roger altmann, great perspective. thank you for joining us this morning. >> my pleasure.nks for having me. >> that is really fascinating. he is right. it was breathtaking what authorities did. >>> to the wicked weather out east. more than 20 million americans are under winter weather alerts in new england and new york. they are bracing for the first nor'easter of the season. a ground stop at laguardia. heavy rain, snow, up to 45 mile an hour winds, 147,000 people are without power in the northeast. eric vandam? worst,er mass. it looks bad. they are expecting a lot more. >> reporter: poppy, it was a cold, miserable rain an hour ago. what a difference an hour makes. what you are seeing behind me is actually is a salt barn in worcester, massachusetts, and this is where they house the salt and brine that treats the roa roadways in this area and literally within the past hour we have gone from a very cold rain to very heavy wet snowfall. you can see, i could squeeze out droplets of water from this as these dump trucks continue to line the plows with the available salt. now, th