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Pockets so they re free to break your fall if you fall. wear smart shoes with grooved rubber or neoprene soles. if the ice is bad enough, consider attaching ice grips. wear sunglasses on sunny days to make it easier to see slippery surfaces. don t forget to remove snow and ice from the bottom of the soles of your shoes once you re inside. a wet sole indoors can be as slippery as an icy patch outside. the difference between a fall in the summertime and a fall on an icy surface is how dense and hard the ground is that you re striking. reporter: a fall on a slick surface may seem funny, but sometimes it s no joke. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. just started to get the ice here in new york. we had all that rain. yeah. now it s 18 degrees, and there s ice patches out there. a lot of them. there s a small glaze over just about everything. those are good tips especially for kids who are out and have never been in ice and snow ....
Because other drivers were going too fast on the slick roads. at least two police cars were among those hit and several people were injured. finally, it s warming up a little bit in the windy city after bone-chilling cold created this eerie scene over the chicago river. temperatures plunged to three below zero yesterday morning. so frigid that steam started to rise from the water. quite a picture. wow. one place i don t want to be because it is colder than here. we think we have it bad here. chicago has it worse. they always do in the winter. here s a look at the weather. snow adds to the bone-chilling temperatures in kansas reaching upstate new york tonight and tomorrow. i-95 corridor gets a wintry mix along the coast and some snow inland. rain along the gulf. clear and mild in california and the southwest. snow in washington and oregon west of the cascades. 46 seattle. 61 l.a. 42 denver. 36 kansas city. detroit 25 and mild 64 for everyone in new orleans. a dog named luc ....
Or no-go will be made on monday. the bottom line is that houston has a problem, but it s one they are confident they can fix. clayton sandell, abc news, houston. two people dead in southern utah after their home was destroyed in a rock slide. the mayor of rockville, utah, said some dirt near a highway gave way and carried several large boulders right into a house and destroyed it. it is believed the people inside were killed on impact. another rock slide happened there 11 years ago. that one did not kill anyone. parts of upstate new york are buried under nearly four feet of snow. this morning, it s still coming down. the tiny town of constableville has been getting slammed since tuesday. two bands of snow are hitting buffalo and syracuse. new york city is also bracing for snow this weekend by a storm that s moving in from d.c. to boston. heavy snow is blamed for massive pileup in the midwest. at least 40 cars and trucks were caught up in a chain-reaction crash in michigan. witnes ....
Beneficial as it seems. and the government is touting the effectiveness of flu shots. new numbers from the cdc show that getting vaccinated led to 79,000 fewer hospitalizations last flu season compared to the year before. the cdc also says the flu shot prevented nearly seven million americans from getting sick last year. the wintry weather leaves much of the country under a layer of snow and ice, people are being warned to proceed with caution. and we re not just talking about getting behind the wheel. ron claiborne has key tips. reporter: tis the season for slipping, sliding, and falling. with so many streets and sidewalks, parks and yards turned into virtual hockey ri rinks, hundreds have been sent to the hospital with injuries from falling on ice or hard-packed snow. the most common things are going to be ankle injuries, wrist injuries, knee and elbow. reporter: there are ways to at least minimize your risk of falling on ice. walk cautiously with knees bent. keep your han ....
Before. adults should know better. i think another good tip is when there s snow, walk on snow, don t walk on the ice. crunch through the snow, the ice exactly. a big stretch of the country will need to remember that advice today. a new round of snow starts in eastern kansas. it spreads to new york. by tonight, rain along the gulf becomes a wintry mix along the mid-atlantic states overnight. clear and mild in the west through parts of the pacific northwest. they will see some snow. 41 in portland. albuquerq albuquerque, 42. dallas, 48. minneapolis getting hammered with a high of only 12, chicago, 28. we all know james bond loved his booze. a new study of his drinking habit is stunning. after looking at what bond drank in the original novels, researchers say he sucked down more than four times the limited recommendation for men. shaken not stirred i believe. they say he would have enjoyed 31 martinis, shaken not stirred, a week. 31 a week. wow. some may be able to do t ....