thank you for joining us. right now, more than two dozen states and 65 million people are on alert as a powerful winter storm hits coast to coast. conditions are slamming flagstaff, arizona, and this man was barely able to stand as the wind gusts whipped the binding snow around him. in 29 states they are in the path for this storm. the snow warnings stretching to southern california. flakes even possible on los angeles beaches. and in utah, miles and miles of dicey driving. you can see cars stranded as crews worked to clear the roads. in minnesota the national weather service is warning of historic snow possibly the most in decades. meteorologist jennifer gray is standing by for us. but first, cnn s adrian brodas is in minnesota. what s happening where you are there? i see some really ice eye streets behind you. reporter: there s a break right now when it comes to snowfall. the plows have been moving along this stretch of highway behind us. but we saw the first phase of thi
problems when you talk about ice. especially once we get into half an inch of ice, we will see impossible travel. we could poebl see pour autoages and trees coming down as well. here s the snowfall total. additional snow to comp. could see an additional 8 to 12 inches across minneapolis. so this is far from over. stay off the roads. that will do everyone good. thank you to you. president biden is now on his way home after he rap raleighlied support for ukraine nearly a year to the day after russia s invasion. biden began his overseas trip with a surprise visit to kyiv. and ended it by meeting with the leaders of the eastern flank. these are the countryies on russia s doorstep and they fear they could be next.
power outages. and across california, definitely seeing huge impacts from this. so you can see the snow is in progress. it s going to pick up as we go throughout the afternoon hours into the joemp night. you can see the pink. that s icing. this is a live radar. and then snow falling. so here is the preliminary totals. . we have already seen 32 inches of snow across montana. 27 across portions of wyoming. more snow is to come, as mentioned. so here s the radar in progress. very heavy snow throughout the late evening hours. this is all the way there 5:00 a.m. tomorrow. minneapolis is going to be in the mix. and then we start to see the snow push into portions of northern nebrw england. this really will be wrapping up by the time we get into the first half of tomorrow. by lunchtime, we ll see a significant improvement in the forecast. but this is a forecast ice accumulation and can t be ignored because we see major
worse. that s what is causing those blizzard warnings in some part of the state. so we re going to have strong wind gusts up to 30 to 45 miles per hour along with the snow that s falling. the big message to folks in and around minnesota is to stay home. it you don t have to be out on the streets starks put. some schools have been cancelled. some students are having e-learning. something also to point out is somewhat local. but for the twin cities, the governor of minneapolis the mayor of minneapolis as well as the mayor of st. paul opened up parking spaces for those residents. i m told it s about 19 d degrees, but it s the windchill that gets into your bones. i m going to let you go. and let s get straight over to jennifer gray now, who is about who is in the weather
center. who is about to get the worst of this storm and when? she s definitely in the bullseye for this. pretty much right where the word blizzard is where we re going to see the toughest conditions. so from south dakota over to portions of minnesota. also this icing is going to be a huge concern moving forward. because that can make roads definitely impossible to drive on. but look at this map. we have warnings of all types. we have blizzard warnings, winter storm warnings, high wind warnings, we could see winds gusting 60 to 70 miles per hour. so this storm is stretching from coast to coast. i think the highest impacts are dwoing to be across south dakota through minneapolis. we ll see heavy snowfall and high winds. that s why those blizzard warnings are in effect. you ll see grblinding condition across those areas. significant ice accumulation, hazardous travel and possible