reynolds, can folks in the north expect a warmup any time soon? no. not any time soon. the big chill for a lot of places. the big orange, syracuse, frozen completely. 11 degrees below zero. albany with nine below, boston at zero, portland, maine, seven below, new york eight, washington, d.c. 21. that tells one small part of the story. you have to factor in the wind which makes things brutal. syracuse 23 below is what it feels like, boston all the way down to copely plaza, fenway park brutal. philadelphia to new york, temperatures feel zero to four degrees. pittsburgh, yep, you are the champs and you have zero for the time being. we have the cold air, the polar air mass dropping across most of the lower 48, chicago 34, 28 in detroit, 50 in memphis on beall
yes, even for americans some 5,000 miles away. we take a closer look at mounting tension in the country and the impact here. also impacting a lot of folks today is the brutal cold hitting parts of the country. no escape from it, reynolds. that s certainly going to be the case if you happen to be in the upper plains, the hid west or great lakes where that polar air mass continues to pile in to parts of the nation, and two cities that will be greatly affected, one chicago, the other pittsburgh, just in time for today s big games. your forecast coming up. you can make it in just 14 minutes. mmmh, orange chicken. great. i didn t feel like going out anyway. [ male announcer ] wanchai ferry. restaurant quality chinese in your grocer s freezer. somewhere in america. there s a home by the sea powered by the wind on the plains. there s a hospital where technology has a healing touch. there s a factory giving old industries new life. and there s a train that got a whole city moving again. so