including me, esurance spokesperson dennis quaid. he s a pretty good spokesperson. ehhh. so when i say, drivers who switched from geico to esurance saved an average of $412, you probably won t believe me. hey, actor lady whose scene was cut. hi. but you can believe this esurance employee, nancy abraham. seriously, send her an email and ask her yourself. no emails. no emails. when insurance is affordable, it s surprisingly painless. shannon: this is a fox news alert. authorities blaming the deep freeze for at least 12 deaths including a milwaukee man found frozen to death in his own garage. there are pile ups reporting the midwest, northwest, slippery, dangerous highways. the polar vortex leading to serious cold in chicago and all across the land. let s go to the fox news extreme weather. chief meteorologist rick reich moses in. they have such a big snowstorm. that snow on the ground is going
amtrak setting fire along the train tracks just to keep the trains moving. whiteout conditions from lake effect snow near buffalo. several major pileups being reported tonight. thousands of flights canceled nationwide. they can t keep up with the de-icing equipment. tonight morning, wind chills 44 below in minneapolis. 43 below in chicago, and look, all the way east there. it will feel like 16 below here in new york city, 18 below in boston. tonight, right here, you ll see the rescues and the firefighters forced to battle the flames in this very dangerous cold. abc s alex perez leading us off from chicago. reporter: tonight, that arctic air firing up the lake effect snow machine, bringing several feet of snow to western new york. vehicles crashing in whiteout conditions in the buffalo area. snow squalls in pennsylvania causing multiple pileups on highways, including this one outside reading. motor vehicle accident. injuries reported. anywhere between 20 and 40 vehicles involved.
thousand of flights ha thousands of flights have been suspended. the u.s. postal service has been suspended in at least ten states. ridiculous whiteout conditions. the pile up of snow has led to crashes and pileups in minnesota where 193 accidents were reported in one day. the message we want you to get this morning, it s very cold. yes. and don t go anywhere. say in front parked of your tv and new day. in front of a fire as well. let s go to brian young live in chicago where the temperature, the temperature is negative 20 degrees. wind chill is 46 blow zero. as i stretch out this intro even more, ryan, it sounds insane, the cold. it is sold and especially when the wind starts hitting you. one of the things i will show you is the chicago river. normally in this area you ll see people walking to the office. so far we haven t seen anyone walking this direction. people are taking this cold
again we are much more likely to wait until special counsel mueller to release that information or report and makes the indictment. there is not a lot of point reinventing the wheel. if congress starts to polk arou poke around in the same area, there could be pile ups and conflicts between those investigations. we have to be careful about that. for my part, i think mueller has been doing this right. let s just make sure the information he has ultimately gets to the congress and to the american people. congress will have to make hard decisions if this buzzfeed report is correct. the atlantic in march will have a cover story talking about the case for impeachment just as a forum to debate the fitness
abc s will carr is in the storm zone tonight. reporter: tonight, dangerous conditions pounding the west coast. oh, man. reporter: more than two dozen cars and semis colliding on the 15 freeway. somebody is really hurt right there. it appears there might have been a light rain up here at the same time as the fog, and speed is usually a factor when you get these type of pileups. reporter: at least 30 people injured. families stuck for hours. the weather triggering mandatory evacuations. the fear, hillsides scorched by record-setting fires could crumble and turn into deadly mudslides. part of one home already pushed off its foundation in encino. to the north, 50-mile-per-hour winds whipping in whiteout conditions. this plane, stuck in a wheelie, the tail covered in more than 16 inches of snow. david, tonight we are under a flash flood watch. and those charred hillsides next to me are saturated and could come down at any point, bringing boulders like this down with them. and we