a good saturday morning to you. it is saturday, february 4th, you re live in the cnn newsroom, thanks for joining us so much for sharing part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with an eye toward the sky. we re getting new reports about the location of that chinese spy balloon that has been drifting across the country. according to reports, it has been spotted over north carolina an officials say it could move off the east coast and out over the ocean in a matter of hours. and as you would imagine, the balloon is raising national security concerns, and it is adding to the tension between washington and beijing. it was people on the ground in montana who spotted the balloon as it passed overhead. that thing is not the moon. the moon is right there. this thing is so weird. it is definitely moving. the context and the timing of this are really important. the secretary of state antony blinken called it an irresponsible act by china. keep in mind, this comes just day
chinese surveillance balloon that flew over montana. it comes as secretary antony blinken makes his first trip to beijing. plus, a new estimate on the number of russian soldiers who have died in ukraine. it could show how desperate vladimir putin has become in this nearly year-long war. meteorologists are predicting the worst wind chills in decades in the northeast this weekend. look at that. it could get as low as negative 50 in some parts. negative 50? the times said yesterday that the top of mount washington, negative 100, willie. now, you and i, of course, have done that in some of our you know, willie and i, sometimes we ve done the antarctica thing. we do that extreme, like, mountain climbing stuff. i forget what you call it. little rough for you. minus 100, willie. yeah, well, when we summited norway excuse me summited everest, it got close to that cold. thank god there were the sherpas who helped us get up there. it gets breezy up there, too. it
drawn to the summit because it is extreme conditions are set to rival those of mount everest. it looks like an unpleasant picture there. let s go to cnn s allison chinchar in the weather center, and the expectation is the temperatures are not going to last long. man, they re intense. they are. it is a very brief cold snap but as you said, very extreme in neither. here is a live look at mount washington. the sun is out. it looks beautiful. you just can t tell how truly cold it is, unless you re out there. right now, the actual temperature in mount washington, minus 29. but with the 75 mile-an-hour wind, sustained winds, that is hurricane strength, at 75 miles an hour, it feels like it is minus 79. much better compared to the minus 108 that it felt just a few hours ago. quite balmy. we do still have some wind chill warnings and wind chill advisories in effect. some of them are starting to drop off now. now that things are beginning to rebound, but it s really going to be another se
dangerously cold. you know, mika, sometimes i like to go up to mt. washington. no, you don t. and do an arctic plunge this time of year. so mt. washington right now, it s minus 29. isn t that in new hampshire/vermont area? and mt. washington, it feels like minus 79 right now. it is going to be frigid this weekend, to say the least. record lows. well, lows that haven t been seen in decades. speaking of decades, we have breaking news right now. here s the projected temperatures this weekend. windchill minus 6, minus 8, minus 13, minus 24 in maine, going to feel like minus 54.