plymouth massachusetts, you can see the winds are just blowing, snow is blowing through the air, mike siedels there probably getting warm somewhere. the winds according to him are at over 50 miles an hour. that's pretty strong as you can see the gusts and the snow pretty much dusting the entire area. to give you an idea in what it means to be a blizzard and what the criteria is, you have to have winds over 35 miles. this pretty much does it. and visibility under quarter mile an hour. the winds are definitely blowing hard and near white out condition. high tide is supposed to be happening around 4:00 a.m. in plij plymouth, massachusetts, that will be a major issue because we could see danger to the citizens living in that area although warnings have been up all day and through the night. it is already turning the roads into a very tresherrous situation. take a look at this. jackknifed trailer happened on i-45. people were trying to beat this blizzard and get home. really trying to heed the warnings to get home. the streets are pretty quiet in new york city. that's where we find nbc's craig me

the weather channel's mike siedel apparently drew the short straw. he is in minneapolis, where at one point this morning, you correct me if i'm wrong, it felt like it was 25 zero? >> i can do better than that right now for you, craig. it's 11 below and the windchill is 29 below zero. better than being an international falls, craig, where the temperature developed to 28 below and the windchill was 50 below zero. the thermometer shows that here at nicolette mall. it's saving us from the really well the nasty windchills. the streets, well, we have at lot of folks going to target corporate headquarters. they're moving fast. they're layered up bundled up. you are dressed for the weather, huh? do you get used to this? >> no. you never get used to this. let me show you what is going on with the jet stream. the big dip much like last winter the thing this time around is it's going to get cold for a few days but then it's going to moderate by the weekend for most of us. another cold shot next week. it's not going to be consistent. the cold et. cetera weather