accuweather meteorologist mark mancuso joins us now live with the latest. mark, good morning. >> hey, good morning to you and take a look at the satellite picture here. look at the vortex of trouble just sitting there over the northeast sitting and spinning and what a shield of snow. and right around new york city, we've seen these snow bands come in from the east, but they are kind of falling apart here as they get closer to the area, so the real intense snow now located just to the east. and as you head out to the island into southern new england, that's where we're seeing snowfall rates 2 to 3 inches an hour. and this is where we'll have the extreme blizzard conditions. wraparound snow is all the way down to the nation's capital. so problems there but they pale in comparison to what's happening here up towards the boston area. so this is where we expect to see the blizzard today from extreme southeastern new york out across the island, southern and eastern new england will be hit the hardest. the snow and the wind and we're still going for 2 to 3 feet of

. >> mark mancuso with accuweather. some photos, great effort by our team.eater than brendan greeley. plowing the snow. the main entrance to bloomberg on lexington avenue. >> as the best job at bloomberg. if i cannot be a zamboni driver i will do that. >> shoveling snow on lexington avenue this morning. olivia you've got to believe the busiest store in new york will be the apple store. >> isn't it 24 hours? >> that is the cube there. >> this is looking east from my suite in the plaza hotel. cartier off to the left. >> if that is true, your sweetuite is in the bar. >> here, a woman shopping for louis vuitton today. i believe i've seen that happy -- hat before. olivia sterns at louis vuitton this morning. >> supply and demand. i thought i would be able to get a discount. >> retail shuts down for a couple days and that will affect retail sales. >> you see consumption. >> another photo here. >> it is interesting to see her priorities. i was alone in a hotel room and i thought i was going to sleep, it is going to be amazing. >> a great photo. some serious wind. c