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How do ice rinks in L.A. stay cold?

We go live to Pershing Square, where organizers are preparing for another year of their annual ice-skating tradition.

Photo of two legs with ice skates over a white surface
Ice-skating (Photo courtesy of Benson Kua licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.)

The holiday season is full of classic traditions - stockings over the fire, decorating the tree, and hitting the rink for a few laps around the ice.

Our reporter Nolan Ezzet went out to Pershing Square in L.A. where he spoke with Robert Keith, the operations manager of Willy Bietak Productions, the company managing the ice-skating rink out there.

He talked about the history of the rink itself, and how in the world they keep the ice cool in the heat of L.A.