kayna, thank you. of course, we welcome bob chapek to the new role tonight and of course, we thank bob iger, who many of us here are lucky enough to call a friend. he would often visit the newsroom, unannounced, asking, what s the lead? and we hope for many visits to come from both. we turn to the other news tonight, though, and the major winter storm gaining strength and turning deadly. 16 states on alert from wyoming to maine. the storm already battering parts of colorado with blinding snow. treacherous driving in kansas, an accident taking one life. some of the highest snow totals in the midwest are expected for the winter. and then the system moves into the east. let s get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee with the track again tonight for us. hey, ginger. reporter: hey, david. we ve got this kind of cold rain out ahead of this system, but there s two areas i d like you to point to. back there in kansas, where they ve seen 13 inches just east of sylvan grove. kind of in ce