31 Jan 2019

Temperatures drop to -48C in America’s Midwest

From Checkpoint, 5:16 pm on 31 January 2019

Blistering cold weather in America has made some parts of the country almost 20 degrees colder than Antarctica. As Bridget Burke reports, it's so cold that people are being told not to breathe too heavily for fear of damaging their lungs.

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