in sioux city, iowa, the cold may have helped cause a water main break that left this huge crater. >> something this significant, we'll be lucky if we're done today. >> reporter: the deep freeze is expected to stick around through the end of the week. >>> central and southern california, they have the opposite problem. a heat wave there is setting records. >> you feel any better seeing how cold and miserable it is in other parts of the world? >> you would think they are use to it but even they can reach a point where cold is just cold. >> i don't think anybody gets used to 40 or 50 below windchills. >> hunkering down inside. >> we'll have subzero temperatures. 10 below. maybe 20 below in the mountains. we're not the northern plains. we're not canada. we've had flurries around. a little dusting being reported here, skyline drive. we may get a little of that. it's also kind of windy. it almost gets swept off to the side of the road, the shoulder when you get something like n. the other thing we're watching is a band of snow. you see it coming across i-80 and williamsport. we'll track th

in sioux city, iowa, this s.u.v. veered off the road and ended up in an iced-over river. no one was injured. today iowa state police were coping with trucks and cars still stranded along an interstate near des moines. snow and ice led to more than 50 accidents. there were dangerously cold wind-chills across the plains, from minus 34 in langdon, north dakota, to minus four in chicago. the cold front stretched to the nation's capital. up to five inches of snow caused dozens of school bus accidents. many parents complained about school districts that decided to remain open. one d.c. resident didn't seem the mind the snow. bao bao, the national park's 16- month-old giant panda, spent the morning romping around and even played with her mother on her first snow day. while that looks like fun, kids at minneapolis public schools will have a know day tomorrow themselves, but because of the cold, and on a serious note, scott, gusts of wind could reach 40 miles-per-hour. that has state transportation officials telling parts of the state to only go out if necessary. >> pelley: jamie

for example in sioux city iowa a man was awarded $3 million in a sledding lawsuit. he says, we have all kinds of parks that have hills on them. we can't manage the risk at all of those places. similar bans are in place at new jersey and nebraska and a hamster wheel ban was put into place after this accident. >> he is good. he got right back up. andy, seriously over a 10-year period 20,000 children a year were treated in the emergency rooms for sledding-related injuries. are kids just not doing it right? >> that's not enough. >> right? isn't that what sledding is all about? >> there was one reason and one reason for this. i don't blame debuke. this is the american people's fault. this is the same thing i said when the theater owners decided not to screen the -- "the interview." you can't have the instinct to sue and then yell at the cities that take chances. you have to pick one. as long as people want to sue and be treated like children and think nothing is their fault and they have to be taken care of, this is what you will end up with. >> you have kids. >> a lot o

and then another bad judgment in sioux city iowa. >> exactly.fs lawyers felt sorry, mark, but that's the god's honest truth. you look at these injuries it's unbelievably staggering. 20,000 kids get hurt a year. and out of those there's traumatic brain injuries fractures, permanent disabilities. i mean, all of that. these cities look at this and say why are we risking this? >> it's a miracle we live to be as old as we are. so i was sledding without any sort of a helmet in the backseat of the vw bug, both of them smoking in the front seat -- we're going to ban anything bad for us and our kids no more swimming in the ocean, the list could go on. >> yeah. the answer is not what mercedes the grinch proposed. because this isn't the wild wild west anymore where people are solely responsible for their actions. court verdicts have shown that even when banning is up it says you cannot do it and people go there, they're still requiring these towns to have bales of hay and padding because it's reasonably foreseeable that people are still going to go out the

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my old student in sioux city iowa. good morning, scott.whether or not we're doing that frozen anywhere would be san diego. record highs or tying records from sacramento all the way to long beach. phoenix will be slightly cooler. 81 yesterday. 73 today but still nice and >> fairfax county gets a shout out on gma this morning. frigid conditions, windchill advisory affected until 8:00. high temperatures in th >> all that weather brought to you by macy's. so almost everyone east of the rockies with a windchill warning. i keep thinking of that michael jackson sock ou are not alone." >> we're all in this together baby. >> misery loves company. >>> coming up the hidden germs that may be lurking in your morning cup of coffee. >>> one of the young stars of "game of thrones" says she was the victim of cyberbullying. how you can protect your teens online. what 8 grams of protein looks like when you're holding your own. start your day with the power of protein. milk life. what makes thermacare different? two words: it heals. how? with heat. unlike cre

, nebraska for five-year-old girl who was paralyzed when she hit a tree. 2.75 million against sioux city iowad. on public land why don't they put up a sign that says sled at your own risk? >> they do, they have, and they will and they must. they're saying the insurance companies don't want them to do it. at what price are we doing this to our kids? you remember sledding? i remember sledding. there was a sled accident there. we remember going out. uncle richie took us near the parkway and my mother was horrified. she said richie why are you taking them to the parkway? you would veer off at the end to make sure you didn't go out into the traffic. >> of course. >> that was the excitement. i guess that's the danger. let's mott minimize it. there are injuries and there are problems. but for cities to say we're going to minimize this risk at childhood expense, that's wrong. that's not america. we all have so many great memories as families going sledding. it can be done safely. i think you need a helmet. i think you need to stay away from place where is there are trees, where there are rocks. cemet

you wound up spending ten years at the sioux city iowa boys and girls house. there i told them they weren't going to keep they here and the next day i got out of the cell and i said maybe things are different than i thought because i had been a street boy and i shined shoes and sold papers and learned my way around the streets. learned to stand -- learned that until you stand up for yourself you aren't going to have anything. it became part of the foundation that led me to believe in never, never, never giving up. it led me to keep looking no matter when someone tells you as they did me you're legally blind. there is nothing more we can do. we'll see you later. i said that can't be the end and kept on looking and discovered this implantable miniature telescope. >> that's right. >> and in between that time there, what's amazing to me is you have such grit and determination in the face of challenge. you went on to get a football scholarship and then left business for a while western maryland has college team which had a losing team in '76 which two years later h

sioux city, upwards of $3 million. and tiny boone, iowa paid in excess of $12 million. concern over litigation saw dubuque ban sledding in all but five city parks this year. even city officials balked. >> pardon my french, but this sucks. who doesn't like to slide down a hill? >> reporter: for parents, a dilemma. >> i think the city should have the right to say that this is too dangerous and we don't want to be responsible for any accidents. >> being sedentary at home also has risks for kids. >> reporter: while a ban on having fun in the snow may not be popular, neither is a night in the emergency room. and a fear of lawsuits is putting the big chill on sledding for a growing number of communities. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. >> and while there were in harrowing scenes there, we feel compelled to ta thankfully none resulted in serious injury. we're back in a moment with a historymaking climb into the record books. ♪ ♪ jean jean ♪ ♪ roses are red ♪ >>> rod mckuen has died. he was poet a lyricist a musician. while he was once given the label of the unofficial poet la

that clipper has made a mess of roads back through sioux city iowa we saw this pile-up on i-29. amazingly, nobody was injured. dangerous roads near south dakota where the heavy snow made for whiteout conditions there. now we are focusing on the cold. we've already seen the cold hit areas like minneapolis and back through chicago, where people are just bundling up and trying to brace for the cold as best they can. windchills are down around 30 below and getting colder it's kind of hard to bundle up enough to stay warm. and, al as you know we see this clipper move through. we are going to see winds shift back over to the west and northwest. that will turn back on the lake-effect snow machine. as you mentioned, we could see another one to two feet of snow where the heaviest bands of snow set up in this area. >> absolutely, dylan. let's go to the map and show everybody. here's what we're talking about. from the leeward side of the eastern great lakes, erie pennsylvania on through watertown and syracuse we're talking about another two feet of snow. and then we've got this reinforcing

broadband and in rural iowa and encourages service writers to build out networks not just to the ending.but to the rural communities in between davenport and des moines, mason city and siouxity and all across iowa. we are enriched by many find rural communities. that's we them together with the fiber of high-speed internet connecting every acre and covering our state with broadband internet. we can accomplish this by focusing on increasing access to reasonable regulation and encouraging growth and by fostering expansion by creating the iowa farm schools and community broadband grant program adopting these measures demonstrating an ongoing commitment to our state's continued growth. citizens with exceptional work ethic and a strong sense of community pride rural iowa has found the opportunity • 3-acre and given yet another reason to believe their best days are ahead. [applause] this means building for the future, investing in our state's infrastructure. so let's invest in broadband internet and also invest in iowa's roads and bridges. [applause] over the past three years rhetoric has trumpeted results when it comes to action on infrastructure funding for iowa. a recently c

reynolds, my wife chris and i had an opportunity to visit sioux city and marshalltown school districts to discuss preventing bullying and iowachools. we were pleased to be joined at each stop by students teachers, parents, school administrators legislators, and community leaders. what we heard was clear. students are ready to stand up and say let us and bullying in iowa. now it is our turn. [applause] students in these districts and throughout our state have told their stories of learning being disrupted and feeling unsafe. what is worse is we know some students are even being physically and emotionally harmed. community leaders and parents shared that it is time for the state to act. i agree. every day, children in iowa schools are tormented by bullies. bullies attack at school and on the internet. they lurk not just in the corners of the schoolhouse, but also on step chat, instagram facebook twitter and through text messaging. iowa common sense tells us that every child in iowa deserves to go to school each and every day in a safe and respectful learning environment. they deserve a classroom and a community that allows the

iowa this weekend courting the conservative faithful. one of them former pennsylvania senator rick santorum joins me now from sioux city. t to have you here senator. >> thank you, michael. good to be with you. >> in 2012 you won 11 states including iowa. if mitt is not in this thing, two seem that by rights you are the front-runner. and yet, you don't appear to be treated that way. why is that the case? >> why don't you ask the reporters? i don't really care whether i'm treated like the front-runner or not. we're out working to deliver a message like we did yesterday in des moines that for us to be successful as a country, the republican party needs to step forward and be a unifying party in america, has to be a party that not just is pro-growth but also pro-worker to help those who are struggling and hurting and systematically doing so in america. so front-runner whatever doesn't really matter. if you have a good message, you deliver that message well and you have a background in experience to back it up i think things will work itself out if we decide to get into this race. >> the message that you're best known for is

iowa. he is up in the sioux city area, north of des moines, and move west. that is his constituency. he represents that rock red conservatism in iowa which is concerned about immigration. he has used his hard-line view on immigration to become a national political figure. 6, 7 years ago he was well known as someone opposed to partisan immigration reform. since he became someone on a lot of news programs and was making speeches in congress, he has become a savvy player nationally. even know he is a rank and file member of congress, not a committee chairman, he declined to run for the senate in 2014. he is a backbench member of congress in terms of his official position. his political influence continues to grow, because he knows he can use his perch and i was to shake the debate. he told me last night, he does not want to have a litmus test. he is not giving strict guidance. he does not want to talk about foreign policy or immigration. he will have their ear. chris christie has already gone out to have discussions with steve king. he is a player. someone to watch. i am not sure if he w