A deadly winter storm is pummeling Washington, DC, and the mid-Atlantic Monday after causing hundreds of crashes and flight cancellations and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands in the central United States over the weekend.

As a deep winter chill begins to take over the northern half of the country, blizzard warnings were issued in three states while a new major winter storm moves across the nation. Around 60 million Americans from the Dakotas to Delaware were under winter weather alerts as of Sunday morning,

The first major winter storm of the year that stretched across the U.S. is continuing its deadly journey eastward, where cities in the mid-Atlantic, like Washington and Baltimore, experience significant impacts from heavy snow and ice.