Snowstorm, backed by arctic blast, slams Northeast

Snowstorm, backed by arctic blast, slams Northeast.

More than 45 million people on Tuesday morning were under snow alerts from Virginia to Maine. The first significant snowstorm of the season in the Northeast, has hit New York and Boston, after wreaking havoc earlier this week, when weather conditions left people trapped on the highway for more than 24 hours in Virginia, including the state's governor.

A winter storm warning is in effect for Connecticut, Rhode Island and into Boston, and all of coastal New England. Some of those areas could see a foot and a half of snow.

A state of emergency has been issued in New Jersey and there is a blizzard warning in effect for eastern, coastal Maine.

This same storm system brought traffic to a standstill in part of the the Mid-South, from Kentucky to Tennessee where dozens of accidents were reported. Nashville, Tennessee, saw record daily snowfall -- 6.3 inches -- the average there is 4.7 inches for the entire winter.