People in the Mid-Atlantic region are being advised to stay home as a huge winter storm that lashed the South hits farther north.
"Unless you are a first responder, you don't need to be on our roads," Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said. "Find a safe place and stay there." Baltimore could get 18-21 inches of snow, and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake urged residents to stay off the roads for their own safety and to make snow removal easier.
Other developments:
-- I-75 in Kentucky is closed because of the large number of accidents, the Kentucky State Patrol said.
-- FlightAware said that almost 7,000 flights have been canceled for Friday and Saturday.
-- Some 123,500 customers are without power across the southeast, most of them in the Carolinas, according to Duke Energy.
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