Live from clevelands news center, cleveland 19 news starts now. Denise a massive blizzard is blasting the east coast tonight. More than 85 Million People are in the path of that storm. In washington, d. C. And baltimore they are expecting feet not inches of snow. I can see just how big this winter storm is stretching all the way from maine to georgia. How will this storm affect us . Jeff tanchek has the story minutes away. First, the Cleveland Cavaliers made a shocking move. David blatt is out as head coach. Dan we learned of the and we have been on top of it all afternoon. Mark schwab is trying to change . Mark they made the change from blatt to lou because even though they are the best team in the east and are expected to roll to the nba finals they didnt think they were good enough to win it all. Thats what it came down to. The gm said it is not about the loss to the war warriors. It is deeper than that. He feels the cavaliers are disconnected and are acting more like a group of talented players than a team. Tyron lou takes over. There is no secret what the goal is. Win the nba championship. He felt they hamed handled had a verse tee well and not prase parity. I talk to many player. It is a magnitude that will change the locker room. This is one i didnt need to ask questions. Long period of time and under a lot of sishes. Circumstances. I know what something not right looks like. Mark that statement says a lot. Many people say this move was made because lebron didnt like blatt so got him fired. You will hear what the gm has to say about that later in dan . Dan thanks, mark. Reports say the players and blatt were not on the same page that was affecting the locker room. The question many are asking is this the right move at the right time . Tony is here with his opinion on that. Tony i like david blatt a lot. I thought with this roster and the pressure coming with it he is in a thankless situation. But i am not shocked. The cavaliers are not close to where they need to be at this point. Yeah they won 30 of the first 41, but were humiliated by the team they need to beat, the golden state warriors. And more than that, there was growing disharmony between blatt and the players. Blatt was not happy with love over his head. A definite goal and a time frame to win the title those problems could not continue. I have never seen a locker room not be as connected after wins as they need to be. We have only been galvanized when the expectations are not high and circumstances were somewhat artificial. Otherwise we have been a group of tremendous individual talents with individual hopes and dreams. Tony so in the end the question was not why. It was why now . Doing it now gives tyron lou and the cavaliers a few months, more than enough time to find the rhythm and the rotations that certainly everybody expects. Denise many weighed in on social media with your opinion on the cavs coaching change minutes after it happened. Sara goldenburg is live downtown with a look at how news. Sara . Reporter yeah well friday night downtown this big move by the cavs is dominating conversation out here. Fans are shocked that coach blatt was fired and we heard a bunch of mixed reaction. We spoke with cavs fans at the winking lizard. They say they have a lot of questions about the timing of this move. They are happy with the direction of the team and in fact some fans when it comes to the decision they said they are pretty upset. They fired him midway through the season. It makes no sense. A bunch of changes are going to happen and it is going to hurt our chances for the playoffs because it is changes. You dont make changes when you are winning. I wouldnt have made that decision, but they know more than i do about basketball, i guess. I am upset to see them go. Year. We will be watching the games closely to see how everything goes. Sara goldenburg, cleveland 19. Denise all right, and this is your chance to weigh in on the cavs decision to fire david blatt. Leave your comments on our Facebook Page or tweet us. And on cleveland 19. Com. We have a poll where you can vote on whether you think this was the right move. Dan now the huge, massive blizzard on the east coast dumbing more than two feet in some spots. Hundreds of thousands are already without power. Roads are closed. Flights are canceled everywhere from boston to atlanta. We are talking historic storm here. Especially in the dc area. You said earlier what was their previous . 20. 1 was the all time greatest snowfall. I think they will exceed that by quite a bit. Dan 10 inches possibly. Jeff possibly. Everything is setting up fantastically for this thing to become this historic storm. It is snowing now in new york. They will be getting over a foot. Philadelphia, new jersey, again baltimore, washington. The thing about this system is it will be a longtime before this thing gets out. Through the day tomorrow they will be dealing with this. You can see the northern fringe of this. Look at that. It was an indirect effect. We are getting wind, northeast wind and some reverse lake affect. Here is 1 00 in the morning. 7 00 a. M. , this is all conditions from new york city through baltimore and washington. Look at that. Snowing in new york. And finally by sunday morning well get this thing out of here and conditions will be look at the future view snowfall. Washington, over two feet. Philadelphia 16 to 20 inches. New york city, 21 inches of snow. On top of that, very, very strong wind as well. Especially along the coast. Come back out to me here. We actually have right now with us from new jersey this is sara goldenburgs sister rachel. How are you doing . You are in ocean view, nernl new jersey which is near ocean city, right . Yes, we are five minutes out from ocean city. Jeff you are standing outside and you have snow coming down it looks like. You guys are along the coast here and this is new jersey. From virginia where everything is shutdown and i know you are maybe a little more used to it. But along the coast you dont see that much snow, do you . No, usually we get alt less turns to rain a lot of times. So it has been snowing since about 4 30, but i hear they say it will turn to rain in the morning. Well see. Jeff it is. It looks like you will have the mick of ice and rain, but strong winds along the coast. 60 mile an hour gusts and it could knockout a lot of power in your area. Is everything pretty much shutdown there where you are . The southern part of new jersey . For the most part. The roads are not so great and people are driving really slow. I know people are trying to just stay off the roads for the most part it seems. Jeff rachel, thanks a lot. Your sister is doing a heck of a job. Stay safe out there. The worst is yet to come for the coast of new jersey. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Jeff the latest on our forecast here as well. We are dodging the bullet. Improving throughout the week. Denise speaking of bad roads, this is a live picture from philadelphia, but there is a state of emergency declared in six different states. Washington, d. C. Officials are warning people to get wherever they need to be tonight and stay there. This satellite image shows howie nor muss how enormous this historic blizzard is. It is expected to sit over dc for the next 36 hours. More than 3500 flights have been canceled across the country for tomorrow. People are being urged to stay off the roads as well. Get off the streets. Be safe. Here. This is a dangerous storm, and it is coming fast. Denise it could take 48 hours for the roads to be cleared. Dan this is one of the reasons i love the big board and the power of social we are able to get pictures from the middle of the storm from facebook and insta grabbing and and instagram and twitter. Great pictures are coming out. This is one showing that at 10 15 the results are inconclusive ranging from four to six inches. People are dealing with it there. Love this picture. This is from michelle and she says it is looking blustery out there. Dupont circle. This is from washington, d. C. , and they are in the beginnings of it. Benjamin here says this is how we blizzard 2016 in tennessee. Tennessee with more snow on the ground than we have here in northeast ohio. The last picture i wanted to look at, i have never seen a Grocery Store like this, but lauren says were eating good tonight. All left on the shelves. Spicy funyons and one jar of french onion dip. I wouldnt go there. Thats what they are dealing we can be thankful nothing like that in northeast ohio. If you are headed east this week end, you can stay on top of that storm with the first alert weather app. I know you are downloading it here, but you can customize it to get conditions no matter where you are. Denise mahoney county tested positive for lead and copper. This was done as a precaution and they say the positive test results were a testing mistake. Just to be on the safe side people who live there are being urged to run your water for 30 seconds to two minutes before using it. Denise tonight we are learning more about the flint water crisis. The top official for the epa in the midwest admitted her department knew about the reask of the risk of lead poisoning in april, but never alerted the public. Brought in a truckload of bottled water to the people of flint. If you are worried about your Drinking Water we have a guide on our app and on cleveland 19teen. Com to help you out. Dan Rapid Service is up and running on the eastside. Three hours after a bomb scare at the buckeye wood hills stop. Police got a phone call for a suspicious package left on a train. A bombsniffing k9 unit had a positive hit. The bomb squad was called in after an hour and a half. They determined it was a false alarm and they gave the all clear. Denise big discounts have people lining up outside a store. Where you can go to save a ton of money. Dan and a listeria outbreak leaves several dead and others hospitalized. Details of what could be in your refrigerator that you will want to throw away. Denise and millions more seniors will be hitting the roads in the next few years what you can expect to see, still to come. Breaking news and weather 24 7. Download the cleveland 19 news app. Sponsored by. Live from clevelands news center, driven by Don Joseph Toyota in kent, this is denise i want to take you live to philadelphia. The snow is still coming down. They are getting the brunt of the blizzard right now. It is awful out there, folks. State of emergency in six different states in virginia alone. Cnn is reporting 841 traffic accidents. Jeff tanchek is tracking the latest on this and our own weather. He will be back in a few minutes to update us. Dan walmart is closing 159 stores and one is in northeast ohio. We found dozens of people waiting in lines because nearly everything left in the store is 50 off. The details now from bedford. New at 11 00. Reporter the parking lot of the Bedford Walmart was crammed with cars tonight as people came from every direction to shop for 50 off. You had to wait because the fire marshall would only let so many people in a the a time. Reporter shoppers posted videos showing empty shelves and crowded registers. This is elizabeth alleys second day shopping here. I saved about 300 of the oh yeah. I shopped for everyone. Ends from, grandchildren. Reporter the bedford location slashed prices to get rid of the inventory before it closes next friday. I am sad for the people who worked there. Reporter he rushed here to buy tires for his truck. The original price was 159 and i got them for 75 each. Reporter the sale was right on time who bought toys for the daycare. As word of the sale spread the business was unbearable for workers. Right now the walmart is so packed they are closing down and turning people away because the employees tell me it will take about three hours at each register for them to get through the lines. On saturday. If you are wondering what is left in bedford, cleveland 19. All right, to some serious news now to tell you about. One person has died and 11 others go the sick after a listeria outbreak linked to the doll salad packages. They were produced near dayton. The salad is sold under several different brand names including doll fresh selections, simple truth and president s choice. The information posted at cleveland 19. Com. Dan this is interesting. According to a new study you should be eating more garlic. Researchers found aged garlic extract reduce the build up of plaque in your arteries by as much as 80 . That helps prevent the progression of Heart Disease which is the leading cause of denise right now there is an estimated 38 million senior drivers on our roadways. And that number is expected to jump to 55 million by 2020. The department of transportation is already anticipating the influx of older drivers. There are plans to start installing signs with the larger letters easier for them to read. And warnings of an upcoming intersection giving seniors more time to react. The First Priority is safety on the road. Denise the aarp say students can get a refresher on the road and they also offer an online seminar for those who believe a Senior Family member is no longer able to drive. Jeff we will start things off with the roof camera. There. We will take the roof camera there. And we have some light snow west of cleveland actually. I will show you that little bit of moisture off the lake. Now lets go to this. The winds are feeling the affects of this with the wind. We got a 16 mile an hour wind in cleveland. Notice the direction northeast. We are gusting up to 30 miles an hour there at times. You know you can see the camera shaking around. Low to mid20s. The temperature should be holding steady. We could go up another degree or two. But look at the windchills. It feels like 7 degrees in warren. Temperature wise it is not too cold. But the wind is making it feel colder. Here is our blizzard. It is a Long Duration event. Thats the thing about this. Especially for washington, philadelphia, new york through the day tomorrow. They are going to be in that. We have some pockets of light up in Carroll County and there you can see the light snow in Lorain County and into norwalk. You can see on future view that there is a light snow and flurry through tomorrow morning. Speaking of tomorrow morning i am going to roll our future view and start at 7 00 a. M. Heavy snow in new york. Notice it is not snowing in boston. Washington, baltimore, blizzard conditions here tomorrow morning. By tomorrow night the snow will wind down in washington. Still coming down in new york. Snow. Very strong wind and then by sunday morning it is finally out. 27 by 7 00 in the morning in cleveland. Some flurries around and cloudy and windy. 31 the high tomorrow with morning flurries. Still has a north wind at 14 to 28. So a windy day and mostly cloudy. North wind 13 to 26. 7 00 a. M. Flurries. Wind 27 and lunch, 27. 5 00 and mostly cloudy sky. The next alert day will be on tuesday. Thats for the rain, snow and windy conditions around here. The weekend recap, 31 tomorrow and 22 for your saturday night. The wind dies down and how about a 41 on monday and then the rain develops monday night into tuesday morning. Very windy on tuesday. Rain to snow here and 40. Snow showers on wednesday. So an alert there and the colder high of 30. Here is the buzz. Now it is time for the buzz sponsored by National Carpet mill outlet. Denise in the buzz tonight mariah carey is getting married again. Dan shes off the market. And the academy of Motion Pictures promises more diversity among its members. Oscars says it will double the number of women and minority member by 2020. The move comes after backlash overall of the nominees in the major acting categories this year were all white. Spike lee, will smith, jada pin cet Jada Pinkett Smith among those boycotting. Denise mariah carey is engaged to her billionaire boyfriend, james packer. They are talking about the 35 35karat diamond and platinum rock. This will be the third mairnl for both. Dan that is big. Some are speculating that lebron is the one that got now, this is the serpantini chevrolet sports report on mark as you know by now david blatt is out and tyron lou is in. He is not the interim head coach. He is the head coach and Going Forward next year. Remember he was a highly sought after assistant. The calf cavalier pursued him and paid him aggressively. Now that can pay dividends. They hope he is just what the doctor ordered. And a player on the other team will sprint from one end ty. Ty doesnt seek that out. The people he has been with have a deep connectedness to him and an uh priesh an appreciation for who he is. Our team needs an appreciation for what they are doing. They need an appreciation for one another and i think a different hand and tys happened in particular is what we need tys hand is what we need. I spoke with jason lloyd, the beat writer for the beacon journal. He saw this coming awhile ago. He felt blats is just the wrong guy from what the players told him. He never connected with them. You have to remember the timing. He was brought in to coach deion waiters and Tristan Thompson and not much success in the nba and the plan was to figure it out. Then lebron comes back and love comes and it is a team of superstars. It doesnt matter how much he won in israel and europe, the players looked at that as division 2 in College Ranks like who is this guy . There is never a connectedness. They never bought into what he was selling. Mark i know what a lot of you are saying that lebron got blatt fired. David griffin asked about that longrunning narrative. I have a problem with this longrunning their are narrative. Understand this. Lebron plays for this team and he is the leader of this team and he desperately wants to lebron doesnt run this organization. Lebron is about this organization and he is of this organization. He is of our community, but this narrative that somehow we are taking direction from him, it is just not fair. It is not fair to him in particular, but frankly it is fair to me and our group anymore. Mark he can say that. He said everything he can say, but there are people who dont believe it. Dan lebron is that organization. If you notice lebron is not denise we want to thank you for joining us. You combine always get the latest news with the cleveland 19 news app. Dan well keep an eye on the storm on the east coast