celebrate christmas. hello and welcome to bbc news. an icy blast is affecting nearly 250 million people in the united states and canada, as one of the most severe winter storms in living memory takes hold, bringing with it snow blizzards, strong winds, and freezing temperatures. at least 19 people have died, hundreds of thousands of american households and businesses are without electricity and thousands of flights have been cancelled. the us state of montana registered a record breaking low of 45 celsius. from washington, nomia iqbal reports. the bomb cyclone has plunged more than half of the bomb cyclone has plunged more than half of this the bomb cyclone has plunged more than half of this country into sub zero temperatures. from coast to coast it has brought blistering storms, blinding snow, power outages, and can turn boiling hot water into a snow in seconds. the western state of montana is bearing the brunt, temperatures here at the lowest of 50 degrees. residents have
an icy blast is affecting nearly 250 million people in the united states and canada, as one of the most severe winter storms in living memory takes hold bringing with it snow blizzards, strong winds, and freezing temperatures. at least 19 people have died, hundreds of thousands of american households and businesses are without electricity, and thousands of flights have been cancelled. the us state of montana registered a record breaking low of minus 45 celsius. from washington, nomia iqbal reports. for much of america, this is the coldest christmas eve. can turn boiling water into a snow cloud and second. the state of montana is bearing the brunt, temperatures are the lowest at 52. residents warned to stay indoors but some are trying to tackle the snowfalls. need to clear the sidewalk, i m out here doing it with a shovel because the slow i wouldn t start. , , , ., because the slow i wouldn t start. , i, ., ., start. every type of travel thrown into start. every type of t
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ontario there are about 50,000 people with no power. what is different, though, about this particular storm, would you say? well, right now, our tiny little area here is under warning. we had wind gusts of around 100 120 kilometres an hour, blowing snow. when you went to bed last evening, you could hear it pushing on the house. this has been going on for about 2k hours here. we usually when we have a winter storm it is a few hours of snow or really heavy snow half a day but this has been ongoing now for 2h hours and it s expected to continue over night into sunday. for many of you up there this was to be, what, the first christmas with the family since covid, right? that s right. i mean, we had plans tonight christmas eve, ourfirst family get together for three years. that had to be cancelled. people could not even get out of their driveway to get out. i went around the town here today, brockville, to get some footage of what the conditions were like and it was just white out conditi