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Last updated on Monday, February 23, 2015
(UNDATED) - At least 23 people have died this week in the United States due to winter weather, CNN has confirmed.
A majority of the deaths, 18, occurred in Tennessee.
Three of those people died in a fire in Knox County, Tennessee emergency management officials said.
Family members said a man, woman and their adult son died in the fire, according to CNN affiliate WATE. Firefighters said they had difficulty reaching them because the second level of the house collapsed onto the lower level, WATE reported.
Other people in Tennessee died from hypothermia and in auto accidents, WATE said, and a dialysis patient died after he was unable to get treatment because of weather.
More than 2,700 people are without power as more severe cold, freezing rain and snow are predicted for the next few days, Tennessee officials said.
Dangerously cold conditions continue to grip a large part of the Eastern United States, CNN meteorologists said, with more than 125 million Americans under a wind chill warning or advisory.
Wind chills went as low as 40 below zero in some places.
Snow, sleet, and freezing rain spread over the mid-South and into the mid-Atlantic. Ice storms laid heavy ice in the Nashville area causing widespread power outages. Areas of Kentucky say as much as 15 inches of snow.
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