A massive winter storm bearing down on the East Coast this weekend is expected to bring heavy snow and subzero temperatures to New York.

Many in the US faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow on the north east and kept parts of the south coated in ice.

A rising death toll included two people run over by snowplows in Massachusetts and Ohio, fatal sledding accidents that killed teenagers in Arkansas and Texas, and a woman whose body was found covered ...