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Travel nightmare. we're going to get an update on air travel in just a moment. but the roads are also a major concern. officials from the federal government and state leaders and local officials are all now pleading that people stay inside and off the roads as much as possible. we have all of this covered at this hour. let's start with meteorologist allison chin char. who is getting the brunt of it right now. >> right now it is most of the area in the central u.s. that is where you're seeing the combination of the strong winds and the cold temperatures but well still have a few snow showers th...

Minus 59. again, the concern there is that frostbite sets in five to ten minutes when dealing with numbers like that. here again, not much better. denver currently the wind chill minus 37. des moines, minus 34. even amarillo, texas, minus 26. so again, even places you don't normally think about being cold are dealing with this same blast of cold air. we also have the same system that is now sliding off to the midwest and into the northeast. this has a lot of snow for some midwestern states. over towards the east, you still have some little bit of warmer air. so we're dealing with that rain-sno...

I'm sure of it. beneath the station is a subterranean world. 2000 feet of tunnels 30 feet down, carved into the walls impromptu shrines depicting personal messages, remembrances left behind by long gone workers. a frozen constantly moving and shifting network of passageways. >> scott: the walls come in, the ceiling comes down, the floor comes up. >> anthony: requiring constant maintenance. what's supporting this roof? >> scott: compaction of the snow. >> anthony: scott smith runs the crews keeping these tunnels clear and pipes flowing. >> scott: we're in the process of taking the chainsaw dept...

Impromptu shrines depicting personal messages, remembrances left behind by long gone workers. a frozen, constantly moving and shifting network of passageways. >> scott: the walls come in, the ceiling comes down, the floor comes up. >> anthony: requiring constant maintenance. what's supporting this roof? >> scott: compaction of the snow. >> anthony: scott smith runs the crews keeping these tunnels clear and pipes flowing. >> scott: we're in the process of taking the chainsaw depth off the walls and ceiling to make them into a more usable entry. a lot of work. >> anthony: pretty amazing feat of ...

>> scott: the walls come in, the ceiling comes down, the floor comes up. >> anthony: requiring constant maintenance. what's supporting this roof? >> scott: compaction of the snow. >> anthony: scott smith runs the crews keeping these tunnels clear and pipes flowing. >> scott: we're in the process of taking the chainsaw depth off the walls and ceiling to make them into a more usable entry. a lot of work. >> anthony: pretty amazing feat of engineering here. the lowest recorded temperature at the south pole is 177 degrees below zero. >> scott: where roughly at minus 59 right now. >> anthony: minus...