Massive Late-Winter Storm Slamming Northeast Coast
HENDERSON: A huge chunk of the country is getting slammed right now with a late winter storm that is not playing around and is very serious business. Eighty million people are in the path of this nor'easter and it's going to make this weekend very dangerous. At worst and certainly inconvenient for millions of people. CNN's Brynn Gingras -- sorry about that is in south of Boston in</s>BRYNN GINGRAS, NATIONAL CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Nia. I mean, we were actually here at early January where there was the sort of storm, had a little bit of snow in it and high winds and some rain. It's nothing compared to this, what we're experiencing right now. We are getting serious wind gusts, as you can see, trying to brace my body. At some point, those wind gusts exceeding to Category1 hurricane level.</s>HENDERSON: Brynn, thanks for that reporting. And you stay safe out there. Jennifer, I turn to you now. How big is this thing going to get and give us if you can, a timeline. When will we see the worst of it?</s>JENNIFER GRAY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, Nia, this is expected to intensify continuously throughout the day. It is still getting stronger. It's bringing rain and snow across New England. It has several different components to it. You have the rain component, you also have the very strong winds. We've had gusts 60 to 70 miles per hour already recorded. That's going to continue throughout the day and tonight. And we also have the flooding component and I think that that is going to be the most serious of the three. So we all have -- we're going to have serious flooding around Eastern Massachusetts as well as Rhode Island, and especially during those high tides. We're having one, a lot of areas as we speak, or it either it has already passed. We're going to have another one late this evening, and that could set a record in Boston harbor. Now, the one this morning is the third all-time high tide ever recorded at 14.67 feet. Now, the next high tide is expected to be 15.4 and you can see that record at 15.16. That was with that January storm. So we could set a record high tide, and on top of that, when you have winds pushing in from the east, it pushes all of that water inland. And so that's where we see the coastal flooding, we've seen homes that have been in jeopardy, and it is very, very dangerous. So that high wind threat continues all the way from the mid-Atlantic to the northeast with wind gusts of 70 miles per hour. Those winds are expected to roar throughout the rest of the evening, and then the storm will finally pull away by tomorrow afternoon.</s>HENDERSON: Jennifer, thanks for that. We certainly hope the people take this seriously. And in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Reverend Billy Graham is being laid to rest. President Trump and the first lady both attending the services there on the grounds of the Billy Graham Library. The man known as America's preacher died last week at his home. He was 99 years old. Reverend Graham's sister spoke a few minutes ago.</s>JEAN GRAHAM FORD, BILLY GRAHAM'S SISTER: And I was reminded when I heard that my brother had died on the sound that the choirs used to sing, heaven came down and filled my soul with glory. On February the 21st, heaven came down, and took my brother from me.