Kansas City, Mo., received nearly a foot of snow over in a single day, forcing road and air traffic to come to a halt. NBC News' Maggie Vespa reports why officials are saying it will take a few days to clean out the snow.

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,

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.

On Friday at 12:56 p.m. the National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning valid from Saturday 6 p.m. until Monday 3 a.m. The warning is for Atchison, Doniphan, Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Johnson,

FOX Weather Meteorologist Kendall Smith is in Kansas City where a Blizzard Warning remains in effect due to a significant winter storm sweeping across the U.S. and producing heavy snow and crippling ice leading to power outages and treacherous travel conditions.