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New fires pop up in Southern California fueled by Santa Ana winds

Millions of people across the northern Gulf Coast braced Tuesday for a rare winter storm that’s expected to scatter heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain around the Deep South as a blast of Arctic air plunges much of the eastern U.S. into a deep freeze.

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Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Loxahatchee has taken in just under 80 dogs saved from devastating wildfires in Southern California and freezing temperatures in Texas.

More than 200 trained Red Cross disaster workers nationwide are helping, including several from Central Florida

Firefighters are tackling a new brush fire — dubbed the Sepulveda Fire — near Interstate 405 and Sepulveda Blvd in Los Angeles. The<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

The wildfires in Southern California have led to the evacuations of over 130,000 people and have destroyed over 10,000 structures. Overlaying the wildfire outbreak across other major U.S. cities shows that the blaze is one of the worst in United States history, as it continues to spread across residential areas in Los Angeles.

Winds have picked up and are expected to continue through Tuesday morning, raising the risk of new wildfires sparking

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

Climatologically, it is not supposed to snow in South Florida. The laid-back tropics are a region constantly gaining energy from the sun, and with Florida's temperatures moderated by warm water on three sides, snow is unusual even in the northern reaches of the state.

NBC News' Dana Griffin reports on the Hughes Fire and the red flag warnings that have been extended in Southern California.