Officials urge Americans to stay indoors as historic winter storm creates "catastrophic" ice conditions and triggers the largest weather alert ever.

Reporters from across the NPR Network are covering the storm in each state — the impact and how officials are responding.

The U.S. workweek opened with yet more snow dumping on the Northeast under the tail end of a colossal winter storm that brought ice and power outages, impassable roads, canceled flights and frigid cold to much of the southern and eastern United States.

After much of the United States was impacted by the recent snowstorm that's been named Winter Storm Fern, many folks are spending their Monday morning shoveling, plowing and hoping for the snow to melt.

The major winter storm blanketed dozens of US states over the weekend, impacting some 180 million people from the Southwest to New England.

The storm deaths were reported in New York, Tennessee, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Kentucky and New Jersey, and other deaths were under investigation.

A brutal winter storm has tightened its grip on the central United States, bringing dangerous cold, deep snow and at least one confirmed death in Kansas. The system has turned routine commutes and short walks into life-threatening gambles as wind chills plunge and visibility disappears in blowing snow.

Winter storm: Death toll rises as winter storm continues dumping snow across the U.S Heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain are slamming large parts of the U.S. as the dangerously cold weather causes major power outages and travel disruptions.

Over the weekend and into Monday, a massive winter storm brought frigid temperatures, ice, and heavy snow to