completely frozen. steve: this polar vortex closing businesses, schools and thousands of flights. in chicago 2600 flights cancelled. ainsley: we have live team coverage. janice dean is tracking the storm in new york. we begin with ray bogan where it s minus 24 degrees. brian: we think it s ray. yes. it s me. good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. it was supposed to be about 20 degrees warmer today but it s not and it definitely doesn t feel any warmer. that s for sure. we are at the minneapolis airport this morning where they have been lucky enough to have relatively few cancellations and delays but around the midwest that has not been the case. travelers have experienced thousands of cancellations and delays. according to flight aware, the worst of those are at chicago s midway and o hare airports. now, here s a funny picture for you, a frozen pants standing up here in minnesota. yesterday, there was actually a very serious situation when excel energy put out an urgent request to
wind chill alerts here, warnings and advisories in place. minus 30 to minus 65 degrees below zero for wind chill. that spreads across the great lakes and northeast today. look at what happens as we get into friday, saturday and sunday. minneapolis, your honor daytime high today minus 41. by sunday 45. and could see some snow on monday back into artic chill there look at chicago. zero is your daytime high today and then 53 on monday. so we just got to really get through today and tomorrow. that s where the worst of it is going to be. there is your forecast wind chill. watch as we go through time it retreats into canada that is great news. not saying the last of the cold air but the last of the worst of the cold air this year. fingers crossed. ainsley: hard to believe the high is zero in chicago. janice: it s crazy. we will be talking about this for a number of years. this cold air. brian: in kelvin minus 22, 76.
go out in these conditions. reporter: drivers carefully navigate past jackknifed semis in lincoln. visibility so low, in some parts of the state, officials even pulled plows off the road. in minnesota, crews like this one take on the backbreaking task of shoveling snow off of sidewalks city-wide. how do you prepare to do this kind of work all day long? mental toughness. reporter: further south in texas, high winds fueled this grass fire in parker county. nearby schools evacuated. this after multiple tornadoes in the south overnight, including an ef-2, winds above 110 miles an hour in bowie county. david, we can make out the tails of those planes, but we can barely see the runway. officials here at minneapolis airport have actually closed that runway a number of times today. more than 500 flights canceled. the same story across much of the midwest. david? all right, what a scene there. adrienne, thank you. that storm barrelling east. let s get right to chief meteorologist ging
saying should we stop this test. jesse: the cover-up is always worse than the crime. there is a huge somali population in minneapolis, they call it mogadishu. there are about 1,000 somalis working in the minneapolis airport. we have had some problems over the course of a couple years. three somali americans went back to the battlefield. two became suicide bombers in mogadishu, somalia, one went to syria to fight for isis. do you think this plays a role in the lackadaisical attitude with the tsa? i don t know if it s a lackadaisical attitude. the manager came from the airline industry.
saying should we stop this test. jesse: the cover-up is always worse than the crime. there is a huge somali population in minneapolis, they call it mogadishu. there are about 1,000 somalis working in the minneapolis airport. we have had some problems over the course of a couple years. three somali americans went back to the battlefield. two became suicide bombers in mogadishu, somalia, one went to syria to fight for isis. do you think this plays a role in the lackadaisical attitude with the tsa? i don t know if it s a lackadaisical attitude. the manager came from the airline industry. you had two of his assistants