weather wreaking havoc this holiday weekend, many in the united states are facing their coldest christmas in decades. right now more than 175 million people are under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extend interesting montana all the way down to, get this, yeah, florida. some temperatures in the midwest dipping into the negative 30s, even atlanta is seeing negative windchills. the bitter cold proving extremely dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in tennessee, people are seeing intermittent power disruptions as the bone-chilling weather pushes the state s power grid to the absolute max. more than 840,000 customers are now without power nationwide. whiteout continues make it too perilous to travel. new york officials are issuing a driving ban for several counties amid blizzard conditions there, and if you are trying to fly this weekend, i got to give you some good luck and a prayer because pacific raceways than 1,700 flights have be
late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, more hostages every now been released but the fighting is set to begin again in just hours unless mediators can somehow extend the pause. but if and when the war goes on, the biden administration is pivoting on hamas urging the israelis to change their attack strategy. we ll get to our correspondent on the ground in israel in moments but we begin with campus unrest here at home where another ivy league school is facing an investigation from the department of investigation over anti-semitism on campus t chief religion correspondent lauren green is live in the new york city news room with more on this. lauren, good evening. reporter: good evening, trace. well, fox news digital has learned the department of education s office for civil rights has launched an investigation into harvard university over how it has handled anti-semitic incidents on campus. the agency says it will look into whether the ivy league school failed to
the bitter cold temperatures this christmas eve line up against a whole bunch of football games. cnn s coy wire knows a thing or two about playing football in the freezing cold. he s got the details. reporter: sara, i have seen you reporting in knee-deep snow. i know you know about working in wintry weather. the colders players and fans are going to be in chicago when the bears host the buills and the cleveland for the browns hosting the saints. feels-like temps at both games 20 below at game time with gusts of more than 40 miles per hour in cleveland. there is up to a 45% chance that mother nature could let it san antonio snow. so players could be walking in a winter wonderland. here is a photo of your boy in buffalo back in the day, number 27 there.
to leave to go to canada and are facing danger trying to do it. sara sidner reports. reporter: men, women and children picked up in the middle of the night in the dead of winter, looking for refuge after being denied it in the u.s. this is the latest wave of asylum seekers who have snuck across the united states border, not trying to get into the u.s. but trying to get out. destination? canada. these four men were among them. what was it like trying to get here? i cannot believe now speaking to you that i m alive. i was almost dead to be freezing. it was very, very difficult. reporter: at one point, they all thought they were going to freeze to death. this is an easy entryway into canada, because this is a decommissioned border crossing. this is one of the routes. people were walking in knee-deep snow in sub-zero temperatures for hours, and they did it all in the dead of winter for one
i had snow shoes earlier and pretty much patted down and kept me above the snow, and you can get into knee-deep snow pretty well. i had 14 last night in the common before i heft. equipment everywhere, little bucket loaders, pan over here, gil i want to show you how high the snow is in regard to the bucket loader. easily a 20-inch snow for boston. historic snow. good news with the way they have kept the streets as clear as they, kept up with the storm there, is no reason that boston, the city, will not be operational come monday morning. now, the airports, the highways, mass transit, a whole different story, there is no word yet obviously on when that will be up and running again, but up like new york city, we are not done. we are not done. we will see more and more snow here. probably another 5 to 8 inches