central american migrants heading to the u.s. southern border. the majority of the roughly 4000 people are moving toward the town of cordova in mexico. william longeness is traveling along and joins us now live. reporter: there are four distinct caravans in mexico right now. stretching from the guatemala border to mexico city. about 12,000 migrants in total. this would be the first night they have a roof over their head. this caravan, the first one as you said is moving very fast. 160 miles today. i want to show your amazing video why. some were hustling trickles fried stopping big rig drivers asking drivers to open the back of the trailers and put hundreds of illegal immigrants inside. they were fearless. but that was not the scene
across parts of alaska really. that s where we have had it all winter long. major storm. temperatures cold across the entire area. the town of cordova, shep is at 176 inches of snow. typical year they get 100. already well above what they normally get. got about three months left of winter for them. got a very long haul and that town of noem hopes that fuel gets there. if they don t they are in a world of hurt until march. so much of the lower 48 is like where is the snow? we just found it. we found it up there. there is a little bit across parts of the u.s. take a look back at the maps. we have had some snow finally across places like chicago. where we have only had about an inch so far this year in chicago. and now we have had some today. by the time we are done by tomorrow morning around 4 to 8 inches of that. that doesn t sound like a big storm. if you haven t had any yet, it s going to seem like some. rain to the front of that. by the time this is done over the next 48 hours,
of cordova where national guard troops have the back breaking task of clearing it all. city officials had to dip into emergency funds and spent nearly $4,000 on stronger shovels. they will need them. rain showers have made the snow wet and very heavy. raising the risk of avalanches and causing roofs to collapse. critical mission is underway to deliver fuel to the coastal city of nome, alaska. this russian tanker is now pushing through the frozen bearing sea with the help of a u.s. drone. it flies over the icy waters and sends images back to the ship to help guide it to shore. if it gets there, it has a mile long hose to deliver that fuel to homes and cars. an enormous mess and our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is with us now. how much worse is this going to get? we re about half way through winter, shep. they are already on track to have the snowiest winter ever. a very rough time ahead. a lot of the people here have been asking where is winter. take a look at the maps and see w
commerce holding annual state of american business address. attendees are hearing from the chamber s president at the moment outlining how the business community can help americans get back to work. we re watching that. monitoring that event. we ll bring you important developments here. martha: an emergency shipment of snow shovels is on the way to alaska this morning. we ve been telling you about this bee league gured snowed-in town of cordova. more than 15 feet of know in cordova. nag guard has been called in to help people shovel out. we still have not cleaned up everything from the last fall. we have a lot more to do. usually snows and it rains. snows and it rains. this winter is snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed. martha: and snowed and snowed. and snowed. and snowed some more. the guard is also using snow melting machines. get it, bill. they can liquify 80 tons of
to help dig out and deliver supplies. no roads leading into that town. the only way in or out is by boat or if you have a airplane. talk about some isolation? no apocalypse. this roof is leaking inside right now. if we wait too much longer, you know, a lot of businesses have already, you know, started to cave in. shoveling is not much funny more. i m actually real excited. i m excited to be doing what we re supposed to be doing and be helping people. bill: thank goodness for the national guard there. i think there is a stephen king novel in there. maria molina is in our fox extreme weather center. good morning. good morning, bill. good to see you. incredible how much snow they have out there in alaska. we re already well above the seasonal average. 138 inches recorded in that town of cordova. we re expecting more snow the next five days. today s snow is prompting