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>> a line of storms moving through on the southeast now and its not pretty. damaging winds and two-inch hail stones we are hearing. >> this is major. here is what happened in missouri. look at this. hurricane force wind damaged buildings, took down tree limbs there yesterday. lets go to allison chinchar with a look where these storms are heading today. we are seeing some flashes of lightning in atlanta. >> i was mesmerized by the downtown camera shot with the lightning flashes. if people are sle...

As blizzard conditions sweep the northeast. brian is live outside boston in framingham, massachusetts. hows it looking there? how is it feeling? >> reporter: it feels okay, melissa. about 12:30, tkpwufhe gusts wer picking up. we are 30 minutes west of boston. some people are on the road, but mostly what we are seeing are plows and emergency vehicles. many people are heeding to the governor charlie bakers advice to stay off the roads and let these guys do their job. it is whiteout conditions in s...

The winds are going to be picking up. so heres the problem, were looking at winds that can be gusting as high as 50 miles per hour. and yesterday we were kind of switching between rain and snow, so the snow is very crunchy. its that heavy snow that is really sticking to all the branches. think about tree limbs coming down. think about the weight on the power lines. once those winds really start ripping up here, well see them gusting to 50 miles per hour. the big concern is whether or not were go...

Bo bombogenesis. that means the winds are strengthening throughout the day. yesterday we were between the rain and snow mix, so this is a crunchy, heavy snow. it is really sticking to any kind of tree limbs out there. so all the trees, all the power lines now on this wet, heavy snow on it. the winds are expected to pick up to 50 miles per hour. the bigger threat will be power outages. >> something to look for, thank you so much, indra peterson, in boston for us. the white house is leveling bas...

He described a scene he never had seen before. listen to this. >> august came through and whistles through the windows and its like, oh, no, not again. i think we are in good shape. i think the worst of the storm is over which is a good thing. >> now, pasco county emergency management officials say they received scattered reports of issues like minor roadway flooding. they also experienced tree limbs down, some even crashing into homes. though the efforts have been suspended in this area as far ...

Speaking of damage, an ice storm this weekend will be one of the more significant ice storms we have had, probably going back two or three winters. it is already beginning. on our radar here, the blue shows you where it is snowing. the pink shows the freezing rain already starting in southern missouri. and three days from now well show you freezing rain on this radar map. we have almost 10 million people under an ice storm warning including st. louis, kansas city, joplin, springfield, wichita, o...

Inch of ice, you get the treatment limbs -- tree limbs come down. an inch of ice, thats historic. were not expecting that louis. still high impact for about three days starting tomorrow morning all the way through sunday. >> im going to hold you to that thank you note, bill. >> one more story for you here. rex tillerson was questioned on climate change during his confirmation hearing yesterday. the former exxonmobil ceo said that he supports staying in the paris agreement and though the impact o...

Oklahoma, kansas, missouri, winter storm watches are already issued. this is not a snow event. this is a sleet and freezing rain event starting on thursday night late as we go late tonight into early tomorrow morning and continuing into sunday. we could get power outages out of this. it all depends on how much ice we actually get out of this. heres our ice accumulation map. this is the legend. when you start to talk about a half inch of ice. thats when you start to talk about significant power o...

Layer, about 5,000 feet in the atmosphere where it started to melt the snow flakes and when that reached the surface of the earth which is hovering right around 0 degrees celsius it does exactly what you see behind me. you can see the icicles that formed on the traffic signals, on the trees. this is a dangerous situation and i guess that this is going to be a very rude awakening for people waking up this morning anticipating snow, wanting to get out on the roadways. of course we can navigate a b...

Deal with, and that, friends is a thick layer of ice starting to coat the roadways and some of the robots or light fixtures that are placed across the city. by the way, robots, thats the terms used for light signals in south africa, i lived there for a period of my life. excuse that terminology there. we have had ice accumulations from a quarter to a half an inch already in atlanta. and im concerned not just about the ice accumulation but that we are going to usher in strong winds. when that sta...