Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.A​ once-in-a-lifetime winter storm continues to hit hard in the South, shutting down travel and leaving millions with the most snow recorded in at least a century in cities like New Orleans,

The Zavala County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday that five people died in an overnight crash Tuesday. The accident happened on the Nueces River Bridge in southwest Texas. In a Facebook post the Sheriff’s Office shared pictures from the scene of that crash and another wreck between a semitrailer and a minivan on Wednesday morning.