By Rich McKay and Julia Harte Jan 23 - Heavy snow was falling over Northwest Texas and Oklahoma City on Friday morning as a major winter storm began moving east across the U.S., bringing deadly cold and the threat of power outages and treacherously icy roads to almost half the nation's population and prompting more than a dozen governors to declare states of emergency.

Dozens of states are getting hit by a strong winter storm this weekend.

This storm will lead to widespread dangerous travel for days and "catastrophic" ice accumulations in the South could lead to widespread power outages and tree damage, according to NOAA's Weather Predi...