is all being kicked off by the same low pressure system that's going to bring the snow into the midtlantic, now the snow event has not started yet, but we will be tracking this system as it creeps up to the mid atlantic, and eventually that hjts that cold air, and the snow will fly. so by this time tomorrow night, the radar is going to look very interesting, around the carolinas and certainly around washington, d.c. let's talk about our end of the system, because the trailing end f it brings us the potential for rain, but notice the storm predictions center, showing that we are in the green and that means a marginal risk for any not huge, but we will be here tracking any showers across the area. we show you this forecastodel, notice it is painting an east southeast wind. the potential for a few showers to move across, and then as the cold front approaches it is showing more rain, potentially gathering and rolling across portions of the keys miami dade and broward, around 3:00 tomorrow, maybe a tiny little band of showers as well. we will track it as whatever is left of it comes across miam

reporter: but according to the forecast, the place where you really don't want to be is inin the midtlantic. the nation's capital is bracing for asuch two feet of f snow by saturday. new york, philly, boston, all watching the track. the city's mayor is handing out these, an army of free snow shovels. in the south, the big concern still is black ice. georgia has put nearly 300 road workers on c call. david? >> steve osunsami, leading us off. let's get right to rob marciano. this is over the rockies? rockies, and overnight it will dig down into the gulf coast, where i think we'll see a severe weather day. and then the cold air, icing western parts of north carolina, then tennessee and snow starting in d.c. on friday, and then winds will crank up. and widpread winter watches across this entire swath. and here's the forecast,, loo at the cutoff north of long island. new york will get 6 to 12 inches, d.c., 18 to 24 inch. potentially two feet or more in the mountainsainsmountains. at one point, down 550 points, closing down near 250 points. rebecca jarvis on how much americans' 401 "k"s have lost

. >> betty: oh, yeah, they are getting ready for big-time snow in the midtlantic. washington, dc, it's a matter of tite before the moisture meets up with that cold. meantime back heree at home nice temperatures out there for you today. 61 is where we were started in fort lauderdale. the high was 74 degrees. a little shuck, a little wobble in our camera. that's because our winds are up kicking a little bit from the southeast abobo 10 to 12 miles an hour between miami and fort lauderdale. we're going to depend on that east-southeast wind to keep our temperatures up tonight so that we're not too chilly but if you are heading out, upper 60, i know some of you are reaching for a sweater right now. mostly cloudy skies, too, should help hold some of our warmth in today as well at least for the you canan see a steadily increasisi those clouds on the cloud and radar imagery, so clouds mid to high level still flowing in. and then of course you can't help but notice ts low pressure system producing the rain and storms across the lower mississippiiver valley. this is the syste