Ice-battered Kentucky Pleads For Help From Storm

Ice-Battered Kentucky Pleads for Help From Storm

A crippling winter storm has plunged about a million customers into the dark from the Midwest to the East Coast, and thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky have sought refuge in motels and shelters.

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