Americans are under winter weather alerts as a major storm threatens much of the U.S. City Manager Brian Platt said, “This is going to be one of the most historic, significant storms Kansas City has ever seen.

Tens of millions of people across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic are under winter weather warnings this weekend in the first major winter storm of the new year, according to the National Weather Service,

Here's the latest information on how the system's snow and ice are affecting tens of millions in the central and eastern U.S.