income and minority neighborhoods across the country are being left without local drug stores john hendren reports from chicago on a widening health care divide. for miles around every pharmacy has abandoned rita johnson's neighborhood on a summer day i really could walk to the one. too far from here and. they close with the. other. to find the medication she takes for cancer in a recent spinal surgery she now makes a winding five mile trek on public transportation some of her neighbors have neither the patience nor the money to make it. welcome to the pharmacy desert the place in major american cities where garbage strewn like urban tumbleweeds before what used to be corner drug stores it's a growing phenomenon in poor minority neighborhoods across the united states it's saying racially motivated to me because they vols mainly closed in black and latino communities it is in neighborhoods like these that the u.s. opioid epidemic is at its worst addicks suffer an opioid overdoses are often left without access to the lifesaving drug narking this man survived because these police officers wer

seventeen year old upon mcdonald was shot sixteen times while carrying a knife down a chicago st john hendren joins us now from outside the courthouse in chicago and i suppose way expecting that sentencing imminent age on what's happening that. we are expecting that sentencing and it could come at any time now what we've seen today in the most dramatic case in the fifty years involving a police officer that's how long it's been since of all these officer has been convicted of murder in chicago is a dramatic case that the entire city is watching closely and early this morning we saw one series of people young black men by and large that had been arrested by this police officer jason van dyke after another talk about how he treated them they said they were abused some said he used racial slurs well now we are in the defense portion of the pre-sentencing statements and we've had his daughter his father his wife is on right now talking about how this is impacted their life and arguing that he should receive a lighter sentence because of what he and his family have already gone through now this is

shutdown half of them are on leave while the out pay the others are working without compensation john hendrenmet some of them and chicago from where frank lagunas stands which for the past couple weeks has been at home the forecast for workers employed by the u.s. government is gloomier than ever some will be paying their mortgages some will be paying their car payments some will be paying their credit cards as a furloughed chemist for the environmental protection agency responsible for overseeing the cleanup of some of the most toxic waste sites in the country he has been deemed a nonessential worker also non-essential it seems is the environment well there's nobody. there to safeguard current regulations and oversee any potential environmental damage so there's a violation of the law and there's no one there to you know enforce current law repeated shutdowns have led to a brain drain over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a.'s nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown ch

it's a hot topic at the north american auto show in detroit john hendren that here in the hallowed home of the american auto industry there is a collective case of terror of terror tariffs is really given us more uncertainty in the street as are already very uncertain you know every body that uses metals is seeing increased prices even if they were sourced domestically because the domestic sources are seeing greater demand to have the biggest automakers here at the north american international auto show in detroit the motor city zone ford and general motors say tariffs are cutting twenty eight hundred profits by a billion dollars each the world's largest car market china the target of u.s. steel tariffs is contracting and after a nearly decade long auto industry boom forecasters say the industry is due to decline in twenty nineteen in part due to a trade war president donald trump picked with china. the president who calls himself a terrorist man insists the u.s. treasury is reaping billions from chinese tariffs that's absolutely hurt john a very badly but are. they getting a lot of mon

setting a new precedent here it is the officer who finds himself on the wrong side of the law john hendren al-jazeera chicago. police have fashioned mourners at the funeral of a man shot dead joining anti-government protests in the capsule of suit done activists say at least fifty people have died since objections began last month lama divel has more from tossing. scenes of violence in the sudanese capital khartoum on friday morning as more people died at the hands of security forces police attacked mourners with gathered for the funeral of my honey a sixty year old died after being shot by police who had accused him of hiding protests as in his house in a suburb of the capital call to a police vehicle was overturned by the mourners as the confrontation. there had been another funeral this. hundreds turned out for dot but because he had been shot dead while trying to treat wounded testers. overnight one. protest of many are around the country focused on the hospital where the doctor and the boy died a spontaneous outpouring of anger and grief combined i believe many here still mourn i don'

concerns over the prospects for the auto industry in two thousand and nineteen so that speak to john hendren who is at the show john can you stop by giving us a sense of how the industry is performing globally. well mary it's an interesting time to be of the auto industry there actually wasn't a bad year in twenty eighty and that was after a series of really good years for the auto industry to begin to parity ten but the forecast for twenty nine thousand are looking a little bleaker one of the reasons for that is to trade war that's going on between the u.s. and china that means which to you is more expensive whether you buy it from china with the tariff or whether you buy it in the u.s. or elsewhere where prices are going up due to demand that means increased prices for auto makers so florida in general motors each say that that trade war is costing them about a billion dollars into anything teen and that is likely to continue so there is a lot of the laurie about what's going to happen the next year but it's been a good series of years for the auto industry what happens in these interestin

in some parts of the midwest the northeast temperatures are lower than in and talk to john hendren has more now from michigan. in arctic freezing envelops the american midwest bringing dangerous cold in record low temperatures this is an event unlike any. i think it's really important that we protect people the arctic air of the polar vortex is sweeping the region driving temperatures down to thirty below zero celsius a chick o'hare airport with wind chills in the suburbs making it feel like minus forty eight the predicted low of minus thirty three at o'hare on thursday would be chicago's lowest temperature in recorded history the weather system stretches across issues swath from the dakotas in the north at minus thirty degrees celsius to maine in the east and as far south as alabama to prevent freezing chicago sets the train tracks on fire schools post offices and businesses are closed even a few minutes exposure to temperatures this low can cause frostbite one local forecaster is warning if you shut your eyes for too long they can freeze closed it's that kind of cold. the frigid air

build electric vehicles in standard vehicles and of course some of them will drive themselves john hendren al-jazeera detroit. again on the nose of the problem and aha with the headlines on al-jazeera bush prime minister politicians to put self interest aside and work together on a consensus deal with the u.k.'s withdrawal from the european union she made the playoff to have government survived a confidence motion cold while position and. so now i have made clear what they don't want we must all work constructively together to set out what parliament does want that's why i'm inviting m.p.'s from all parties to come together to find a way forward one that both delivers on the referendum and to the support of parliament. this is now the time to put self-interest. the first funerals have been held for people killed in tuesday's attack at a luxury hotel the shopping complex in kenya relatives buried the bodies of. two men who worked for a somalia based charity group at least twenty one people died in the assault in nairobi the group behind the attacks as it was in retaliation for the u.s. pres

when he was killed vandyke had been facing a maximum of ninety six he is in prison al-jazeera is john hendren is live for us outside the courthouse in chicago john tell us how the sentence been has been received so far look when mcdonald's family has been speaking. yes indeed that sentence six years nine months was far more than they defended hoped for but it was far less than the family of look one mcdonald had asked for and they came out forcefully and after the verdict the family spokesman marvin hunter a pastor came out and said that this was a miscarriage of justice and he called for change here in the city of chicago in the state of illinois in response to these police shootings this is what he had to say. this man has clearly committed murder. and the murder which he committed has been shown all over the world everyone in the civil and conscious mind knows that this is murder and the reality of it is we have to do something legislatively to change this we must begin the process to do something legislatively to change this so that police officers that commit the kinds of crimes that jas

to streamline their operations one of the reasons is that the industry is evolving so quickly john hendren reports from the detroit auto show. this self driving car has arrived these boxy four wheelers at the north american international auto show are autonomy's vehicles not of the future they're here now in speed snap car lets you snap a passenger pod or a delivery pod on to what essentially is a skateboard moster from small manufacturers but major manufacturers including ford plan to sell fully autonomy is vehicles in two years these fords are already being tested delivering pizzas groceries and people it's more evolution than revolution twenty one thousand cars are already packed with lane assist auto braking and other driver assist technologies the autonomy that's available today is the autonomy that you see in your cars that assist you with the driving task you're going to see that today and tomorrow and the the the year after that you're going to see those technologies get better and better and better we're putting into our vehicles now the ability to stop on an emergency without you

theo and many in prices it's a hot topic at the north american auto show in detroit from where john hendren reports here in the hallowed home of the american auto industry there is a collective case of terror of terror tariffs is really given us more uncertainty in an industry that is already very uncertain you know every body uses metals is saying increase prices even if they were sourced domestically because the domestic sources are seeing greater demand to have the biggest automakers here at the north american international auto show in detroit the motor city zone ford and general motors say tariffs are cutting twenty eight hundred profits by a billion dollars each the world's largest car market china the target of u.s. steel tariffs is contracting and after a nearly decade long auto industry boom forecasters say the industry is due to decline in twenty nineteen in part due to a trade war president donald trump picked with china. the president who calls himself a terrorist man insists the u.s. treasury is reaping billions from chinese tariffs that absolutely hurt john a very badly but ar

united states in some parts of the midwest the northeast temperatures are lower than in antarctica john hendren has more now from willis michigan. in arctic freezing envelops the american midwest bringing dangerous cold in record low temperatures this is an event unlike any we've seen in a generation and i think it's really important that we protect people the arctic air of the polar vortex is sweeping the region driving temperatures down to thirty below zero celsius which a god knows o'hare airport with wind chills in the suburbs making it feel like minus forty eight the predicted low of minus thirty three at o'hare on thursday would be chicago's lowest temperature in recorded history the weather system stretches across a huge swath from the dakotas in the north that minus thirty degrees celsius to maine in the east and as far south as alabama to prevent freezing chicago sets the train tracks on fire schools post offices and businesses are closed even a few minutes exposure to temperatures this low can cause frostbite one local forecaster is warning if you shut your eyes for too long they can

to be in pole position when it comes to new technology like the cars that drive themselves as john hendren reports now from the detroit auto show. this self driving car truly is a ride to these boxy four wheelers at the north american international auto show or autonomy is vehicles not of the future they're here now are in speed snap car lets you snap a passenger pod or a delivery pod onto what is sensually is a skateboard most are from small manufacturers but major manufacturers including ford plan to sell fully autonomy's vehicles in the next two years these fords are already being tested delivering pizzas groceries and people it's been more of an evolution than a revolution twenty one thousand cars are already packed with lane assist auto braking and other driver is cystic knowledge ease the autonomy that's available today is the autonomy that you see in your cars that assist you with the driving task you're going to see that today and tomorrow and the the the year after that you're going to see those technologies get better and better and better we're putting into our vehicles now the

be in pole position when it comes to new technology like vehicles the can drive themselves as john hendren pulls out of the detroit auto show. this self driving car truly is a ride these boxy four wheelers at the north american international auto show are autonomy's vehicles not of the future they're here now rin speed snap car lets you snap a passenger pod or a delivery pod onto what essentially is a skateboard most are from small manufacturers but major manufacturers including ford plan to sell fully autonomy's vehicles in the next two years these fords are already being tested delivering pizzas groceries and people it's been more of an evolution than a revolution twenty one thousand cars are already packed with lane assist auto braking and other driver is cystic knology the autonomy that's available today is the autonomy that you see in your cars that assist you with the driving task you're going to see that today and tomorrow and the the the year after that you're going to see those technologies get better and better and better we're putting into our vehicles now the ability to stop on

temperatures have plunged to minus thirty degrees celsius the coldest temperatures for a generation john hendren has more now from when is mich. in arctic freeze envelops the american midwest bringing dangerous cold in record low temperatures this is an event unlike any we've seen in a generation and i think it's really important that we protect people the arctic air of the polar vortex is sweeping the region driving temperatures down to thirty below zero celsius it goes o'hare airport with wind chills in the suburbs making it feel like minus forty eight the predicted low of minus thirty three at o'hare on thursday would be chicago's lowest temperature in recorded history the weather system stretches across a huge swath from the dakotas in the north that minus thirty degrees celsius to maine in the east and as far south as alabama to prevent freezing chicago sets the train tracks on fire schools post offices and businesses are closed even a few minutes exposure to temperatures this low can cause frostbite one local forecaster is warning if you shut your eyes for too long they can freeze closed i

is overshadowing the event with some fairing a throwdown across the auto industry john hendren reports from detroit michigan. the most renowned auto show in north america opened with the drama glamour. and muscle cars descending from above auto makers ruled out those were the new models including cadillacs x t six utility key is telluride and ford shelby mustang g.t. five hundred the fast is street legal for down the road there were concept cars that might one day hit the road like the infinity q x inspiration in the lexus l c convertible. but the mood among the automakers at the twenty one thousand north american international auto show in detroit is somewhat somber global auto sales which boomed from two thousand and ten to twenty sixteen have slowed g.m. is closing plants ford is partnering with to make its cars in europe and sales in china have plummeted amid a u.s. trade war perhaps the contraction in the overall number of vehicles that they sell but they're shifting their production process toward producing more trucks and less of that and while some automakers brought the drama

global attention for barricading herself in a hotel in thailand to avoid deportation to the kingdom john hendren has more in a desperate plea from a barricaded hotel room run half noon urged the world to come to her rescue i'm still in the room. and have no choice. this it i have to go tomorrow and. no one can have been right now on friday she got her wish and we have accepted the un's request that we grant her asylum that is something that we are pleased to do because canada is a country that understands how important it is to stand up for human rights to stand up for women's rights around the world the canadian prime minister's announcement ended a weeklong drama that drew worldwide attention the eighteen year old fled saudi arabia accusing her family of physical and psychological abuse but was detained by the authorities in bangkok who at one point threatened to send her back she launched a social media campaign from her hotel room appealing to the united nations high commission on refugees saying she would be killed if she returned i'm not leaving my own until i see it. i want. the un agreed

teenager the death of donald provoked an outcry against war protesters called racist policing john hendren reports from chicago this video has spawned global outrage and now a prison sentence for a chicago police officer i think my findings are an appropriate sentence would be eighty one months and the illinois department actions two years minutes or so. jason vandyke was sentenced to six years in nine months the cost of gunning down a seventeen year old black man here this man has clearly committed murder and in the murder in which he has as committed have been shown all over the world everyone up in the conscious mind knows that this is murder and the reality of it is we have to do something legislatively to change this this sentence caps the trial of a half century in chicago where a police officer has not been convicted of murder on duty in more than fifty years van dyke's wife pleaded for mercy i would like to ask the court. to please take into consideration. that my husband is a man he's a human being he's a very was a very good dedicated officer please please he has paid the price a

to a summer event the world's automakers hope the industrial climate will be beaumier as well john hendren al-jazeera detroit. recap the headlines for you now on al-jazeera prime minister tracy mays packs a day on has been defeated by the largest margin in u.k. parliamentary history the eyes to the right two hundred into. the nose to the left four hundred and fifty two. of the vote the opposition labor party call for a vote of no confidence in the government which could trigger a general election and is that likely to be a defeat it. every day that passes without this issue being result means more uncertainty more business untold rancor the government of. the house has said tonight but i ask members on all sides of the house to listen to the british people who want this issue sector. to work with the government to do just. a leaders who are insisting the deal is the best it can offer a request for a delay to the mark twenty ninth rexx that deadline would have to be approved by all member states and there's an interest rate know each. other to mix tapes i know are hard to read remain in the

whether the alleged victims prosecutors are seeking respond to their calls and what they have to say john hendren zero chicago . so has had. politics.

documentary highlighting the stories office in the victims is drawing the attention of prosecutions john hendren reports from chicago. to me to movement might have finally caught up with one of the world's most legendary r. and b. singers. over. two decades rumors of swirled about r. kelly's entourage said to be made up in part of young women in under-age girls who would tend recording sessions held in this studio and at another in atlanta now prosecutors in both cities are asking for help the recent allegations against entertainer r. kelly and the recent lifetime dr who series are deeply deeply disturbing cook county prosecutor kym fox says she's been in contact with the chicago police department in families who say kelley abused their girls but she says she needs the victims to help pursue charges against the fifty two year old singer that enough was enough. to come forward there is nothing that can be done to investigate these allegations without the cooperation of both victims and witnesses we cannot seek justice without you the probes were spurred by a series of allegations compiled in a do

reportedly told the thai authorities who seized her passport i wish they'd taken her phone instead john hendren zero. for us the turn now to one of our top stories the african national congress unveiling its election manifesto at a rally in durban in this hour william khamenei is a professor at the school of governance at the university of veterans in johannesburg he joins us now from there thanks very much for being with us now they're kicking off can't their campaign the n.c.a. in the province of natal what's behind that decision just talk us to talk us through that. you know the enormity of the other eight of january is really a good year over the last couple of decades not only sends a message to the public you know our party's policy or you know sort of has its program for the year and it kind of this is an op where the venue is normally decided the year before so this isn't to have it in durban to have it and of course a little nettled province which is the heartland of the former south african president of millions of president jacob zuma was already amazing a year ago when jacob zuma wa

shutdown half of them are on leave without pay and the others are working without compensation john hendren met some of them in chicago. from where frank laguna stands which for the past couple weeks has been at home the forecast for workers employed by the us government is gloomier than ever some will be paying their mortgages some will be paying their car payments some will be paying their credit cards as a furloughed chemist for the environmental protection agency responsible for overseeing the cleanup of some of the most toxic waste sites in the country he has been deemed a nonessential worker also non-essential it seems is the environment well there's nobody. there to safeguard current regulations and oversee any potential environmental damage so there's a violation of e.p.a. laws there's no one there to have you know enforce current law repeated shutdowns have led to a brain drain over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a.'s nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown

setting a new precedent here it is the officer who finds himself on the wrong side of the law john hendren zero chicago. the white house is denying accusations from the house speaker that donald trump put troops and civilians working in afghanistan and in danger by leaking information about a congressional trip the trumpet council chief light on in the government shutdown but not surprising as accusing the president of revealing information about the trip and called it very very irresponsible but as the head of funding for a u.s. bank soko border wall well experts say if the political impasse continues it will have serious impact on the u.s. economy and the immediate effects of the shutdown is hunger demand from food banks across the country is growing as hundreds of thousands of federal workers and not getting their paychecks and reports from florida. for almost thirty years farm shows mission has been a simple one take supplies food and feed the hungry soup kitchens churches and homeless shelters are the biggest customers in the last few weeks that's changed where interest on learning an

mercedes are skipping the events we're going to talk to john hendren who is there for us i mean i'm guessing there's a different sort of vibe in this say when you talk about big names like that and also tending. that's right it's usually here you've got the european players here sixty cars that everybody is looking at and those players are not here and so that has given the opportunity for other lights to shine but this year has been a really good year for korean cars. hyundai kona was the utility of the year and then another car by genesis the g seventy that was the car of the year but what's happening in the market is that sedans particularly here in the united states sales of sedans are going down and what's going up utilities and trucks this is the truck of the year the ram fifteen hundred and i've got someone with you can tell me a little about it this is nick kappa of ram and let me just ask you first of all you were awarded the truck of the year award for this truck today what does it mean to you when the company was actually three awards that we were set out to get with the two thous

vandyke is the first chicago officer in fifty years to be convicted of shooting while on duty john hendren is joining us from just outside the courthouse in chicago so what is the likely sentence to be for van dyck. and you said it this is the trial of the half century it's been fifty years since a police officer has been convicted of murder while on the job here in chicago and that happened just in october but this verdict has been a long time in coming for the shooting actually happen in october of two thousand and fourteen and of course now is judgment day for jason van dyck he stands convicted of second degree murder and sixteen counts of aggravated battery you know that's one for each bullet with which he shot look on mcdonald one mcdonald was walking away from police he was carrying a knife high on p.c.p. and refused orders to drop that knife but he was clearly walking away from police as he was fired upon and that is what this conviction is all about and right now up stairs we're hearing victim impact statements other people young african-american men that this police officer is pul

this shutdown half of them are on lay without pay and the others are working without compensation john hendren that some of them in chicago. from where frank laguna stands which for the past couple weeks has been at home the forecast for workers employed by the us government is gloomier than ever some will be paying their mortgages some will be paying their car payments some will be paying their credit cards as a furloughed chemist for the environmental protection agency responsible for overseeing the cleanup of some of the most toxic waste sites in the country he has been deemed a nonessential worker also non-essential it seems is the environment well there's nobody. there to safeguard current regulations and oversee any potential environmental damage so there's a violation of law and there's no one there to have you know enforce current law repeated shutdowns have led to a brain drain over the past two years the chicago region covering several states has seen one hundred fifty of the e.p.a.'s nine hundred fifty employees leave it's almost lunchtime here at the federal building in downtown ch

sick aagot officer in fifty years to be convicted of shooting on duty covering the story for us john hendren is joining us from just outside the courthouse and chicago so it's quite unprecedented john what do we expect a sentencing to be. willfully as you put it this is really the trial of a half century here in chicago much anticipated in everybody's watching what's happening with this sentence in particular because of what happened just one day earlier three other officers were acquitted of conspiracy in trying to cover up the shooting and you may recall that shooting was not revealed to the public until the video was brought out a year after the fact so a lot of anticipation going on here at the cook county courthouse in chicago that the defendant jayson vandyke faces an incredibly wide range of potential sentence his defense team is asking for probation but he could get if all of those if he is convicted on all of those charges and they may run them concurrently he could get up to ninety six years in prison and the prosecution hasn't made a specific recommendation but among the motions t

states the deep freeze has plans to minus thirty degrees celsius the coldest for a generation john hendren has more now from willis in michigan. in arctic freezing envelops the american midwest bringing dangerous cold in record low temperatures this is an event unlike any we've seen in a generation and i think it's really important that we protect people the arctic air of the polar vortex is sweeping the region driving temperatures down to thirty below zero celsius which a god knows o'hare airport with wind chills in the suburbs making it feel like minus forty eight the predicted low of minus thirty three at o'hare on thursday would be chicago's lowest temperature in recorded history the weather system stretches across a huge swath from the dakotas in the north that minus thirty degrees celsius to maine in the east and as far south as alabama to prevent freezing chicago sets the train tracks on fire schools post offices and businesses are closed even a few minutes exposure to temperatures this low can cause frostbite one local forecaster is warning if you shut your eyes for too long they c

hoping the longer distance they have to travel doesn't mean the difference between life and death john hendren al jazeera chicago well the holiday season used to be a good excuse for a game of mahjong in hong kong but the younger generation with their mobile phones and computer games often don't know how to play the reports. which cashier charles was once a familiar sound in almost every hong kong neighborhood marjon was so widely played it became synonymous with the city's culture but over the years as gambling laws tightened and the younger generation lost interest the march on tables that are once seen everywhere started to disappear and so did the intricate handmade tiles that define the game. is one of the last three margarine artisans in hong kong and the only woman left chiseling away at the blocks ok so you know why working on this is like a walk down memory lane it is like a cassette player which allow me to replay my favorite songs again and again. she grew up in this tiny shop under the stairs of a dilapidated building and has been working here since the age of thirteen she inherite

build electric vehicles in standard vehicles and of course some of them will drive themselves john hendren al-jazeera detroit. is also there are these are stories bush prime minister has reached out across the political divide urging them to work together on a deal to the withdrawal from the european union she made the playoff the government survived a no confidence vote called by opposition. to u.s. soldiers are among at least nineteen people killed by a bomb and northern syria department of defense civilian and supporting contractor were also killed i still has claimed responsibility for the blast in. the first funerals for people killed and she says attack in nairobi hotel have been held by the two men who worked for a somali based charity at least twenty one people died and the assault but with dozens of people still unaccounted for and off is that death toll could rise. special envoy on afghan reconciliation has just arrived in pakistan to try to revive talks with the taliban zalmay khalilzad is meeting pakistani leaders to try to bring the taliban back to the table. taliban leaders c

whether the alleged victims prosecutors are seeking respond to their calls and what they have to say john hendren zero. and one of the world's most famous comic book characters was first published ninety years ago generations of young readers around the world have followed tintin's international escapades but some anti-racism campaigners say the book's a filled with offensive racial stereotypes and reports from belgium. with his distinctive hairstyle and fluffy dog tintin is one of the world's most recognizable comic book characters belgian artist l.j. created the intrepid young reporter whose adventures were first published in one thousand nine hundred twenty nine ninety years on he continues to install fans and at the l.j. museum in belgium anniversary preparations are underway. tintin is an invisible link between children across the world the books have been translated into two hundred languages and two hundred million books have been sold his character continues to fascinate people. tintin solves mysteries across the world from china to north america and even further afield ninety years after

fretting over forecasts that consumers will hit the brakes on new car sales in twenty nineteen john hendren al-jazeera detroit on in cinema has long had a world class reputation now it's getting a wider american audience at the first iranian film festival to be held in new york organizers are hoping it will help bridge the divide between the two countries out a serious question salumi reports. just getting to new york was no small feat for bachmann farm inara i'm excited to do whatever i come to new york the only iranian director able to travel to the iranian film festival under the trumpet ministrations travel ban but the seventy eight year old is used to having to navigate tricky political situations his film i want to dance is getting its u.s. premiere at the festival after a four year ban back home where dancing is for bed end with them i don't know of any religion that bans happiness but somehow in my country the manifestation of happiness is not allowed in the. but again i'm bushnell to say it was a b.s. . aronian film directors are known for their subtle touch and symbolism the comed

freeze has plunged to minus thirty degrees celsius is the coldest in a generation as there was john hendren has more now from willis in the state of michigan. in arctic freeze envelops the american midwest bringing dangerous cold in record low temperatures this is an event unlike any we've seen in a generation i think it's really important that we protect people the arctic air of the polar vortex is sweeping the region driving temperatures down to thirty below zero celsius it should goggles o'hare airport with wind chills in the suburbs making it feel like minus forty eight the predicted low of minus thirty three at o'hare on thursday would be chicago's lowest temperature in recorded history the weather system stretches across a huge swath from the dakotas in the north that minus thirty degrees celsius to maine in the east and as far south as alabama to prevent freezing chicago sets the train tracks on fire schools post offices and businesses are closed even a few minutes exposure to temperatures this low can cause frostbite one local forecaster is warning if you shut your eyes for too long