Around 50,000 people are still isolated, emergency services personnel said, as they look to ramp up efforts to supply essential supplies after weather conditions eased.

The suspect in the shooting deaths of two Israeli Embassy employees outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., was charged today with first-degree murder and other crimes.

The FBI said it is looking into "ties to potential terrorism or motivation based on bias-based crime or a hate crime".

The Jewish community in Washington and beyond is reeling after two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot and killed on Wednesday night.

"These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!" he said in a message on Truth Social.