Officials in Mississippi say crews worked through the night to clear stranded vehicles on icy major highways as the eastern U.S. endures what could become its longest period of freezing cold in decades.
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Doctors wish they wouldn'tEating snow cones or snow cream can be a winter delight, if done safelyTikTok settles as social media giants face landmark trial over youth addiction claimsPolítica migratoria de Trump reduce crecimiento poblacional en EEUU | In Nashville, Tennessee, thousands of residents have been spending days without power after a major ice storm. An Associated Press reporter describes what he heard and felt in his house without heat or electricity. Two Mississippi families who haven’t had electricity since Sunday because of a winter storm are using gas to heat their homes and lanterns to see at night. Aerial footage showed people snow sledding and playing at the park in Boston after a massive winter storm dumped nearly two feet of snow across the state.A tree blocks the road days after an ice storm in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Owensboro Police Department’s Dare Officer Shawn, left, Officer Salvador Castro, Officer Loren Yonts, and Officer Mark Hammonds, public information officer, get hot chocolate ready to hand out to sledders on Tuesday at the St. Pius Tenth Catholic Church parking lot in Owensboro, Ky., on Jan. 27, 2026. Snow removal work continues Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in front of the Berrien County Administration Center in St. Joseph, Mich. In Nashville, Tennessee, thousands of residents have been spending days without power after a major ice storm. An Associated Press reporter describes what he heard and felt in his house without heat or electricity. Two Mississippi families who haven’t had electricity since Sunday because of a winter storm are using gas to heat their homes and lanterns to see at night. Aerial footage showed people snow sledding and playing at the park in Boston after a massive winter storm dumped nearly two feet of snow across the state.A tree blocks the road days after an ice storm in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. A tree blocks the road days after an ice storm in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. Owensboro Police Department’s Dare Officer Shawn, left, Officer Salvador Castro, Officer Loren Yonts, and Officer Mark Hammonds, public information officer, get hot chocolate ready to hand out to sledders on Tuesday at the St. Pius Tenth Catholic Church parking lot in Owensboro, Ky., on Jan. 27, 2026. Owensboro Police Department’s Dare Officer Shawn, left, Officer Salvador Castro, Officer Loren Yonts, and Officer Mark Hammonds, public information officer, get hot chocolate ready to hand out to sledders on Tuesday at the St. Pius Tenth Catholic Church parking lot in Owensboro, Ky., on Jan. 27, 2026. Snow removal work continues Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in front of the Berrien County Administration Center in St. Joseph, Mich. Snow removal work continues Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in front of the Berrien County Administration Center in St. Joseph, Mich. Emergency crews dispatched to icy interstate highways in Mississippi worked overnight and into Wednesday morning to clear stranded vehicles as the eastern U.S. endured what forecasters said could become its longest period of Officials sent tow trucks and drones to help drivers stuck in snarled traffic on Interstate 55 in northern Mississippi and other major highways, Gov. Tate Reeves said in a social media post. He said crews were still working Wednesday morning and urged people to stay off the roads. “And pray for the first responders that are doing what Mississippians do — going above and beyond for their fellow man,” Reeves posted Wednesday on X.More than 380,000 homes and businesses, most of them in Mississippi and Tennessee, remained without electricity, according to the outage tracking website poweroutage.us. And at least 50 people had been reported dead in states afflicted by the dangerous cold.— ages 6, 8 and 9 — who perished after falling through the frozen surface of a pond in Texas. Another child, a toddler, died at a Virginia hospital after being pulled from a frigid pond Monday, according to local police. Temperatures in the Midwest and Northeast were forecast to remain well below freezing throughout the day Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.Residents still shivering in the South were getting little relief. In Nashville, Tennessee, where nearly 100,000 power outages lingered early Wednesday, high temperatures were to rise just above freezing before plunging to 13 F overnight. Forecasters predicted even colder weather for much of the U.S. this weekend. A new blast of arctic air is expected Friday and Saturday from the northern Plains to the Southeast. The weather service said the prolonged freeze “could be the longest duration of cold in several decades.” Forecasters said there’s an increasing chance of heavy snow this weekend in the Carolinas and parts of Virginia, with more snowfall possible from Georgia to Maine.
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