After icy storm raked Midwest, East, warmer weather comes
With Christmas shopping underway and holiday travel gearing up, the nation's midsection and East Coast were hammered by a winter storm bearing snow, freezing rain and often bone-chilling temperatures.
Snow and freezing rain spawned a multitude of highway accidents, some serious.
Authorities were investigating other traffic fatalities as possibly weather-related.
The northbound lanes of I-95 were closed while crews cleaned up the mess.
In North Carolina, police and emergency workers reported more than 100 crashes in Raleigh and Charlotte as the drizzle combined with temperatures below freezing to create dangerous icy patches.