Today in the news: Northeast braces for massive blizzard

Quote of note

"This one doesn't come along every day. This is going to be a dangerous winter storm." - Alan Dunham, meteorologist for the Ntional Weather Service in Taunton, Mass. A blizzard is set to hit the East Coast, and could possibly have snowfalls of 1 to 3 feet from New York City to Boston.

News to know

The Super Bowl power outage has finally been explained, CNN reports. Utility company Entergy New Orleans announced that they had traced the outage to an electrical relay device meant to protect Superdome equipment. The device triggered when it shouldn't have, causing the partial power outage. While the company is unsure of what caused the mlafunction, they say they have taken steps to ensure it won't happen again.

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