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The bitter cold now dipping as far south as charleston, south carolina. icy conditions forcing officials to shut down multiple bridges. for millions, it will be the coldest new years eve in decades. feeling like minus 8 in boston and a minus 25 degree wind chill in minneapolis -- you can get frostbite in just 30 minutes. in new york, it will feel like 4 below zero when the ball drops. meanwhile on the ice-caked great lakes, residents not done digging out from over five feet of snow. and now bracing for up to another 18 inches. >> more than a foot of snow still on the way there in erie. alex jo...

Saturday. the air does not warm up. it's going to be a long-term cold event. and for new york city, your normal highs should be 40. when the ball drops, the temperature will be 10. and the windchill will be zero or below. so that's why they put 7 million people in that little space to keep everyone kind of warm. >> that's right, but on the risers, where anderson and andy will be, and i don't know if you've ever covered it in times square, it is so bone chilling, you cannot get warm for like hours after you go inside. it's exciting and exhilarating and freezing. >> chad, get a load of my assign...

We're watching. enjoy the 29 in new york city here. what's in store here really drops us down eventually into the lower 20's by new year's eve. single digits when the ball drops. okay. thanks very much. some investors may be wishing 2017 never ends. that's because the dow has had its best year since 2013. it's up 25% for the year and if the holiday spirit winds up lifting spirits again, we could see the dow go above 26.5% by the end of the year. it would make it the strongest gain since 1995 when it spiked 33%. it's not just the dow on fire. the s&p 500 is up 20% for the year. that's the bes...

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Place allows additional snow to come down here in the form of lake effect snow. we have an area of about 50 million people here who have windchill advisories as cold as 35 below zero. these are dangerous enough in a matter of 20 to 30 minutes you'll have permanent damage to your skin. 39 below zero what it feels like. in chicago minus 18 at this hour. the windchill and the pattern continues to stretch really for much of this region, minus 11 in detroit. feels like zero and that's the start of it. you talk about protect the three p es, the pets, the pipes, the plants. and it's going to be a mul...