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Happy thursday to you. i'm victor blackwell. welcome to "cnn newsroom." starting with warnings of life-threatens cold. an arctic surge is pushing south and a bomb cycle in the west. a once in a generation event. 100 million people under windchill alerts extending from canada to mexico. grow go to east kansas. what you can see there. almost no of kansas can you see. feels like negative 6 degrees. officials in idaho as low as 61 degrees. blizzard warnings in iowa, indiana, ohio, michigan. travel conditions could become

South of council bluff to the missouri border has been breached. how do you fix them? >> and in dodge, wisconsin, a farmer there says this is the worst his family has ever seen and too much for them to handle. the damage to the agriculture industry is expected to be significant. all of those ranches and farms under feet of water, shep? >> shepard: alicia acuna live for us. get to meteorologist adam klotz in the extreme weather center. were the water levels expected to go down? when, exactly? >> shepard, unfortunately it's going to take a little while. the story is we were talking about this bo...

But this year two storms had everyone talking about. >> bomb cyclone. >> bomb cyclone. >> so what is a bomb cyclone? it is not just a nor'easter. it is a big storm that develops rapidly. there is warm air over the ocean. there is very cold air over the land and a jet stream in between. that allows the storm to rapidly intensify, develop into a nor'easter, but a big one. that's the technical term. so not every know easter is a bomb cycle. two struck this year. the first in early january left 19 dead and caused over a billion dollars in damages. as the storm worked its way up the coast, it broug...

The first contestant to buzz and gets to answer. each one you get wrong, you lose a point. best of five wins. question one. this is easy. it is winter. the east coast is getting pounded by an extreme weather system which is unleashing blizzard-like conditions. the name of this weather system is characteristically overheated, as is often the case and meteorology. what are the congress weather system? shannon bream? >> grayson. >> tucker: grayson is your answer? >> that is the name of the storm, right? >> tucker: i don't know if that is true. i'm going to have to go to the tape. >> tens of milli...