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Plummeting temperatures. The push is on to get the homeless out of the dangerous cold. And how the country is preparing for the challenges of this brand-new decade. We launch a special series. CBS Reports: Where America Stands. From CBS News world headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
Much of the country is in the middle of a deep freeze from Syracuse to Santa Fe. Millions of people woke up to bitter cold temperatures. National correspondent Dean Reynolds shows us the problems that’s causing across three time zones. Vermont is digging out of a record snow storm. 33 inches that turned the entire state into a drift기류. Predictable winter scene there, but when Bald knob, Arkansas resembles유사하다 Buffalo, New York, 1000 miles to the north, you know the country is cold.
10-20 degrees colder than normal in much of the nation. So cold, a nuclear power plant in New Jersey was shut down when ice from the Delaware River was suck into the cooling mechanism. So cold in Chicago, skating rinks were almost empty. Human service specialist Sabrina Roberts spent the day trying to coax구슬리다 the city’s homeless into shelters. “We’re trying to see if you want to come off the streets.” “No.” “You want to go the shelter?” “No.”
In Minneapolis, you can literally see what seven below looks like as WCCO meteorologist Mike Ogostiniak explained. “Our timer went dead, but water frozen about 15 minutes.” Usually the jet stream keeps the coldest air bottled up north of Canada’s Hudson Bay. But a sudden deep has now sent arctic temperatures tumbling southward resulting in subzero wind chills stretching to New Mexico and southern Missouri. The cold extended even to Florida where a freeze is possible tonight. Farmers there are fretting조바심을 내다 over what could be a crop killing chill.
Back in Chicago, Sabrina Roberts kept looking for those in need. “We come back and check on them, you know, everyday to make sure they’re okay.” As well she should because temperatures are expected to stay well below normal for much of this week in much of this country. Katie? Dean Reynolds in a very chilly windy city. Thanks, Dean.