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Summary: Snow, sleet and freezing rain swept across a large swath of the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and the South, where hundreds of thousands of residents lost power. Airport runways and federal offices were closed in Washington, and in some drivers in Raleigh, N.C., abandoned their cars on icy roads. Kwame Holman reports.