Deep freeze keeps grip on eastern United States, expected to ease


  • World
  • Tuesday, 02 Jan 2018

People cross 6th Avenue and 42nd Street as a cold weather front hits the region, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., December 30, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

(Reuters) - A record-shattering arctic cold wave kept its grip on much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday but temperatures everywhere except the northeast were expected to warm thereafter.

Schools remained shut as a result of the cold snap, which claimed four lives over the long New Year weekend.

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