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My eyes here. the thing is its raining so hard and it is so windy its difficult to stand and it almost feels like little ice pellets when it hits your face. my producer and i just before we came in the air with you, she said, "is there eyes? is there any hail in this?" there is not, but thats what happens when the wind is coming at you sideways and being driven by 50-mile plus per hour winds. here in galveston, weve been going down hill. we have lulled earlier in the day where it would rain like...

Is in danger because hes hes assisting that situation and i doubt that travel was necessary for that individual. >> weve got live team coverage right now with our reporters fanned out across half a dozen states all day today. cal perry checking out the conditns in new york city, ann thompson inston where conditions are getting worse over the next several hours. lets head about 20 miles north to ridgefield, new jersey. blake, ive been watching you all morning. it was actually hurting you for a li...

Klotz, he is outside at 48th and sixth avenue where because we are surrounded by sky scrapers but the wind is howling. its out there, isnt it. >> it is. because of the skyscrapers you get breaks here and there. it tunnels. the ice pellets, small snow pounds you in the face to make my eyes water a little bit. we are seeing snow here at this point. thats not the case for everyone up and down the east coast. places in the south where were looking at more of a rain-snow mix. thats the case in washin...

For this monster storm. lets get to rob schmitt who is live outside in new york city. good morning, rob. rob: good morning, guys. i keep volunteering for these weather assignments. some day i will learn. windy and sleeghtd right now. getting hit in the face with ice pellets which is harder to take than snow. you see on the ground here maybe three or four inches on the ground at most at this point. and we are still under this -- expecting this blizzard to show up. can i tell you im no janice dean...

Youve been there all morning. walk us through the dangerous road condition, the crashes. whats going on out there? >> this is one of the places where the snow really is living up to its potential. its 8 inches so far. it started at blowing snow. then it became thick, heavy, wet snow. right now its more like little ice pellets. if i hold the microphone up, you might able to to hear whats hitting my face. sounds like rain drops but those are ice pellets. you want to know. roads. let he hop over he...

Snow hard. >> thanks bill, we will check back in a mitt. >> we want to go to philadelphia where indra peterson is joining us with an update. >> reporter: still unbelievable. we have been talking about the temperatures where yesterday, they had record breaking heat. a half hour ago, a heavy rain came down across the area. temperatures, we dropped 20-30 degrees from yesterday. we are expecting to see the temperatures come down. right now, around the 40 degree mark. i can feel the change. im gettin...

Massachusetts. whats it going to look like in new york? >> new york were really just getting rain. we did have a little bit of sleet earlier on. were in a zone where the temperatures are too warm to see frozen precipitation like theyre seeing in boston right now. she mentioned the ice pellets. most of the heavy know will work its way towards interior and northern new england. look at all the rain coming through new jersey and into maryland and delaware right now. still plenty of wet weather to c...

Normal day, it has been mild for much of the day, and it is wet. you look at the roads, these roads look totally different tomorrow. two big changes. cold air moves in then light rain changes to freezing rain. ice accumulating on the ground. sleet, ice pellets falling from the sky, then snow. looking at three to five inches of snow in memphis. thats why theres a winter storm warning posted by national weather service that will last into the morning hours, then comes cold. that record bitter cold...

Beachgoers in siberia had to run for cover from a hailstorm. the storm blew up suddenly and lasted for about 15 minutes. until then the temperature had been about 100 degrees. so these bathers in this incredible video were completely unprepared for the ice pellets. human rights activist malala yousafzai has met with nigerias president to press for action on the schoolgirls who were kidnapped back in april. malala sat down with abcs amy robach to talk about the challenges that lie ahead. >> rep...

Rick leventhal checking things out. what is it like now? good morning. >> reporter: most people heeded that advice. there is heavy snow coming down. it was mixed with ice pellets earlier. streets are virtually deserted. they had nine inches of snow that fell at philadelphia international airport. that is the fourth time this winter they had six inches or more. that is the first time it ever happened in the history of philadelphia. this is a look at market street. this is normally a very busy tho...