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City are falling fast. freezing rain blanketing many of the roadways making for a dangerous treacherous commute here and across the northeast. >> from the north to the south touchdown temperatures are the concern. let's get to rob marciano tracking it all, including what's behind all this. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. just north of new york city and temperatures are below freezing the. roads, the swabs, they're icing up. the bridge behind me, no doubt, is getting slick. the precip is on top of that cold air that's infiltrating the northeast. it's pretty wide. several hours of icing here. ...

. it is the first full day of competition at the beijing winter olympics. u.s. snowboarding champion, shaun white announcing his retirement. white who has won three gold medals and become the face of snowboarding said this olympics will be his last competition. three american women have qualified for sunday's slope style final, hailey, all completing in minus 12 degrees weather. the u.s. hockey team facing the russians without a star player. brianna decker is out for the rest of the games after a collision with a finnish player earlier this week. a lot of talk off the slopes about china's de...

Russian skater kamila valiyeva. >> the wind can play such a factor. >> reporter: with just a few events left the fiercest competitor on the mountain was the weather. minus 12 degrees and wind so strong the alpine team competition was postponed. freestyle skiers had to dump out of high flying tricks on the halfpipe with some scary looking crashes. >> no. >> felt like i was jumping into a tornado. >> reporter: in the end the americans nabbed silver and bronze while in bobsled elana meyers taylor won her fifth olympic medal. >> elana gets bronze. >> reporter: celebrating with sylvia hoffman. a lo...

Between ukraine and poland where so many have headed. and i can see from your demeanor, it is absolutely freezing again there today, and so lots of these refugees, including little people, who have walked such a long way, and they're absolutely freezing. and they don't know what happens next. looking at the temperature here, it's minus 7, with a wind chill factor of minus 12. so you know, that gives you an idea of how bitterly cold it is. it is snowing most of the time. it is not currently but it is much of the day. and as you said, most of them, they are fleeing on foot. they can't bring vehi...

Years old, comes from the sumy region, 200 miles east of the capital city of kyiv, evacuated to poland. she spoke to cameras there, what she had to say, listen. >> you know thousands of people want to leave but they cannot leave. minus 12°. it was cold. just couldn't leave and they are going back home. >> there is no life now. i couldn't stay there. like i couldn't even take a shower for two weeks because i cannot even realize. >> daria talking about the inhumane condition, minus 12 celsius, freezing, no food, she could not take a shower. she says her mother lives across the border in russia,...