More than 100 people have died from storms in the last week, officials say.

Thousands of families in the Nashville area have faced more than a week without power in frigid weather after the biggest winter storm of the season brought Arctic air and dangerous ice to the South.

In Oxford, where the winter storm devastated the city and left many without power, recovery is being led by the people who live there.

Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East will continue in the coming days, with subfreezing temperatures reaching into Florida and a potential blizzard threatening the Atlantic coast.

About 240 million people were under cold weather advisories and winter storm warnings Saturday as a powerful system threatened to bring howling winds, flooding and heavy snow to the East Coast as the region continued to dig out from last week's frigid winter weather .

Feb 3 (Reuters) - Privately insured losses from the recent winter storm are estimated to be $6.7 billion, catastrophe risk modeling firm Karen Clark and Company said on Tuesday. A major winter storm swept across parts of the eastern and southern U.

Some American Airlines flight attendants were left "stranded in airport terminals and hotel lobbies," the APFA union said.

The deaths occurred amid a second major winter storm that brought heavy snow and high winds from the Carolinas to Virginia.

As a winter storm moved through eastern North Carolina, first responders were conducting welfare checks to ensure residents were safe. One of those checks in At

The weekend storm that covered North Carolina with more than a foot of snow in some places caused four unoccupied Buxton houses to collapse in about 24 hours on Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches.

By Miguel Pereira and Pedro Nunes POMBAL, Portugal, Feb 3 (Reuters) - A new storm threatened Portugal and Spain with further flooding and damage from Tuesday, only a week after the deadly Storm Kristin destroyed homes,