s. there were several beaches. americans had omaha and utah beach. we landed at omaha. the british had their beaches. it was not a difficult thing as a young man to adapt to the military life. it was demanding. but we had somewhat of a family history. my grandfather had been in the service. i didn't know too much about that. but we were just responding to the things that went on around us. rest of our buddies were signing up so it was only natural for you to want to be a part of what was going on. i did not intend to be a professional military person. but after world war ii, coming back to school, i needed to have as much -- as many funds as i had in order not to have to take a full-time job. and what was the government's package for g.i.'s, your g.i. benefits, would give you a certain amount of money but it wasn't enough. they took care of the payments to the school but you had to live off of $60 a month. so a growing male or female, for that matter, would find it very difficult to manage on $60-some a month. so i took rotc. that gave me some additional money and it wa

s. there were several beaches. americans had omaha and utah beach. we landed at omaha. the british had their beaches. it was not a difficult thing as a young man to adapt to the military life. it was demanding. but we had somewhat of a family history. my grandfather had been in the service. i didn't know too much about that. but we were just responding to the things that went on around us. rest of our buddies were signing up so it was only natural for you to want to be a part of what was going on. i did not intend to be a professional military person. but after world war ii, coming back to school, i needed to have as much -- as many funds as i had in order not to have to take a full-time job. and what was the government's package for g.i.'s, your g.i. benefits, would give you a certain amount of money but it wasn't enough. they took care of the payments to the school but you had to live off of $60 a month. so a growing male or female for that matter, would find it very difficult to manage on $60-some a month. so i took rotc. that gave me some additional money and it was

omaha. two below that's the high temperature in chicago. look at what happens as we move forward wednesday night and thursday morning. 27 degrees in new orleans. 30 in houston. we're looking at low 20's. really in the heart of texas. so this cold air is going to invade all the way to the gulf of mexico. to add insult to injury, take a look at the wind chills by wednesday night, thursday morning. chicago, it could feel like 30 degrees below zero. it could feel like 40 to 50 degrees below zero from minneapolis to international falls. we are talking about frost bite and hypothermia. this is a dangerous scenario. snow flurries across the northeast and great lakes right now. but we're looking at some lake-effect snow over the next couple of days. we could see over a foot of snow fall in places like erie to buffalo as well as sections of michigan. greta, back to you. >> scott, last night i got an email from a viewer natalie brown she says he we never talk about detroit. tonight i want to hear something about detroit. what's the detroit story? >> well, detroit right now you could see, greta, we are looking at temperatures that are well below freezing and also they will get a little bit of t