in minneapolis, the cold air caused black ice to form on roadways and fire fighters like randy dave isn chicago battled fires with ice sickles on their uniform. >> when you get ice like this it gives you a shell, so your body temperature staying warmer. >> reporter: some workers in chicago escaped cold by using a 5-mile long heated walkway, to connect 50 buildings downtown. >> i'm on my lunch break, ready to go over to macy's. >> reporter: on top of the cold air cities like chicago and milwaukee are bracing for another round of snow today. don champion for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> all right lets check with our weather watchers to see how it looks in our area katie. >> i have to tell you guys brace yourself, when we go into our eyewitness weather watcher network. the look at these temperature readings. the in the a one is in double digits. everybody is n'synx will digit territory this morning and our eyewitness weather watcher network. we will take you on a tour, starting off with ed connor who sent in a last ten minutes. crosswicks, new jersey has 8 degrees with a beautiful moon. b

>>> now wusa9 game on sports with dave owens brought to you by xfinity. >> wizards coach randy whitman great to cover, the body rang wage, the scowl. watch a game. you'll see animated randy, happy randy, randy the mentor, been a while since we've seen exasperated randy, though, but you're about to see him, ladies and gentlemen. side bar tonight, wizards nets paul pierce, kevin garnett teammates so many years on opposite side tonight. paul pierce piercing the sky with pinpoint accuracy. that was about the end of it, though, for the wizards. brooke lopez is like 7' 13. that makes him like 8' 1. wizards lose 102-80 to the lowly nets and randy wittman, ready, aim, fire. >> we had no focus, no energy, no urgency, lack of respect for your opponent and the game and that's what happens. and lesson learned hopefully. >> beside that it was good. >>> call it an acid test on ice, caps trending upward but facing a major test at the grand ole opry, nashville playing the best hockey in the league, caps playing the best hockey in the last 10 games, barry trotz making his return to the team he put on t

dave was referring to earlier as well to hear it. it's really got to have some settling time in that itcz i'm not sure how long they have to wait for that. >> in randi piece a few minutes ago, there's a chance if the black boxes are found, it still might not tell us what happened to bring the plane down. >> yes, but i think, you know, once they're recovered, they're designed to withstand the impact and the airbus of this vintage is equipped with many many streams of captured telemetry of what every aspect of the machine was doing as well as what was going on in the cockpit with the voice recorders. so i'm fairly optimistic when they're found, we'll get some answers, but it is extraordinary to me, you know why are we relying on these pingers after all these years with the technology we have? we know when air france 447, they went right over the wreckage. in the time frame when the pingers should have been working and they heard nothing. we think they failed as david soucie pointed out. obviously, the pinger is doing no good with mh 370 and in this case no black boxes yet. we have to figure out a way to get some of this information, some of this telem