More than half the US threatened with ice, snow and cold in massive winter storm

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By EMILIE MEGNIEN, JEFFREY COLLINS and JAMIE STENGLE

DALLAS (AP) — It was too cold for school in Chicago and other Midwestern cities Friday as a huge, dayslong winter storm began to crank up that could bring snow, sleet, ice and bone-chilling temperatures as well as extensive power outages to about half the U.S. population from Texas to New England.