Hey there from CNN. I'm David Rind with the five things you need to know for Tuesday,

December 2nd. In case there was any doubt, winter is here early, and a major storm is barreling

through the northeast right now. Over 55 million people from Kentucky to Maine are under winter

weather alerts today, with snowfall rates possibly topping an inch an hour in parts of Ohio.

Officials there are warning people to stay off the roads, while Missouri State Police say

officers have responded to more than 350 crashes. CNN's Derek Van Dam has the forecast.

So this storm is closing in on some of the big cities and the temperature at the surface makes

all the difference in terms of what types of precipitation we're going to experience.

Just outside of New York City, we're about 40 degrees.

So just north of the New Jersey Turnpike, this is where we get that changeover to snow.

Looks like Hartford should be in snowfall into the Hudson Valley, northeastern sections of Pennsylvania.

This is where we expect some of the heaviest snowfall that will actually take place.

And then further to the south, along that I-95 corridor really all rain, but in the higher elevations

of western Virginia into West Virginia, this is an area that could see over a quarter inch of ice

that is going to cause problems on the roadways.

We got more news coming up, including why Republicans are sweating the outcome of a special election in deep red Tennessee.

Stick around.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff, along with President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner,

are currently in Moscow for peace talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

They're working to sell Putin on the new terms of a proposal to end the war in Ukraine.

And CNN's Matthew Chance is in Moscow for us.

The intention is to present Vladimir Putin with some of the sort of potential concessions

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