doing and they're ready to do it. i remind you, the men and women of the sanitation department have 6,000 miles of roads they are responsible for clearing. that is as if going from here to los angeles and back. that's what they have to deal with, and they are up to the task. how is that going to happen? 2400 workers per shift on 12-hour shifts 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for each shift, and we will ensure that all hands are on deck for this crisis. we'll have nearly 500 salt spreaders out ahead of the snow falling, when at least 2 inches have accumulated there will be 1500 snow plows deployed to address the conditions. at the same time our colleagues at department of transportation have emergency pothole crews out already making repairs in

advance of the storm. again, these are blizzard-type conditions. expect easily 2 feet. even the potential of pressing on towards 3 feet of snow. and i want to emphasize. this will not just be snow. there will be very windy conditions. we expect wind speeds of 35 miles per hour or more. there will be low visibility. so i'm going to say this today, and you'll hear me say it over the next few days. new yorkers should not underestimate this storm. assume conditions will be unsafe. assume that you do not want to be out in this storm. when you can stay indoors, stay indoors. when you can stay off the roads stay off the roads. use mass transit or make plans to travel another day, but try with everything you have, to avoid being in the middle of this storm. the storm it is expected, the

initial flurries, late morning, early afternoon tomorrow. increasingly heavy going into monday evening and then continuing on into early tuesday. we'll be constantly monitoring the storm and its path. we're in constant touch with the national weather service. we also know storms are unpredictable. they can change. they can get bigger smaller, faster, slower. we're ready for different scenarios. the one we are describing to you is the one we expect, but we're also being cautious and making sure we're prepared for the worst-case scenario not the rosiest scenario. now, road conditions in particular will be treacherous. there is no other word for it. they will be treacherous. so all new yorkers should stay off the roads tomorrow. if you go out in the morning, you're going to have to come back in the evening and by

evening it will be pretty heavy. so stay off the road tomorrow. certainly stay off the roads tuesday. again, use mass transit if that's an option. if you have the option to stay home or make other plans you should do that right now. change your plans right now in advance of this storm. if you're even walking around in your neighborhood expect unusually icy conditions. unusually slippery conditions. so even walking should be kept to a minimum. we're asking people starting tomorrow afternoon to stay out of city parks. there is always a potential with rapid snowfall extra burden on tree branches, that you could have some branches coming down. we want people to stay away from the parks for their own safety. every new yorker should know that any problem with heat or hot water, we want them to call 311 immediately. if you experience a problem we want to work immediately to fix it. but we need you to call. anyone with a heat or hot water

problem, please call 311 immediately. i'm asking all new yorkers to look out for your fellow new yorkers. look out for your neighbors. particularly if you have neighbors who are elderly or disabled. check in on them. check in on them today, make sure they have what they need in anticipation of the storm. check on them during the storm to make sure they're okay. we're announcing now that alternate side of the street parking will be suspended tomorrow, monday it will be suspended tuesday as well, potential further suspensions thereafter. definitely no alternate side on monday or tuesday. garbage and recycling collections will be suspended so we can focus on snow-clearing operations. any questions or concerns people have or they need information call 311 or go online at nyc.gov. if you have a real emergency a

life-threatening situation, call 911. but, again, for information, for updates, 311 or nyc.gov. the city is doing everything we know how to do to keep you safe. we're asking you to keep yourself safe and your neighbors safe as well. one more important update. tomorrow school will be open tomorrow but there will be no after-school activities or trips. so school will be open monday, but no after-school activities or trips. we will make a final decision tomorrow related to tuesday, but it is likely that schools will be closed on tuesday. so, again, likely school closure tuesday, but a final decision will be announced at an appropriate hour tomorrow. a few words in spanish. [ speaking spanish ]

we're going to break away now that the mayor of new york is speaking in spanish and he often will do this. he'll give his remarks. he may go back and have more to say. i want to bring in now meteorologist janice dean. i've been keeping my eye on this news conference. we have a lot of other officials who may step forward. when a storm like this hits your city. i lived in minnesota. i have lived in those areas where you can get three and four feet of snow, janice. what you do on the front end makes a lot of difference. you cannot react mid storm. set it up for us. i see a lot of color on the map behind you. >> we heard the strongest words i have heard from the mayor of new york city in terms of this storm. even with super storm sandy i never heard language like the mayor is telling new yorkers today. be prepared for the worst. and really just within the last hour harris, we've been upgraded to blizzard warnings.

20 to 30 inches of snow with blizzard conditions. so this is a major event, one that perhaps new york has never seen. >> janice, i'm going to step in. i want to go back to the news conference. sanitation commissioner is talking now. they were talking 1500 snow plows and 500 snow trucks in one city alone. >> please don't tail gate behind vehicles. we need to be out there. this will be difficult storm for us to fight. we have handled blizzards before, though. while this is likely to be an historic amount of snow, we've been preparing. we are well staffed and we've gotten a lot of support from our agency partners such as d.o.t., dep and the parks department who will be providing additional plows and front-end loaders from us. i want to thank local 831 who has been incredibly supportive of this administration and has said to me to quote, his members are ready to protect the

city. i'm going to turn it back over to the mayor. >> thank you very much, commissioner. i mentioned earlier the 6,000 miles of roadways. the everyday upkeep of those roads, what makes life in this city possible it handled by our tremendous transportation commissioner polly trotenberg who has been a key partner in preparing for this storm. commissioner. we're going to pull away again. 6,000 miles of roadway that they're tasked with protecting in this state alone new york. this is going to hit new jersey connecticut, on up the coast where you have dense populations. that's the hallmark of living on the east coast. it's great until you get something like this. then you're on top of your neighbors and fighting for

resources. when the winds comes through they'll knock out utilities. the mayor said something, and i want you to put this into context for us. he says we should all be prepared for something you have never seen before. >> yep. >> what's he talking about? >> he is talking about a crippling and potentially historic storm. just within the last hour we got word from the national weather service here in new york city saying that 20 to 30 inches of snow is very possible, maybe even up to 3 feet or more with -- we could see potentially 2 to 4 inches of snow an hour, which is incredible. people cannot be outside with this type of weather, and they can't be on the roadways. so his language has been very severe, and not only for new york, okay. this stretches down into central jersey, all the way up the coast. the reds are blizzard warnings. they have just upgraded the watches to warnings. over 50 million people affected here on the northeastern coast here, all the way up towards

maine where we'll be dealing with epic snow. new york city central park has never seen 30 inches of snow in a two-day event. if that happens that has never happened before and that's why we're getting language from the mayor saying you need to prepare for this. we don't have a lot of time. the blizzard warning starts at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow harris. people need to be prepared now. they need to know what they're doing. your kids will be with you possibly for the next several days. there is the possibility of power outages for millions of people here. i was talking earlier when mayor bloomberg was talking about super storm sandy, i didn't hear language like we heard today from mayor de blasio. this is a huge, huge event. unprecedented probably for the northeast. >> a couple things. when you compare something like this to super storm sandy you put fear in the hearts of men and women. we want to make it very clear. we were able to watch that off the coast and tick up from florida on up. we had days to prepare.

that's not the case here. it's a matter how bad the storm may be. we've got to get with it very, very quickly. having said that it's easy to be skeptical, janice. we've seen the buildup before, and then you get there and it's like a little bit of ice and snow. but that's -- you're sure now, though that there are some hallmark signs with this. it's like the echo in a entered, right tornado. >> the national weather service has come out -- i have been conservative with the snowfall totals. you have the problem of we blew it. we said two feet of snow and it didn't happen. for the national weather service to come out and day 20 to 30 inches of snow with wind gusts of 60 miles per hour with blinding conditions of two to four inches of snow per hour for a period of hours is dire. no, we don't have a lot of time to prepare. i want people to know that this

is -- this could be a dire situation for millions of people, and you need to be making your preparations now to completion, because this is going to start really tomorrow morning. you have to know where your kids will be. they're not going to be atcal if you live from northern philadelphia, northern new jersey towards maine. your kids will be home. not just tomorrow but for several days. there is the possibility of power outages that could last for days. because if you have winds in excess of 60 miles per hour along the coast with blinding blizzard conditions for hours upon hours this is a potentially life-threatening crippling situation. and that's why we saw the language coming out of new york city with mayor de blasio. >> all right. a couple things. the power outages that you're talking about, i saw temperatures -- tell me if the forecast has changed -- some areas up and down the coast at night will get down into single digits. 10 11 degrees. people will have to watch out for frozen pipes. this gets really complicated

now. >> it does. and i grew up in canada. i know you grew up in parts of the heartland, harris. i have had ice storms that have crippled cities for weeks. this is the time where people and their neighbors and their communities need to get together and help one another. you absolutely do. >> all right. janice, you'll be with me as we do this. you'll be able to talk about the ice and snow coming in on top of the situation that we've all reported on fox news channel. i live in edgewater, new jersey. it has been bad for a week. we had a massive fire there. we've got over a thousand people displaced still in our town. many of our children are not back in school yet. now you are talking about -- let's pop up the picture so people know what we're talking about. we lost a structure last week in a tiny town on the hudson river. you could see the ash and soot coming in as far away as this building in manhattan, more than a mile away. the flames the smoke.

it was horrific in our city. we're getting back on our feet through the prayers and good graces of people who have been so nice. this is tough. now you have the storm moving in. we have people in community areas. janice, talk to me right now about the bitter temperatures. because this is hard. we're trying to get enough coats for people in our community for instance. >> the temperatures will be cold. we're not talking about wind chills in the single digits but we're going to be talking about temperatures in the 20s and teens in some cases overnight. these are blizzard warnings in effect until 1:00 p.m. for the coastline starting with central new jersey up towards new york and long island where 20 to 30 inches of snow is expected. that's from the national weather service. that's not me making it up. 50 to 60-mile-per-hour gusts. any power outages we'll need help. we need communities and neighbors getting together and helping those in need. i want to show you the

storm, harris. it's a fast-moving clipper system. once it moves off the mid-atlantic. and we think the time line has moved up a little bit and that's why there is a warning right now for the areas i showed you from central jersey all the way up to coastal maine. this will be starting really tomorrow morning, and there is a 12:00 p.m. noontime already seeing that snow for philadelphia all the way up towards new york. there is the 32-degree line. so the freezing line. the last few winter storms we've had have been rain events because it has been so warm. this is an indication that this will be all snow. this won't be an event where we're going to get a changeover rain, sleet, freezing rain. all snow for a duration of 12 to 20 hours. >> wow. >> i mean, this is an unprecedented event that's unfolding. and, again to see the dire warnings from the mayor de blasio we're going to start to certainly see the boston mayor get out there and tell his folks that they need to be prepared and they need to help their neighbors. because for boston, west of the

boston area they could easily get 3 feet of snow as well. i want it tell everybody, we're still monitoring the situation, this news conference that's come together in new york city that we were following. janice, i would imagine we're seeing this up and down the coast as municipalities come out and prepare people who live in their towns. i'm looking at the national weather service warning that was issued for the edgewater area and all up and down northern new jersey. communities are getting this. one of the things they're telling people about, too, this is interesting, about your cars and not being trapped in your cars. we remember on the long island expressway i think just a year or two ago we had a heavy snowfall and people were trapped in their cars and they couldn't get to the cars because the roadways were so thick with snow. we want to remind people if you go out, you better have a way to come back in. if it's falling 12 to 24 hours and you do the math, that's more than an inch an hour. >> in some cases 2 to 4 inches

an hour with thunder snow. this is going to be an intense event. the pressure is dropping incrementally with just a matter of hours. so a very, very strong coastal storm in this sweet spot that's going to bring all of this snow and wind for hours on end. so, again some of these cities probably have never seen an event that could unfold. and agess you mentioned, you do not want to be in your cars. you have a snow drift that's several feet high, and you are going to be buried. you know that our first responders are going to be busy with phone calls. so you need to take accountability for your own actions. >> you're from canada. i have lived in minnesota and many parts of the midwest. what you're talking about, the snow drifts are something people may not have seen. my family lived in colorado for many years. you cannot anticipate what it's like to get hit with six feet of snow that's moving. you can't. it can easily happen in these conditions. i don't want to scare people, janice.

i know people will say it might not happen. bottom line it for us. is there a way, because it hasn't quite come together, what happens -- how are you watching this? 12 hours from now what's the signal to you? >> we're looking at our forecast models. we always talk about that. this is the european model the one that's forecast hurricane sandy, super storm sandy, so well. all through this -- over the past few days this model, this computer model has been indicating a really big event. as you can see, this is the latest forecast modeling. over 18 inches for philadelphia up towards new york. then you get over 2 feet as you get into new england. we look at this forecast. then we look at one of our other forecasts, reliable forecast tools, the gss model. right on the cusp of over a foot of snow. then new england gets pounded. so the national weather service to home in on their local forecast and say 20 to 30 inches with 2 to 4 inches an hour,

that's incredible. that's incredible amounts of snow. there is the forecast again. we're looking at 18 to 24 inches easily of snow for all the big cities. 50 million people affected here. i know that folks at home are probably saying you're always so northeast focused. this is going to affect the whole country, especially if you are traveling this week. >> excellent point. affect the whole country if you're traveling. there is also the ripple effect. when we're in trouble -- we saw this with sandy. people came from a thousand miles away to come to the east coast. if we end up having those severe power outages we'll need the engineers and utility specialists. they always come. we're blessed in that regard. it feathers out and america is affected. 50 million people in the path of this. janice, we'll bring you back in for some more clarification. this news conference, by the way, is still going on. they mean business as they try to get ahead of this. we're also checking with some of the other governments around also in new jersey and connecticut and seeing how they're coming together.

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now the country in shambles. he insisted that u.s. counter terror efforts have not been sidetracked even though it's not clear whether we're getting intelligence from the yemenis right now to direct u.s. drone strikes. listen. >> it is a dangerous country and a dangerous part of the world. we continue to go after high value targets inside of yemen and will continue to maintain the pressure that's required to keep the american people safe. >> reporter: the president also pressed on the crisis in ukraine, which is deepening again. mr. obama noting u.s. sanctions have so far suck eeded i crippling the russian economy but he basically acknowledged it has not changed vad clear putin's behavior at all. saying there will not be any u.s. military intervention, signalling this crisis may go on for some time. tomorrow president obama

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don't underestimate this storm. so that blizzard warning taking a look at the map now, has been put into place starting tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern for new york city and southern connecticut. the snow will get here expectedly, earlier than that. it just will then become what you see there, heavy heavy snow. you don't see any rain there. it's not like a morphing of rain. that's snow. where you see the colors differentiating, it is the heaviest to the heaviest to the heaviest. there is no light snow on that picture. this potentially crippling system is making its way through the midwest and is expected to dump that thick blanket of powder starting tomorrow afternoon. we're talking snow accumulation of 20 to 30 inches, in some places maybe even more than that. for more on now new york is preparing because that's the most densely populated state in the map that you see all up and down the coast. i'm joined by nasa county.

what are you telling people in your area? you've had a lot of experience with this. >> sure. we prepare for the worst and hope for the best. this storm and the warnings that we are receiving are -- should be taken very seriously, and that's why i always tell our residents. when the sun is shining like today, right now, you can go out and get what you need safely to be prepared to stay indoors if in fact this blizzard stays on track. and it looks like it is. >> ed how is what you're hearing different? you know, we hear storms like this come together. you get your salt trucks out, your snow plows and you're ready to go. but this seems like if you don't start moving today we're going to be in trouble. what are you hearing? >> you always plan and communicate the day before. we have the warnings. we're hearing a significant blizzard is coming our way. the personality or character of this particular storm looks to be prolonged, with snow coming down heavier and heavier, as i

just explained, over a prolonged period of time. we're concerned about the evening commute tomorrow as well as the morning commute the following day. so this is a storm where residents must stay in tune. keep listening to you and the weather and to us and the office that are working hard and all those in emergency management to make certain that we keep our roadways as safe as possible and as passable as possible. but it is a time to exercise common sense. if you don't need to be out, do not go out. >> i've got an eye to social media. i'm going to steal a question from my twitter feed. it's a good one. oftentimes you'll see the red cross and others mobilize when a storm like this hits. there will be people who just cannot survive without certain utilities. many of them may be ill or weakened with the flu or whatever the case may be. those people need to be transported to help.

what are you thinking in terms of conversations with community agencies that can help you? do you have the conversations early or do you wait? >> we do. the folks at 911, clearly we now have an office of emergency management that communicates with all those agencies. we've had conference calls today. they will all report to our office of emergency management by noon tomorrow. the office will be open at 7:00 a.m. for all county personnel we have people throughout the night. all the agencies will gather by noon tomorrow so we have direct communication right in the same room and ready to move forward as we monitor this blizzard. we'll open what facilities we believe are necessary. anything from warming centers to emergency housing, which is available here in our county 24 hours a day, seven days a week. but this is something we monitor, and we get those warnings out and that information out. you and the media help us. we live in an environment for you really can stay safe if you

listen to the information provided. >> yeah. that's something we saw with super storm sandy. many people listened. some people didn't. just a last quick thought from you as we go forward. are there any -- you'll have to make me more familiar with the landscape or the geography where you are. are there any areas there that you're particularly concerned about? as you look across the new york landscape where you say this is going to be a problem? >> we are always concerned about the shoreline and high tides living on an island. what it will mean to those particular areas. we give out those warnings as well. and we really are monitoring the storm. it's a little too early to tell exactly if there will be any additional precautions such as evacuations. we don't plan on that with this particular storm but we'll keep a mindful eye on that. this is more of a shelter in place, stay off the roads so we can plow them get them clear, keep our emergency vehicles clear. there are doctors and nurses who

need to get to the hospitals. thr essential functions that need to continue during the storm. we'll be ready to deliver that for our residents. >> ed, this is a large county in the area. we appreciate your time. be safe. now already the maps and models are refreshing. that's important. let's bring in meteorologist janice dean. janice, educate us. how often are you kind of watching this come together? is this an hourly event that they kind of refresh? >> every few hours we get a new computer model that gives us an indication of how much snow we'll get and the timing. i want to put this in perspective. we didn't realize what an epic event this was going to be until this time yesterday, harris. we were watching a little clipper system that was going to dive across the ohio valley. we thought there was a potential for it to become bigger and stronger but it wasn't until this time yesterday that i checked the forecast models. and it was like, boom! we have something on our hands here. so, again, can't stress it

enough. we have a blizzard warning in effect for millions of folks from central jersey all the way up to coastal maine. what does that mean? that means the following conditions must prevail for at least three hours. and in this case harris, we could be talking about a period of six to 12 hours of visibility reduced to a quarter mile or less. that means you can't be on the roads. you cannot be on the roads. you can't be outside. we are going to be dealing with considerable falling or blowing snow. we were talking about the snow drifts. 6 feet high in some cases. sustained winds or frequent gusts to 35 miles per hour. so that's the criteria the national weather service looks at when they deem a blizzard warning needs to be placed. and in this case we're going to be dealing with not only snow upwards of two feet but wind gusts in excess of 65 miles per hour. so blizzard warnings. we have them here that have just been issued within the last really hour or so. and they've upped the timing on this. we were under a blizzard watch

just a couple hours ago. now we're into blizzard warning meaning that your preparations need to be made now. this is coming tomorrow morning and the worst starting tomorrow afternoon, into the overnight on monday and tuesday, and then wednesday we'll start to see this lift. but my -- the one thing i am concerned with harris is there is nothing really steering this storm. it could just kind of sit along the coast for a longer duration of time. i think that's what we're concerned with here. so not only where we have the blizzard warnings, winter storm warnings as well and of course this is going to be an epic event for a lot of folks including new york city where the national weather office here is predicting 20 to 30 inches. we have never had a 30-inch snowfall here in new york city recorded in a two-day event. so that would be historic. 55 to 65 miles per hour. along the coast. cape hatteras, hurricane force winds easily.

this will cause problems. boston earlier today the national weather service was urging their social media followers to retweet the warnings because we just don't have the time that we want to make sure people are prepared for this. of course, we're talking about millions of people, 50 million people here involved. as i mentioned, this is a clipper system. but as it dives off the coast, it's going to grab a lot of cold air, and it's also going to intensify. we call this bombing out. meaning the pressure drops substantially in a matter of hours. we'll have almost like you know, a hurricane event. >> right. >> this is a blizzard though. it's a different meteorological occurrence. if you think of it in terms of a massive storm along the coast this is a pretty epic event. so taking a look at it right now. as that clipper system dies, it's going to get all the moisture from the atlantic. cold air south ward the high pressure we haven't had in the last couple of storms. we've had a mixture of rain or freezing rain to cut down on

snowfall totals. that will not happen here. this will be all snow and a duration of six to 12 hours of all snow. in some cases 2 to 4 inches snowfall amounts in just a matter of hours. so 2 to 4 inches in an hour which you can't see, you can't go outside, you can't travel. >> i want to step in here because you're saying that we need to get the world out also on social media. i'm doing that and asking people to help tweet and retweet. i think that's helpful. you talked about the coastline there. i don't know if you've heard from my interview with the nassau county executive. he was saying they're particularly concerned about the coastal areas. two things happen there. you have the snow buildup. that area is already damaged since super storm sandy. it's weakened anyway. and we won't have immediate melting because it's going to be cold. but when it does melt that complicates matters because that's a lot of water if you have three feet of snow.

>> we're going to be talking about cold temperatures over the next period of days. actually looking at some of the models models. we'll look at incredible cold, some of the coldest air we've seen all season moving in in the next week or so. this is not going anywhere fast. if i could, we're also looking at computer models going ahead in time the next three days looking at another event, harris. sometimes this happens. we have a trough that has dug out across the east coast. that is kind of a pathway for these storm systems. so a lot of times you will see the storm kind of follow the same path and that's what we're dealing with this week. i believe thursday, friday. something similar to this. >> a weather cluster, as we call it. i have heard you say time and time again you know what? you can brace for a blizzard, and if it's a dusting it's okay. if's it's the other way around, not okay. janice, we appreciate it. you explained it so well. we'll come back to you as the news warrants on this in our

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is prepare for something worse than we have seen before. prepare to be safe. take every precaution. now is the time to get ready for this extreme weather. it is so important to focus on safety in these next few days. don't underestimate this storm. >> as we are live this hour with breaking news coverage of the storm coming together, i want to bring back meteorologist janice dean. is he using the kind of words that you think are necessary this time? we don't want to oversell it. people on twitter and facebook are saying, we're looking at the maps. we can see it. it's bad. >> yes. i always say it's better to warn too much. i would rather have people angry at me for preparing in advance and if the storm isn't as bad as predicted, i'll take the heat. i would rather one person be prepared than nobody be

prepared. >> got you. >> when we are talking about snowfall totals like the national weather service in new york city saying 20 to 30 inches of snow from this single event, well, that would bust a record. because the last time we had over 26 inches was february 11th and 12th of 2006. i remember it. i was covering it here in new york city. so this would be a historic storm. all up and down the coast from central jersey up towards maine. boston in some of the forecast modeling we're showing west of the city over three feet of snow, which would be crippling. a crippling snowfall event. there is their top five. again, over 27 inches in a two-day event which happened back in 2003. so, if you take that into account, and the fact that the national weather service is saying in some cases over three feet of snow yes. it warrants the mayor of new york city to say be prepared for something that you perhaps have never seen before. harris. all right. janice we're going to step

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i have my eye on social media. i am seeing "land of the free," and the name on twitter says 4:00 or 5:00 eastern de blasio says be prepared and stay off the road. why are all the schools open tomorrow? # seriously. you have to take accountability and be in charm of your own children. i hate to go outside what the schools should be doing right now and that is canceling schools where we have blizzard warnings and the weather will go downhill tomorrow morning throughout the day and overmy into tuesday and we will have our kids at hoax for several days. if you are a parent, my kids are staying home tomorrow, i am sure director kids are staying home regardless of --. >> mine will be home. >> i am assuming those texts from our schools will come at is point but it is like having a

preparedness kit at home you have to take care of yourselves. we cannot always hand hold. if it is up to me and i have a blizzard warping and i know we could get 20 rich to -- 20" to 30" of snow my kids are home. >> we have been going between what do you do next and we have a blizzard wanting in our time. >> quickly nancy want to know, memorial see this across the country and think why are we so focused on new york and the east coast. who is in the path of the storm, it is in the midwest right now the. >> it is. they will get several inches but it until the storm is off the coast and all of the areas and you mentioned this earlier, at the love same areas were hit hard by super storm sandy a couple of years ago so they are vulnerable. the coastline is vulnerable for a storm like this of epic proportions 20-30" of snow, 2-4"

an hour. there are warnings around philadelphia and albany and concord. this is where the storm will come together with gusts in excess of hurricane-force winds and snow drifts in the feet. can you not be on the roads. you cannot be outside starting tomorrow morning until the storm is again on wednesday. >> we got it. thank you. i know we will bring you back at 7:00 p.m. eastern. hot topics with the policemen insiders as well. thank you for were welcoming. howard? new ensure active heart health supports your heart and body so you stay active and strong. ensure, take life in.

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