Sixteen people have been reported killed by a severe snow storm moving through the north-eastern US.
According to the Associated Press, storm-related deaths were reported in New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Falling trees claimed the lives of two people in Texas and Louisiana.
A New York man was killed after his vehicle skidded on an icy road and an Ohio teenager died after losing control of her car and crashing into an oncoming snow plough.
Weather officials said states in New England are seeing heavy snowfall, with over a foot already fallen in parts of Massachusetts.
Flights were grounded and road collisions reported as the storm moved across the middle of the US.
Heavy snow was also reported in eastern parts of Canada.
Lebanon, Maine reported 12 inches of snow, with up to 18 inches expected in the state and nearby Vermont and New Hampshire.
Hundreds of thousands of people are reported to have lost power, including 200,000 people in Arkansas and Alabama, where ice and 10 inches of snow coated electricity wires snapping poles and wires.
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