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hello, welcome to "cnn newsroom." we begin with this monster winter storm. its core is hovering over the great lakes, and its trailing arctic air is causing power outages and dangerous travel conditions two days before christmas. life-threatening windchills have permeated all the way to the gulf coast, over 70 million americans are experiencing below freezing temperatures, that includes the entire state of texas. this video's from kentucky where the governor has just confirmed three people have died as a result of this storm. and this from our affiliate whbq in memphis, tennessee, th...

Vehicles. the turnpike, the ohio turnpike which actually cuts through the northern part of ohio including toledo, it is restricting the travel of some kinds of vehicles. so it's real. it's real here. but we believe that just to the east is a little worse than we are, though no one enjoys 30 degrees below zero and 60 mile-per-hour winds which is what we're facing throughout. >> sure. mayor, i know you've got a lot to get to. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us and walk us through what you're seeing in your city. thank you so much. >> all right. thank you. so cnn meteorologist ...

Other locations. but aside from that, county operations here, they're basically frozen, no pun intended, until the conditions can get better and until utility crews is get back out there. they've recorded wind gusts of close to 80 miles per hour in buffalo earlier today. certainly you're not going to get crews in those conditions. they want to wait for things to calm down which may not happen until tomorrow evening, night, maybe on sunday, on christmas morning. >> i'd say i wish you could get to one of those warming centers, but i know it's not going to happen. stay warm if it's possible -- >>...

Absolutely incredible. completely different story for us in the southeast. of course we've got the arctic air, but it's -- the sun is out. but the sunshine is completely deceiving. we're monitoring the temperature here as a good weatherman should do. it's 20 degrees here in atlanta. give you an idea how cold it is, we brought out a wet towel a couple of hours ago, and it's frozen solid. if that gives an indication of how cold it is out here, any water that was on the ground, that flash flood freeze that occurred here, 35-degree temperature drop in eight hours in atlanta. that froze that water ...