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Kenneth bae seen here as a press conference earlier this month was arrested last november and sentenced to 15 years hard labor for anti-government activity. today a top u.s. envoy urged the north to release him saying he is in poor health and needs to return home. also today, his mother and sister are meeting with secretary of state john kerry as they continue to fight for his release. jenna: a story, deep freeze in the nation today. sub zero temperatures stretching all the way from the midwest down to the gulf coast. jonathan is live in montgomery, alabama with more on this. >> hi, jenna. the...

Some record low temperatures, victor? >> reporter: well, a coat, gloves, and a hat is -- even with those, it's still hard to prepare for the temperatures we're seeing today, and will see tomorrow. i do want to update that list of school closures you just announce announcements the, wolf. for the safety of students and employees, they will close schools tomorrow on january 7th. we can also tell you, the city was prepared for black ice. let's take a look at the roads. we're looking at i-75 and i-85 here, where things are moving along smoothly. but there was this fear that overnight all of yester...

[ squeals ] ♪ and you do the best you can ♪ i got lost in this old world ♪ ♪ and forgot who i am another weekend, another winter storm. parts of the country dealing with freezing rain, snow and ice over the last few days. the conditions brought down trees and power lines, as you see there, causing outages for thousands of people. it also made for some dangerous travel conditions as well. joining me now is weather channel meteorologist mike bettes. nice to see you. you guys were busy this weekend and today. >> we've got a lot of things to cover. take a look at the radar, it is colorfu...

Average of 38 hours in 2011. that up from 34 hours the year before. that is four hours longer than the average employee works in a week. joining us now jerry willis, i feel like you can spend that long on the long island expressway. where is it the worse? >> it's the worst in d.c. awful. it can take three hours for a 30 minute ride. >> i would have guessed houston. >> i thought san francisco. you can go anywhere in san francisco. you might as well forget about it. new york, boston. boston is awful. so tiny and nobody can go anywhere. so, this -- >> shepard: there's houston. atlanta, i-85, they...

Dozen more sentenced to hang. the military struggling to keep order an egypt's president meeting with his top generals. >> rick: the latest in smartphone technology, "consumer reports" is here to tell us which new advances you may want and the costly bells and whistles you should try to avoid. ♪ >> arthel: we begin with the dangerous weather system bringing new troubles, ice and freezing rain making its way across the country, right now. causing serious problems on the roads, drivers are coping the best they can and out right treacherous conditions, there have been thousands of wrecks on h...