The system was expected to push northeastward by Friday with heavy snow and freezing rain all the way to the Virginia and North Carolina coasts. As much as 8 inches (about 20 centimeters) of snow could fall in parts of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia through Saturday, the weather service said.

The winning numbers in Thursday's drawing of the "Texas Cash 5" game were: 3, 4, 5, 10, 29 (three, four, five, ten, twenty-nine)

The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the "Arkansas Cash 4 Evening" game were: (two, three, seven, nine)

The winning numbers in Thursday's drawing of the "Massachusetts MassCash" game were: 8, 18, 23, 33, 35 (eight, eightteen, twenty-three, thirty-three, thirty-five)