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much of the country. in prior lake minnesota, south of the twin cities, the waters are rising and dozens of homes are flooded. more rain is expected there today. alexandria steele is with me. minnesotans can t get relief from the rain which is are incredible. they can t, fred. it s 35 different counties in that state already in a declared state of emergency. flash flooding is creating wiespread damage across the state. river water levels rising. people are just trying to protect homes and streets. they re piling up sandbags five feet high. in waterville, minnesota, they say they have gone through 60,000 sandbags. and we re seeing similar problems in memphis, tennessee, where the national weather service reported a flash flood emergency. warnings are in effect and drivers are warned to stay off
we ll get more details from the florida journalist who has been covering that story. we are now just hours away from the biggest football game of the year and while fans are getting ready to enjoy the super bowl, thousands of security officials are focused on trying to maintain safety. alexandria steele joining me live from super bowl boulevard. this is a very complex security plan and it goes way beyond just officials right there on the ground. explain. absolutely. a lot of layers to this, including a level up in the sky. in order to keep those 80,000 fans in the middle of metlife stadium safe, you ve got to keep the air space around it secure and that is a job for u.s. customs and border patrol agents. they took us up in one of their blackhawk helicopters. those helicopters will circle a ten-mile perimeter while the game is being played. that will be a strict no fly zone. if someone tries to invade that
into the sky and it turned into snow. i don t know if i ve been holding too long to try it. but let s see what happens. all right. see what happens here. woo! wow. it kind of happened. yeah. amazing. boiling hot water. and it turns into snow immediately in this kind of cold. absolutely crazy. it s like a cool science project. that you re a part of today. stephanie, it s not going to last much longer. so don t worry about it. hang in there. be warm. wednesday it s supposed to change, warm up a little bit. but you re doing a great job, steph. so we ll see you in a little bit. thanks. all right. they re calling this a polar vortex responsible for all of this wicked cold. alexandria steele is in the severe weather center. did you see what happened to that? that was pretty amazing. how awesome. the water turns immediately into snow, and just by hitting the air. yeah, this is really rarified air. this is the polar vortex. and a piece of this is coming
that would break a more than 40-year record. and it would feel like 10 below zero this far south in the city of atlanta, wolf. that s cold for any place, especially someplace like atlanta. victor, thanks. some parts of the united states could see a 60-degree temperature drop today. alexandria steele is monitoring the situation for us from the severe weather center. explain what s causing all of this, alexandra? wolf, this is some rarified air. it s called the polar vortex, air that normally circulates around the globe. the northern north pole. so certainly the poles, not much farther south. but when the polar vortex gets weak, this kind of deep cold is allowed to drop into the northern hemisphere. and that s a piece of what we re feeling. so it s really the coldest air in the northern hemisphere, hasn t been in this part of the woods. if you re younger than 40, you ve never felt it before. so we re going to watch this drop south, east. it will modify some. but looking at these nu