Blizzard warning issued for New York city area from Monday

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Man grabs one of the few snow shovels left at a Sears in Bergenfield, New Jersey, just outside New York City, as the East Coast of the United States prepares for a blizzard on Sunday, January 25, 2015.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for the New York City area from Monday afternoon until Tuesday, saying heavy snow was expected to fall in the region. "Crippling and potentially historic blizzard to impact the area from late Monday into Tuesday, it said on Sunday, saying as much as 30 inches (76 cm) could fall in some areas. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz in Austin, Texas; Editing by Peter Cooney)