Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. A massive ice and snowstorm will blanket much of the country this weekend. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports more than 200 million people are in the path of the storm from the Rocky Mountains to New England. Forecasters are predicting widespread travel disruptions, prolonged power outages, and frigid temperatures over nearly two-thirds of the

eastern U.S. More than a half dozen governors from Texas to New York have declared states of emergency.

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein says it's a serious and dangerous storm.

Between snow, sleet, ice, freezing rain, and bitterly cold

temperatures, this storm is expected to cause major disruptions to your daily life, possibly for days.

States are staging power crews and pulling up National Guard troops, while local governments

are opening inclement weather shelters and warming stations.

Debbie Elliott, NPR News.

Protesters filled the streets for blocks in downtown Minneapolis,

chanting for federal immigration officials to get out of the city. That's despite

sub-zero temperatures, as NPR's Kat-Lonstorf reports. Hundreds of businesses are closed across the state

and people called out from school and work. Becky, an elementary school teacher who asked to be

identified by her first name only for fear of retaliation from ice at her job, so she showed up

because right now she feels like a bodyguard for her students.

We have sheltered in place when ICE has been in our vicinity.

We walk our kids to their cars now instead of just dismissing them.

Meanwhile, President Trump has put another military battalion on standby,

meaning more than 2,000 active duty troops are ready for

possible deployment to Minnesota. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Minneapolis.

A Pentagon contractor has been indicted for allegedly leaking classified documents to a

Washington Post reporter, NPR's Ryan Lucas, reports.

Five of the counts against Arellio Perez-Lugonis are for the transmission of national

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