VIDEO: Cold weather turns lethal in the US

By Nick O'Malley
Updated January 8 2014 - 8:30am, first published 8:00am
Homeless man Clifton Johnson tells US correspondent Nick O'Malley how he plans to survive temperatures below -20 degrees Centigrade on the streets of Chicago.

Chicago: As the “polar vortex” bringing record low temperatures crept across America on Monday, the cold became so intense that for a time it became difficult to describe.

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