emergency. even the president talking snow while in europe. i am leaving for the final vote. i m meteorologist chris warren in roanoke, virginia. passengers try to change their tickets. shoppers try to beat the storm. chief meteorologist bob ryan with the latest forecast. good evening, i m doreen gentzler. jim vance is off tonight. let s go straight to bob ryan. not only big, but historic. it is snowing in washington. it will be a light snow. a powdery snow which will accumulate one to two inches per hour. all the the way now into new england. a blizzard warning for long island. it s been record amounts of rain down into the carolinas. i think now we are very, very likely, almost certain to see six inches of more. now there is an 80% chance of seeing 12 inches or more of snow. this is the metropolitan washington area. now we have a 60% chance of seeing 1.5 feet of snow in washington. by noon time we are closing in on a ft and well over a foot in some areas like