Massive snowstorm set to batter East Coast as 87 MILLION head home for the holidays 

• 131 flights cancelled today and 5,843 delayed across the U.S.
• National Weather Service issues winter storm warnings for Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Ohio as well as parts of Northern California and Oregon  
• Delays of an hour or more were reported at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and La Guardia Airport in New York
• At least four people dead in treacherous driving conditions
• Three people killed in 25-vehicle pileup in Iowa after drivers were blinded by snow

In southeastern Utah, a woman who tried to walk for help after her car became stuck in snow died on Tuesday night. Search and rescue crews on snowmobiles found her buried in the snow just a few miles from her car.

On the southern edge of the storm system, tornadoes destroyed several homes in Arkansas and peeled the roofs from buildings, toppled trucks and blew down oak trees and limbs in Alabama.