This is AP News Minute.

Hundreds of schools won't be open today because of weekend storm in Northeast that dumped more than two feet of wet heavy snow in some areas. Millions of customers lost power. Some could be without it for days.

Crews hope to stabilize the shattered wreckage of a Kansas grain elevator that blew up Saturday killing at least three people. Three others are trapped and feared dead at the facility in Atchison, about 50 miles northwest of Kansas City.

A campaign spokesman for Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain blames "inside -the-Beltway media" for allegations that Cain was twice accused of sexual harassment while he was the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s. Cain's campaign told the Associated Press that the allegations, reported by Politico, are not true.

Arab leaders have submitted a plan to Syria to end its bloody crackdown in a seven-month-old uprising. A panel expects a response today. The U.N. says the violence has left more than 3,000 people dead.

Matt Small, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.