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Record-breaking cold has hit the Midwest, bringing temperatures as low as 59 degrees below zero with windchill.
Schools in Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee are closed because of the most intense cold in two decades.
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A man wears a face mask and heavy clothes while walking through downtown Springfield, Ill.
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A person struggles to cross a street in blowing and falling snow as the Gateway Arch appears in the distance in St. Louis.
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A car is covered in snow Sunday in Zionsville, Ind.
As you can see, the snow and wind have made travel hazardous.
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People ski on the street in Evanston, Ill.
The cold front is now making its way east:
Reuters
Last week's snow storm and the relatively warm weather that followed has already made New York City a bit hazardous:
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A woman falls while slipping on ice during freezing rain on Roosevelt Island, a borough of Manhattan, in New York January 5, 2014.