confines of the city. you see this beautiful shot behind us, we are on one of the beaches outside of the city and of course you can see just the air coming off of this. but when you think about just how powerful this storm has been, you're talking about 80% of the country below freezing and, like you said, nearly ten people have died because of this winter storm. a brutal arctic freeze sweeping over nearly a quarter of the country bringing the coldest air in a generation to parts of the midwest. >> it's freezing koltcold. my face, my toes, everything. >> reporter: with a wind chill of negative 52, the windy city's temperatures lower than parts of antarctica and alaska causing giant ice breaks to blanket the river and a wall of ice to form along lake michigan across the skyline. the dangerously cold weather even showing its strength inside. >> the steam froze around where the leaks are in my front door.