so dangerous situation for utilities. >> stay safe. and stay warm. thank you, molly in boston. >> 50 million people could be impacted. 50 million people. could be impacted as these two storms on the east coast collide. jill says this could be the start of, oh, great, three to four more weeks of storms, sieges, he calls it. he joins us by phone. joe, what's the storm siege? >> a siege is where you get one after another. what is happening is first of all, tell molly, what's going to be under the snow. the ground hog is going to be buried by the snow in new england. that will keep that fur bearing critter. how dare he come in on my weather gig. i can't believe it. but what is happening is we're getting to the situation where a very, very active southern branch of the jet stream, this case off the pacific. so from california to the cares you're going to see a lot of systems rolling roos, and there's -- rolling across and a