ready taking a hit there sometime before midnight in that area. it looks pretty treacherous. let's get another look from nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill? >> well, we did taken a in-depth look at the snowfall amounts. these storms can bring coastal flooding, but this is moving so quickly that it has not built up at the coast. we have high tide that we are minorly concerned about. but the blue is the snow spreading rapidly to the north. it is as advertised outside of the big cities. north and west of philly, north and west of i-95, the new york city area and southern new england, it is snowing as hard as you would expect it to be in a nor'easter, two to three inches an hour. we are starting to get the snowfall rates. and it is the interior sections of the new england coast, we have lowered totals from boston to providence, new york and d.c. have come down. not a historic i-95 storm, but a