Whiteout: Forecasters are warning of a blizzard hitting the East Coast today with as much as two feet of snow falling in a stretch from New York City northeast through Hartford to the Massachusetts border. Its impact is being called potentially “historic.” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is practically saying the sky is falling. “My message to New Yorkers is to prepare for something worse than we have seen before,” he said.

Just over 2,100 domestic flights have already been cancelled. United Airlines announced that tomorrow it will cancel its traffic through major East Coast cities, which will have a ripple impact across the country.

Drachma Drama: Greece’s anti-austerity, anti-bailout Syriza party won the country’s national election yesterday. Syriza’s leader Alexis Tsipras vowed to end “five years of humiliation and pain.” He said, “Greece is leaving behind catastrophic austerity, it is leaving behind the fear and the autocracy.”

Tsipras ran on a promise to renegotiate the $270 billion international bailout and shrug off most of Greece’s massive debt. He wants to bring back Greece’s generous and bankrupting welfare state, reversing pension and minimum wage cuts and restoring Greece’s bloated government bureaucracy. He might even try to pull out of the Euro zone.

By last count Syriza had 149 seats in parliament, just two short of the absolute majority needed to rule without a coalition.

Machine Politics: New York State’s assembly speaker Sheldon Silver is actually not resigning his position as he faces charges of massive corruption. Silver has appointed a five-man committee to do the job he’s held for 21 years while he fights it out in court. He’s accused of taking about $700,000 in kickbacks on real estate deals.

Nation: A small drone was found on the grounds of the White House and the Secret Service is investigating. The president is in India and spokesman Josh Earnest said the device itself was not a threat.

World: Miss Colombia Paulina Vega was named Miss Universe last night. But apparently she wasn’t the spectator favorite. The audience booed when Miss Jamaica, Kaci Fennell, was eliminated from the final five.

>President Obama attended India’s Republic Day parade in Delhi today. It was a pageant of military might and Indian culture. Obama was the first American president to attend.

Award Season: Eddie Redmayne won the Screen Actors Guild award for best lead actor in “The Theory of Everything,” and Julianne Moore won for lead female actor in “Still Alice.” The quirky dark comedy “Birdman” with Michael Keaton won for best cast.

Cops and Kids: NY Times columnist Charles Blow, who writes frequently about racial issues, is angry that the Yale University police stopped his son at gunpoint. Blow tweeted Saturday, “So, my son, a 3rd year chem major at Yale was just accosted — at GUN POINT — by a Yale policeman bc he ‘fit the description’ of a suspect.’” His son, who is black, was released after identifying himself. Blow added: “He’s shaken, but I’m fuming!”

The Obit Page: New York talk show host Joe Franklin, who never had a national broadcast but was a nationally recognized pioneer of the talk format, has died at age 88. He was on the air from the 1950s into the 90s. Broadcast out of a basement studio, his show was considered a little campy and low rent. Never considered a premiere booking, Franklin’s show featured stars on the way up before they were famous, and caught them again on the way down. He pretty much lasted longer than any of his guests, but was never as famous as any of them.

Tut Tut: The Egyptian Museum has an embarrassing scandal on its hands after the braided beard on King Tut’s famous burial mask was accidentally snapped off and clumsily re-attached with epoxy glue. The 3,300 year old mask is one of the greatest archeological artifacts in history. Making matters worse, one of the curators tried to scrape away excess glue with a spatula and scratched the mask. Worse yet, this will just feed the belief that the graves of the pharaohs carry a curse on people who disturb them.

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