This is CNN Breaking News.
Good morning, everyone.
I'm Audie Cornish,
and here is where we begin that breaking news of this powerful winter storm that is getting more and more intense.
This morning, a bomb cyclone slammed into the Northeast with heavy snow and whiteout conditions.
Overnight, snow was falling at a rate of two inches per hour.
Had it with the snow.
This winter has been too cold, too snowy, too miserable, I'm ready for it to be over.
OK, so this is video just in a New York City Central Park.
People starting to attempt to shovel out more than 40 million people are under Blizzard warnings.
That's across 11 states and once it's all said and done,
some places could get more than two feet of snow.
The storm is creating treacherous travel conditions this morning.
More than 10,000 flights have already been canceled and officials are urging everyone in the storms path to take it seriously.
Boston is no stranger to Nor'easters, but this is going to be a big one.
New York City has not faced a storm of this scale in the last decade.
There are incredibly high winds up to 60 miles per hour.
That means that we could see branches and trees falling into the highway,
drifts, and whiteout conditions.
Our statewide power utility estimates that there could be 100 to 150,000 power outages.