actually, this is george washington parkway we're looking at right now. an intense winter storm is dumping heavy wet snow from new york north. >> it's going to be a mess. thousands of flights have already been canceled, adding to the travel mess around the country. john berman has been out and about on the snowy streets of new york this morning and is joining us live now by phone. good morning to you, john. what's it like out there? oh, we don't have him. >> you know, when you look at scenes like this, it's really not surprising that you're going to have technical difficulties because this snow just keeps coming down. in fact, we've been watching this wall throughout the course of this morning, and it's almost hilarious to see these drivers like slip and slide. it's really hard to get your footing on this ice. you can see one taxi there. that's all we have right now. but as we've been talking about, parts of the northeast could see up to two feet of snow by the time this monster storm is over. >> and of course the south still digging out from the mess they had the last two days. for the latest on the forecast now let's check things out with accuweather meteorologist ava dinges. good morning, ava. >> good morning, rob and vinita. and i am also in a warm studio, but i can look at the storm on