of the nation. unless you are in places like phoenix or tucson you whan i am talking about. much of the country doesn t know about the warm places. some of the coldest air to hit the northeast triggering low readings on the thermometers there. cold snap came from canada and the severe weather system is not done yet. temperatures are expected to drop lower tonight. can t imagine it in minnesota. numbers near 30 degrees below zero . wind chill feels like 50 below. i look like a eski i dread coming outside. it is really cold. and lyou know what, not everyone feels bad when it gets cold. like the ice skaters in central mark in manhattan making the best of it and having a good time. wind chills are not 50 below . meteorologist is live for us . i said last night to you as it
seven people and injured dozens more. venezuela, santa making an early stop at a prison in the capital city of can a rack caracas. distribute toys to the inmates when they come to the jail for visit. can i of prisoners have committed to crimes at all and often have to make it through the holidays without one of their parents. france, those freezing temperatures in europe not stopping some ice skaters in paris. the first level of the eiffel tower 187 feet up now supporting a rink. it s awesome. once in a lifetime. i don t even like skating. shepard: workers at the tower providing free skates and that s a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. shepard: after more than four decades, some of the top universities in the united states are now ready to welcome back the rotc. so what prompted the change of
it s a sure sign that holiday season is around the corner because rockefeller opened its famous ice-skating rink even though it was in the 70s how they do that is a miracle. more than a quarter million skaters take to that ice each year between october and april. so for the sunday forecast around the country, let s go right to the weather channel s jeff. jeff, goorn morning. good morning, it s a beautiful morning across most of the country today, alex. we ve probably got near record heat. i don t know if we ll be opening any ice-skating rinks over the south. the little bit of rain we have is over the western plains. seattle and portland, if you re watching me from the pacific, maybe not the best of days there. for the rest of us, pretty nice. actually in the northeast it will be pretty pleasant. i issei new york getting up a little cooler than yesterday, alex. up to near 70, about 69. maybe a little better for the ice-skaters. but look at atlanta, 86 degrees.
but the tsunami has done the devastation, there is nowhere to stay, so, once again, there you do see these small tent cities not on the scale of haiti because these are smaller coastal communities, but nevertheless, virtually all the population are living outside. it gets cold here at night. it still is staying dry, and they desperately do need food and especially drinking water, anderson. all right, karl penhaul live in concepcion. karl, thanks again for the reporting. here s something else about the earthquake in chile which is fascinating. scientists at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory say it may have made our days shorter. now, here s how they explained that. an earthquake like saturday s can nudge some of the earth s mass closer to its axis which makes the planet rotate faster shaving a tiny bit of time off every day. 1.26 microseconds by their calculations, just over one-millionth of a second, pretty amazing. it s basically the same thing that happens when ice skaters like th
a free spirit. usually that s a good thing for ice skaters but johnny weir just seems to rub some people the wrong way. he s on the ice today and our mark mckay is live at the winter games in vancouver, british columbia. what s all the drama, mark? reporter: there s a lot of drama when it comes to team usa. kyra, for sure. let s begin with a guy, one of his teammates, one of weir s teammates, seth wescott up at cypress mountain, the reigning olympic champion had to come from behind. so team usa has two gold medals in their pocket, one thanks to seth wescott. you mentioned johnny weir. he certainly has a flare for the dramatic. his teammates will tell you that. he makes his own costumes. this is a guy who taught himself how to skate. he d like to skate away from vancouver with a medal. i m a rebellious person.