time now for first buzz, or as bill calls it, first brrrr, because it s so cold outside. oh, don t we all have cold-weather stories. we ll start with you. and there s a silver lining to this cold weather, because there was a man in kentucky, a ja jailbird, a man in prison. he managed to escape. temperatures were so cold, getting into the single digits, he pulled into a motel, asked the clerk to call jail, he wanted to go back because he was so freezing. take me back where it s warm! he didn t look at the forecast before that. right. well, hey, if they were out on the frozen roadways, we ve got some new items that some of the states are using to actually add to that salt to make sure it sticks, because below 16 degrees, did you know, bill i did. that salt doesn t really work as well. so, states like new york, pennsylvania, milwaukee, they re using things like cheese brine, sugar beet juice. never heard of that. i knew beet juice was popular molasses, pota
potato juice, huh? things to mix with the salt to make sure it stays on the roadway. sounds tasty. i know cheese is five times as pricey as salt. some places they have in surplus, so a lot of them do the chemicals on the main roads because they can t afford it on every road. how does that look with the cheese brine and the beef juice it s definitely not red. we don t want the roadways to look bloodied, right? that would be scary. but you have something very cool for us. it s either really great or really never going to work, but i almost lost a texting finger yesterday. this is the texting mitten. now, it s all connected. it s like a unimitten. yeah. and you can clearly, you know, you can easily see what you re doing oh, cool. of course, ignore the green grass behind the promotional picture, but this is meant for, like, days we re having today. it looks like something an astronaut would use. but the problem is, you can t walk or or shake anyone s h
10-4. reporter: his job is to get snow and ice off the roads in polk county, wisconsin. a few years ago he had a brilliant classic wisconsin idea. why couldn t we use brine water made from a cheese factory. reporter: that s what these bricks of mozzarella are floating in. it is basically salt and a little product. he test some product from the local cheese factory and found out that it works great for clearing roads. got the green light to go. and now we re running it in all of our trucks. reporter: the cheese brine is mix in with the salt which goes on to the road. it helps keep the salt actually on the highway and it is a perfect thing to mix with the salt because cheese brine doesn t freeze at low temperatures. it does, however, have a little bit of an odor to it. the roads smell like wisconsin. they smell like cheese. reporter: actually that is
that is some wing man. maybe he ll be the couple s wedding singer. and boy, do wisconsinites love their cheese. icy roads in the state are being thawed by a smelly combination of salt and cheese brine. yes, only in wisconsin. this make me miss my home state. and that s what we re watching tonight. and coming up next, are president obama s poll numbers will to take another nose dive? you won t believe who is giving the president heat now, and president obama probably thought some of these people were his friends. friends.
that is some wing man. maybe he ll be the couple s wedding singer. and boy, do wisconsinites love their cheese. icy roads in the state are being thawed by a smelly combination of salt and cheese brine. yes, only in wisconsin. this make me miss my home state. and that s what we re watching tonight. and coming up next, are president obama s poll numbers will to take another nose dive? you won t believe who is giving the president heat now, and president obama probably thought some of these people were his friends. just wait until you hear what they re saying about him now. that s next. [ male announcer ] if we could see energy. what would we see? the billions of gallons of fuel that get us to work. we d see all the electricity flowing through the devices that connect us and teach us.