east. from atlanta up to new england including baltimore, washington, philadelphia, and new york. major cities in the northeast. air traffic at a stand still, thousands of flights have been cancelled. up to 7600 residents warned to stay off the roads in the face of what could be a record-breaking storm. let get all the information on the storm that is barrelling up the east coast right now. that is from chad myers. tell us what is going on. who is experiencing the worst right now. the worst is yet to come, right? >> the worst is yet to come when the low gets into the gulf stream. that's the warm water although it is only 45 degrees to the south that's the explosion that is going to happen when a cold low is going to interact that like a hurricane getting over warm water. we have 31 million people in the

blizzard warning which means the winds are going to blow 35 or 40 miles an hour. it is going to snow hard and visibilities are going to be less than half a mile for three hours at a time. the blizzard is going to put down significant snow at all once. right now, d.c., baltimore, philadelphia seeing the snow. just getting some snow into new york city. when the wind bliegins to blow that direction we are going to gather the humidity over the gulf stream and that's when the storm becomes the nor'easter. as it becomes the nor'easter then we pick up the winds. we are going to triple that and in some spots over 75 miles an hour along the shore all the way up to the delmarva and new jersey from wildwood all the way up to -- almost to new york

we're going to have winds here about 50 miles an hour. the snow continues, the snow numbers in new york city have gone up. if you haven't been with us for a while, the new number that we're focusing on for new york city is around 16 inches. before it was 8 to 12 then 8 to 14. now i think it's more like 10 to 18 because the storm is going to dump that snow right on top of the city. you see that haze? it looks like haze or fog. that is not nothing. that is the snow falling from the sky. there is light snow in atlanta right now but that's about done for the south. it's about where it's going to now. it's going to baltimore. to d.c., to richmond, to philadelphia. all the way to the delaware water gap and allentown will pick up heavy snowfall right through this dark purple area. new york city now in it to win it as the storm gets farther to the north this is 12 inches or

more for the city proper and it's a lot to plow. if it gets to be 20 inches that is a big, big slowdown for new york city with millions of people trying to get back to work on monday, might be difficult. is there there is times square. so the snow has started to fall, as you can see. my question is, though, chad, you were on earlier and you said new york city may not get that much snow. is it following the redistricted path or the path you thought? >> it is but because we had been talking about the big models, the gfs, the american model, if i have time to talk about this i will. and the european model, those are large scale models. now we are following the small scale models with little bands of snow. those bands of snow will come off the ocean like lake effect

snow that goes to buffalo. they will be lake effect or ocean effect snow bands in these cities because the air is so cold and back into the city. and that is what those microcosms those 5 mile wide snow bands will get. i don't know if it is going to hit manhattan or islip or all of new jersey, but there is a potential of a big band of difficult to move snow over the city. it's going to happen, philadelphia, baltimore, d.c., this is the first real evidence that we're going to get it up here too. >> all right. stand by. there you go. chad myers told you. be safe, stay indoors unless you have to be outside. washington, d.c. has been getting it. it started earlier there. we are going to start with jennifer gray who is live this evening at the national mall.

we have been watching the snow pick up since she started doing live shots. what are the conditions like there? >> we are getting it. we are in the thick of it. it is going to get worse before it gets better. behind me you can barely see the washington monument back there. we have 4 to 5 inches. with the winds blowing 15 to 20 miles an hour it is blowing the snow all around. that is what we have been seeing for the last hour or so. the storm prediction center put out a discussion talking about the snowfall rates at 1 to 2 inches an hour. some areas around d.c. will see higher snowfall rates per hour for the next several hours. so this is when it is all going to start to begin. and we will continue to see the accumulations build and build and build. of course we are expected the national guard troops to come

in, about 60 of them with 30 vehicles. they will be patrolling the streets throughout the evening and on stand by in case they need them for anything. we have been seeing plows. there is one behind me right there, trying to stay ahead of this. but it will be difficult to stay ahead of the snowfall rates because it's going to be coming down at such a fast, fast pace. but they have been out here. we have been seeing them consistently. as we go to the overnight hours, listen for thunder snow as well in the d.c. area. we are setting the stage for that with the heavier bands coming through and by tomorrow morning we are still going to see the snow coming down very, very high rates. and then should finally be tapering off by the time we get into tomorrow evening, don. >> jennifer, you mentioned thunder snow. have you heard it? >> we haven't heard it yet but we are expecting it through the overnight with 2 to 3 feet of

snow here in d.c. this is definitely worse than the two storms combined back in 2010. >> jennifer gray on the national mall. brian todd out in the elements for us. brian has been driving around and checking out the situation for us in the d.c. area and in virginia earlier. what are you seeing now, brian? >> real deterioration in northwest d.c. you can see the visibility on connecticut avenue heading south from the maryland line. we are inside d.c. now. the snow plows have been working tirelessly all night. but as you can see they are having a heck of a time just trying to keep up with this volume. we're going to stop. can we jump out? we're going to keep going until we clear this policeman and -- >> are you being pulled over? >> no, we're not being pulled over i think he is just behind

us and checking on some things. he is moving forward ahead of us and then we'll pull over. but what we can tell you is information from the virginia state police. here is a stat that will jump out at the viewers, 989 crashes from midnight until 10:00 p.m. we just got word from the virginia state police throughout the state, 989 crashes. nearly 800 disabled vehicles they responded to. one state trooper was injured. he's okay. now we're going to jump out of the car. the cop has gone on. i'll switch to the dash cam in front. >> you are not breaking the law, are you? >> no we're not breaking laws. i promise, the policeman was just checking on things behind us and he moved on but we're okay. the accumulation is about 5 inches. but i can tell you along the sides and where it is drifting it's clearly more. there is about 7 inches of accumulation so far in virginia,

8 inches in some parts of maryland and as you heard from chad and jennifer this is the time of the evening when it is starting to get bad switching to our mobile camera outside. the wind is now a huge issue. it was really whipping around earlier. it's tapered off a little bit here. but the wind is causing visibility problems in the district and elsewhere and the snow drift is going to be a problem too. they told us when the snow stops if you think it's okay to venture out, it is not. they are going to take a while to clear off the roads. virginia state police and aaa told us when the snow stops saturday evening, it's still going to take 48 hours to clear all the roads. that means the monday morning commute is going to be pretty bad, don. so people should not think that just because the snow stops some time late saturday they are in the clear here. you have snow pack on

connecticut avenue. this is normally heavily trafficked at 11:00 on a friday night. you have one vehicle on connecticut and that's it. it is slippery, there is a lot of snow pack here and a lot of slush and again, with the drift, and this -- the shoveling with the snow plows an issue in the next couple of days is where to put all this stuff. so once they start to shovel it to the side we saw this in buffalo in 2014, a huge issue is where are they going to put all the snow once all this stops. that's one of the things we're going to be looking at in the next couple days. >> brian, don't break the law. we need you. we don't want you to get arrested or ticketed on national television. thank you. and we'll get to ryan young now in new jersey where he is checking on conditions there. he has sideways snow blowing in his face. what's going on?

>> getting sideways snow and getting all this sleet and snow blowing in our faces for the last half hour or so. we wanted to walk out on to the pier. we know in about an hour from now at 12:00 they expect the winds at 60 miles an hour. but this is what they are concerned about, the water here because of the high tide. you have a full moon and high tide and they don't want the water to go over the edge. this has happened before. in fact, a police officer stopped and told us during hurricane sandy the water if you look right here, the water was this high in this same area. when the water came over the edge here it came all the way through here, knocked out this fence and went into the first stories of a lot of the homes in this direction. you can see the streets are covered in snow. we have seen people o direction people having their friday night drinks. we have seen heavy equipment

moving by clearing this area making sure it is clear. but once again the real concern is around 7:00 this morning when that high tide is supposed to hit whether or not the water is back up to this level again. because obviously so many people don't want to deal with the water and the snow at the same time. >> i would say for you, ryan, you should go inside that bar to warm up. that's it. not at least until you are done with your work this evening. >> that would be great, but i don't think they would like if i did that between live shots. >> just warm up. i'm just -- i want you to play by the rules and the book. thank you, ryan young. he's in atlantic city. let's go to atlantic county. vincent jones the director of the office of emergency management. this is a huge storm. what are the current conditions in new jersey? >> right now we're experiencing snowfall and as you just heard the wind is starting to pick up. we do have some blowing snow.

our concern is that for us it's a two-punch, in the east it's snow. in the west it's snow with tidal flooding and the persistent wind and the wind gusts getting up to 60 miles an hour. that's going to cause us some problems. >> is that your biggest concern? the winter storm warning in effect in your region it's until sunday. is that your biggest concern over the course of the weekend? >> for the eastern part of the county, it is. what we refer to as a stacked tide event is what we're looking at. each time we have a high tide the water is going to pile up. and with the wind it's not going to be able to drain back out. whatever we have in the back bays it's going to stay there. with the next high tide cycle the water is going to continue to rise. that is a concer for us. it always is when we have

nowhe nor'easters, but you couple that with the wind and the tide, we just have to get through this. and when the temperatures start to rise if we have a fast snow melt, we're going to be looking at inland flooding from this as well. so we're nowhere near out of the woods yet. and you know, talking to you, you're an emergency official and talking about how you are preparing, but what should people be doing in the area on their own? >> one of the things we have asked people to do. they want to go out and see how much snow has fallen and what it looks like outside and all that does is create some problems for not only the public works and the highway crews that are out trying to plow and having to navigate around the cars on the road. but as you heard obviously from your staff and your reporters out on the road, abandoned

vehicles are hazardous for the plow trucks. we are asking people if they don't have to travel, stay home, ride this one out. and don't venture out until it is all said and done. let the crews get the roads clear. people should have moved their vehicles and items in low lying areas that are prone to flooding. if not, with this event no evacuations and no evacuations have been ordered because one of the problems that we have is where we would typically take these people if we were to tell them to leave is in the areas where we're looking at 10 to 12 to 14 inches of snow. while we have taken them from one hazard we are putting them into another hazard area. and our hands are tied. we can't really do that. >> what about outages? >> right now, we have no outages reported. but again as the winds begin to increase especially overnight

into tomorrow and during the day tomorrow that is a concern of ours. with you know, power outages, trees bringing down the lines and a possibility with the wind gusts that they are talking about some of the poles coming down and bringing down a line. that is a concern of ours especially with the temperature, you know, having prolonged outages people without heat. we are prepared for that, but again, people just need to hunker down and ride this one out. >> what do you do, then? you don't want to start evacuating people or moving people around because the areas you move them they are in greater danger. what if people do start to lose their power, what do they do? >> what we've done is we have met with the municipalities we know would be impacted by the flooding, those towns have high-wheeled vehicles if it necessitates they are prepared to pick people up and bring them to a shelter in those municipalities where they have heat, they have water and

provisions and they can maintain and care for those people. we're hoping it doesn't get to that but they are prepared to the that if they have to. you know, people should have prepared for this. there was a lot of lead time leading up to this event. we're hoping that people took precautions and are going to adhere to what we're telling them and stay put. >> vincent jones from atlantic county, new jersey. good luck to you. >> thank you. >> when we come back we're going to have more on the breaking news, the gigantic storm bearing down on the east coast. we'll tell you how bad it could get where you have. (air horn, trap door opening)

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you have to look at your tv. this is atlantic city. this is crazy, you guys. this is our breaking news tonight. this monster storm is bearing down on much of the east coast affecting 85 million people. i'm going to fairfax, virginia and then with sarah ganim in philadelphia. nick, last when we saw you there was a lot of equipment near you. theyere salting and plowing the roads. have you changed locations? what's going on? >> we just came off a little bit to the side of the lot, that staging area where the plows were at. this is a major thoroughfare through this area. this is interstate 50. you look up 66 east and a connector there. you see how desolate the roadways are. a lot of treatment throughout the day. and this is the accumulation. about 7 inches of snow

accumulating in this area, the fairfax area. a lot of preparation being done. we saw it this afternoon. thousands of trucks preparing for what was expected, the storm weather models.s hype and the - the meteorologists got this spot on. this is expected to last through the weekend, well into tomorrow. and officials are concerned that people get ambitious after having a night indoors and they want to check out what happened overnight and it's expected to get bad along midnight. and the wind was starting to pick up. it has died down a little bit but there is a light dusting, some would call it a moderate dusting happening that is causing major issues. minor accidents, a majority are minor fender benders. we talked to snow plow drivers

and they saw two major accidents on the parkway here but vdot could not confirm the accidents happened. a lot of residents heeding the warnings and taking the advice. brian todd is seeing cars being abandoned but that's not what we are seeing here. it's crazy to see this, don. this is an area if you are familiar with this part of town, an interstate that is usually jam packed. only to have this left behind, the roads being treated by the thousands of trucks with the virginia department of transportation. the officials doing their jobs. >> it wouldn't be tons of people but we have seen what, two or three cars go by as you have been broadcasting what highway is this? pretty much, what this is showing is that people are heeding the warnings and not getting out in the area where you are?

>> yeah. we see a couple people. we will walk around to give our audience a con texas and perspective here as a snow plow is pulling up behind us. this is interstate 50, 60 west and east is the connector right here. we are seeing a few folks wandering about. there is subdivisions and apartment complexes back here. but everyone for the most part is listening to what is being broadcast by the expert meteorologists and the local officials saying to stay off the roads. it's going to be bad throughout the weekend. perhaps up to 40 inches of accumulation in the d.c./northern virginia area. so this storm is going to be a couple more days over the next 36/48 hours. it's going to come down pretty strong. >> nick valencia, thank you very much. was that shot live? let's take a look at that shot.

that is brian todd's shot. he has been traveling around the washington, d.c. area checking the conditions for us. the conditions are deteriorating. there's lots of snow coming down in the washington, d.c. area. and i would imagine similar conditions in the philadelphia area as well. maybe not quite as heavy snow or as much snow coming down as in washington, d.c. let's go to philadelphia. there you go, courtesy of our affiliate kyw. that is in center city. let's check in now -- and market street. sarah if you are still in front of the skating rink now i know where you are on the west side of city hall there. what are the conditions like? >> you know, it's interesting, don, i mentioned how there are a lot of cars and people out. but that seems to be dying down in the last 15 minutes and what

is dialing up are the gusts of wind. we are in a little bit of a lull right now. but when they hit you, they hit you fast and that snow really hits you in the face and you noticed right away. i want to take you over here for a second. these are the benches in front of city hall. this is 2 to 3 inches of accumulation. the snow didn't start until about 7:00 this evening. this is something only in the last couple of hours. once the snow started to come down it was really noticeable right away. this is really wet snow, don. when you hit it -- this is snowball weather making snow. of course officials here in philadelphia cautioning people, this is friday night. we know you want to go out but please cut that short and go inside this is not the time to be outside playing in it, this storm is expected to bring 12 and 22 inches to philadelphia. that's more than they typically

see in the entire month of january. and they began to prep on wednesday. the streets out here, they began brining them on wednesday. they have the plow trucks ready. they are going to hit the roads about midnight. the streets commissioner telling me he gave the guys at the -- getting into the plow trucks a pep talk saying this is going to be a long one. this is a storm where you are going to have to have a lot of patience and it's going to be a continual wheel for possibly a day or longer that they're going to be out on these streets. 400 plows in the city and 450 in the suburbs where they could get more snow. a lot of things going on to try to keep everyone safe including a code blue which is a term for if you see a homeless person out in the middle of the storm, call the police so they can get them into a shelter, don. >> sarah ganim in philadelphia

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can you tell? it is the white house. snowed under, sort of. those are the conditions in washington, d.c. and much of the east coast, washington, baltimore, takg a direct hit from this monster storm and it's only going to get worse tonight and into tomorrow morning. i'm going to bring in reed timer who is in washington for us this evening. so, reed, you're chasing this storm in washington. it's called a monster blizzard in full effect. how -- how do you chase this as opposed to a tornado? >> well something like this, you just chase on foot. i have all the proper gear and all kinds of layers. i could sleep in a snowbank if i have to. i'm waiting for a lightning flash or thunder snow. i'm monitoring the snowfall rates and reporting all the conditions. i wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world, that's for

sure as an extreme weather enthusiast. >> we have been -- maybe you have seen it online or had a chance to glance at the television there are images of the storm from space you get a sense of how huge it is, what do you think about it? >> it's absolutely textbook nor'easter. it has a perfect conveyers belt of low level jet just getting started. and when it is heads into the mid atlantic we could get the thunder snow. and it's just incredible to see the upper low interact with the atlantic and all that moisture is being deposited as snow on the cold side. it's incredible to see. the roads out here are getting

drifted over just after the plows move through. >> are you doing this with a selfie stick? >> no, with my hand right now. it's starting to get a little numb. i'll switch over to the left hand pretty soon. i got the 360 degree cam here just in case there is a lightning flash. i don't want to miss it. >> the storm is expected to impact 85 million people. you have been in the center of many storms in your career. how do you think this is going to stack up? >> i think in terms of the widespread impact on the population centers it's going to be the most significant i've ever chased. it could be historically too. it could exceed the 28 inch mark in d.c. and it's very significant to witness it. i did chase that buffalo lake effect emergency back in 2014 with 7 or 8 feet of snow but that was localized over a few mile wide band.

but this, you're trapped here. i'm forced to watch this incredible snow for a few days. >> are you walking around? what are you doing? >> i'm just walking around. definitely don't want to drive in these conditions. just walking around and checking out the snow drift. we are being hit by a strong band right now. that's why i'm checking it out. >> where are you at again? >> in d.c. right in front of the alcoh capitol. >> you haven't heard the thunder snow? >> we haven't yet. but it's an increase in the snowfall rates and you can see the accumulation increase. 7 or 8 inches already here. it looks like with bigger drifts and we could see drifts several feet high when the winds are gusting over 40 miles an hour. >> we are looking at your video on the left is the live shot. does it look like the city is

handling it well? >> it looks like they're handling it really well. you see the plows going by. not only plowing the streets but also the sidewalks. they're everywhere out here. and pop are indoors. so far -- they are starting to not be able to keep up with the snowfall rates as it is getting heavier but with nobody on the roads it's a good thing. see the drift on the side of the car here. it's kind of neat. wow. >> a little cornice. >> the winds are just getting started. but they are just ramping up now. the dangerous conditions from here on out through tomorrow. >> reed timer is a storm chaser. thank you, reed. that guy loves what he is doing. he loves being a storm chaser, the enthusiasm is palpable.

brian todd loves reporting out in this area and he is in the d.c. area driving around for us. are you seeing fewer and fewer people out on the roads? >> we are seeing fewer people out on the road. we are in dupont circle in the center of d.c. right now. there is a pedestrian who wasn't watching and almost walked right in front of our vehicle just now. fewer people out walking in the street. some people are walking but those are people who are going to some of the bars that happen to be open late night. we are on connecticut avenue. i'll switch out to the dash cam straight out ahead of us. part of the problem in walking around is it's getting harder to navigate the streets. the wind is kicking up here in d.c. we have 5 inches of accumulation and right now we are heading into what we're told is going to be the most intense period of

the snow from about midnight until about 9:00 a.m. and the snow won't even end then. connecticut avenue, the snow plows have been working around the clock but they have not been able to keep ahead of this and clear the roads to the extent it is easily passable. there is snow pack on the road. this hill is a steep incline on connecticut avenue and some cars have had trouble getting up it. we're going to pull over to the right hand side of the road here and give you a sense of the wind and the snow drift and some of the conditions here. our photojournalist is pulling over. i'll get out and talk to dash cam in a second while he gets his third camera out. getting out of the vehicle here. and you see people up here on connecticut avenue. some people -- this is dangerous. some people are in the middle of

the street. very, very dangerous for them. what we saw on the highways earlier is people getting overconfident in their vehicles when they see the snow pack and the snow compacted from the shoveling they went too fast and they spun out in front of us and others got stuck on the exits trying to get off and it was a very bad situation. we just got word from the virginia state police, 900-plus accidents. nearly 1,000 accidents throughout the state throughout the i day. they are going to be monitoring the accidents as people try to venture out. people are having trouble coming down connecticut avenue here and again the snow plows have not been out that we've seen in this area for at least a few minutes but they have been roving around working tirelessly. but they have to do that in stages so that they can take some volume off the street, find

a place to put it and go right back to work. so, don, again, while we're -- while the good news is there aren't a lot of serious traffic accidents in this area, some people may feel as the snow tapers off in some places they might want to venture out we are told by city and state officials don't do that. when the snow tapers off that just means it is ebbing and flowing, it's going to start up again. it will not taper off until saturday afternoon and evening, don. as i come out on to connecticut avenue. it's slippery under beneath, a sheen of ice and slush on top of the snow pack and just very difficult to move around right now. the wind was a huge issue a few minutes ago. really whipping around. and that has impacted visibility. visibility in this area all night long has been very, very

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that's what it looks like in philadelphia right now. that is near city hall on the

west side of city hall in philadelphia. our breaking news on cnn, 85 million people in the path of a monster storm that is battering the eastern united states tonight. i want to get straight out to it. ryan young in margate, new jersey. and jason carole in times square. >> i was turning on the ifb on so i could hear you, don. the snow has picked up. if you look behind me, look at the street. you can see how much it has picked up. we have seen a couple cars in the last hour or so, some people still heading out to the bar but most people are heeding the warnings. we're in that golden hour where the water could rise. there is a full moon and high tide. we're going to walk this direction because this pier during hurricane sandy was partially blown away when the water came over the banks here.

that's what they are concerned about. not only is this a snow event but they are worried about this water. we have a light focused on this area. it looks like it has gotten higher but not as high as they are worried about at 7:00 a.m. the wind gusts could get up to 60 miles an hour. that could happen starting at midnight. so far the highest reading has been 20 miles per hour. that's the good news so far. it's coming down in solid chunks. so now we have to wait and see what happens with this water here and whether or not the high tide effects this area. >> this man doesn't just travel with a ruler so he can see how deep the snow is. he has a wind meter. but i what i'm wondering is -- >> why not. >> you have to do what you have to do. under that layer of snow, is there ice under there? >> well, that's a good question, you know what, and back this

direction before it was coming down wet and then kind of slushy. i'll show you this. this is mostly powder here. getting down here you see a little ice but not much. and especially down on the road, it's actually a pretty nice powder out there. it's not that snow we got in atlanta where you see the ice, no. this is the thick snow they can move pretty quickly with the plows which they have been doing over the last hour and a half. >> that half inch of snow that shut atlanta down for two months. >> yeah. >> you were working there when it happened. i remember. >> i was there. and it wasn't that bad. i got to speak up for my people down there. >> whatever. you have plows and salt trucks out. have you seen a lot of equipment? >> we've seen a lot of equipment. we were talking about the power lines. if you look, nothing really hanging from the power lines up

there. so so far we haven't seen any power outages. we have seen the heavy equipment move through and the salt being put down on the roads. this area has been plowed a little bit. but it seems that everything is work okay so far. it's that wind gust and rising water that could happen at 7:00 a.m. that everybody is keeping their eye on. >> margate, new jersey ryan young. now to times square and jason carole. you know, this city doesn't sleep but doesn't see this kind of snowstormhis kind of snowstorm often as well. >> this is a city that doesn't sleep and proof is right here in times square. even though we are under a winter blizzard warning until 4:00 a.m. a lot of people are out here as the snow started to come down just in the past hour or so. new york city expecting a foot to a foot and a half of snow, don. and we are under a winter weather emergency until about 8:00 a.m., the mayor encouraging

people to stay off the roads so that way emergency vehicles can get through. 2300 sanitation workers will be working 12 hour shifts. so in terms of resources the city is well prepared. in terms of how much snow we are going to be getting, expecting a foot to a foot and a half. but it's not expected basically until tomorrow morning starting at about 8:00 a.m. right now we are getting a light dusting. the worst, if it is to come, still several hours away. >> hopefully i will be watching maybe jason carroll in times square. >> not me. you will be watching somebody else at 8:00 a.m. >> you -- >> i'm kidding. >> you have lost your mind. >> have you been able to talk to people about this storm? >> yeah.

absolutely. and actually earlier, when i was out taking somewhat of a break going to the supermarket, i had a few conversations. the markets were packed. we were at trader joe's. there were lines out the door and at some of the liquor stores as well. people stocking up on supplies of food and other things. but in terms of storms, new york has seen bigger storms in the past. this is a storm that the city has prepared for and in terms of the people, the people are prepared as well. >> jason carroll in times square. nice job see you at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. when we come back, more from the snow zone, what you should and shouldn't do in the middle of a storm like this.

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number one, do not forget your prescription drugs. stock up on food but also stock up on your medicines. make sure you have everything you need for several days through the duration of the storm. and number two, don't shovel snow if your doctor has told you

to avoid vigorous exercise. if you have a heart condition and your physician has said be careful you shouldn't be shoveling snow. number three don't heat with stoves or charcoal grills. sometimes people are temped to turn on the stove, or bring the outdoor grill inside. don't do it. carbon monoxide can kill. it is especially dangerous because it is odorless and colorless. you wouldn't know you are being poisoned. don't drink alcohol to stay warm. in fact it's the opposite. drinking alcohol can make your body lose heat. don't warm up your car if the tail pipe is covered with snow. if your tail pipe is blocked the gases go into your car. the snow is beautiful, enjoy it but stay safe. >> thanks, elizabeth.

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11:00. we'll barrareak down the actionh our experts. be safe out there, heed the warnings. everyone stay inside unless you have to be out. here's natalie allen and george howell with our coverage. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> this is breaking we are hearing right now 130,000 customers are without power in freezing temperatures dealing with the blizzard conditions and several major cities are facing snow