{"id":391434,"date":"2026-01-26T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391434\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:27:09","slug":"at-least-17-killed-as-us-winter-storm-brings-power-outages-and-flight-cancellations-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/391434\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 17 killed as US winter storm brings power outages and flight cancellations &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of US states declare weather emergencypublished at 10:54 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:54 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twenty-three states, plus Washington DC, have declared<br \/>\nstates of emergency due to the freezing conditions, with at least 10 activating<br \/>\ntheir National Guards, according to our US partner CBS News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">States of emergency were declared in: Alabama, Arkansas,<br \/>\nConnecticut, DC, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,<br \/>\nMaryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North<br \/>\nCarolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and<br \/>\nWest Virginia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of &#8220;extreme cold&#8221; weather warnings are in place across<br \/>\nmuch of southern US, with hundreds more winter storm warnings and cold weather<br \/>\nadvisories across the central and eastern US.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Extreme cold warnings (dark blue) cover much of Texas and the south-east US, while &quot;winter storm&quot; warnings (pink) are in place further north\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/45d1831a-cb31-4b5e-9cf9-e3d96c8e3857.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"779\" height=\"489\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, National Weather ServiceImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Extreme cold warnings (dark blue) cover much of Texas and the south-east US, while &#8220;winter storm&#8221; warnings (pink) are in place further north<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost half of US states declare weather emergencypublished at 10:54 GMT 10:54 GMT Twenty-three states, plus Washington DC,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-391434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}