Blizzard Heading Toward U.S. East Halts Thousands of Flights
- `Extremely dangerous' system will bring snow, ice, tornadoes
- Snow starts in East Coast cities Friday, lasts into Sunday
Surrounded by bags of ice-melting salt, a worker covers snow sweepers in plastic bags in preparation for a coming winter storm outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC., on Jan. 21
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A dangerous winter storm will bring snow by the foot to the U.S. mid-Atlantic, including Washington, threatening at least 50 million people in its path while canceling thousands of flights and closing schools and government offices.
Washington and Baltimore may get 2 feet of snow (61 centimeters) by Saturday, and Philadelphia could see almost as much. New York may get buried in 6 to 10 inches. Blizzard warnings and watches stretch from Virginia to Long Island, including New York and Washington.