we have the latest from meteorologist mike bettis. he's watching it all from greenville, mississippi. mike, good evening. >> good evening, lester. a footprint that spans much of the country. this storm is dishing out everything from flooding rain to ice to snow to tornadoes. all to a nation that would much rather focus on the upcoming holiday, a task that has proven to be very difficult today. the first day of winter arrived with a little bit of everything. the massive patch work storm slammed the northern plains and midwest with ice and heavy snow. in oklahoma, black ice on the roads made for treacherous driving. in washington, one reported death on i-90 after a ten-vehicle pile up crushed an suv between two semis. >> i'm at that site which happened along i-90 west as washington state patrol put it, it is one tangled mess. >> reporter: delaying traffic for hours. in arkansas and southern oklahoma, power lines knocked out leaving more than 140,000 customers in the dark. with 68 million people in the path of this storm, holiday travel h

here is the weather channel's mike bettis. >> reporter: we're not over with our winter storm just yet. we're following the snow through new england and maine. i-95, portland through augusta towards bangor. couple more inches of accumulation. in boston we have a mix going on right now. you go south or out toward the cape it's cold raitt rain. then a mix and snow when you get outside of boston off to the north side. for new york if we get anything else today, it's likely to be plain old rain. similar for us in philadelphia after record-setting snow that we saw during sunday. 8.6 inches. more in one day than we saw all of last winter. how about d.c. and baltimore, tomorrow evening's rush, could be a real mess. through jersey, new york, long island and right into boston, tomorrow watching for the next round of snow to roll back in. lining up from kentucky and west virginia including charleston, one to three inches, areas more than that including three to five around d.c. and baltimore, edging towards philadelphia, yet again. new york likely to be on the lower end of that, maybe one to thr

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