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wow. thanks so much to you for joining us. "ac 360" begins now. the forecast? wretched. the timing? even worse. once in a generation winter storm and this one they say is going to be very, very dangerous. i'm in for anderson, john berman here. already nearly half the country's population is shivering under wind chill alerts or has seen temperatures drop as much as 70 degrees overnight. this is sioux falls, south dakota. you know it's cold there when the falls at sioux falls stop falling. because they're frozen solid. you know how widespread the big chill could get when places as ...

team coverage today. adam klotz is in the studio tracking the storm and bringing the christmas forecast. let's start with jackie ibanez reporting on the devastating conditions. >> multiple families will be spending the holiday without loved ones, five people from oklahoma have died, including a 16-year-old boy. the storm is impacting nearly every state in the lower 48, mother nature unleashing fury during the busiest time of the year, leaving many with nowhere to sleep, except the floor of the airport terminal. >> im00 not optimistic, if it was a cancelled flight, it is not good. >> ...

How dangerous are these conditions? >> it doesn't take long to get frostbite. the national weather service highlighting 45 below is the exposed wind temperature on your skin and takes five minutes to get frostbite. we have realized these numbers and some for places like castor, wyoming a wind chill reading of negative 76 degrees this morning and the advisories stretch from the north all the way to the gulf of mexico. some places like jackson, mississippi will stay below freezing for the next three days. more of the same for birmingham as well as houston and dallas. not only do you want to prot...

>> this storm has been uniquely bumpy. our -- our flight yesterday was heavily influenced by some of the dry air that was coming in from the -- from the west. and so, we had some of the strongest [ inaudible ] that we have had from storms in quite a few years. all that dry air intruding into the hurricane has really caused a really tough ride for us to try to fly and measure each of the quadrants of the storm to try to get a good picture of what -- what the storm is trying to tell us. >> and -- and just explain that, again. you get into the center and you are trying to measure what? >> so we t...

And traffic stops suddenly, you are going to be unable to stop. there were at least three fatalities. they had about 15 people reported injuries there. we had accidents, chain reaction car accidents in oklahoma and indiana. all across the ohio river valley. multiple, multiple car crashes. here are some of the current temperatures and the windchill factors. minot, north dakota. minus 24. that's not a windchill. that's actual outside wind temperature. minus 34 is the windchill factor. i looked at fargo, north dakota. over the last three days, the warmest temperature in fargo was 5. 5 degrees abo...