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Winter storms from the Pacific Northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, weve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. Coastal flooding, gail forced winds, Blizzard Conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the Ohio Turnpike that took one life at least. Were also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. C cnn Polo Sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at ohare. We begin with Polo Sandoval. What can you tell us about the stra...

officials caution severe pediatric cases are on the rise in several states. gift cards, boom or bust? they are seemingly everywhere this time of year. cbs' carter evans reports many go unused, wasting billions of dollars. and "on the road." cbs' steve hartman looks at the true meaning of extended family. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> garrett: good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm major garrett in for norah. tonight, more than 200 million ameramericans are under some fof winter storm advisory heading int...

can't rent a car to go back to boseman. there's no flights back to boseman, no flights to nashville until christmas eve or christmas or like the 26th. so stressed. >> boy, oh boy. that's the situation at the airport. but then out on the roads, people at home with no elect electricity. good morning, it is friday, december 23rd, poppy and kaitlan are off. sara sidner is with me. >> i'm happy to be here. usually i'm out there and you're in here. >> but it's dangerous and getting worse by the minute. we're covering the blizzard wreaking havoc ahead of the holidays nationwide. living in...

top of the hour. i'm jim sciutto. in short, it is cold. the powerful winter storm battering the u.s., expected to grow even stronger and colder today, covering nearly half of the u.s. population. parts of the country could see the coldest christmas in decades. sub-zero temperatures hitting hard out west. here is the owner of a local towing company in montana speaking with cnn this morning. >> it is cold up here. if you ain't prepared for it, it could be really bad. i've been here 20 years and this is the worst i've ever felt. >> wow, tough time to be a towing company. right now hundr...

hello, welcome to "cnn newsroom." we begin with this monster winter storm. its core is hovering over the great lakes, and its trailing arctic air is causing power outages and dangerous travel conditions two days before christmas. life-threatening windchills have permeated all the way to the gulf coast, over 70 million americans are experiencing below freezing temperatures, that includes the entire state of texas. this video's from kentucky where the governor has just confirmed three people have died as a result of this storm. and this from our affiliate whbq in memphis, tennessee, th...