Deep Freeze from Midwest to Northeast
MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Good to have you back with us on a Tuesday. An arctic freeze is plunging a huge swath of the nation into bitter cold this morning. Temperatures in the teens and single digits are turning left over snow with a thin sheets of ice, making for treacherous conditions from the Midwest to the Northeast. Boston has been hit especially hard, with record-setting snowfall. More than 50 inches so far this year. That city typically sees only about 43 inches in the winter. The weather is forcing school cancellations in Boston, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. The victory parade for the New England Patriots being delayed until tomorrow, because of concerns about the weather. So, let's talk about it with our meteorologist Chad Myers. He's keeping track of the latest forecast for us. It looks better than it did out there yesterday, that's for sure.</s>CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Well, it's colder, but it is much drier. That is something and it's not as windy here in New York. So, temperatures are somewhere around 12 degrees, anywhere from eight to 14 across the city this morning. It is this pattern that we are in, though, will keep us cold for many days to come. It will also keep us in the pattern that could bring us a storm every three or four days. There you see the high temperatures over the next couple of days. Not warming up much at all, one storm after another. We talked about the European model this morning and the American models -- the European model bringing eight inches of snow to Boston with the next snowfall. The American model is saying, nah, how about two to four. But you know what, after you get 40, do you even notice two to four? It's kind of like it's the fondant on top of a wedding cake, I think. We're going to be in this pattern, though, guys. This is going to be the key. It's not this storm that might get us, or the next storm, because the trough is in the East be, that allows the cold air to pour down from the north. Every time a storm comes down the bottom of the low, it can get deep in snow here. That's the problem. We are not in just one storm pattern, but maybe the next six, of the next six, all six could bring snow, no real big warm-up where we see a rain event washing all this away. I'm afraid Punxsutawney Phil may have been right for once.</s>CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Don't give in, Chad. Don't give in. Don't give in.</s>MYERS: OK.</s>CUOMO: All right. Come in, get something to drink, we'll check back with you in a little bit. We want to talk about the measles outbreak, though, that's going on, because it began in California and is now spreading across the entire country. The Centers for Disease Control says there are now 102 cases in 14 states. And they'll also, most, but not all of the cases, are linked to the exposure at Disneyland and they blame parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids.</s>ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking overnight: at least eight people allegedly linked to jihadi cells arrested in the suburbs of Paris. France's interior minister says there are currently 161 ongoing investigations into terrorism there. He also announced a new counterterrorism decree that will go into effect tomorrow.</s>PEREIRA: More dramatic testimonies expected today in the murder trial of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez. On the stand today, continued testimony from Shayanna Jenkins, the girlfriend of victim Odin Lloyd. Also, testimony from Lloyd's mother Ursula Ward (ph), who left the courtroom yesterday as witnesses described finding her son's body.</s>CUOMO: All right. Now, here it is, the proof -- groundhogs don't just break your hope for a short winter, they can break your skin. Witness Wisconsin mayor -- catch it. Run it again, Dovs (ph). Here is Wisconsin mayor --</s>CAMEROTA: Oh my gosh!</s>CUOMO: That's right. Jimmy the Groundhog, look at him. Look at the malice, look at the malice.</s>PEREIRA: I don't know it's so much more malice. I mean, you put your ear in his mouth.</s>CUOMO: No, no, no. He said let me hear what you got about the winter and he's like, here's what I got -- and he bites him.</s>PEREIRA: Groundhogs don't whisper, hon.</s>CAMEROTA: Now we know, now we know.</s>CUOMO: The main wearing the gold watch was a little slow on the pull- back. The mayor soldiered on, though, as own a politician can. If you don't bite them directly on the lips, they will continue to talk about whatever it is that's going on. But there's my case.</s>PEREIRA: An unfortunate incident.</s>CAMEROTA: What is your case?</s>CUOMO: Groundhog is, you know, I put him up there with the panda.</s>PEREIRA: Don't get down on pandas. Not a pet.</s>CUOMO: But bites it.</s>PEREIRA: To be true. But the comparison with Chad Myers, unacceptable.</s>CUOMO: I said fugazey (ph). Not a real Chad Myers.</s>CAMEROTA: Your anti-panda campaign is troubling. Meanwhile, the U.S. considers lethal aid to help Ukraine fight pro- Russian rebels as we get an exclusive inside look at a key city in eastern Ukraine now in ruins from this fighting.