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Can you time this out for us? >> reporter: this will be the kicker system that changes our weeks-long pattern. it will accelerate as it moves up the east coast. a tornado threat in the florida panhandle through parts of south georgia. you see the storms firing. also you see the cold blast, that ribbon of snow all the way down into mississippi. so winter warnings stretching from alabama through southern new jersey as this begins to take shape and wind its way up the east coast. as it does so, more thunderstorms tomorrow across the carolinas. heavy snow tomorrow morning. roanoke, d.c., baltimore...

Tonight. we're going to turn next here to that slow-moving storm front. ice, snow, flooding rain, triggering weather alerts in 20 states, from texas all the way up to new york. city skidding on icy roads, flipping onto its side there. and near pittsburgh, a police officer rescued from his patrol car after being trapped by rising flood waters there. so, let's get right to meteorologist rob marciano, with us again tonight, tracking it all for us. hey, rob. >> reporter: hey, david. even though temperatures here in the northeast have dropped 40 degrees since yesterday, the pattern elsewhere real...