Winter storm batters US power, snarling Christmas travel
A battering winter storm has knocked out power to 1.7 million homes and businesses across the United States on Saturday BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A battering winter storm knocked out power to 1.7 million homes and Business es across the United States on Saturday, left millions more to worry about the prospect of further outages and crippled police, fire departments and an airport in snow-blown New York state. Across the country, officials have attributed at least a dozen deaths to exposure, icy car crashes and other effects of the storm, including two people who died in their homes outside Buffalo, New York, when emergency crews couldn’t reach them amid historic blizzard conditions. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday that the the Buffalo Niagara International Airport will be closed through Monday morning, some roads would be closed through Christmas day and almost every fire truck in Buffalo was stranded in the snow. “No matter how many emergency vehicles we have, they cannot get throug...