80 million brace for winter storm from New England to Deep South

A winter storm was forecast to bring a messy mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain to portions of the central and eastern USA over the next two days. Power outages, travel headaches and school closings are likely. More than 80 million people live where some level of a winter storm alert was in effect, all the way from Arkansas to Maine, a distance of about 1,500 miles.