Extreme cold continues after record-breaking snow on the Gulf Coast

Snow and ice are lingering in cities that received historic winter weather this week, thanks to below-average temperatures.

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00:00From fire to ice, the southern U.S. continues to deal with lingering impacts. Look at that

00:04icy, snowy wasteland there, part of the highway system there in Pensacola. This

00:09is a record-breaking snowstorm. I think it's great. At least the snow is beautiful out there.

00:16And kids had fun in it, but there were also some big challenges. And sadly,

00:20CNN has reported at least 11 deaths from this storm.

00:23Yeah, the snowstorm also snarled travel from Texas to the Carolinas,

00:27breaking records, too, that have stood for more than a century. Look for more travel

00:31headaches, though, as temperatures in most places stay below freezing through the day tomorrow.

00:36So, a lot of people going through an event here that they will never, ever forget with

00:40this snow. And look at New Orleans here. This is incredible, people taking pictures

00:44on Bourbon Street in snow and ice. Yeah, much more people out and about than

00:49at most points during the snow. But we did see snowball fights on Bourbon Street. We saw people

00:53playing ice hockey there. Now, a little bit of a different story. But you can see the road,

00:58the sidewalks look a little icy. Absolutely. You would think this is just Buffalo,

01:02New York, not New Orleans, Louisiana. Just incredible stuff. And every day, we're seeing

01:06a little less snow on the ground, a little more melting. But again, a preliminary estimate, $14

01:11to $17 billion price tag to this storm, with economic disruptions and business-related loss.

01:17So, certainly, again, we mentioned 11 fatalities, tragedies on the highways and roads,

01:24as we often see with the winter storm. But when you put that and juxtapose it over the Gulf Coast,

01:29people don't have the resources to really battle the elements there. The snow plows,

01:34salt trucks fewer in number, and people have less experience driving on the snowy and icy roads

01:39there. One horrible crash in Texas among several of the fatalities there with this earlier in

01:45the storm's event. Well, we have plenty of snow on the ground still. And again,

01:50it's been something that is very mixed, some tragedy tied to this, but also for some a lot

01:54and a lot of fun, some sledding in areas where you've never been able to sled in decades and

01:59decades. Temperatures right now, 35 in Montgomery, Alabama. It's pretty cold here. We're beginning to

02:03see some of these areas with snow cover and points south chill down the most. You can see those blues

02:08on the map near Alma, Georgia, and near Tallahassee, a hint of some of the cold there with

02:12the natural refrigerant on the ground. We're 54 in Miami, though, with low clouds. Temperatures

02:17are trending upward, though. Overall, we're 10, 11 degrees warmer than we were 24 hours ago in

02:22Raleigh. Friday is going to be a cold one still, and specifically in Lexington, Kentucky. Average

02:27high 42. Anna, all we can do tomorrow, 28 degrees there in Fayette County, Kentucky. Still cold here

02:33for some, much colder than the norm. And that's the case as we step a little farther north. Some

02:38of that snow is falling. Yeah, we've all been dealing with the kind of extreme cold, but some

02:43of us dealing with the snow here as well as we take a look at satellite and radar over the last

02:47couple of hours.