Tonight, a brutal March megastorm ripping across the country, damaging winds and intense rain battering the east, while the Midwest digs out from record-breaking snow.

Just take a look at these whiteout conditions with blizzards making roads messy just days before spring, while firefighters try to get a handle on this huge warehouse fire in the bitter cold

and the dramatic Coast Guard rescue of a snowmobile or look at that stranded on an ice shelf.

On the east coast, rare tornado watches with punishing wind doing damage from Charlotte to the nation's

capital and a funnel cloud forming over a highway in Maryland.

Thousands of flights canceled from the weather, but it's a one-two punch for travelers with lines

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devolved into chaos. This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas. Good evening. I'm Halley Jackson

in for Tom and we are coming on the air tonight with severe weather battering much of the country, leaving a trail of destruction from the Great Lakes to the deep south.

The rare threat of tornadoes keeping the East Coast on alert as funnel clouds like that one. And intense storms build In Charlotte, powerful wind, sending debris flying across

the city, ripping away roofs. In the Midwest, three feet of snow in some spots. In one Michigan

town, snowdrifts piled so high you can barely see outside these windows. And in Wisconsin, danger

for drivers facing near white out conditions on the road.

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