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The consistency of the snow is superimportant with this storm because it is heavy. its wet. so its going to bring down tree limbs. weve seen a lot of power outages. it could compromise structures. its a very heavy snow. but this will continue throughout the overnight hours tonight and into tomorrow before it starts to wind down. this is by the time we get into 9:00 tonight, pretty much ending for new york city. boston is still in it throughout the overnight tonight. tomorrow should be improving ...

Gusts could be 60, even 65 miles per hour as far as the snow, really snowfall rates 2 to 3 inches per hour we could rack up more than a foot of snow in places like albany, 8 to 16 inches boston 3 to 7 inches the problem with this is its really heavy, wet snow, jonathan and this is going to be difficult to shovel and not to mention causing power outages with heavy wet snow on those tree limbs and downed trees possible, too. >> be careful, folks still aherd here president biden says the u.s. ban...

Winds start to pick up, the tree limbs will start to fall, and we will have much of the increased power outages begin where much of the snow will take place. and we have had, already get this 24 inches of snow in western massachusetts where it is piling up. we anticipate 10 more inches of snow in worcester, and if that happens, it is the snowiest march in 2018, and if you recall that is when we had four back-to-back-to-back noreasters here in this area. there are currently 250 plows out and abou...

Mississippi river here shortly. other areas of concern. freezing rain. no one ever likes to be in a freezing rainstorm. this one has the bulls eye over southern michigan and southern portions of wisconsin and northern illinois. thats where the temperatures are right around freezing, 30 degrees. sleet and freezing rain reported in those areas. its not going to change and budge much for the next 12 hours. extreme travel issues in those areas. chicago, youre fine, warm enough. to the north, the big...

>> reporter: hundreds of thousands in the dark across the south. our alex presha south of little rock, arkansas, with crews restoring power and facing multiple challenges. >> the slick roads and the terrain and ice, you know, tree limbs falling out of trees. >> reporter: as the system pushes east, its pulling down the coldest air of the season so far. boston declaring a cold emergency, closing schools, and opening warming centers. >> by sunset tomorrow, it is down into the single digits, and the...

The state. and this was the scene near san antonio this morning, where ice was weighing down power lines, knocking them into trees. and its impacting air travel, too. more than 2,000 flight cancellations just today. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray joins us now. jennifer, good to see you. how long is this expected to last? >> well, were going to see this continue throughout much of the day today, into tonight. we are expecting to see better weather tomorrow, but just think, weve been talking abou...

It will break those tree limbs, guys and we could see power outages from this as well as we get into tomorrow and we go through our third round of this in a couple of days. >> all right, jennifer gray, ed lavendera. thank you. so the investigations into donald trump appear to be gaining momentum. find out who is talking now to a federal grand jury about those classified documents discovered at mar-a-lago. and the george santos sagai. >> you sound tired. you sound exhausted by it. >> arent we...

This is the area we are most concerned with over the next 48 hours with people losing power, and over towards little rock and memphis. this is how we judge it. we know from the past, about quarter inch of ice we get slick roads and bridges, but then quarter inch to half inch, we see tree limbs break and the power outage numbers beginning to increase. if you want to get in an extreme ice event, thats usually if you get a half inch to inch. we could see some areas getting up towards quarter of an ...

Roads, cars, bridges, overpasses. we are talking about everything, even tree limbs and power lines. it doesnt look like much, buffer you can see just a very thin layer of that ice and your car can lose control completely. sometimes it is even hard to see where that ice is. so thats why it is incredibly dangerous. we could see up to half an inch of ice in these areas shaded in blue. you can see through san anglo and it will come in several rounds. we see the ice coming across the dallas metroplex...

The country this morning. which areas are going to be impacted the most. lets bring in meteorologist chad myers, what are we looking at. >> the snow got on tree limbs and brought power lines down. 150,000 customers without power in that area, and its still snowing toward the east and northeast. indianapolis up toward toledo. that will be the middle of the cone, the heaviest snowfall, the intense bulls eye of where the snow is falling now, and where it will continue to fall throughout the day. we...