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The wheel wells of passenger jets aren't heated or measu pressurized. the cold air could have killed him. >> at that height, you've got temperatures of around minus 45 to minus 55 degrees c. to put that into perspective, skin freezes almost instan tan yously. >> reporter: a loss of oxygen could have killed him unless his metabolism slowed enough not to need as much oxygen. the boy took advantage of a gap in the system. >> right now, not protecting the perimeter well enough to prevent an incident like this one. >> the airport spokeswoman says that security exceeds requirements and has an excell...

Killed him. >> at that height, you have temperatures of around minus 45 to minus 55 degrees c. skin freezes almost instantaneously around 45 degrees. >> reporter: a loss of oxygen could have killed him, unless his metabolism slowed enough. the lack of security in san jose is also being questioned in this case. the boy took advantage of a gap in the system. >> right now, many of our airports are not protecting the perimeter well enough to prevent an incident like this one. >> reporter: the airport spokeswoman in san jose says that airport exceeds all security requirements. the tsa is assisting ...

Feeling of ur euphoria. that's the danger of hypoxia. hypothermia, as you know, the core body temperature is around 37.5 c. the onset of hypothermia comes at 40 below. up at 35,000 feet, you'll be in the region between minus 45 and minus 50. skin freezes almost instantaneo instantaneously. >> it's just above the line of having -- his skin freezing, right, frostbite, so to speak. i want you to listen to this, this airport manager in maui. he says he saw the boy and is skeptic skeptical. >> i imagine 35,000 feet is very cold. also 35,000 feet in the wheel

>> i am and if we could go to weather nine and i'll show you where the cold air is, i apologize. we had to switch sources but this will show you where we have the arctic air plunging southward. you can see the maps right now. from canada south forward across the ohio valley, down to the deep south where it's 10 in kansas city, fine us two in chicago, minus 13 but you mentioned the wind chill. right now in international falls, feels like minus 37 but that will continue to drop. minus 45 degrees. it's certainly going to feel like that in international falls as we head into tuesday. minus 39 is w...

>> i'm going to take another benadr benadryl. let's go to bill karins on the storm. >> the thing is the cold, the lowest value in the entire country is watertown, new york at minus 45. everyone from boston to new york to d.c., a lot of people are trying to shovel and scrape the ice out there this morning with wind chills as low as minus 20. the big storm is heading out and exiting. we have a little over leftover snow along the coast, up into areas like cape cod but we'll see things improving dramatically as we go throughout the morning. only another couple inches out there, areas through rhode