Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. It is dangerously cold in much of the country. Many places its the coldest that its been in decades. Tonight in chicago it will feel as if its 50 below zero. It was so cold there today the deicing liquid used at Ohare Airport froze. And chicago is just the tip of the iceberg that is middle america. In indianapolis, where miguel silva was shoveling snow, the windchill is in the minus 30s tonight. For many this will be a night in the cold and the dark. 50,000 Power Outages are reported in the region. Most of them in indiana. In owen, wisconsin, the temperature today, the actual temperature, hit 29 below zero. And as far south as waco, texas, the temperature got as low as 16 degrees, breaking a record that had stood for more than a century. We have a team of correspondents covering this arctic blast. First, Dean Reynolds in chicago. Dean . Reporter scott, its colder here today than its been in two decades and its one reason why people here