Name: Bomb cyclone slams 40M Americans ‘like a hurricane’
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A powerful and intensifying bomb cyclone slamming the Northeast and the Mid Atlantic.

More than 40 million people are under blizzard warnings across 11 states and many of them have declared states of emergency.

Some of the worst of it is hitting as I speak and look at the map.

Widespread blizzard conditions are expected across much of the region including Boston, Providence, Hartford, Connecticut and the New York City metro area.

We're talking snowfall at 2 to 3 inches per hour through 10am and it's already knocked out power to nearly 400,000 customers in the region.

The snow along with winds gusting more than 70 miles per hour.

And believe me, we felt it on our way here.

It's causing some whiteout conditions out there.

More than a foot has already fallen in parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Delaware and it's not stopping.

Officials are pleading with people, please stay inside and off the roads.

New York City has not faced a storm of this scale in the last decade.

We are asking New Yorkers to avoid all non essential traffic.

Please, for your safety, stay home, stay inside and stay off the roads.

There are incredibly high winds up to 60 miles per hour.

That means that we could see branches and trees falling into the highway.

The storm paralyzing travel across regions.

More than 5,000 flights scheduled for today cancelled by the time this finally ends.

The hardest hit areas could get nearly two feet.

We have full team coverage of this potentially historic storm.

CNN's Brian Todd is out in the storm zone in Philadelphia this morning.

We've also got Derek Van Dam who is in our weather center.

Let's start with Brian because he's got the pictures.

For the record, we all walked to work a block today.

The company put us up so that we could get here to tell the story.

Well, Sarah, authorities here in Philadelphia have been scrambling overnight and this morning to stay ahead of this storm.

And a really good illustration of it is, is what happened right behind me just minutes ago.

This was a large tree that was completely down and across Martin Luther King Boulevard here in Philadelphia.

An hour ago when I was on live now since that time, a large front end loader came by and just cleared everything.

He just picked up the entire tree and shoved it over.

You've got a plow now clearing a little, excuse me, clearing a little bit more of it.

I just stumbled on the Snow drift here a little bit.

He's clearing a little bit more of it there to try to just get more room for cars to come.

But what they really want is for people to stay off the roads.

Let's get over to CNN's Derek Van Dam with much more on this.

Kate, we're already approaching 2ft of snow in Freehold, New Jersey.

Wind gusts exceeding 70 mph across the coastal areas of New Jersey, through the coastal regions of Maine.

Looking down at the beautiful Statue of Liberty.

But the camera, it's been shaking back and forth.

There's been these snow squalls that have moved in.

When I say that this storm's been acting like a hurricane, I mean it.

That's equivalent to a typical category two hurricane.

Yes, it's producing snowfall, but it's also producing a lot of wind.

That's why we have blizzard warnings in place because that whips around the reduces the visibility at a moment's notice.

That's what I'm saying when I talk about this being more of a snow cane versus a nor', easter, of course, two different types of features there.

But even into Long island we're almost at 20 inches of snow.

And that's where we're seeing some of the heaviest snow bands moving through right now.

So what we'll see through the course of the morning as snow coming to an end in around the national into Washington D.C.

but along the I95 corridor as we go a little bit further to the north and east as this storm continues to bomb out, look at Philadelphia to New York and Long Island.

This is where we have those 2 to 3 inch per hour snowfall rates.

This is going to snarl traffic along the I95 corridor as well as the Massachusetts Turnpike.

The winds will become increasing, incredibly intense.

For Boston, they're already gusting over 55-60 mph.

And that's where we'll see the heavy wet snow continue to accumulate over another foot or more, especially for the Outer Cape.

This particular region here has the potential to see widespread power outages because of the addition of this heavy wet snow and the strong winds.

There's a lot of pine trees across Northern New England that will come down and that will be responsible for foreseeing this.

Kate, the snow comes to an end from west to east, but

the winds continue into tonight, into tonight.

Derek, thank you very much watching that forecast for us.

In New York City, a state of emergency has been in Place.

Roughly 2300 snowplows have been deployed and there's a citywide travel ban until noon today.

It's also the first snow day for New York city schools since 2020, 2019.

Sienna's Gloria Pasmina is in New York following all this.

Oh, it looks beautiful and also painful, my friend.

You know, it is not as painful as the last storm we had a few weeks ago, which was a lot colder, but

we are getting a lot more snow and I was standing on this very spot late last night.

And now the accumulation is really giving us that wonderful snow globe type of effect.

It looks absolutely gorgeous as the sun is finally starting to come up here in Central park.

We are starting to see some people starting to venture out because as you said, that travel ban is still in effect until noon.

That means that cars should be off the roads.

There are some exemptions for public workers, emergency workers, essential workers, but

if you do not need to get behind the wheel, do not do so.

So walking, of course, that is open to everyone.