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>> yeah, no question about that. jon karl with new reporting on that meeting with the president a short time ago. jon, thank you. in the meantime, we do move on now, to that other major winter storm on the move tonight. alerts up from minnesota all the way to the northeast, we're following this, as well. blizzard conditions in the heartland, cars stuck in deep snow in sioux city, iowa. look at those images. and then tornadoes in the south. an ef-2. winds more than 111 miles an hour in texas. and blinding rain could now be on the way for washington, d.c., philly, new york and boston. abc's ad...

The time th thing gets to atlanta and further north and east it won't be a big wind maker it will just bring down some rain and that will continue. and then the westerly winds will pick it "up" above and this is going to scream up to the north and east so that we're in boston with winds around 20 to 30 by then it's looking to be post-tropical at that point with just-some rain. so there it is. second landfall, 85-mile-an-hour winds. near biloxi the second landfall. first one was at plaquemine's parish in louisiana. the first of course was in nicaragua and of course folks there fared much worse....

Even though this storm is hopefully going to push through quickly and maybe by midday tomorrow things will look a lot better. in fact, the sun is expected to be out. george? >> marty, it's good to see the conditions are improving where you are. martin savidge, thank you for your report. let's switch now to ed lavandera. ed live for us in mobile, alabama. looking at the radar here, it looks like one of the stronger bands is about to push in or has pushed in there. what are you experiencing on the ground? >> reporter: yeah, we've been kind of keeping tabs on that as well, george. this is one of ...

Hours ago. much dryer on the back side at least as far as we can sense so far. not getting the torrential kind of rain. you're getting some rain but not just the deluge that we had. and the good news is that the water that had been significant on top of u.s. highway 90 here, that has all receded. in fact i won't say it's completely gone but much of it is gone. it's down dramatically. so another good indicator. probably one is the change of direction of wind. also two we're past high tide. so that is good news. the power has remained fairly consistent. there's been some periods where we had tem...

Will continue to be favorable. you see these bands here. any of those bands embedded within them could be thunderstorms that could put down a brief tornado and we have seen that so far this evening. numerous warnings in fact have been out for tornadoes. we'll continue to watch that threat developing as well through the overnight hours. guys? >> ivan, that northeastern quadrant of the storm, the dirty side of the storm, right? that's what's pushing in right now and causing those tornado concerns. >> that's where all the action is. the storm surge, the heaviest rain, the heaviest wind, and also ...