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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
More than 200 million Americans are in the path of a powerful winter storm.
The National Weather Service says the impacts are likely to be felt in states from Texas to the East Coast.
More than 8,000 flights have been canceled at airports across the nation,
and emergency crews are on standby in more than 35 states.
Bruce Convizer reports preparations are underway in cities across the Northeast.
With a powerful winter storm lurching closer,
the governors of New York and New Jersey each declared a state of emergency.
The declaration allows the governors to deploy the people and assets needed to combat the snow and ice.
New York has more than 5,000 utility workers on hand ready to repair down power lines.
The storm could dump as much as 18 inches of snow across the region Sunday and Monday.
That's Bruce Convizer reporting from New York.
In frigid cold,
large crowds took to the streets of Minneapolis on Friday to protest federal immigration enforcement.
Demonstrators waved American flags and carried signs calling for the arrest of an ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good earlier this month.
NPR Sarah Venturi spoke with some of the protesters.