so you can stop at nothing for your customers. olympics competition in beijing ends tomorrow and conditions for athletes have been pretty rough, wind gusts of up to 40 miles an hour. the windchills were down to minus 25 degrees, making competitors just miserable. nbc s jay gray is in beijing. welcome. give us the highlights. reporter: hey there, alex, as we rush toward the closing ceremonies here in beijing, team usa grabbing some medals along the way. let s start in the men s halfpipe where david wise ended up with the silver. alex ferreira with the bronze there. high winds in the halfpipe so they had to negotiate some of that. but coming away with two medals and a big deal for team usa. by the way, david wise, three medals in all. not in these games but in his olympic career, a veteran there. let s go to the house of speed
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temperatures across montana into wyoming, idaho, the dakotas. these are wind chills where values, what it feels like when you step outside, in some cases negative. incredibly cold not just today but the next couple days. here are our forecast values. at the end become real cold air moves in and suddenly some of the actual temperatures, not windchill, minus 25 degrees, minus 22 degrees, brutally cold air in the upper planes, otherwise our weather systems tracking a little snow across the midwest with heavy showers and again snow moving to the west coast where we see round after round of winter weather. back over to you. it was unseasonably warm over christmas. 32 after the hour. from the steel david to chris cuomo s scandals, cnn s she s
independents were minus 11 for the democrats, and, you know, and joe biden was minus 25 points in job approval. so those are the statistics, those are the data points that are going to potentially cause a lot of moderate democrats to think twice about the votes that they are making. because a lot of these votes can be career ending or career enhaning votes, right? there are usually three or four congressional votes every cycle that could make or break a candidate. it s a major finding. neil: you know what s interesting about the durham emergence, we now and then, david, see it play out in politics where someone out of the blue with very little money makes a go of it and wins. we ve even seen, you know, in the white house back in 1976 when jimmy carter was running,
causing significant damage. this is lexington, alabama. all of this cold air also moving right into the northeast. let s get to meteorologist rob marciano with us live tonight to track it all. hey, rob. reporter: hi, david. that front moving offshore. the winds are shifting and the temperatures are dropping. fortunately, the few cold snaps we ve had this season haven t lasted long. this one will be no different. but it s the coldest air, as you mentioned, this year. we ve seen temperatures drop 70 degrees, nearly, in 24 hours in parts of the midwest. look at these numbers in the morning. wind chill advisories up for chicago, minneapolis. minus 25 there. and the core of the cold air moves into the northeast by saturday morning, we re talking about temperatures that will feel like 8 degrees below zero in boston, 4 in new york city. likely not getting above the 20s on saturday, but then everybody rebounds on sunday. keep your heavy coat handy. david? all right, looking forward to the