This is NBC Nightly News with Jose Diaz Ballard.

Good evening. We begin tonight with that winter storm taking aim at the south. Just days after

last weekend storm hit the eastern U.S. brutal temperatures now resulting in more than 100

deaths, parts of the Carolinas seeing up to a foot of snow tonight. Take a look at this, a truck stuck in the snow and get smashed by an oncoming train. Luckily, no one was hurt. Airports are also impacted. Thousands of flights cancel. All of it as more than 100 million Americans endure brutal cold. We're covering it all for you tonight, and we begin with Aaron Gilchrist in North Carolina.

Tonight, heavy snow slamming the Carolinas.

Six days after a winter storm that wreaked havoc on the South's power grid,

a new system is dumping more than a foot of fresh powder with some places

seeing near blizzard conditions. North Carolina transportation officials releasing this video

of a semi stuck in snow and ice. And in this video released by Gastonia Police, you can see a train

plowing into a semi-truck stuck on the railroad tracks.

The truck completely crumpled, police saying, thankfully no one was hurt.

And in South Carolina, cars littering ditches along highways, officials in both states begging people to stay off the roads. Guilford Metro 911 is being overrun today with calls for people that are getting out and about.

And with 137 million people across the country under cold weather alerts,

the death toll connected to this winter crisis, now in the triple digits.

This is an incredibly difficult and painstaking decision.

And off the coast of Massachusetts, search and rescue efforts suspended after a 72-foot fishing vessel sank in frigid waters.

One body recovered, the other six aboard now presumed dead.

Also tonight, more trouble at airports, a ground stop today in Charlotte where plows were busy clearing the snow.

Nationwide flight cancellations once again reached

into the thousands. Kate 2's from Los Angeles stuck in the storm zone for the night.

Hopefully I get to go out tomorrow. Fresh snow today also in hard hit Tennessee, where tens of thousands

remain without power, now for nearly a week, frustrations boiling over.

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