CNN The Situation Room February 27, 2014 23:27:00
Stake. cnn's ted rowlands is there for us. ted? >> reporter: wolf, take a look at this. it's absolutely incredible, this ice jam. we're on the banks of the kankakee river an hour south of chicago. look at these massive chunks of pipes they go on for as far as the eye can see. just a few days ago, they weren't here. the river was frozen, but it was smooth. what happened was we had a few days of warm weather, which started the melting process and got the ice moving, and then it froze up again. and this is the result. the problem, of course, the danger of this is that the massive force that this ...