00:00United States next where thousands of power outages have been reported following
00:05a deadly winter storm that brought a crippling ice to the south and deep snow to
00:10the country's northeast temperatures forecast to plunge well below freezing
00:15this tuesday in areas where the ice storm did the worst damage officials insert
00:20parts of the u.s warning it could take up to a week for power to be restored
00:25for more on the situation from new york here's our correspondent jessica le mazurier
00:30putting this was new york's biggest winter storm in about half
00:35a decade it dropped more than a foot of snow in the city and even more than
00:40that out here in the northern suburbs about 45 centimeters it's taking me forever
00:45to dig my car out of the snow thousands of flights were cancelled over the week
00:50end the total quickly approached a record 12 000 cancellations
00:55that's more than we saw during the height of the covid pandemic shutdown well the destructions
01:00have left thousands of travel plans in limbo there were also a lot of train
01:05and subway delays and the roads are very dangerous due to ice now door dash
01:10delivery service suspended its operations for well over a day in the city
01:15public school kids have been allowed to stay home but they're taking classes virtually
01:20here in the suburbs kids had a real snow day so they could enjoy this record snowfall with some
01:25some of them even uh donning their skis uh to uh ski down some locals
01:30slopes well uh hundreds of thousands of people have lost power in other parts of the u.s
01:35in the carolinas and tennessee here in new york however it seems that most people
01:40still have power although we are expecting this snow to remain due to freezing temperatures
01:45for the rest of the week it's currently about minus five and we'll be seeing lows of about minus
01:50minus 16 over the course of this week
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