following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
those exposed areas of your body. we still have wind chill warnings and wind chill advisories, a lot of these are set to expire, in about the next one to two hours, as those temperatures will finally start to rebound, and it is not just mount washington, that is super cold though, take a look, portland, maine, feels like minus 19. boston, minus 18. providence, ride, minus 13 and albany feeling like it is minus 17 right now. the good news, we talked about it, and as gloria talked about as well. this is a very intense, but short-lived cold blast of air. by the time we get to tomorrow, you ll really going to start to see the temperatures rebound, and significantly, too. take for example, boston, high temperature today, only 17 degrees. but by tomorrow, that high is 48. and that s actually 10 degrees warmer than the average high this time of the year. and new york, buffalo, portland, all of them the same, and the temperatures are actually going to rebound to be above normal, by tomorrow. a
temperatures very much on their way. i see them now, the activity, yes, you are not alone out there. the city is abuzz, per usual. regardless of the temperatures. thank you very much. we ll check back with you later, gloria. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking the brutal cold weather. it is dangerous, dangerous stuff. the national weather service called it, it is once-in-a-generation type of temperatures in the northeast. we talked a lot about mount washington, this is a live look, we saw the camera shaking from time to time, from those intense winds, the actual temperature right now at mount washington is minus 27. that s the actual temperature. when you factor in the 82 mile an hour wind, that is category one hurricane strength. it makes that feels like temperature, the wind chill of minus 77, so that s what it would feel like on any exposed areas of skin, so if you re not wearing a scarf or a hat or even gloves, it is going to be bitter cold and dangerously cold on
the northeast waking up this morning to brutally cold temperatures. more than 15 million people in the region are in the grips of a life-threatening cold spell, with temperatures plunging well below zero. wind chills, the coldest in decades, and just last night, mount washington, new hampshire, reported a wind chill of minus 108 degrees. how is that possible? it s likely a new national record. parts of maine under blizzard warnings, and major cities, further south, are also getting hit by fierce winds including new york, boston, and pittsburgh. cnn s gloria pezmino is braving the cold in new york. not a whole lot of people behind you. i guess they re staying in, for one. reporter: they re out here, fred, we re standing right outside of central park, in