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CNN -- The Northeast is hunkering down Thursday for what could be the most significant storm of the season, with a foot of snow of forecast and blizzard conditions in some areas.Airlines already have canceled more than 1,500 flights along the storm path as of Thursday morning. Most of those were at the Newark, New Jersey; Boston; and New York s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports.RELATED: Storm Shield app provides life-saving weather alertsRELATED: SnowCast tells how much snow will fall at your locationNew York, Boston and Philadelphia have closed their public schools for the day. The latter two have also declared snow emergencies, which affect city services and parking. All state offices in New Jersey have been closed for nonessential personnel.More than 60 million people will be dealing with the wintry weather, CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri said.Impact on Eastern citiesThe National Weather Service estimated that 8 to 12 inches of snow in New York an adidas campus 80s d 12 to 15 inches of snow in Boston are possible.Officials warned residents to avoid morning travel as heavy snow can make roads slick and dangerous. The National Weather Service in New York said that conditions will rapidly deteriorate around daybreak and that 2 inches of snow could fall per hour.New York officials said wind gusts reached 50 mph air max 1 Thursday morning. Bus service is not operating for the day, and officials urged reside adidas samba damen nts to stay off roads due to the snowy, wintry conditions.Officials also sa
AP Average scores on the ACT exam held steady for the high school class of 2012 but the results show modest progress in the number of students who appear ready for college-level work in math and science.The scores, being released stanley cup Wednesday, cover the first-ever class in which more than half of graduates nationally took the ACT. Traditionally, the ACT has been a rival college entrance exam to the SAT, but it is now taken by almo stanley cup st all students in nine states, and by at least 60 percent of graduates in 26 states.The average national composite score was 21.1 on a scale of 1 to 36 , unchanged from the class of 2011. The percentage who earned scores that ACT calculates indicate they re ready for college in all four subjects 151; English, reading, math and science 151; was also unchanged at 25 percent. But the percentage earning scores indicating readiness for college in science has increased from 28 percent to 31 percent since 2009, and in math from 42 percent to 46 percent.Such numbers still aren t great 151; 28 percent of ACT-teste stanley uk d graduates failed to meet the college readiness benchmark in any of the four subjects. But the fact that overall scores have held steady even as the test-taking pool widens, and that math and science marks have improved, is considered positive. There s just all these countertrends that would typically pull scores down, said Jon Erickson, education president of ACT, an Iowa City, Iowa-based nonpr Saca Deputies search for suspects after 2 armed men rob Waffle House in Tampa
CNN -- The Northeast is hunkering down Thursday for what could be the most significant storm of the season, with a foot of snow of forecast and blizzard conditions in some areas.Airlines already have canceled more than 1,500 flights along the storm path as of Thursday morning. Most of those were at the Newark, New Jersey; Boston; and New York s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International airports.RELATED: Storm Shield app provides life-saving weather alertsRELATED: SnowCast tells how much snow will fall at your locationNew York, Boston and Philadelphia have closed their public schools for the day. The latter two have also declared snow emergencies, which affect city services and parking. All state offices in New Jersey have been closed for nonessential personnel.More than 60 million people will be dealing with the wintry weather, CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri said.Impact on Eastern citiesThe National Weather Service estimated that 8 to 12 inches of snow in New York an adidas campus 80s d 12 to 15 inches of snow in Boston are possible.Officials warned residents to avoid morning travel as heavy snow can make roads slick and dangerous. The National Weather Service in New York said that conditions will rapidly deteriorate around daybreak and that 2 inches of snow could fall per hour.New York officials said wind gusts reached 50 mph air max 1 Thursday morning. Bus service is not operating for the day, and officials urged reside adidas samba damen nts to stay off roads due to the snowy, wintry conditions.Officials also sa
