WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: National Guard members and other people help to push a police car, which got stuck in the snow on January 23, 2016 in Washington, DC. Heavy snow continued to fall in the Mid-Atlantic region causing "life-threatening blizzard conditions" and affecting millions of people. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter transports a Humvee while conducting sling load operations during exercise Allied Spirit IV at the U.S. Army’s Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels Training Area, Germany, Jan. 20, 2016. Exercise Allied Spirit IV is a U.S. Army Europe-directed, 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command-conducted multinational exercise that is designed to prepare forces in Europe to operate together by exercising tactical interoperability and testing secure communications within NATO Alliance members and partner nations. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Seth Plagenza/Released)The 18th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Ronald L. Green, speaks to Marines assigned to Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North aboard Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans, La., Jan. 20, 2016. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Melissa Marnell, Office of the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps/Released)A CH-47 Chinook assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade maneuvers over an M119A3 light howitzer from the 82nd Airborne Division Artillery during their Division Artillery Readiness Test, Fort Bragg, N.C., Jan. 20. The DART artillery raid allowed DIVARTY to emplace artillery and engage a simulated high payoff target. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Freeman/82nd CAB PAO)Lt. Col. Scott Stenger, a member of the 106th Rescue Wing, practices using a handheld saw during a combat and water survival training course at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., Jan. 18, 2016. During the training, aircrew members gained refresher training on using their emergency radios, tactical movements through difficult terrain, how to build shelters, ways to build fires, and methods for evading the enemy. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy)160125-N-IK388-009
PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 25, 2016) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Airman Conor Omalley operates a scrubber on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) during a foreign object detection walk down in preparations for flight operations. Bonhomme Richard is the lead ship of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group and is forward-deployed in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Stacy M. Atkins Ricks/Released)An HH-60 Pave Hawk from the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron departs for Craig Joint Theater Hospital during an extrication exercise at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Jan. 23, 2016. The exercise allowed service members from the 83rd ERQS and the CJTH an opportunity to practice their response to real-world emergency scenarios. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys)Petty Officer 2nd Class Richard Clarke, III, a crew member at Coast Guard Station Sandy Hook, N.J., shovels snow off the deck of a Coast Guard 25-foot Response Boat – Small, Jan. 24, 2016. A massive snowstorm rattled the mid-Atlantic and East Coast on Jan. 23, 2016, producing widespread snowfall of more than two feet in most areas. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ty Coulter)Members of Tops in Blue perform "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson during their concert Jan. 15, 2016, at Mascoutah High School, Ill. Tops in Blue has a distinctive history, spanning 63 years. Since its first tour in 1953, the group has also performed on film, produced albums and appeared on national TV with such legends as Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, Alabama, Barbara Mandrel, Boyz II Men, Lee Greenwood and many others. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tristin English)A couple walk by a a snow covered street in Times Square on January 23, 2016 in New York.
A deadly blizzard with bone-chilling winds and potentially record-breaking snowfall slammed the eastern US on January 23, as officials urged millions in the storm's path to seek shelter -- warning the worst is yet to come. US news reports said at least eight people had died by late Friday from causes related to the monster snowstorm, which is expected to last until early Sunday. / AFP / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)
