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>> reporter: now all eyes on the great lakes. three feet of snow headed this way. lake erie behind me. you can feel the winds picking up here. the snow will wallop the coast from ohio to upstate new york. thats where there are so many warnings to stay off the road. gio benitez, abc news, erie, pennsylvania. snow falling up to two inches an hour. it will be difficult for plows to keep up. >> with snow covering half the nation, lets track the latest storm with accuweathers jim dickey. >> good mo...

You can see what hes talking about. thats awful. >> you never know when these things can just happen. its kind of frightening. >> thats awful. were going to get back to the weather here. this major pre-winter storm thats moving into the northeast now. a foot of snow already fallen in the cleveland area. more expected. driving is slow and treacherous as you can imagine. a whole lot of fender benders out there. traffic detoured off interstate 90 because the highway was closed for about six hours...

Keeping it cold in oklahoma city, down to 20. 25 in dallas. 16 in lubbock. that cold pushes over the lakes. lake effect snow ramping up. through friday, some spots as much as a foot off lake ontario and lake superior. also tracking a system moving into the northwest. that brings us some snowfall from the cascades on eastward. into portland, freezing rain possible. so be careful, could be some slick spots, especially for the morning commute. reena and t.j., back to you. no injuries being report...

For more, heres abcs brandi hitt. >> reporter: slipping and sliding into winter early. a bitter cold storm is slamming the upper midwest causing nearly 500 crashes in minnesota alone, including this big rig that barreled into a state troopers patrol car. >> how everyone walked away from that essentially is just nothing short of a miracle. >> reporter: thousands are now trying to dig out from under more than a foot of snow. tractor trailers unable to move on the ice and dozens of flights delayed ...

Across the northern plains, upper midwest. yesterday some spots, highs ran almost 40 degrees below average. now challenging records to the morning hours, down to 30 bismarck. 35 in pierre. 34 in denver. challenge, again, records here. and well see snowfall. that coating to an inch of so not accumulating on roadways, fresh coating in grassy surfaces yes, still summer. reena, dan. back to you. >> thank you, jim. an american doctor treated for signs of ebola in nebraska is making progress. after ...

Same system swamped indianapolis causing treacherous roads there. that tornado that tore through the town of stow, ohio, tearing off roofs and downing trees, was one of three touching down in the buckeye state. >> all kinds of things flying around and debris. >> reporter: behind this storm is the cold. deadwood, south dakota, blanketed by snow. mt. rushmore getting sun inches, sunflowers and spear fish wondering where the sun went. >> unusual weather in rapid city. earliest snowfall since 1888. ...

Because snow is so common, most locals know how to handle driving in it. but on january 21st, 2012, freak rain in bountiful makes route 400 conditions worse than usual, according to longtime resident, dave kitchen. >> it was just pouring rain. what youd normally see in late spring some place. then it changed to snow, just like started out with like a layer of slush, and then the temperature dropped fast enough that that slush just turned to ice. ive never seen anything like that here. >> and as ...

You can smell the snowfall on 42nd street in new york. that was the fictional odorifics machine, but human beings really do love tinkering with the olfactory bandwidth in real life. this is the eye smell machine, that can fit on a stack of books by your bed. it was supposed to let you smell things on the internet, the way you can smell perfume ads in a magazine. and for about 15 minutes in 1999, the ismell was going to launch the new revolution. they got a spot in the tech fail hall of fame. the...

Survived. >> his first instinct was to video it, but his sherpa pushed him down on the ground behind a big chunk of ice to protect him him. if he would have started on his ike 20 minutes earlier, would he have been in the area where it happened.hyike 20 minutes earli he have been in the area where it happened.ike 20 minutes earl he have been in the area where it happened. >> so here on the map, you can see exactly where the accident happened with the red cross. with 19,000 feet just below camp o...

Across the united states. >> yes, lets find out more. >> hey, guys, nice seeing you, 20 states underneath cold weather warnings and advisories, freeze warnings in place, meaning the tender vegetation, throughout alabama and well into tennessee, even eventually up into the northeast. and snow showers reported across new jersey. 20 states with these colder advisories and warnings. the cold canadian air coming into the region as high pressure moves off to the east temperatures are expected to moder...