Residents stay cool despite big freeze

MOSCOW - People living in some of the coldest places on earth are hunkering down as temperatures fall to near-record lows that are even defeating thermometers.

Temperatures in the remote, diamond-rich Russian region of Yakutia on Tuesday plunged to -67 C in some areas.

In Yakutia - about 5,300 kilometers east of Moscow - where students routinely go to school in -40 C, school was canceled throughout the region. Local police also ordered parents to keep their children at home.