A historic snowstorm ploughing through the US has turned deadly with five deaths in New York City alone over the weekend.
LaGuardia airport, which deals with more than 400 flights a day, has been forced to close after being blanketed by heavy snow.
The closure reported by Fox Weather in the US.
The devastating weather has forced the cancellation of some 10,000 flights, and another 2,000 tomorrow, across the US.
Around 185,000,000 people are under winter weather alerts with some parts of the country under as much as 12 inches of snow.
A total of 23 states are under a state of emergency, power lines have been knocked out by ice, and supermarket shelves have been stripped bare.
The five deaths in New York were confirmed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, though he did not confirm if the deaths were weather-related.
He said: ‘While we do not yet know their causes of death, there is no more powerful reminder of the danger of extreme cold and how vulnerable many of our neighbours are, especially homeless New Yorkers.’
According to NBC News, two men in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, have died from hypothermia.
