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You can see folks taking advantage to get some plowing and shoveling done. the road plows have been out as well trying to clear these roads before the next round of snow hits. earlier i couldnt find a ruler so i was measuring the snow showing its about a water bottle deep. oh, theres my ruler. we finally found one here. and here in ridgewood, new jersey were looking at -- thats easily 6 inches. bill karins sad some people in this area have seen up to 8 inches. we could see a foot here when all i...

Around washington, d.c., already two inches of snow and sleet combined. a little more sleet and a tiny bit of snow on the back side. baltimore, already had two inches, now see sleet mixing with, and then change over to snow at the end of the storm for you. weve knocked down the totals in philadelphia and new york city a little bit. still significant snowfall, but the really heavy stuff is when you get out of the big cities about 24 to 30 around mt. pocono. and lower totals where we could get som...

A monster storm aiming at the northeast tonight. thousands of flights canceled. millions of people hunkering down. pedram javaheri has more and joins me now. pedram, this is a huge storm, closing in on the northeast. whats the track of the storm? >> you know, don, its changed actually in the last couple hours. latest model runs suggesting it could shift closer to land. if thats the case, that reduces snowfall for some of the major cities. you go from seeing some 9,000 record-high temperatures so...

Lets hand it over to heather who has more headlines for us. good morning, heather. heather: good morning to you and everyone at home. we do begin with extreme weather we have been watching for you. take a look at this live scene outside our studios. this is where this monster blizzard is bearing down. 15 million americans up and down the east coast bracing for up to 2 feet of snow. 50 mile-per-hour winds and devastating coastal flooding. air travel already crippled. nearly 6,000 flights cancelle...

Snowfall expected. we could see an additional foot of snow across northern areas in northern new england throughout tonight into tomorrow morning. boston, only expected to get a little bit more because like we mentioned, that is still changing over. even though the snow is winding down, we are still dealing with windy, windy conditions. 26 mile per hour winds in new york city right now. 35 mile per hour winds in boston. and as this continues to make its exit, well still get the snowfall across t...

The roads and theres a travel ban in place. why do you go to such high measures right away? >> the forecast yesterday was that we could expect up to six inches an hour. you have six inches of snow on a highway theres an accident and all of a sudden you have a parking lot and the parking lot gets filled with snow and it takes you a much longer time to dig out and get back to normal. i would rather interrupt a day and be normal tomorrow than to have that kind of occurrence. we also have, you know,...

To be possibly now the 15 to 20-inch snowfall, but an awful lot less, because the low is tracking up into the chesapeake, not offshore just yet near the delmarva peninsula. but were still going to see big-time snows in western parts of maryland, into parts of pennsylvania. the poconos, catskills, alleghenies will likely see between 10 and 25 inches of know. and northern counnnecticut, allf massachusetts into vermont, new hampshire, another 25 inches there. the closer you get to the coast, the mo...

Notice the poconos and scranton, just north of new york city, thats going to be a narrow cutoff line. just a few miles could dictate between 6 to 8 inches and, i think new york city could get 6 to 10 inches of snowfall. but just outside of town, just north of town, easily could see over two feet. same story out of boston. could see 8 to 12 inches, just west of town, easily a significant amount. these variations as it wobbles up the coast will make all the difference. >> we were hearing 18 inches...

Only an inch. thats it. baltimore, four to eight. further to the north, we have lowered totals for i-95 including new york and philadelphia. but once you get to the north of those areas, this is as big of a snowfall in areas of northern new jersey and the hudson valley. >> the headline is the major cities arent going to be impacted as heavily as we initially thought they were going to be. >> yes. school closures were still needed. airports are still needing to be closed. theres still a high-impa...

Control, spins out and ends up in the median. tens of millions of people affected by the massive storm as it slams into the major metropolitan areas of the mid-atlantic and northeast. blizzard conditions with heavy snowfall and bitter cold. causing thousands of canceled flights and shuttered schools throughout the region. the brunt of the storm bearing down on new england and upstate new york where 2 feet of snow is expected. 2,000 national guard troops have been activated to help with relief ef...