A major winter storm is set to sweep the nation this weekend, bringing snow, sleet, ice and sub-zero wind chills from the southern Plains to the Northeast.

Bread was flying off the shelves, salt was being loaded into trucks and utility workers were nervously watching forecasts Thursday as a huge winter storm that could bring catastrophic damage, widespre...

"These wind chills will pose life-threatening risk of hypothermia and frostbite to exposed skin," the NWS warned.