US winter storm: Hundreds of thousands face mass outages on Christmas Day

Dozens of people have died in the US as an extreme winter storm continues to batter parts of the country, with blizzards causing dangerous travel conditions. Across the U.S., officials have attributed deaths to exposure, car crashes, a falling tree limb and other effects of the storm. The storm unleashed its fury on Buffalo, in the state of New York, with hurricane-force winds causing whiteout conditions. Forecasters said 71 centimetres of snow accumulated as of Saturday in Buffalo.     HIDAYAT TV Official www.hidayattv.uk