right now. and a fox news weather alert. as our reporting begins with the killer cold temperatures crippling much of the midwest. at least six people are now confirmed dead. hundreds of schools are closed and the deep freeze is expected to last quite a while. let s take a look at the windchills right now across that upper midwest portion of the nation. would you look at this? indianapolis, minus 16. chicago, minus 40. detroit, minus 32. look at green bay, marquette, international falls to buffalo, detroit, pittsburgh. feels like of minus 23 and it s one degree real temperature in pittsburgh right now. it s all aheaded in that direction. look down south. windchills minus 8 in louisville. minus 7 in st. louis. put the freezing temperatures in perspective.
across the eastern seaboard. take a look. minus 40, windchill in baker lake. minus 40 in chicago. 34 in atlanta. this cold front doesn t go all the way to the south, which is going florida not that bad. current windchills minus 40 in chicago. minus 39 in international falls. we have the actual air temperature, minus 16. so you got to minus 23 overnight in chicago. one more shot tonight where you could get to the all-time record in chicago. that s probably the only city that we could see that all-time colder temperature broken. shepard: the real temperature. the record is minus 27. probably a degree or two colder than last night. then we start to see things improve. i want to show you what happens here by tonight. there you go. 8:00 p.m., feels like minus 4 in new york. the cold is about to be here in the east. you can see the white. tomorrow morning s cold.
minneapolis. bismarck, minus 23. cincinnati, it feels like it s minus 17. minus 7 in beckley, washington. 24 degrees. this is when frostbite can occur, within 30 to 10 minutes, freezing of ears, fingers, face. you have frost nip, that s a superficial frostbite, then deep frostbite when the tissue below the skin freezes. you have to get the person inside, get medical attention, don t rub those body parts. worse is hypothermia, when you have a dangerous drop in body temperature and the windchills can speed that up. if you know somebody that s shivering uncontrollably, weak pulse, confusion, even loss of consciousness, you can really have major medical issues. get the victim out of the cold, cover the person with blankets and make sure you provide warm, non-alcoholic beverages. so tomorrow morning, we bottom out. 44 below, the windchill in
minus 8 is your actual air temperature right now, indianapolis, chicago, minus 3 yesterday, madison, wisconsin got to minus 23. definitely cold air that sticks around for a while. here s the mid atlantic, northeast ohio valley, a few showers going through, behind it a little bit of a front. lake effect snow as well. the temps are warmer along the coast. florida, heavy rain throughout much of the rain today, could see some localized flooding. we need some rain in south florida. another batch of snow in the plains areas of minnesota and wisconsin. behind that is where the coldest air comes in. and across the west, a dry stretch, doesn t happen in the pacific northwest that much but seattle in the upper 40s and dry until wednesday. thanks, rick. .
delays in reagan and o hare. the snow dropped two feet of snow in some places, a united flight skid off at o hare in chicago over the weekend saturday. 129 people were on board. nobody was hurt. the plane slid in a snow bank. and a flight out of new jersey bound for hong kong was forced to make an emergency landing in canada because of a sick passenger. the plane could not take off again. so the passengers were stranded because of a technical issue. it was minus 23 in canada. the passengers had little food and water and were forced to fly back to newark. as the government remains frozen shoot, the tsa, transportation safety administration says 10% of its workers were forced they were called out sunday, three times the number seen on