{"id":251605,"date":"2026-01-25T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251605\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:06:07","slug":"winter-storm-grips-us-as-millions-face-power-outages-and-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/251605\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter storm grips US as millions face power outages and disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A severe winter storm has brought heavy snow, and freezing temperatures to Americans across the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The National Weather Service has warned of dangerously cold wind chills with night-time temperatures falling below -20C in some cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Calling the storms &#8220;historic,&#8221; President Donald Trump on Saturday approved federal emergency disaster declarations in South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0r44l05q52o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A severe winter storm has brought heavy snow, and freezing temperatures to Americans across the United States. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-251605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}