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Dubois tonight, a frigid start to the new year. Records are broken, flights are canceled and firefighters battle flames with frozen hoses. Eric fischer has the forecast. Don dahler on the first test for some new mayors. A Supreme Court justice blocks the contraception requirement in the Health Care Law. Chip reid on the challenge brought by a group of nuns. The colorado experiment. Its now legal for adults to buy marijuana for recreational use. And Manuel Bojorquez introduces us to a social worker who found a new way to give her clients a lift. Its my character. Captioning sponsored by cbs thi...

Dubois good evening and happy new year. Scott is off tonight, im maurice dubois. This is our western edition. 2014 has begun with much of the country in the grip of an arctic blast. Snow is falling in the upper midwest. Tonight temperatures will once again drop well below zero in some places and all that cold air is headed east and a major snowstorm is forecast from the midatlantic to new england. We have a team of correspondents covering this. We begin in chicago with Chris Martinez of our cbs station wbbm. Chris . Reporter maurice, heavy snow squalls are forecasted for the rest of the night....

The first storm of the 2007-2008 season was just like the one this year. It was a lot of heavy, wet snow falling on relatively warm pavement and then quickly followed by an extended deep freeze. I had Rhodes-Conway’s job at the time.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has unveiled a sidewalk snow removal pilot program, but 13th Ward Ald. Marty Quinn says it will be costly and difficult.

Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Cole Stallard said Friday his crews have trimmed 53,188 trees since Jan. 1, a vast improvement over the 19,525 trees trimmed during the same period a year ago.