Happening now, breaking news, a bomb cyclone blasts the Northeast,

snow piling up more than two feet in some places.

Thousands of flights canceled, we are tracking the storm live.

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on ice 46 years ago. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown, and you're in the Situation Room.

This is CNN Breaking News.

And we begin with the breaking news.

A massive bomb cyclone detonating over the northeast, dumping more than a foot of snow

in at least five states from Delaware to Connecticut.

Some areas have already gotten more than

two feet of snow. The ferocious storm is unleashing wind gusts of more than 80 miles an hour

in some areas, like eastern Long Island, for example. Those hurricane strength winds and the wet,

heavy snow are bringing down trees and power

lines. More than half a million homes and business are already without power right now. City and

state leaders across the region are urging people to stay off the roads. Listen. We're sort of a

foot, foot and a half under snow. It's a wicked Northeaster.

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