The Thanksgiving weekend storm system has brought over a foot of snow and strong winds to parts of the Midwest, and thunderstorms across the South.

A potential nor’easter could leave as much as a foot of snow in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, the Catskills in New York, and parts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, a forecaster said.

With Immigration and Customs Enforcement – aka ICE – now conducting new enforcement actions in North Carolina, including a high-profile workplace raid in Charlotte this week, a natural question is whether the massive Toyota battery plant at the Greensboro–Alamance megasite could ever see something

This Thanksgiving, millions in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes are bracing for a winter storm bringing significant snow. According to the National Weather Service office in Marquette, Michigan, the region could see blizzard conditions with 17 to 30 inches of snow.

Blizzard warnings are in effect for 13 million people and cover parts of northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and areas east of lakes Erie and Ontario are under lake-effect snow warnings. Significant snowfall has begun, and blizzard conditions are developing as cold air pours in behind the system.

The decision to halt disaster assessment work came amid the immigration crackdown in Chicago. Officials worried FEMA’s efforts could put residents and surveyors at risk.

A rush of travelers expected to hit the roads and skies for the Thanksgiving holiday could hit bad weather across much of the United States thanks to a sprawling storm threatening heavy rain, wind, snow and thunderstorms.

First, Newport, Ore., lost its Coast Guard rescue chopper. Then came the swirl of rumors and evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was coming to town.