Millions of Americans live in areas under winter storm alerts stretching from northern Minnesota to the Eastern Seaboard.

The New York City area accumulated just above 4 inches of snow as difficult travel conditions are expected through Saturday while crews work to clean up this wintry mess.

A powerful winter storm is impacting parts of the U.S. with major snowfall, ice, and below zero wind chills. The conditions are disrupting holiday travel and could last through next week.

Hundreds of flights were canceled and thousands delayed Saturday as a winter storm hit the U.S., with more disruption expected.

A major new winter storm is expected to bring ice and snow to the upper Midwest on Thursday, with the system moving through the lower Northeast on Friday.

More than a thousand flights have been canceled or delayed across the Northeast and Great Lakes as a winter storm disrupted one of the busiest travel weekends of the year between Christmas and New Year’s.

On Sunday at 3:03 a.m. EST the National Weather Service released an updated winter storm warning valid from 7 p.m. EST until Monday 7 p.m. EST for Iron, Dickinson and Menominee counties.

A major winter storm pummeled the Tri-State Area with snow and ice after New York and New Jersey declared states of emergency.

At the Pacoima Wash in San Fernando, a person called 911 to report seeing a woman in the fast-moving waters, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Crews were using markers to try to find the woman, who was wearing all black and traveling at 25 miles per hour in three feet of water. They did not find her.