0 powdery, more susceptible to drifting. when you talk about a foot and a half of snow, we're talking about huge drifts. the wind gusts, 76 miles an hour in the past hour at logan. that's the highest gusts we've seen so far this evening. you can see how it knocks you off your feet. just to give you a sense of what happens when you have the powdery snow and you throw it up in the air, boy, you can see why it's drifting. it gets ripped like a frenzy downwind. the winds are just a little north, rather a little east of north. they were east all day. they're starting to back around. by tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, they'll go west as the storm goes on by. revere beach, drifts here from mid-to-late morning. hampton, connecticut has logged in 19 1/2 inches of snow. there was a serious band that migrated across connecticut. north carolina, south carolina, here to help. people have been heeding the warnings, they've been off the roads and staying hunkered down at home. again, the worst of it is now starting to roll in here in connecticut. craig, back to you. >> ron in hartford, thanks to you, sir. here's the thing, bill karins, i want to bring in our nbc meteorologist here. as you mentioned and we saw ron in connecticut. we heard from mike seidel in massachusetts. it's really bad there. it sounds like at least in new york city here, it may not be as bad as we thought it might get. >> yes. one little spot that didn't do so bad. we didn't think it would be historic in new york city, not like what we're seeing in hartford. we krnt goiweren't going to get points in connecticut like we were in rhode island and massachusetts. the wine gud gusts, the worst o, we saw the gust to 76 in boston, which is super impressive. i'm sure that did some damage all by itself. with the weight of the snow on the trees, i'm sure there's a lot of downed trees. i'm sure the power outages are doubling. here's a look at the storm. this looks almost like a huge hurricane. this is a big winter blizzard, call it a nor'easter if you want. we haven't had one location with three hours of visibility less than a quarter mile and winds above 35 miles per hour. that's the criteria. you need to meet both of those for three hours to be considered a blizzard. we've been close in areas like providence and boston but not quite yet. this isn't our winter radar, it doesn't show you rain versus snow but it gives you the idea of where the heaviest is. the banned is sneaking up through new hampshire and about to go into coastal maine. we've seen enhanced snow around new york city. we only had 2 or 3 inches in central park. you're probably going to pick up another 2 or 3 inches as we go throughout now to about 2:00 a.m. even new jersey that wasn't getting snow. central jersey, is now getting a little bit of snow. it's snowing back to syracuse, albany, new york and up into england. it's widespread. the historical part of this is in eastern mass. we mention the temperatures. it's very cold. the colder it is, the easier it is for the snow to pile it up. the snow ratios we call it are much higher the colder it is. that 20 degrees in boston will pile up in a hurry overnight. come the overnight hours, that's where the heaviest snow will be focused from providence to boston up along the coast. new york city, somewhere around 6 to 8 possibly, hartford, connecticut, very impressive foot and a half to two feet. portland down to boston, someone in there, craig, is still going to end up with 30 inches of snow. >> wow. >> it's going to be a close call to see if anyone does hit 30. that's the magic number. you don't see that, maybe in the mountains of colorado. that's usually about it. >> i want to show our viewers at home, we found this nasa picture. this is a look from space. >> pretty cool. >> at when this storm looked like. i believe, you krocorrect me ifm wrong, i believe i heard jim cantore say there's a storm behind this one, is that right. >> there is a storm. there will be a blizzard saturday night and sunday throughout the central plains. it's not on this image, actually. the image you're looking at here, florida is on the bottom. the actual parent storm is over the carolinas. when this image was taken early this morning, the other piece of the storm was over michigan. that's what produced the snow last night there. pretty cool image. i'm sure when this storm is all said and done we'll be able to see the swath of snow up through new england, too, the fresh blanket we call it. >> new york city mayor michael bloomberg talked about the big apple's preparation, since so many areas are still dealing with devastation from hurricane sandy. >> new york city hasn't gotten it quite as bad as before but parts of long island, a few spots have picked up 12 to 18 inches of snow, especially on the north shore of long island got nailed. the further east you go out on the island, some areas will get two feet of snow. that's a big deal for them. that's a question i've been getting a lot, craig, how unusual is a storm like this? i'd say for boston to providence, this is a once in 20, maybe once in 30-year storm. for hartford, new york city, long island, maybe a once every five-year storm. >> again, as mike mentioned earlier tonight, the story is the snow, the story is the wind. the day after that, the dig out, the cleanup, the power outages. >> you have to go somewhere. >> bill karins on watch for us. we'll check in with you later. thanks, sir. do appreciate you as always. ed schultz, back after the break with the latest on the man hunt for a fired cop who released a political manifesto. ed has that and a whole lot more, right after this. >> our guys are making great progress at this point but the search continues. >> it's not rambo. it's real. the man hunt continues in california. up next, new developments from big bear mountain and from los angeles. where the lapd headquarters remains on lockdown. then karl rove loses his cool over ashley judd on 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