America's "big freeze" has now killed 50 people and looks set to continue wreaking havoc with plummeting temperatures trapping people inside their homes.
The full brunt of the storm was being keenly felt in western parts of New York, which had become a “war zone,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on Christmas Day.
Stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the Mexican border, the storm has killed at least 50 people as of Monday morning, according to an NBC News tally.
