windchills of 32 below in minneapolis, just 10 degrees at houston, texas. this denver it went from 42 to 5 in an hour. the latest on the massive storm, the cold and how it s making a mess of people s holiday plans. it was really chaos. it was back is and forth and one minute there s a flight at 6:45 and then a minute it s gone. and finally ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is back in kyiv following his trip to washington. he left with a promise of billions more in aid, but with republicans taking control of the house in just a couple weeks, that maybe a lot tougher to get going forward. i want to begin with this treacherous winter storm causing disruption across the country. this is in iowa. wow. it s not just there. in erie county, new york, it s so dangerous they just issued a driving ban. i want to bring in shaq brewster. katie beck from reagan national. and also with us is meteorologist bill karins. shaq, let me just get started with you. it feels like you re in
they looked very good last night. yeah. absolutely. and especially in those temperatures. not a shock that the team from miami did not perform as well. you can see fans there in goggles. it was crazy. and look, we ve had the ice bowl. nearly 60 years ago, the packers played the cowboys. there, the windchill temperatures were minus 48 degrees. so we learned back then that the nfl is never going to cancel a game because of the cold and they certainly haven t since then. it was minus 4 at kickoff. i covered the nfc championship game at lambeau field. i was on the sidelines there. i wore ice uwore ice overalls. the chiefs allowed fans electric blankets last night. they allowed them to bring cardboard into the game because if you put the cardboard on to the seat, you re not sitting on a frozen seat. yeah, we did hear from fans.
wind gust the last hour of 69 miles per hour. that s strong tropical storm gusts. they are going to go through that for three straight days. it s snowing hard. they said at the airport it s zero visibility. usually they will give a report of a half mile or eighth of an a mile. it s rare to have zero visibility. tz that s tempting everyone to say stay where they are. that might be through tomorrow too. so that s huge disruptions to your life. and to the safety of being trapped. the winds are cranking the extreme arctic air just went through new york city. the cold front is blowing in. i m a little fearful. it rained a lot around the new york city and connecticut areas. now the cold air is coming in. you can see some of the rain changing to snow. so by the evening rush hour, be careful on the untreated surfaces, which will be host of them. it s hard to treat surface when is it s raining. the windchill temperatures, we re down to 27 in d.c. earlier we were in the 50s. and now the temperat
in fact, chicago will not rise above 20 degrees farenheit before the end of the weekend. they ve been very cold for several days already. look at these snowfall totals. 19 inches in massachusetts, equally impressive totals across connecticut and new york of course grounding flights. that s coming out of jfk. the big story is the wind that is really cooling down the windchill temperatures. that s what it feels like on your exposed skin. wind gusts in excess of 30 miles per hour. well below freezing from the bill apple to detroit. we have 130 americans under a windchill advisory or warning. deep south temperature dropping blow flereezing.
yeah, a monster storm is threatening to bring blizzard-like conditions to the east coast and even colder weather after that. we come, everybody. i m neil cavuto. if first of all, i d like to thank trish regan and lauren simonetti for filling in while i was away. we ll have more from the winter blast in just a moment. but first, what is going on with it? adam klotz in the fox weather center on whether there is any let-up in sight. what do you hear? this continues to march on and on. these are the current windchill temperatures right now. a lot of spots in the negatives. all spots just below freezing. a huge area when you re talking about freezing at 32. it s not getting any warmer. here s the forecasted highs. forecasted highs wednesday still looking at a bunch of areas in the teens, running down into the 30s. we re talking about a system that will be forming off the coast of florida tonight and early tomorrow. that will have a big impact because the temperatures across