philip krauser is in washington. the mercury is set to go down as low as -13. >> a lot of records will be hours,over the next 24 and are indeed already been broken in the midwest. these temperatures will go to the lowest in a generation, meaning a lot of people will never have experienced these types of low temperatures, and who would want to. celsius inegrees chicago, the biggest metropolitan area affected by this extreme cold right now. the biggest record that we will probably see is -50 degrees celsius in terms of the windchill felt in some parts of the country part of that is a very low temperature. add to that a very cold wind passing through. here, in washington, it is still looking pretty much ok. temperatures will go down very quickly, in just a few hours time. -13 celsius is the lowest we will go. the tips we are getting is stay indoors as much as you can. where layers because the damages -- dangers are serious. hypothermia and frostbite for those that say outside. >> which states are affected and what plans