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For a powerful storm this weekend. a bomb cyclone of hurricane-like strength and tropic river moisture will clash saturday night, unleashing heavy rain, snow in parts of california and pacific northwest. it's time to bring in meteorologist derek van dam. derek, how bad will it be? is there a chance to help those areas out west that are suffering from drought and fires? >> well, i think it's important that we're clear to our viewers that this will not be a hurricane-like storm impacting the west coast, but it will have hurricane characteristics especially just offshore. it's going to be a power...

First hurricane characteristics. now transforming and i wish there was a better name for it. post tropical cyclone doesn't sound threatening. but we'll be talking about this for several days because of the torrential rains and the power outages and the power crews to get to those power outages will be an issue. tomorrow's not going to be that great. wednesday is better, but still not great. it's going to take awhile for the cleanup to happen. >> in terms of the snow area, do we expect that the area affected by that snowfall is expected to get much larger? or do you expect the snow event to be ...

Strengthen and with maximum suspain -- sustained winds. it is it a large storm system. we'll not just talk about where the center will move. sandy spans 800 miles and so it has a little bit of everything. it has hurricane characteristics and making a transition to northeastern type storm. snowfall falling over the west virginia virge and significant snowfall will be falling. two-three feet. and factor that in with strong wind blizzard conditions are expected. that is in west virginia virge through wednesday morning and very heavy rain in the dc/baltimore area. that is it rates half an inch per...

During the day today. it's amazing. it was supposed to be turning into a hybrid already. it's actually held on to its hurricane characteristics. but if you look at all the clouds over ohio, pennsylvania, virginia, that looks like the back half of a nor'easter. if i was in january or february, we've got the combination of those two. and that's why unbelievably, chuck, right now we're at 85-mile-per-hour winds. this may intensify this evening before it makes landfall. we could be talking about 90-mile-per-hour winds. >> wow. all right. bill karins who's going to be tracking it all day and night....

Hurricane. it is most likely going to go back down to a tropical storm and then get reupgraded to a category one hurricane. eventually though taking on different characteristics. not so much hurricane characteristics as the form of something else. what is that something else? good question. this is an unusual storm. and we don't really have a name to call it. it's moving to the northwest. it's sharing energy with this cold front that's moving in from the west and it is going to develop into its own hybrid post-tropical cyclone that we will keep an eye on. right now moderate rain is falling dow...