Robert Ray

That is a major task.

Times Square as it is loaded with snow.

Residents and tourists alike making their way through.

Cars moving very slowly.

Taxis are still out.

Well over seven inches has already been fallen in Central Park.

And the snow, unfortunately, is turning into a bit of a sleety mess as well, which is going to cause a lot of slick scenarios.

The city of New York and the five boroughs with

Nearly 3,000 snow excavating pieces of equipment.

Just remarkable.

Workers were working overtime.

19,000 lane miles of roadways to try and clear LaGuardia Airport shut down at this point.

As New York City has not seen this kind of snow in many years.

It is just downright dangerously cold.

Wind chills minus 25 and 30 and Lake Michigan quite literally freezing over in front of our eyes.

An arctic lake smoke, as it's known, making its way all across the shores of Chicago.

The thing is, this has been going on for days.

We've had snarling at the airports, lake effect snow, squalls that have come in in over a dozen states, and millions of people that are in the throngs of this cold weather system that's happening.

Nearly 60 million people across about a dozen states in America right now are going through perhaps the coldest temperatures that everyone will experience this winter.