Snow and ice are lingering in cities that received historic winter weather this week, thanks to below-average temperatures.
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00:00From fire to ice, the southern U.S. continues to deal with lingering impacts. Look at that
00:04icy, snowy wasteland there, part of the highway system there in Pensacola. This
00:09is a record-breaking snowstorm. I think it's great. At least the snow is beautiful out there.
00:16And kids had fun in it, but there were also some big challenges. And sadly,
00:20CNN has reported at least 11 deaths from this storm.
00:23Yeah, the snowstorm also snarled travel from Texas to the Carolinas,
00:27breaking records, too, that have stood for more than a century. Look for more travel
00:31headaches, though, as temperatures in most places stay below freezing through the day tomorrow.
00:36So, a lot of people going through an event here that they will never, ever forget with
00:40this snow. And look at New Orleans here. This is incredible, people taking pictures
00:44on Bourbon Street in snow and ice. Yeah, much more people out and about than
00:49at most points during the snow. But we did see snowball fights on Bourbon Street. We saw people
00:53playing ice hockey there. Now, a little bit of a different story. But you can see the road,
00:58the sidewalks look a little icy. Absolutely. You would think this is just Buffalo,
01:02New York, not New Orleans, Louisiana. Just incredible stuff. And every day, we're seeing
01:06a little less snow on the ground, a little more melting. But again, a preliminary estimate, $14
01:11to $17 billion price tag to this storm, with economic disruptions and business-related loss.
01:17So, certainly, again, we mentioned 11 fatalities, tragedies on the highways and roads,
01:24as we often see with the winter storm. But when you put that and juxtapose it over the Gulf Coast,
01:29people don't have the resources to really battle the elements there. The snow plows,
01:34salt trucks fewer in number, and people have less experience driving on the snowy and icy roads
01:39there. One horrible crash in Texas among several of the fatalities there with this earlier in
01:45the storm's event. Well, we have plenty of snow on the ground still. And again,
01:50it's been something that is very mixed, some tragedy tied to this, but also for some a lot
01:54and a lot of fun, some sledding in areas where you've never been able to sled in decades and
01:59decades. Temperatures right now, 35 in Montgomery, Alabama. It's pretty cold here. We're beginning to
02:03see some of these areas with snow cover and points south chill down the most. You can see those blues
02:08on the map near Alma, Georgia, and near Tallahassee, a hint of some of the cold there with
02:12the natural refrigerant on the ground. We're 54 in Miami, though, with low clouds. Temperatures
02:17are trending upward, though. Overall, we're 10, 11 degrees warmer than we were 24 hours ago in
02:22Raleigh. Friday is going to be a cold one still, and specifically in Lexington, Kentucky. Average
02:27high 42. Anna, all we can do tomorrow, 28 degrees there in Fayette County, Kentucky. Still cold here
02:33for some, much colder than the norm. And that's the case as we step a little farther north. Some
02:38of that snow is falling. Yeah, we've all been dealing with the kind of extreme cold, but some
02:43of us dealing with the snow here as well as we take a look at satellite and radar over the last
02:47couple of hours.