Updated: 9:39 AM This first full day of winter is putting much of the nation in a deep freeze.

Updated: 11:43 AM After setting records in the west, a storm system is icing up the Midwest.

Updated: 11:49 AM The snow in Las Vegas has begun to melt, but the storm is moving east to the midwest where more snow and colder temperatures are expected.

Updated: 11:11 AM The Las Vegas Strip is experiencing the most snow it has seen in years as weather sweeps across the country.

Updated: 9:15 AM What’s happening in Las Vegas is staying in Las Vegas: snow.

Updated: 2:11 PM The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says wind and snow have created dangerous avalanche conditions across most of Colorado's high country.

Updated: 8:15 AM Snow is blanketing South Louisiana and parts of Mississippi.

Updated: 8:26 AM A ski industry group says a storm dropped nearly a foot and a half of new snow on two southwest Colorado resorts that plan to open later this month.

Posted: 8:29 AM Hurricane Omar is getting stronger as it moves northeast, a day after drenching islands in the southeastern Caribbean. Maximum sustained winds are near 80 miles per hour.

Updated: 10:54 AM Overnight rain and freezing temperatures combined to coat highways west of Denver with a thin layer of ice, leaving a treacherous commute that forced the temporary closure of U.S. 6.

Posted: 1:57 PM The Atlantic may be brewing up another tropical depression.

Posted: 1:42 PM The Mayor of Galveston, Texas, says the city is “not in ruins,” but it remains a mess and she's asking people to stay away another week.

Posted: 8:57 AM Hundreds of people whose Texas beachfront homes were wrecked by Hurricane Ike may be barred from rebuilding.

Posted: 3:20 PM Most Houston residents are still without power days after Ike came roaring ashore on the Texas coast.

Updated: 11:47 AM The remnants of Hurricane Ike are causing misery far from the Gulf Coast.

Posted: 2:44 PM Wind and flooding from Hurricane Ike could cause problems for Houston's gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA'S Johnson Space center.

Posted: 2:12 PM Most homes don't have power or working toilets, but residents in New Orleans can start going back at midnight tonight. About 77,000 homes in New Orleans are in the dark, and it's unclear when that'll change.

Posted: 2:24 PM Don't come home yet. That's the message to New Orleans evacuees from Mayor Ray Nagin. He says they may have to wait in shelters and motels for a few more days.

Posted: 9:58 AM Colorado hurricane researchers are forecasting five tropical storms in the Atlantic this month, including four hurricanes, two of them major.

Updated: 2:59 PM The toll from tropical storm Fay is mounting with two drowning deaths reported in Florida, and the number of deaths in the Caribbean climbing to 23.

Posted: 10:19 AM Tropical storm Fay is continuing its erratic path, with its center moving offshore and back into the Atlantic south of Melbourne, Florida.

Posted: 1:27 PM Tropical Storm Fay swept ashore near Naples, Florida, this morning but no major damage has been reported. There's some street flooding in Naples, where many businesses are going without storm shutters or other window protection.

Posted: 3:51 PM A call from Willard Scott may be in order as Grand Junction has finally hit the century mark. The National Weather Service says at 2 p.m. the temperature hit 100 degrees at Grand Junction Regional Airport.

Updated: 7:21 AM Dolly is still a tropical storm, with sustained winds down to about 50 miles-per-hour.

Updated: 2:04 PM Forecasters say Hurricane Dolly is nearly at category 2 status, with winds of 95 miles an hour, as it approaches coastal towns straddling the Texas-Mexico border today.