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In the bottom of the crater. >> reporter: sliding down a 50-degree slope, the carlsons speed right past of members of the all volunteer portland mountain rescue team. they finally stop but are facing a new threat ice chunks the size of bowling balls careening downhill. to protect the injured couple, rescuers form a human shield for six hours. >> shoulder to shoulder and stop the ice that was coming down the mountain. >> what does that say to you? >> they're the heroes today. >> reporter: the oregon national guard airlifted the couple to a hospital. michelle carlson has two broken ankles. her h...

Massive ice chunks stacking up dangerously high. >> we don't want it all to break at once. that won't be good. >> reporter: local governments are spending millions on snow removal and unpatching pot holes. millions of us are expected to be hit with massive heating bills heating oil, natural gas and propane are all in demand. customers in new york should expect a 16% increase on their february heating bill from the same time last year. michigan will see a 13% increase. in illinois, it could be as high as 30%. >> all right. that's in chicago. back to him later in the show. let's get over to indr...

Everything that's liquid on the ground will be frozen tomorrow. all of these things that just look like a slushy pile will be ice chunks for the rest of i think at least two more weeks. because we're not going to warm up at all. this is going to take 50 or 60 degrees to melt this ice. this is going to be treacherous to walk around the city for many weeks to come, wolf. >> yeah, so everybody has got to be really, really careful. what about air travel? how is the storm affecting air travel? >> reporter: well, you're either delayed or cancelled. that's basically it. we have 2,700 cancellations ri...

Issuing a state of emergency for san francisco and the cities, and it gives you a sense of how wide the impact is and how big the fire is and how wide of an area it is affecting, i should say. >> nick valencia, thank you. at first glance you might think that this is snow, but actually it's not. this is hail. it's a blanket of ice chunks coating parts of denver, and the hail hit the streets so much that the snowplows had to be called in. it came with toreants of rain, and one driver said the water came up so fast it quickly covered the hood of his car. >> let's talk hail and fire with alexand...

There it goes. >> oh, my god, their door's in. >> what you see right there, a wall of ice. about three feet high, moving as fast at two feet per minute. that ice went up to push against a row of houses even breaking through a glass door at one point inside one of those homes. pretty amazing. how does something as crazy as that even happen? for more we turn to nbc meteorologist dylan dryer. >> thanks, craig. yes, an interesting situation going on across the lake in northern minnesota. finally the eyesout happened. what's going on, winds have been so strong over that lake out of the northwest, u...