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Weather warning: Midwest braces for dangerous winter storm

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    Janice Dean reports from Extreme Weather Center

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Fox News weather look for you now a dangerous winter storm is bearing down in the midwest.

Expected to impact some thirty million people's lives from California to the central US.

Brand -- hour here of America live welcome everyone I'm Megyn Kelly.

The storm is one of the largest we've seen so far this winter eighteen states under some kind of watch or warning from California through Illinois.

Parts of California are already under more than a foot of snow it even snowed in Arizona although it does that some time in the northern part.

Forecasters are warning of icy conditions as far south as Arkansas and there are flood warnings in the southern states.

Meteorologist Janice Dean joins us now from the fox extreme weather center -- you name it we've got it with the storm and you said it we are going to see thirty million people affected.

800000.

Square miles.

Across the US and this storm really hasn't even.

Gotten its act together if you can believe that the main -- is just across California you can see the counter clockwise motion here.

Bringing a foot or more of snow across the mountains here.

And then ahead that it looks like we got our storm right -- this is just the moisture I head.

Of the main event so you're seeing that's no fly for Kansas City Wichita.

We've got that kind of freezing rain sleet mix over central Oklahoma into port Arkansas Arkansas you're under the gun for an ice storm tomorrow.

Very dangerous but -- -- of our winter weather advisories.

Again parts of California into the four quarters easily seeing one to two feet in the -- and that our main storm which we're going to be talking about tomorrow through Friday.

Bringing us the potential for two feet of snow and an ice accumulations on order up half an inch happening on the roads in the power -- That could be a disaster unfortunately for parts of Arkansas through -- to that -- there that -- solid ice we are expecting.

Major accumulations of ice here so not only snow and ice and rain.

Severe weather we could see -- severe weather outbreak tomorrow into tomorrow evening.

As well this evening so we'll talk but that just a second but you can see what we're gonna see the bulk of the snow.

One to two feet possible here and there's the ice that very dangerous icy mix.

As we get into Thursday and Friday severe weather including -- to have tornadoes.

That starts the night tonight a little pocket here in parts of Texas to Oklahoma.

But the main severe weather advent will be tomorrow where we could see hail damaging winds.

Long lasting very threatening tornadoes for parts of Texas Louisiana Mississippi up towards Arkansas.

So again not only the snow not only -- ice not only the rain.

But we're gonna see the threat for tornadoes they just want to show you make where we haven't ice storm warning for parts of Arkansas -- -- could spread northward and eastward.

So this is really dangerous this is the worst stuff for traveling he can't travel through it.

It's to solid ice on the roads in the parlance.

And it it really could be devastating if we do you have half an inch of ice on the roads and the power lines the trees so we will certainly keep you post and edit I could just add that as we headed to the weekends.

We could have another nor'easter that could affect areas that got two to three feet of snow two weeks ago.

Wow all right -- you'll continue to watch that dizzying everybody.

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