Tonight, the first massive snowstorm of the season set to impact nearly 60 million Americans,

the monster storm turning roads into ice rinks, cars skidding off a highway.

Kansas City's airport shut down. The Kansas City Chiefs delayed in getting to their game for hours.

Multiple states now under blizzard warnings, some areas will get their biggest snowfall

in years. Probably our biggest test in nearly a decade. We're tracking the very latest forecast.

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This is NBC Nightly News with Jose Diaz Ballard.

Good evening. I'm Kate Snow in for Jose tonight, and the biggest snowstorm so far this season has already begun.

Some cities are set to get the most snowfall they have seen in more than a decade. You can see the

highway chaos the storm is already creating with ice coating roads across the central plains.

But before this storm is over, more than half of the states in the country

will feel the impact, the extreme weather spreading across some 1,500 miles, putting nearly

60 million Americans at risk. We are already seeing a mad rush for supplies at stores in Kansas

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