MADELEINE BRAND, host: From the studios of NPR West, this is DAY TO DAY. I'm Madeleine Brand.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: I'm Alex Chadwick.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: Coming up, evidence that nicotine content in cigarettes is growing, getting stronger.</s>MADELEINE BRAND, host: But first, from South Carolina to Southern California, ice, snow and abnormally low temperatures continue to cause havoc. Highway and air traffic is snarled. Schools and businesses are closed. Emergency officials say as many as 65 deaths in nine states can be blamed on a week's worth of storms.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: But along with the problems, amazement that snow was falling on beaches in Malibu and in normally mild South Texas.</s>Unidentified Woman: I've never seen snow. Lived in Texas my whole life and it's first time.</s>ALEX CHADWICK, host: Even in places used to cold weather like Boston, there have been problems. Some bus passengers there got to ride for free after the boxes that collect fares froze. And forecasters say more freezing rain may be in store for Georgia and the Carolinas and also in the Southwest.</s>Unidentified Man: We have winter storm watches in effect for southern New Mexico, all of western and northern Texas, into western Okalahoma.
From South Carolina to Southern California, abnormally low temperatures and winter precipitation continue to cause trouble. Emergency officials say at least 65 deaths in nine states can be blamed on one week's worth of storms.