weather wreaking havoc this holiday weekend, many in the united states are facing their coldest christmas in decades. right now more than 175 million people are under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extend interesting montana all the way down to, get this, yeah, florida. some temperatures in the midwest dipping into the negative 30s, even atlanta is seeing negative windchills. the bitter cold proving extremely dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in tennessee, people are seeing intermittent power disruptions as the bone-chilling weather pushes the state s power grid to the absolute max. more than 840,000 customers are now without power nationwide. whiteout continues make it too perilous to travel. new york officials are issuing a driving ban for several counties amid blizzard conditions there, and if you are trying to fly this weekend, i got to give you some good luck and a prayer because pacific raceways than 1,700 flights have be
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i m raised out of. i am missing that weather dearly. i am not used to this cold. it s like 10 degrees outside. carlos, thank you so much. let s get a check on conditions across the country with meteorologist allison chinchar who is in the weather center for us. aren t we lucky to be inside, allison? i can t tell you what a difference this last 24 hours has been being inside as opposed to outside. i actually have good news, and that is that temperatures will finally start to rebound. in some areas as early as today. but we still do have some locations dealing with the windchill alerts and windchill warnings and advisories for today. the wind still very strong in some instances. so not only is that making it much colder in some areas, but also it s making any of that snow that s on the ground blowing it around, reducing visibility any more. it s making travel dangerous. so, again, if you don t have to be out, please don t be.
as you might imagine, traveling this weekend. sorry, mom. carlos schwarzenegger is live at hartsfield-jackson airport in atlanta. i imagine the cancellations piling up. what s happening at this hour? reporter: good morning, sara. things are busy out here but they are pretty manageable considering the number of canceled flights out of the airport here. this is how things look like right now. this line we have been seeing most of the morning at this one bag dropoff site, as you can see, not too bad. folks have been showing up making sure they have their bags ticketed, drop them off and go on to their flights. however, everyone is keeping a pretty close eye on the departure board because out of the airport here well over 100 flights have been canceled. it s not a lot better when we talk about the rest of the country. the latest numbers that we have right now across the u.s., we are looking at well over 1,700 flights that have been canceled