Over 9,000 flights across U.S. canceled as major winter storm hits: media

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- More than 9,000 flights across the United States set to take off over the weekend have been canceled, as a powerful storm forecast to batter large swaths of the country is expected to trigger prolonged power outages and severely disrupt major transportation routes, U.S. media reported on Saturday.

The report said that about 140 million people were placed under winter storm warning