Extreme cold, snow kills 4 in northwest China
100,000 homes flattened or damaged by storms
Jan. 25: A funnel cloud spins west of San Francisco sparking a tornado warning for the Bay area. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
BEIJING - Rescue workers evacuated thousands of rural residents from parts of northwestern China after extreme cold and blizzard conditions killed four people and left half a million snowed under, meteorologists said Monday.
In neighboring Mongolia, an official appealed for help from the international community as his country battles the most severe winter it has seen in three decades.
Storms in China's far western Xinjiang flattened or damaged about 100,000 homes and more than 15,000 head of livestock were killed by the cold front that set in Sunday night.
