we do have crews busy digging up the road in rosemont where a gas leak happened. that was at technology boulevard. from foster to balmoral is closed. the gas is shut off. the only major hotel affected is the intercontinental. most of the cartels are north. they didn't say when they hope to have it back on. >>a toddler was severely burned and is now in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. judy wang is *live at comer children's hospital with more. >> paramedics brought the child here in critical condition. there are more questions than answers at this point. chicago police are questioning the boy's parents it hopes of filling in some of the blanks. police responded to a call in the south shore community this was at 740 last night. officers found the boy about 1 years old with what they described as life- threatening birds. burns to the forehead chest and back. he remains at the university of chicago children's hospital. investigators are trying to determine what caused the injuries. with the burned in the home or was this the result of a criminal act? the fi

everything else is looking good. >> we are live in rosemont this morning. >> good morning. or at the world of wheels. just looking at this right now this defiant world of wheels. tell me about this. >> this is a throwback to the '60s. full custom truck. 44 cab 34 front peace. rear windows from a 34. it's a bit of this and that with a super high performance motor. >> you have about 600 custom cars here. classic cars a lot are modified. a big competition. >> they are all in competition. the chance to show off your car. you bring your car or truck here, the show it off is judged professionally into different glasses. >> let's walk down the line. this looks like a car for our friend dan. a 1949 rolls royce. >> we don't get much of these but this one is terrific. look at this size. it must weigh four or 5 t. you get 3 mi. to the gallon. >> let's keep walking down. it will cut car is this? >> this is an oldsmobile convertible. 1960. look at the size of this. what a great car to go out on a sunday afternoon for a drive. >> going to the drive-in with your girl ... >> finally my fav

a transformer exploding off rosemont avenue. >> just got to take it slow. you can't be in a hurry. safety first. >> reporter: it's a day that ey wait without power.ome not mike vaughn, though. >> we've got two fireplaces, and we've got them toasting up the house. >> reporter: hoping perhaps this is our last brutal blast. >> i've been paying attention to the farmers almanac, and it's holding true. i mean, it says it will be a bad winter. >> reporter: our meteorologists were predicting this, as well. >> oh, really? >> reporter: they were right, too. >> oh, good, good. >> reporter: potomac edison saying 28,000 people without power, 10,000 without power, and it could be days before power is restored, because they're bringing crews ridge fally se s sent over to cumberland back over here. we see how it looks. richard jordan? >> reporter: we've got plenty of ice around here, too, although it is starting to melt pretty quickly. still the impact has taken effect. a lot of schools in the area have either been delayed or cancelled. there's also several businesses that have been affected. take

and rosemont college forced to close. students were encouraged to go home if they could, and if not the main!)qtejt hall is serving food thanks to an emergency generator. we heard from the governor who said this storm is worse than sandy. >> this storm is in some respects as bad or maybe even worse than hurricane sandy. why? because in hurricane sandy it was during the summertime, the weather was warmer, the workers weren't dealing with ice and snow. to work around. >> the governor also said that people without power need to be patient because it's so dangerous for those crews to work on the lines. >> so much ice has broken up all the roads around this city and they're having horrible problems in pennsylvania and it's not over. >> the weather is still below freezing. still a lot of ice on the limbs and lines and and could be more lines coming down even as workers scramble to fix what is broken. there have been, for example, 400 trees blocking roads just in chester county, west of downtown philly. pico is reporting a recor

>> reporter: off of rosemont avenue, that's off of 270. we kind of stepped out of the car here to see whatheer dealing with. you see the sleet, nasty rain is coming down. my photographer as he's walking closer to rosemont, you see that's a road that's pretty much wet. we've got a lot of slush. a little bit of ice. really pretty much wet in areas like that. if we come back over, we can look at the snow that's accumulated the past couple of storms. and you see we have that nice, icy layer right on top. you see parking lots nasty. if they were treated early yesterday and perhaps that sort of reice will, you see plows coming back every now and then. salt trucks, as well. we've sort of been all over the area. the area here is the worst we've seen so far. we'll keep driving around this morning. checking things out, seeing how the radare. back to you. >> thank you. >>> and this icy blast isn't just hitting us in the mid-atlantic, it is sweeping the nation. >> we've had a couple of warmer breaks from the freeze, a lot of places haven't had a chanc