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right out of the gate we want to start this hour with a bull's-eye, right in the bull's-eye of a blizzard. a major winter storm is bearing down on parts of the east coast from north carolina all the way to the northeast. let's start now with rob marciano tracking it for us in the cnn severe weather center. >> yeah, don. this is the second time we've seen it this season. the first time december 19th, '09, we were calling that a blizzard. at least in some spots. this one may go down as the 2010 blizzard, at least along the jersey shore and in through parts of the delmarva where winds w...