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Rita Bryant walks through snow in Detroit. A storm hitting the Midwest on Tuesday is expected to dump another foot of snow on the coast, from the Mid-Atlantic to New York.

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Rita Bryant walks through snow in Detroit. A storm hitting the Midwest on Tuesday is expected to dump another foot of snow on the coast, from the Mid-Atlantic to New York. Read story

UPDATE - 03:04 PM

Snow shuts down federal government, life goes on

If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice? With at least another foot of snow headed for Washington, Philadelphia and New York, we're about to find out. The federal government in the nation's capital has largely been shut down since Friday afternoon, when a storm began dumping up to 3 feet of snow in some parts of the region. Offices could remain closed at least through Wednesday.

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