The Latest: Blizzard shuts California mountain highway

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on winter weather across the U.S. West (all times local):
11:25 a.m.
A lengthy stretch of highway in California’s Sierra Nevada is closed for the second day in a row because of a winter storm.
The 80-mile (128-kilometer) stretch of westbound Interstate 80 is shut down from the California-Nevada line just west of Reno to Colfax, California, east of Sacramento.
Chains or snow tires are required on eastbound I-80 and all mountain passes around Lake Tahoe,