Close to a million US households without power in severe winter storm

A severe winter storm in the United States has already left hundreds of thousands of people without power before it was expected to hit New York, Philadelphia and Washington later on Sunday. Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas are among the states worst affected, with some 983,000 households hit by outages nationwide, according to website PowerOutage.us. Some outages were also being reported from Alabama and Kentucky. Nearly 190 million people – more than half of the US population – are...