1 years ago / 12:48 PM EST

Iowa State Patrol received calls for 86 crashes

The Iowa State Patrol received calls for 86 crashes between 12:30 a.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday, the agency said in a post on X.

During that same time period, there were 71 calls for property damage and 15 for personal injury.

1 years ago / 12:37 PM EST

More than 70 people evacuated after frozen sprinkler at Arizona assisted living facility causes water leak

More than 70 people at an assisted living facility in Arizona had to be evacuated after a water leak caused by a frozen sprinkler led to the collapse of drywall, officials said.

The leak happened on the third floor of Ativo Senior Living of Prescott Valley, Central Arizona Fire and Medical Authority said in a post on X. There was significant damage to all three floors of the facility.

Forty-two residents were displaced, according to the fire department. No one was injured, the fire department said.

Insight Living, which is the owner and management company of the building, told Fox 10 Phoenix that the frozen sprinkler was caused by freezing temperatures.

1 years ago / 12:19 PM EST

Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers game postponed

The Buffalo Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers playoff game has been postponed until Monday at 4:30 p.m., New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said.

“I’ve been in communication with @NFL commissioner Roger Goodell regarding the dangerous conditions in Buffalo this weekend," she said in a post on X.

"In consultation with our emergency response teams, @BuffaloBills leadership, and the NFL, the Bills game will be postponed to 4:30 pm Monday,” the governor said.

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1 years ago / 10:54 AM EST

'Brutally cold' temperatures hit Billings, Montana, setting new record

Billings, Montana, was hit with "brutally cold" temperatures with a drop to negative 25 degrees around midnight, breaking a daily record low set on Jan. 13, 1997, when it was negative 22 degrees, the National Weather Service in Billings said in a post on X.

It was also the first time since 1997 that the city set a daily record low in January, the weather agency said.

Bitter cold is also expected in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area. The local National Weather Service said temperatures will gradually drop throughout the weekend, with highs in the single digits and teens. Lows will be in the single digits above and below zero through at least Wednesday, according to the weather agency.

1 years ago / 6:12 AM EST

Dangerously cold wind, heavy snow predicted

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Wind chills reaching subzero conditions, freezing rain and heavy snow will affect regions across the U.S. this weekend from the West to the South, the National Weather Service has warned, saying conditions will continue into next week.

Parts of the Midwest will experience “near record, dangerously low temperatures and wind chills” with the subzero conditions stretching into the Deep South by late next week, the service added.

Heavy snow will make travel “poor to impossible” from Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and Utah, including the Portland, Boise and Salt Lake City metropolitan areas, it added, warning of tree and power line damage in Oregon due to freezing rain.

Wind chills of up to minus 65 degrees are expected in Montana through to the western Dakotas, it said, with conditions expected to remain between minus 40 and minus 60 until Wednesday.

1 years ago / 6:12 AM EST

Rescuers recover skier's body after Idaho avalanche

The body of a man believed to have been killed in yesterday’s Idaho avalanche was recovered by rescuers this afternoon and identified, the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

The man, in a group of three skiers caught in the avalanche near Steven’s Peak yesterday afternoon, was identified today as Corey J. Zalewski, it said. The two others were located by deputies after a Garmin GPS device alerted authorities they were in trouble, the office said.

Those two survived and were recovering, it said. Deputies and members of the U.S. Air Force, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, Silver Valley Search and Rescue, and the Silver Mountain Ski Patrol were part of the search.

Steven’s Peak reaches 7,000 feet near Idaho’s border with Montana. It’s popular with hikers, skiers and climbers.

A 66-year-old man died in an avalanche in Tahoe, California, on Wednesday.

1 years ago / 6:12 AM EST

Snow in the Midwest causes havoc

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People push a car out of a snowbank as a winter storm arrives in West Allis, Wis., on Friday.Morry Gash / AP

A winter storm dumped snow across the United States on Friday. In Milwaukee, 4.8 inches of snowfall had accumulated by 6 p.m. Friday.

Other parts of the state received upwards of 11 inches, including Waukesha and Elkhorn.

In Iowa, blizzard conditions were expected to continue into today, the National Weather Service in Des Moines said.

As of 5 p.m. Friday, Des Moines and Ames had about 8 inches of snow and Ottumwa had more about 10 inches.

Jason Dean uses a snowblower to clear his driveway as a snowstorm moves through the area in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday.Joe Raedle / Getty Images
A man shovels snow in Milwaukee on Friday.Morry Gash / AP
1 years ago / 6:12 AM EST

Man dies after truck goes through ice on Minnesota lake

An 80-year-old man died this morning in Minnesota when his truck went through the ice on Mille Lacs Lake, the Mille Lacs County Sheriff’s Office said.

A 911 caller said he saw an area on the lake where the truck had gone through the ice and found an adult male in the water nearby wearing a floatation device, officials said. The caller said he was able to recover the man and bring him to shore.

The man, who has been identified as Richard Francis Gadbois of Isle, Minnesota, was taken to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Mille Lacs Lake is about 100 miles north of Minneapolis.

1 years ago / 6:12 AM EST

Iowa winter blast complicates last-minute campaign stops

DES MOINES, Iowa — The candidates are barnstorming Iowa in a last-ditch effort to campaign before the critical caucuses Monday.

1 years ago / 6:12 AM EST

How the cold impacts vulnerable populations

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