down today. let s get to ginger zee with what s right behind this. ginger? reporter: oh, my goodness, david, you give me 24 hours and i will give you 20 degrees, but it s not going to stick for long. today, new york city officially the coldest daytime high in nearly three years. ca caribou, maine, did not make it above 2 below zero for their high. the wind chills and the temperatures are going to improve significantly, both wednesday often and thursday for so many folks from baltimore up to boston. as i mentioned, it doesn t stay long, we get a whole other arctic blast that looks a lot like this one did this weekend. below normal all the way south to atlanta. david? ginger, thank you. we re going to turn now to the temporary groundstop at a number of airports up and down the west coast, around the time north korea test-fired a missile. well tonight, the faa is now acknowledging they did call for the stop, but they said the matter is under review. tonight, gio benitez with the
not confirmed whether the launch led to that groundstop, but says no americans were in danger. the faa says it is reviewing it all. david? gio benitez, who covers transportation for us. thank you, gio. and tonight, the stunning images. the medical helicopter going down in suburban philadelphia, with an infant onboard, medical staff, too. tonight, that pilot is being hailed as a hero, navigating 3wi8dings and power lines, landing on its side, right outside a church. we ve learned the baby and three crew members onboard all survived, all are getting medical care tonight. and here s erielle reshef. reporter: tonight, the pilot of this medical helicopter pulling off a, quote, miracle landing, after the aircraft suddenly dropped from the sky, narrowly missing a church in suburban philadelphia. pie lot s possibly unconscious. use caution, there s fuel leaking. reporter: rescue crews rushing to the scene, helping pull an infant patient and all three crew members from the wreckage. n
paul of putting his life at risk for political gain. rand paul raising money of his website. how the senator responded. president biden on protecting voting rights in this country, saying he will support a change in the senate rules in the filibuster on this issue, telling senators and members of his own party, how do you want to be remembered on this issue? how will history judge you? the brutal cold in the northeast. wind chills dropping below zero. more than 30 inches of lake effect snow. some covid testing sites today forced to close. waiting for hours in line, not possible given how quickly frostbite can kick in. and what s now right behind this? ginger zee standing by. tonight, the sudden groundstop up and down the west coast. why the faa called for a temporary groundstop around the same time north korea tested a missile. you will hear the audio from the pilots and what little air traffic control could say to them. the medical helicopter going down with an infant and seve
audio of the pilots and what little air traffic controllers could actually say. reporter: tonight, questions mounting after the faa issued a groundstop for several west coast airports monday. some sort of national security threat is going on and we are not allowing aircrafts to maneuver in the area at the moment. reporter: the groundstop lasting less than 15 minutes. pilots and control towers confused. from san diego what is the groundstop for? we don t know. we are trying to find out. it is everybody nationwide. interesting. reporter: to oregon can you give us any indication of what s going on right now? we don t know anything about it, we just got the notice. reporter: the order given around the time north korea claims to have launched a hypersonic missile, allegedly their fastest ever. the faa in a statement today not mentioning that missile launch, but saying the pause was issued as a matter of precaution and that the agency regularly takes precautionary
although this u.s. official has told us now, to cnn, that this was not a nationwide ground stop and that this information came because of a norad concern about this north korean missile launch which would have happened around 5:00 p.m. eastern time yesterday. so the timing does possibly line up here. just want you to listen now to some of these air traffic control recordings from air traffic control site in burbank, california and flights were essentially urged not to take off, they said there was a national ground stop, this he could not take off and in some cases the flights were ordered to land. just listen now. we re currently doing some gate hold procedures. there s ground stop, all departures, all airports right now. okay, all right, we ll just monitor you and any updates and do you have any idea how long it will be? the message we got it is until further notice right now but as soon as i get an update i ll reach out to all of you guys. some sort of national