it was amazing, amazing. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" presented by toyota. let's go places. captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie rose is off so anthony mason is with us. >> good morning. >> good morning. >>> more than 50 million people are waking up to a winter snowstorm that is slamming the northeast. the dangerous storm is intensifying as rush hour begins bringing white yout conditions and high inches. in some areas snow will fall each hour. skoogts are closed including those in new york city philadelphia, and boston. >> the powerful system is moving north through new england. a dozen states are under some type of weather advisory. some places will get more than a foot of snow. we've got storms all around the country. jersey philadelphia new york and boston too. jericka duncan is in chester county that's in new jersey where the snow is coming down pretty fast. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the snow so far is pretty light. it started falling at about 3:00 this morning. let me set the scene. we're in the park where p