up with cold air at least 20 degrees below normal, at least. From mean florida. Right now windchill warnings and advisories east of the mississippi a hard freeze warning this morning in south florida. Daytona beach, youre below freezing. And then for the weekend, look at another snowstorm for the northeast, but this time and the stories have all been about boston, all the snow theyve had, it becomes too warm even in boston on sunday for snow. It will transition over to rain. Kind of a mess out there. Just want to touch upon all of this cold air youre hearing about on the east coast. Yes, records set, this day in history. Not the coldest temperatures ever for the east coast. A plies like new york city say, record cold 13 degrees below zero, it will be about 1 today in new york city. Norah, over to you. Wow. Lonnie, thanks. This morning, the fda is warning doctors in hospitals about the medical devices behind the superbug. The agency says certain medical scopes could spread deadly bacteria among patients. Nearly 180 people may have been exposed to the bug at Ucla Medical Center in los angeles. And doctors stress there is no threat to the public. Omar, good morning. Reporter good morning to viewers here in the west. This is a type of device thats causing all of the problems. Its an endoscope thats found similar in these hospitals and might be carrying that infectious bacteria. This part of the scope goes down a patients throat through their stomach and into the lower intestine. Theres a tiny camera at the end of it and a moveable metal parts so doctors can manipulate a catheter. It also can move left to right and all of these moving parts are what make this device so difficult to sanitize. Very sorry about some of the anxiety and concern the situation has posed for our patients as well as our community. Reporter exposure to the socalled superbug called consider cre happened between october and january, doctors using devices called endoscopes that my not have been properly cleaned. Meticulously go through the patient charts and ensure they were indeed exposed. Reporter these types of scopes are a common medical tool that doctors use to inspect a patients digeste digestive track. With small moveable parts and bending, its not easy to sterilize. They can grow up in moisture that remains in the scope overnight and become millions to billions of organisms by the next morning. Reporter one infected 18yearold High School Student spent months in the icu fighting the superbug but his lawyer does not blame the hospital. He claims the scopes manufacturer changed the device last year without changing its cleaning protocol. A change you can market to doctors and say, look what weve done. Now this is a year to use, but too often i think overlook the next step which is weve ensured this change doesnt make the device dangerous. Reporter olympus, the medical Company Supplies the endoscopes to ucla hospital released a statement thursday saying they are working with the fda relevant medical societys and our customers regarding these concerns. That was the company the statement. Omar thank. And american Officials Saying up to 25,000 iraqi soldiers will be part of a spring offensive to retake mosul, the city fell to isis in june. In istanbul and whether the forces will be ready for the fight. Holly, good morning. Reporter good morning. We were in iraq earlier this month, and senior figures there told us a spring offensive on mosul is simply unrealistic. Some of them say the earliest they could be ready is in the fall. An American Military official says 10,000 iraqi soldiers have gone through training with the u. S. And its Coalition Partners and theyll lead the push on isis this spring backed by u. S. Led air strikes. Just outside of mosul, another 3,000 men, mostly policemen, are being trained to help retake iraqs second largest city. But very few have any fighting experience, and theyve told us theyre still short of weapons. Also involved will be these kurdish soldiers known as the peshmerga. By far the strongest fighting force in northern iraq. From a hilltop overlooking mosul in october, they showed us territory theyve clawed back from the extremists but as members of an ethnic minority kurdish fighters will be views as foreign invaders if they try to recapture mosul alone, and this month their commanders told us theyre still massively outgunned by isis. What kind of equipment does isis have that you lack . Isis seized weapons from both syria and the iraqi army. So we are talking about at least 1,500 humvees. Youre talking about 155 howitzer americans. Talking Armored Vehicles talking about tanks, heavy machine guns. Loads of ammunition. Reporter if this mosul offensive does go ahead in the spring its still not clear whether it will involve u. S. Military advisers who are already on the ground in iraq. Charlie . Holly, thanks. Ahead, fighting terrorism online while some lawmakers are calling on social media sites to take more responsibility in the battle against isis. In a is in our next half hour. Two trains collided overnight in switzerland leaving at least five passengers injured. It happened in a small town 20 miles north of zurich. A highspeed train slammed into a commuter train forcing one of the cars off the track. Passengers say the commuter train had just left the station. It is not clear why this accident happened. In las vegas this morning a suspected road rage kill sir in custody after a twohour standoff and yet another twist in the case of the mother gurnshooter. Reporter arrested around 1 00 p. M. S. W. A. T. Teams demands surrender. Police believe the gun that killed tammy meyers mour of four but not alone. We have an belongs to mrs. Meyers and her family to be thorough and methodical. Theres still one more suspect to locate. Reporter they can actually neighbors. Houses just a block apart. Get the [ bleep ] cameras off what can i help you thats my house and thats my son. Reporter the mother arrived in the middle of the standoff. Theres the animal a block away reporter meyers husband robert also lashed out at reporters on the scene. The deadly encounter happened last thursday night when meyers was giving her daughter crystal a driving lesson. Suspect apparently became angered when crystal honked the car horn at him. After a confrontation, police say tammy meyers took her daughter home. Then drove off with her 22yearold son brandon who was armed with a gun. Her family says they were trying to draw the suspect away from their house. She was protecting me. Thats all she was doing. Reporter when they returned a shootout erupted and tammy meyers, 44, was struck in the head. I did what i had to do to protect my family. Everyone can think what they have to think. I did it for a reason. Reporter nowschs social media account is filled with images of marijuana. Robert meyers said his wife spent many hours trying to help nowsch. Really good to him. Fed him. Gave him money. Told him to pull his papts up and be a man. Meyers died two days after the shooting when her family took her off life support. For cbs this morning, im John Blackstone. Closing arguments could come today in the american sniper murder trial in texas. Attorneys mounting an insanity defense for Eddie Ray Routh rested their case yesterday. Psychiatrists testified routh thought he was protecting himself when he killed navy s. E. A. L. Chris kyle and his friend. Told the jury Mental Illness prevented routh from knowing what he did was wrong. Prosecutors dispute that and plan to call rebuttal witnesses today. And this morning two nfl teams, San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders have a plan to build a stadium to sharp the l. A. Area and would cost 1. 7 billion. The teams say they would only move if they cannot get new stadiums in their own cities. The chargers play their first season in los angeles before moving south. The raiders played there from 1984 to 94. Here in new york we know sharing stadiums works. So nice to have something in l. A. Australia is cleaning up after a pair of ferocious cyclones blasted parts of the country early today. Winds up to 180 miles an hour destroyed dozens of homes. 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