Dozens of people have been killed in incidents linked to a huge winter storm that has sent temperatures plummeting across the US and Canada.
Snow-hit Buffalo in New York state has been hardest hit, suffering its worst ever conditions.
Several of those who have died were caught up in car crashes as vehicles skidded into major pile-ups in the states of Ohio and Kansas, while a utility worker also died trying to restore power after an outage.The storm, which arrived earlier this week, has brought down power lines and caused widespread flight cancellations.
Freezing rain coated much of the Pacific Northwest in a layer of ice, while people in the north east faced the threat of coastal and inland flooding.
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