Updated / Thursday, 17 Dec 2020
20:02
Workers clean snow at the Times Square during snowfall in New York City
A major snowstorm hit the US east coast during the early hours, creating extra challenges in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic and a mass vaccination rollout taking place across the region.
The winter storm, moving over New York, Pennsylvania and other northeastern states, leaves millions facing more than a foot of snow a week before Christmas, potentially disrupting coronavirus testing and delaying holiday deliveries.
It also left more than 60 million people under bad weather warnings from Maine to South Carolina.
New York City, if hit as badly by the storm as predicted, would be facing the most snow from one storm in more than four years, after it was hit with two feet in January 2016.