how do you write a news report on the topic "storm shuts down region"??

The first sentence or two must have the five W's -- who, what, when, where, why -- and maybe how.

The rest of the report gives the details.

so can my lead sentence be " on january 27 2012 a major ice storm shut down the whole region of ..." ??

Yes.

However, since the date isn't as important as the storm, you should put the date later in the sentence.

so should it be: "a major ice storm shuts down the region of ... on january 27 2012" ??

and also i have another question. if i write me news report will u pleasee give it a level out of 6 ??

Yes. But when you post it, please tell me what class this is for.

its not really for a class i'm just practicing for the osslt test. so will u actually mark it and give feedback??

Sure.

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can i just show u tomorrow then if u don't mind? please and thank you !! :)