she is vaccinated herself. just something important to note. mara and leigh, wonderful to have this discussion. thanks for being with us this morning. thank you for having us. and new day continues right now. good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, january 28th. that month flew by. i m brianna keilar with john berman. the east coast of the u.s. is bracing for a winter weather bomb. a bomb cyclone it s called. 75 million people in the eastern u.s. are under winter weather alerts from kentucky to north carolina, to maine. 4 million people are under blizzard warnings. we re talking about the potential for huge snowfall. multiple feet of snow. two feet or higher in plates including boston. winds of 60 miles per hour. and the cities that might get off easier like new york city, could see a foot of snow.
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If you’re someone who drives a car, it’s quite likely snow is your biggest enemy this time of the year. But you gotta admit, building a snowman can be exciting.
manhattan. thanks so much, susan candiotti. so this rare halloween weekend snow in the northeast is impacting more than just new yorkers. we have storm team coverage with meteorologist jacqui jeras in the cnn weather center and we got chad myers in the field in his own with severe weather center in york, pennsylvania. let s begin with you chad. amazing accumulation since the last time you and i spoke an hour ago. reporter: i know. no question. we pick up at least two inches in one hour without a question. we travel a lot for cnn but i usually travel for hurricanes. this is the first time because i vacation in warm spots, this is the first time i ever had a snow brush in my rental car. it was include in the price of the rent alcar because they knew we were going to need it. take a look at the ground. cars literally just drove on this. not 30 seconds ago. it s turning white again. the tracks as this car goes by the tracks are black right where the tire took away some of tha
coast quickly. here is what we are thinking about for snowfall totals. here in the city we are in the 12 to 14-inch range because we get the snowman snow. farther to the west, morristown and allentown and bethlehem and lancaster, you will see the 20 to 24-inch snowfall because it is light and fluffy. that colder air makes it fluffy. into new england, vermont and new hampshire, big numbers of snow. the cape may not get any snow at all because it will be a rain/snow mix the entire time. it will be a sloppy mess. that is how we time this out right now. it isn t going to be the blizzard of 1888 which is 56 inches of snow in 35-foot drifts. a late season snowfall. that was the first blizzard of chad s career. reporter: it was.