wartime syria is out today. switching gears, let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. how is the nor'easter looking? >> blizzard warnings have been expanded. it's another miserable morning compute. schools canceled all over the place in new england. we have 3.5 million people under blizzard warnings. winter storm washings include roughly about 13 million people. once you include the white with the winter weather advisories, it jumped up to 45 million or so. usually middle of march you get a lot of mixed type storms. that's what we have right now. the green is the rain. we have that early but now the column of air has cooled off and now we're all snow from boston out to the cape. but the issue is that some areas have temperatures in the boundary layer towards the ground that are marginal or above freezing. in some areas, you'ring going to get wet pavement with snow