and safe. kaylee hartung live for us in opelika, thanks. at this hour more than 80 million people are under winter weather alerts from colorado to maine. an avalanche sunday on copper mountain in colorado. beautiful and scary. some vehicles had to be dug out, but no reports of injuries. the avalanche closed part of interstate 70. the system dumped plenty of snow on the central plains and bringing rain, snow or wintry mix to the northeast this morning. schools in new york city and boston closed today. pedram javaheri is joining us live from the cnn weather center. we called for 8 inches here in new york city and i trudged sflu slush. did it miss? a couple inches for you guys, just north of town into say around boston upwards of a foot. so really the cutoff line as the temps just right there north of town to be able to support significant snow. still snowing heavily across