Monster winter storm takes aim at one-third of US

Monday, January 31, 2011 | 7:39 p.m. CST; updated 9:26 p.m. CST, Monday, January 31, 2011

COLUMBIA — A monster winter storm took aim at a third of the nation Monday, threatening to lay a potentially deadly path of heavy snow and ice from the Rockies to New England, followed by a wave of bitter, bone-rattling cold that could affect tens of millions of people.

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