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The left. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, i'm john berman, wolf blitzer is off today, hopefully somewhere warm. we begin with the first major snowstorm of the season. it is going to have a huge impact on about 100 million people, including all those holiday travelers. watches, warnings posted in 19 states from indiana all the way up to maine. with the storm reaching the east coast tonight, it's going slam head-on into another storm system, creating a powerful nor'easter with heavy snow, high winds, subzero windchills. we are tracking this storm from the cnn weather center. we ha...

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Closed for about a million students right now. the storm hit the midwest first. you can see the scene right here in minneapolis. this is the airport. they're normally pretty good at managing this stuff, but this was the rare occurrence of flight cancellations at the airport. and in chicago, records were smashed. the city got more than 9 inches of snow. that's actually the biggest one-day snowfall in chicago in 14 years. that however is is nothing compared to what it's bringing to parts of the northeast and aaron mcpipe is at dulles airport, not too far from where i am out in virginia. what kin...

Season hit parts of the northeast and the midwest, midwest first. we have seen up to 9" in some spots and this snow is not finished. and now, to chicago, they had to see this coming. you cannot be chicago and not expect this to she up. >>guest: usually by this time of year the city of chicago spent $6 million plowing a road. until yesterday they only spent $half -- spent half a million but that changed: 6" in the city. up to 1' around the region. and the snow came down warm and wet and then it got cold so you had big patches of ice on the road responsible for the car wrecks. hundreds of car wr...