States of emergency have been announced in 16 states including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Emergency declarations were also made in Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
New York added itself to the list later on Friday, as did Arkansas, Kansas and Kentucky. Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington DC, has declared a state of emergency in the district.
Hello and welcome to our live blog coverage of the winter storm system currently moving across much of the midwest and southern US. My name is Marina Dunbar and I will be bringing you the latest news lines.
Over 220 million people are likely to be affected by the huge winter weather system as it forms in parts of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains and surges across southern and midwestern areas from Friday, blowing up the east coast on Saturday and as far north as Maine by Sunday. The storm has been dubbed Winter Storm Fern by the Weather Channel.
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