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Survey in trying to figure out exactly how this melting ice could affect global warming. the problem is getting there. our crew as i said was stuck at resolute bay and let's go back to the photos. and the town there of roughly 250 residents throughout the region. the problem is, the jet stream was cut out of from this low and we had nothing to push this low out of the way. you can see looks like very chilly conditions indeed, but the weather is rather cold. you should typically see minus 24. they're there in a warm period. temperatures right now peeking around minus 17 to minus 19 on thursday,...

So that sounds pretty good right about now. >> sure does. rob marciano is in the extreme weather center for us this morning. >> driving to work this morning snowing and you saw a dusting. any other year, we would be going bananas in atlanta. this is small potatoes to what we have seen and compared to what has been going on around the rest of the mid south from memphis to nashville and back through little rock and, yeah, across parts of the southern plains, just unbelievable cold temperatures right now. in many cases, all-time record lows. these are feels like temperatures meaning the windchill...

Weather headlines. rob marciano, they are breaking records for cold all over the country? >> when you get two feet of snow in a spot, that is pretty much -- talk about an icebox. what they did in the old days, throw cubes of ice in the fridge and you got it. feels like minus 19 in chicago and minus 18 in kansas city. minus 13 is the feels like temperature in gage. as far as what these numbers are doing away from some of the larger reporting sites, bartlesvil bartlesville, oklahoma, actual measured temperature is 27 below zero and ties the all-time record for oklahoma, as a matter of fact. wich...

But it's the windchill that gets your attention. minus 19 in boston, negative 16 in hartford. it's northern new england where it's actually dangerous. if you're outside for, like, ten minutes, you can get frostbite. windchill in portland, maine, is minus 40. all of northern new england is by far the worst of it. the winds will lighten up as we go throughout the morning making it less dangerous. today for high temperatures, single digits in new england. maybe teens for hartford and boston and new york. philly and d.c., not even getting to freeze, sunshine. the middle of the country is still chi...

Reservation have been buried under snow and ice with major power failures for two weeks. power lines down, thousands of other lakota and other tribes people who already face 75 to 85% unemployment before a blizzard and an ice storm that added six inches of ice weight to utility poles hit. two weeks since those lines were knocked down and most of the electricity went with it. they managed to get the water turned back on at cheyenne river. unfortunately, most of the water goes into a pipe system that failed during the storm. the pipes are broken. with the wind chill it was minus 19 there today. ...