Severe cold has made its way up and down the U.S. East Coast and Midwest. The icy weather has left deep-frozen cars and homes in its wake. Now, as Morgan Radford reports communities are working to dig themselves out of the ice and snow.

This morning, millions thawing out after a weekend of record-breaking low temperatures.

"This is the worst disaster we ever had."

 In Boston -- The temperature dipping below zero. Cars frozen to the ground.

"2 cars dead. I'm fortunate in the sense that I still have heat and power. My neighbors lost everything."

Old man winter -- Not loosening his grip on the bulk of the country just yet. From Philadelphia to D.C. and Maryland. Extreme cold crippling the northeast. 31 record lows were set or tied on Sunday. Farther west - Cars sliding and crashing on icy roads in Missouri. The ice cover fire escape of a Chicago high rise shut down an entire street. And in Rhode Island - temperatures reached negative three as firefighters tried to battle flames with frozen equipment.

"Hoses freeze, we had a couple engines freeze, and a lot of trucks we're trying to dig out right now from all the water."

MORGAN RADFORD MASSACHUSETTS "It's been a brutal two weeks here in Scituate, Massachusetts where temperatures have been below freezing every single day. Believe it or not it's actually the warmest day since Christmas, hovering right around 24 degrees. But because of this wind chill it actually feels like we're in the single digits."