Deep Freeze Keeps Grip on Eastern United States; Four Die

Deep Freeze Keeps Grip on Eastern United States; Four Die
Elena Barduniotis from Colorado waits in Times Square ahead of New Year's celebrations in Manhattan. Reuters/Andrew Kelly
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MILWAUKEE—A record-shattering Arctic freeze 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 within 24 hours.

Many school districts shut their classrooms due to the cold snap, which claimed four lives over the long New Year’s weekend.