Brutal, record-breaking cold descended on the East and South, sending the mercury plummeting Tuesday into the teens in southeast Georgia. In Statesboro, the temperature hit a low of 16 degrees at about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, and the wind chill got as cold as 5 degrees by 7 a.m., according to Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport readings reported by the National Weather Service. The high reached only a frosty 29 degrees in the afternoon.