ST. LOUIS — The National Weather Service says a storm stretching from the nation’s capital to Colorado could bring the highest snow totals in several years to sections of Missouri and Illinois. The storm is expected to drop 8 to 12 inches of snow in the St. Louis metropolitan area into eastern Illinois between Friday and early Sunday. Large sections of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana are under winter weather advisories, and hazardous travel conditions are expected through most of the weekend. Sally Johnson, a meteorologist in St.