travel nightmare. we re going to get an update on air travel in just a moment. but the roads are also a major concern. officials from the federal government and state leaders and local officials are all now pleading that people stay inside and off the roads as much as possible. we have all of this covered at this hour. let s start with meteorologist allison chin char. who is getting the brunt of it right now. right now it is most of the area in the central u.s. that is where you re seeing the combination of the strong winds and the cold temperatures but well still have a few snow showers that haven t given up on the area. notice how wide spread all of the cold air is. it goes from the canadian border all the way down to the mexico border. so this goes to show you how many people are really being impacted. when you factor in both the wind and temperature, take a look at some of the windchills that have already happened. minus 70, minus 59, minus 57. now most of these have peaked acros
minus 59. again, the concern there is that frostbite sets in five to ten minutes when dealing with numbers like that. here again, not much better. denver currently the wind chill minus 37. des moines, minus 34. even amarillo, texas, minus 26. so again, even places you don t normally think about being cold are dealing with this same blast of cold air. we also have the same system that is now sliding off to the midwest and into the northeast. this has a lot of snow for some midwestern states. over towards the east, you still have some little bit of warmer air. so we re dealing with that rain-snow mix for a lot of cities before the bulk of that snow on the back begins to make its way into the northeast for tomorrow. you have a lot of areas dealing with blizzard warnings, winter storm watches and warnings. heavy snow in chicago and st. louis. boston and washington, d.c., even tomorrow morning though, jim, still looking at pretty good rain showers. we ll be waiting for them
i m sure of it. beneath the station is a subterranean world. 2000 feet of tunnels 30 feet down, carved into the walls impromptu shrines depicting personal messages, remembrances left behind by long gone workers. a frozen constantly moving and shifting network of passageways. scott: the walls come in, the ceiling comes down, the floor comes up. anthony: requiring constant maintenance. what s supporting this roof? scott: compaction of the snow. anthony: scott smith runs the crews keeping these tunnels clear and pipes flowing. scott: we re in the process of taking the chainsaw depth off the walls and ceiling to make them into a more usable entry. a lot of work. anthony: pretty amazing feat of engineering here. the lowest recorded temperature at the south pole is 177 degrees below zero. scott: where roughly at minus 59 right now. anthony: minus 59. scott: it s fahrenheit. anthony: wow, it only feels like minus 20. i can tell you it scorches the lungs and creeps through
impromptu shrines depicting personal messages, remembrances left behind by long gone workers. a frozen, constantly moving and shifting network of passageways. scott: the walls come in, the ceiling comes down, the floor comes up. anthony: requiring constant maintenance. what s supporting this roof? scott: compaction of the snow. anthony: scott smith runs the crews keeping these tunnels clear and pipes flowing. scott: we re in the process of taking the chainsaw depth off the walls and ceiling to make them into a more usable entry. a lot of work. anthony: pretty amazing feat of engineering here. the lowest recorded temperature at the south pole is 177 degrees below zero. scott: we re roughly at minus 59 right now. anthony: minus 59. scott: it s fahrenheit. anthony: wow, it only feels like minus 20. i can tell you it scorches the lungs and creeps through your heavy outerwear. scott: 200 feet below the ground, we ve melted a giant enormous lake down there, about 2 mill
scott: the walls come in, the ceiling comes down, the floor comes up. anthony: requiring constant maintenance. what s supporting this roof? scott: compaction of the snow. anthony: scott smith runs the crews keeping these tunnels clear and pipes flowing. scott: we re in the process of taking the chainsaw depth off the walls and ceiling to make them into a more usable entry. a lot of work. anthony: pretty amazing feat of engineering here. the lowest recorded temperature at the south pole is 177 degrees below zero. scott: where roughly at minus 59 right now. anthony: minus 59. scott: it s fahrenheit. anthony: wow, it only feels like minus 20. i can tell you it scorches the lungs and creeps through your heavy outerwear. scott: 200 ft below the ground, we ve melted a giant