A massive winter storm swept across the Midwest on Friday, bound for New England, where it was projected to dump as much as two feet of snow over the weekend. The National Weather Service said more than 116 million people live within its path.
Conditions "could approach blizzard criteria" in many areas, the weather service said, as it issued winter storm warnings from the Dakotas, across the Great Lakes states and into the upper Norttheast. Dangerous ice was also a possibility in some areas.
More than 460 flights were canceled Saturday morning at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and about 50 flights were canceled at Chicago's Midway International Airport.
Amtrak canceled some Saturday trains scheduled to depart from Chicago to New York and Washington, and some Sunday trains scheduled to travel along the East Coast.
Chicago is forecast to receive as much as eight inches of snow Saturday, with wind gusts reaching as high as 35 mph. On Saturday morning, more than eight inches of snow fell in Libertyville, Ill.