This is AP News Minute.
Travelers are advised to seek (shelter) and get off the roads from Iowa to Massachusetts. Another major snowstorm is about to blanket the entire upper Midwest and New England with upto a foot of new snow. Blizzards (conditions) developed in Chicago could see that foot of snow by tonight.
Fighting flared again in EasternUkraine as Russian-backed separatists attacked an important railway hub. Heavy military equipment was seen (moving) up to government positions. 13 government troops were reported killed, no word on rebel casualty.
Two climbers who fell while trying to scale Mount Hood on Saturday are lucky. A rescue team was on atraining mission (nearby) when that accident occurred. Both climbers sufferedbroken bones and are recovering at a nearby hospital.
And high on the remote mountain near Bucharest,Romania, (priests) have blessed a church made entirely of ice. Build each winter for the past few years, priests have performed baptisms and weddings in the Ice Church.
Tom Ritchie, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.