25/01/2016 Newsround

Hello everyone - it's Monday afternoon, I'm Leah and it's time

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Let's get this started - coming up...

The clean-up begins after a super storm hit parts of America.

And the women making history and breaking records.

First up, people on the east coast of America have started to clear up

after a massive snowstorm.

More than a metre fell in some places, and caused chaos

across several big cities.

Here's Jenny.

It's been nicknamed "Snowmageddon".

Around 85 million people across 20 states have been affected by fierce

weekend weather right up the east coast of the US.

The heaviest snowfall was recorded in Glengary,

West Virginia, which had 106cm - taller than your average cat,

dog, or panda.

New York City had a record amount of snow - 68cm.

And in America's capital, Washingdon DC, 57cm meant

President Barack Obama's White House became even whiter.

Nearly 12,000 flights have been cancelled and more than 300,000

people were left without any electricity or power.

And today, many schools are closed, but children living there have been

managing to fill their time.

We made a secret blizzard snow handshake.

As you can see, it is snowing pretty hard right now.

It has been snowing for about 45 minutes.

With wind speeds of up to 60 mph, it truly is a breathtaking experience.

That was awesome!

Even some animals have been making the best of it.

Weather forecasters say the blizzard is weakening as it heads

across the Atlantic Ocean, towards the UK.

But that means the west of England, Scotland and Wales can expect heavy

rain and strong winds this week.

To tennis now and the Australian Open.

Johanna Konta has become the first British woman to reach

the quarter-finals of one of the big Grand Slam tournaments for more

than 30 years.

Andy Murray will be joining her after a straight sets win

against Bernard Tomic.

A team of British scientists have been finding out how penguins

are changing their habits because of climate change.

They've set cameras where the animals live and breed

in the Antarctic to look at their behaviour.

The BBC's science reporter, Victoria Gill, sent Newsround this

special report.

I'm in Antarctica and I'm actually standing in a penguin colony

so I have to keep my voice down slightly because the birds

all around are on their nests with chicks and I'm here with a team

of scientists led by Doctor Tom Hart, who is setting up

cameras in these penguin colonies.

We can see one of your cameras just behind us here.

What exactly are you doing here, what is this project for?

I leave a camera on loads of different penguin colonies

all around Antarctica and they take an image every hour throughout

the year so we get when they turn up, how well they are doing and how

well they are breeding from loads of different colonies all around

Antarctica.

Why do you want to understand what is going on in that detail?

I want to understand what the threats are to penguins

in this region, and how to get rid of those threats,

so it could be fisheries, climate change.

By following loads of colonies, some of which are near fished areas,

we can work out the differences between those in terms of survival

and things like that.

Finally today, to a group of British women who have made it

into the record books twice!

They're the first all-female team and the first team of four to row

the Pacific Ocean.

Ayshah's got more on their epic adventure.

After ten months and 8,500 miles, these women have finally made it

to dry land.

The coxless crew and their trusty boat Doris set out from

San Francisco in America in April, stopping in Hawaii and Samoa before

making it to Cairns in Australia.

The motivation has been the people that have been supporting us

and sharing their stories.

The four women battled rough weather, exhaustion and even sharks

to finish the journey in their 30 foot boat.

Touching distance from the boat we have had sharks circling,

we had a couple of sharks who followed us for a few weeks.

On the longest leg of their trip they had to row for 60 days

straight, taking it in turns to sleep and eat.

The ladies are hoping to raise ?250,000 for charity.

After this epic adventure, the girls definitely deserve a rest.

That's all from me.

Newsround's back tomorrow morning on CBBC at 7.40am with Hayley.

Have a great evening.