Plains states brace for possible 'crippling' snow storm – Jim Spellman reports

FROM CNN WIRES:

(CNN) - Call it winter weather, part two.

Just days after a storm walloped the Great Plains, a second one, bringing with it heavy snow and strong winds, was slamming the region early Monday, forcing airline cancellations and school closures from Colorado to Texas.

National Weather Service forecasters warned the storm was bringing potentially "life threatening" and "crippling" blizzard conditions with freezing temperatures to portions of southeast Kansas, northwest Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle overnight.

This morning on "Early Start," CNN's Jim Spellman reports on the winter storm as it makes its way east across the U.S.

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