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Northeast. it could be a messy morning commute. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us live from the cnn weather center. all right, give us the facts. >> yeah, you know, the facts are that it's extremely cold. we're talking about parts of the reason for the state of emergencies in place across the south could be very much for windchill that's are 10 to 5 below 0 this morning across jackson, birmingham, into atlanta. that is brutally cold windchills. schools, of course, closed across the region partly because of that. you don't want kids out and about waiting for a school bus in such temperatur...

Extremely rare to have a storm drop in pressure so rapidly as this one. the pressure is equivalent to a category 3 hurricane. you can actually see the cold air being pulled down behind this in the great lakes. that's the biggest fear right now. if you look at the windchill value. minus 8 in chicago, minus 9 in pittsburgh, it's going to get much worse in new england. by saturday a windchill of minus 15, boston minus 26, interior sections will have windchills minus 35 to minus 40. so those that lose power may be like that for a while. all of that water that rushed into the harbor in boston, 1 to...

Layering. >> all right. richard, we're going to check back in with you. richard, how many years have you -- >> sometimes layers seem to reveal more than they should. >> wow. >> the temperature is 12 degrees fahrenheit. that's about minus 8 or so celsius. and for the next four or five hours, you're all going to be watching the ball. you see where that ball is, right at the top. there's harry and meghan markle behind me. but anyway, there's the ball. at one minute to midnight, the ball starts to drop. i do not know why somebody thought it was a good idea to have the ball drop on new year's eve, ...

The atlantic white shark conservancy says 14-foot sharks were so frozen they couldn't even attempt a necropsy. niagara falls is coated in ice. cnn's meteorologist takes a closer look at the forecast. allison? >> the best advice i can give of any folks have plans to go to new york city for new year's eve is to bundle up. wear as many layers as possible because some of the coldest days of the upcoming week in new york is going to be the transition from sunday into monday. where the temperatures for the high on sunday is still going to be about minus 8 to minus 9. but the feels-like temperature i...

And then that will release the next arctic invasion. this stuff is even colder new year's eve. minus 8 in chicago with the wind chill. minus 30 in minneapolis. minus 13 in boston. and minus 4 in new york city, potentially the coldest new year's eve in the big apple since 1962. tom? >> all those revelers are going to have to bundle up. all right, rob, thanks so much. and despite those freezing temperatures, a million visitors, as we mentioned, are expected here in new york city this new year's eve. and they will find the tightest security ever in place. in addition to a huge police presence o...