SONIA RUSELER, CNN ANCHOR: Now to the wintry weather threatening much of the country today. A fierce new snowstorm seems headed for the East Coast and may hit over the weekend. This on the heels of the battering storm that struck earlier this week. North Carolinians are still trying to dig out from the record 20 inches that fell in some places. The new storm is already pounding the Plains states. Sean Brown of CNN affiliate KHBS joins us from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, with the latest on conditions there -- Sean.</s>SEAN BROWN, KHBS REPORTER: Well, as you can see, the snow is coming down and the conditions are getting very bad out here. It's been snowing for the past couple of hours. We are on interstate 40 just near Sallislaw, Oklahoma. We'll go ahead and show you the road as some of these trucks inch by. Right now we have about four inches of snow on the ground. And on a normal day -- you see the traffic inching by -- there's usually a lot more cars out here and they're going a lot faster. People are very -- being cautious because of this weather, because, of course, in this area of the country we're not used to this kind of weather. This is about the first time it has snowed like this in three years. And the conditions are getting very slick. Let me go ahead and show you exactly how slick this is. What I'm standing on right now is a road, and it has basically turned into an ice skating rink. That means things are getting very dangerous. Have been a few wrecks, nothing too serious yet. A lot of the schools in eastern Oklahoma, almost all of the schools in eastern Oklahoma, have been closed for the day. We're expecting another four to six inches of snow, so they're probably going to be closed again tomorrow as well. A lot of the roads out here, the interstates are still open, but many of the county roads have been closed as well. So, the snow keeps keeping coming down and the conditions just keep getting worse. I'm Sean Brown, reporting for CNN, live in Sallisaw, Oklahoma.</s>RUSELER: Sean Brown, thanks, from our affiliate KHBS.
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