great blizzard gathering strength and poised to bear down on millions of american families across the northeast. Experts say it could be the worst  york to boston, the winter weather arsenals are prepped and ready for blizzard war. And those in charge of the snowy battle are keeping their commands simple. Stay off the streets of our city. Basically,  the storm starts. Reporter: This storm comes 35 years after the historic blizzard of 1978. Two feet of snow and 70-pl 70-plus-mile-an-hour winds paralyzed the northeast. What you're looking at are 50-foot tall cliffs of salt. It's really impressive out here. And they expect another 60,000 tons to be delivered tomorrow morning, before the storm. What I expect is to be using these tomorrow at this time, because -- they're ski goggles, I'll need them, with all the wind and snow. A blizzard that fierce. Thank you, ginger. And now, sam champion is here, so, sam, what about the conditions, if you're going to need goggles for this blizzard ? Reporte ABSOLUTELY. It is blizzard . The worst word we can pull out. Brutal, blinding snow. We have warnings out for seven states here. Basically stretches from new york all the way through boston and into portland. If you look at all the states, 43 million people in the path of that storm. And with this, we're talking about, well, to get a blizzard , you have to 35-mile-an-hour winds and that blowing snow for at least three hours. We're going to have winds much worse than
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