this is why this will be a prolonged event. another reason why we'll be feeling it for such a long period of time is that it's such a large storm system. spanning 800 miles from one end to the other. the center is 310 miles away from new york city. we are already starting to feel tropical storm force wind gusts across long island and parts of new jersey. landfall later tonight around the evening or nighttime hours, across central and southern nighttime hours across central and southern portions of new jersey. it will have maximum winds then about 90 miles an hour. regardless of whener the center is, many people will be feeling the impacts from it. like we mentioned we're seeing that snow coming down portions virginia. you can see it right there on the satellite radar picture, coming down heavily across the mountains and the rain is coming down very heavily across the dc-baltimore area. we'll get reports of flooding if we're not seeing that already across places across maryland,