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Today. a once in a generation weather event is playing out across the country right now as frigid and potentially deadly arctic blasts sweep across the country, shatters cold records, even president biden is issuing a warning. >> it's not like a snow day, you know, when you're a kid. this is serious stuff. please take this storm extremely seriously. >> more than 110 million people are under winter alerts coast to coast for snow and icy conditions that are bad and getting worse. planning a holiday road trip? you might want to reconsider. this is what it looks like trying to drive in cheyenne, w...

Highs. >> the reality is we're living in an era of extremes. extreme heat, extreme drought. and with the flooding that we're experiencing around the globe. >> reporter: so far this year across the u.s. nearly 300 all-time heat records have been set. that's compared to only three all-time cold records set in that same time period according to noaa records. >> this summer and reelly in recent years we've seen extraordinary drought events during the summer months in particular. >> reporter: in the northeast a flash drought has developed as several major northeast cities just finished one of the h...

Intense streak of the entire year. this summer, we've already seen extreme weather all across this country, from droughts to flooding, and the evidence shows the climate crisis is only accelerating. here is cnn's jennifer gray. >> the hots are getting a lot hotter. we're living in an age of extremes. >> reporter: heading into the long holiday weekend, tens of millions of americans are under heat alerts in the west as yet another heatwave looks to topple more than 100 record highs. >> the reality is we're living in an era of extremes. extreme heat, extreme drought. and with the flooding we're e...

>> reporter: david, harris county officials said they managed to administer 5,400 of those doses. and we actually have a striking image of people lined up at rice university where they gave out about 1,000 of those vaccines. and after receiving guidance from moderna, the unused doses, about 3,000 of them, were able to be re-refrigerated to be administered at a later time. david? >> marcus moore leading us off tonight. marcus, thank you. let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee, timing out this next storm for us. hi, ginger. >> reporter: hi, david. we started this morning breaking all-...

Warehouse fire, leaving this small community in mourning once again. meg oliver, cbs news. >> o'donnell: tonight, much of the country is still stuck in a historic deep freeze. bone-chilling temperatures extend from the gulf coast to maine. snow and ice are making travel treacherous. at least nine deaths are blamed on the weather. 150 new cold records were set today in. in some places temperatures dropped 40 degrees in just 24 hours. more records could fall overnight before this warm-up begins. hopefully soon. and there is still much more ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." a dire warning fr...