The crazed gunman who was shot dead after trying to enter Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and a gas can has been identified as a North Carolina artist who was reported missing by his mom.

An armed intruder has been shot dead after illegally entering President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida early Sunday morning, the US Secret Service has said.

New York City is facing its first blizzard in more than a decade — as a powerful nor'easter bears down on the northeast.