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new york which have about 5 to 8 inches on the ground. buffalo new york, cleveland, eerie all getting about 6010 inches of snow. a lot of schools canceled in these areas. here s the nor easter. it s now located just south of long island off the jersey shore and it will sit here and drift during the day today and insurance tense phi. blue is the snow from cleveland to buffalo to sear rescues and albany new york. albany you went to bed thinking about 1 to 3 inches your forecast is now 10 to 12. this was one of the worst fraftsds that s changed overnight. as far as the winds go, d.c. 56 miles per hour. doe minute nin energy now reporting 120,000 people already without power in virginia and eastern north carolina. winds picking up in boston at 51. we have 76 million people under high-wind warnings or high-wind advisories. by the time today s over we ll likely have a number close to a million, maybe over a million with people without power. the worst of the wind forecast is areas of soirn n
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flooding from the strongest hurricane to slam the u.s. in over 10 years. ainsley: we have live team coverage. janice dean is live in the weather center. we are going to begin with rob schmitt. is he live on the ground out there in galveston, texas where the monster storm is moving closer and closer to you, rob. hey, guys. good morning. we are getting quite a show right now. the first outer band has just hit in the form of a pretty violent thunderstorm that just rolled through about five minutes ago we were getting slammed sideways, rain, lightning all around us. it was pretty scary there for a minute. it has subsided in the last 90 seconds or. so first outer band has come through and we are seeing this storm to come to fruition and what we have been waiting for. move farther south which we will do later on today we will see continue tense phi. still calling for this storm to come into shore and make landfall, the eye of it anyway 100 miles south of here. where we are in galveston