travel bans in new york massachusetts, connecticut, new york city the streets are pretty much abandoned. subways are going to shut down. anderson is here in new york covering the storm as well. anderson you have a lot more coming up. it's incredible they're shutting down the subways. that is a big moment. >> a life-long new yorker i don't think i've ever heard of that before. and i forgot my hat. erin thanks very much. we're going to be on for two hours tonight from a very cold very snowy and as you can tell a very windy new york. and it's only just getting started. what people are bracing for is just now starting to arrive even though it's been snowing since midday. things will be getting much much worse, very quickly, very soon. stories about columbus circle the reason is we wanted to come up here to get a feel for the winds as they pick up over the next couple hours that we're going to be on the air for.

it's coming the city certainly knows it in just about three hours, as erin mentioned. the streets are pretty empty. there's still a little bit of cars some taxis out in the streets. but it's pretty deserted already. in three hours, a travel ban takes effect. bus, subway service ends commuter rails stop running. many of the big bridges and the tunnels into the island of manhattan are going to close. and that's just the island of manhattan. in connecticut, a statewide travel ban takes effect in less than an hour. all roads, all private vehicles. all up and down the northeast. the season's worst winter storm could turn out to be one of the worst of all-time. conditions have been deteriorating all day. here in new york new jersey massachusetts, all along the storm front, people getting ready for snow measured not in inches but in feet. and gale force winds, rising water, each dangerous on their own.

combined together even worse. it's all either forecast or happening already. we've got correspondents obviously deployed throughout the emergency zones, all across the northeast. we'll be checking in with them throughout the coming hours. first we want to go to chad myers. he's up here with me. chad explain why this is such a big deal. i'm always skeptical of these kind of things new yorkers making a big deal about the snow. it happens now and then. >> we never want to do the cry wolf thing. we never just want to say 9 sky's falling, the sky's falling, and it doesn't. because the next time it's really going to, they don't listen to us. we have to be careful what we say. and we're still looking at 12 to 14 inches minimum, with the potential of up to 30 in some spots between here and boston. >> what's the difference here? you were talking about the winds is what really makes this great concern. >> absolutely. we've had snowfalls that are 19, 25 inches before. but the wind at 55 or 60 will take a lot of these tree limbs

down. they will lose power lines. and now all of a sudden you're 20 degrees, the windchills 20 below and your house doesn't have heat. that's the rub. especially if we lose 500,000 people without power, you can't get all those power lines up at the same time. you can't even start putting them back up until the wind comes down below 40 miles per hour. >> in new york though power lines are underneath the ground. >> but you go to connecticut or new jersey and those big trees that have been there for centuries are losing power lines right now. limbs are falling down. we are going to see this all night long. before it finally peaks, and i don't even think that is until noon tomorrow. >> so give us the timeline all night long these high winds are going to happen. do you think it peaks at noon tomorrow. how long does the snow continue? >> i think this is an amazing spot that you've picked. either you or your producer charlie, picked it. >> i wanted to be inside. >> we can see the other side of

the park. by 8:30 9:00 we're going to start to lose the north side of the park. by 9:00 we'll lose the other side all together. >> you won't even be able to see that side? >> not at all. we'll get one or two-inch snowfall rates coming in about 9:30 10:00, and we may not even see the building that's right there. >> so noon tomorrow it will still be snowing, still be windy. >> it will be tapering off with the snow. but the wind will be blowing it around. so every time a plow comes by and cleans your street 30 minutes later, it's going to be drifted shut again. >> wow. chad's going to be with us throughout these two hours. the jersey shore already took a pounding from hurricane sandy. it faces one now. brian todd is there for us. as chad was just saying, the wind is a real problem where you are. how bad is it getting right now? >> anderson it is getting very bad. it's really picked up in the last hour. it's not hurricane force yet.

it certainly feels like it if you're trying to walk in it or drive in it. because it is really limiting visibility limiting your ability to get around. and it's going to cause whiteout conditions in the coming hours when the snow gets heavier. this is not a vertical snowfall right now in asbury park new jersey. it's a horizontal one. the wind is whipping us in the face from the north to the south. anderson here's another concern. the tide is starting to come in here. you can see it maybe a little over my right shoulder. you may not be able to see it too much in the dark here but it is cresting over my right shoulder. it is coming in. it is going to be at high tide about 1:00 in the morning here at asbury park. that is another concern. you've got the wind causing whiteout conditions the tide coming in causing po tex flooding in these streets, and then you've got the snow. we're told that you could get a foot and a half to two feet of snow overnight here in asbury park in the coming hours. the new jersey transit system is

shutting down in a couple of hours, 10:00 p.m. buses, light rail trains they're going to completely stop working then. they're really bracing for the worst of this in the overnight hours. >> brian, how ready are the residents there in the storm? one area hit hard by hurricane sandy, have preparations been well under way throughout the day? >> throughout the day, yes, today. as i heard chad and some others saying earlier, that this storm didn't really come on anyone's radar as being a real threat until really yesterday. so they haven't had a whole lot of time to prepare for it. we talked to two young ladies not sure why anyone would want to take a stroll down the boardwalk this time of the night right now, but they said they're really worried about some of the areas that have not yet recovered from superstorm sandy. we saw some boarded-up houses not far away from here. here's a man walking his dog. he came down here earlier and said it was not that bad out

here. i would tend to disagree. there are some houses and businesses that have still not recovered from superstorm sandy here. that's a real concern. they're getting hit again a little over two years later with gusts of a devastating storm that can do a lot of damage in a lot of different ways. >> brian, chad's here with us. he might have a question for you. for the folks out there, that's the last thing people who are just getting over sandy want to see. it doesn't feel that bad right now, i've got to say. it's cold a little bit of wind. but it's going to get worse. >> it's going to get a lot worse here. and a lot worse for brian. brian, i want you to put your back to the wind. straight back to the wind. we're going to watch you do it. >> okay. >> now, i want you to put your left arm out. and point your finger with that left arm. that's where the low is. it's not even to you yet. so if you put your back to the

low, your left arm out, that's where the low is. the wind has to swing around almost 45 degrees before the low gets close to him. that won't be for another five hours. yes, five hours of it going downhill before it starts to get better. >> you're saying brian was saying he heard earlier we didn't really know this storm was going to be that bad until yesterday. i was in california on thursday and friday. people saying there's going to be a bad snowstorm. but not as bad as it is. >> no. we had a clipper come by on monday. and two inches from philadelphia probably four inches for dubois a little bit of snow for boston. all of a sudden right behind that first storm it got really cold. then a low pressure came from the south and rolled right up behind it. and it is really really coming down. especially now here. i would say from about long branch down to brian is where it's going to get worse in the six hours, to montauk, and then to boston. >> tracking northeast from here

it's a stream of weather warnings and states of emergency all the way from baldwin in boston right now. what is it like right now, brooke? >> it's definitely picked up anderson as far as the snowfall. it's really hitting me in the face. you're starting to feel the wind as well. that's one of the big story lines over the next couple of hours. walk with me please do not trip, the snow has been here where boston harbor the water over here fenway hall over here. this is the snow that's already been out, and they're expecting as you all have been discussing maybe, maybe three feet right? this is just about what three feet has made. but keep in mind boston knows how to handle snow. this is a town that has dealt with this many many times over. we just had a crew came back from the north inn, a little italian district this way. a fair amount of foot traffic. not a lot of people are on the

roads. people out and about in the restaurants, some of the bars. they're ready for the snow. the big variable is as it is across the northeastern corridors, exactly how much they'll get. >> chad how big a deal is coastal flooding in the boston area? >> coastal erosion for sure. there are a few neighborhoods that the water's going to come around the cape and into boston harbor. that water could go up about six feet. it will be a storm surge just like a hurricane. this is almost a hurricane. >> brooke you haven't seen any signs of flooding down in boston yet? >> no, not at all. i'm staring at the water, and it is absolutely calm right now. but again, i think we're all waiting for the winds to really pick up. a piece of historic perspective, and chad i'm sure you know about the blizzard of '78, because a lot of people keep saying listen boston got the most snow in x period of time. but it was really '78, that's the chatter up here right now. because that was when this city got stopped and it was

horrendous damage. people were stranded on the highways. at least people have a heads-up tonight. we've heard from the governor here in massachusetts, you cannot drive, statewide driving is banned after midnight. >> brooke thanks. we'll check on with you again. we're on until 10:00 tonight. boston's mayor, marty walsh, as you might imagine has a lot to deal with at the moment. that's why we were glad he could take time to talk with us briefly. mr. mayor, how is the city handling things so far? >> so far, so good. it's pukd up here. as you said it's getting windy here a lot more snow. the roads are pretty quiet right now, which is good. we had crews out there earlier doing pretreatment of the roads. now we're getting ready for the full storm hitting us here. >> how much equipment do you have out there? >> we have over 800 pieces ready to go on the roads. generally in a storm we have about 500 to 550, but for this storm we have 800 pieces ready to go in the streets.

>> the winds are a big concern for you because the snow drifts downs power lines. do you have downed power lines yet. >> not yet. but we're getting ready for that as well. we have the trucks on standby and working with the national grid here in boston to take care of any downed power lines. we're also working with different teams just to make sure we stay on top of all this. >> chad myer has questions as well mr. mayor. >> neighborhoods may be threatened with a storm surge, even if it's five or six feet what are those areas doing right now? are they preparing for this? >> there's parts where i live parts of the area there's homes that are on the water. and a lot of roadways around the boston area that could be affected if the storm surge came in that would have to shut down. we're certainly keeping an eye on that making sure those roads get shut down if they have to be. that's a big concern of the city. we don't have a lot of water,

but off cape cod, and we have roads that can be damaged. there could be long-term effect if that happened. >> mr. mayor, finally, at what point do you expect the storm to peak in boston? >> well they're saying it's going to snow all night tonight, through tomorrow. we'll probably be out there all night, into tomorrow. hopefully it's not one of those storms that linger. i think the difference in '78, the storm just kind of stopped and hovered for a while. we're hoping that it's going to continue to move on so we can begin the process of cleaning up the streets and getting the city opened again so we can continue working and do what we need to do here. >> the governor of massachusetts put a driving ban starting at midnight for nonessential vehicles. subway systems, buses, commuter trains all halting at midnight. anything else you want to say? >> the parking ban is in effect now. please if your cars are on the main thoroughfares, get them off there.

and check on your neighbors, make sure your neighbors are safe, particularly any elderly neighbors or somebody who might be disabled make sure they're all right, have enough food and supplies to get through the next couple of days. i ask everyone please stay off the roads. i'd rather you be safe. don't get curious and take a walk down the beach, or curious and walk around. you know plows can't see you, cars can't see you. if you see homeless folks, call 11 so we can get the homeless folks off the street. we've been doing that all day long. be courteous of your neighbors and make sure everyone's safe. >> bringing people together sure. mayor, thank you for joining us. quick reminder set your dvr, watch 360 whenever you want. we'll be right back.

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the scene in providence rhode island we'll go to george howell there in just a moment. we're less than an hour away from a travel ban going into effect for the entire state of connecticut. something similar in new york at 11:00 p.m. east coast time. including the shutdown of the entire new york subway system. i've never seen that before chad. in all of the time i've lived here. >> i heard this afternoon that this was happening. and i'm thinking how are the people going to get home that are working the late shift? what are they going to do walk? that doesn't seem as safe as

taking a train. but there are above-ground portions of the train, it's not all a subway. >> the message from officials here and all across the area is very simple, take a look. >> this will most likely be one of the largest blizzards in the history of new york city. >> a storm this size poses a threat to public safety. >> it's dangerous to be out there now. it's only going to become more dangerous. >> this is going to be a lot of snow no matter how you add it up. >> people should act in such a way to make themselves and their families as safe as possible. that's what's most important. >> the most important message for everybody is to get ready to hunker down. >> hunker down is a phrase that's always used during storms. people never use it during regular times. i digress. hunker down especially in places like eastern long island where anna cabrera is joining us right now. you're expecting to get two or three feet out there. how is it so far? >> the wind is picking up, the

snow is pelting me in the face right now. if you look behind me every now and then you'll see a big wind whipping storm and flurries. sus stands at 20 miles per hour gusting up to 30 miles per hour. we're expecting to see the winds at 70 miles per hour at the height of the storm. when you look down on the street we're only seeing a few inches. but we've seen the clouds come through really quickly. you can see just how that wind is really picking it up. in fact we're already seeing snowdrift accumulations on the sides where we're seeing six inches or snow really piling up. when you're talking feet of snow accumulation you add in that wind factor and the snow drifts could be devastating for this area. adding on top 6 the weight of wires, of tree limbs, so there could be some damaging effects. and power outages, a huge concern for in small community.

you can see all the lights here on main street are still on. but people aren't taking any chances. we're hearing they are gassing up their generators preparing their lan terpsternslanterns getting extra batteries, and stocked up on supplies of food and water and all the like in case this area gets cut off from much of the resht of the region when the snow comes down tonight anderson. >> anna it's chad myers. those generators are just talked about, one of the most dangerous things you can do is put that in the garage and make power for your house, because that carbon monoxide is a big, big threat. you can't smell it you can't even taste it all of a sudden you don't know it's there and you're in trouble. are they concerned there about the erosion that's going to be taking place with these 30-foot waves that are going to be coming onshore tonight? >> this poor community could have a triple punch with the snow the wind and the waves. we do know that the high tide is supposed to happen around 2:00

in the morning. that's when the storm could be at its worst. we know it's going to be a result of two to four feet above that normal high tide level with this storm surge. because that wind is just going to push all of that water onshore. and so fortunately most of the businesses are built up on a hill. but there are definitely risks of coastal flooding and erosion, which could be damaging as well. chad and anderson? >> 30-foot waves? >> absolutely. now, a lot of them will be broken offshore, the breakers will be there. but as they crash onshore, a lot of that sand is going to be gone. when you lose the sand it starts to erode the coastline itself and you're finally back to where the houses are. that's why you want to leave all those plants on that nice coast. you don't want to be moving those plants out, or mowing the lawn you want all those sea oats to protect your dunes. one thing i think people are misunderstanding there, yes, there will be high tide at 2:00

a.m. but there will be another one at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. this storm is just building now. >> yeah. anna try to go inside and get warm. we'll check in with you a little bit later on as conditions get worse. i want to get an update from rhode island. our george howell joins us live from providence. the governor of rhode island asked for every rhode islander to get off the roads by 8:00 p.m. tonight. >> jordan can we see the road? take a look. no one's out here. the roads are empty. we're in the center of providence rhode island. it is a ghost town. i want to bring in the mayor here. sir, what do you think about this? they told people to stay off the streets. is it happening? >> i have to give great credit to all our residents in providence and the state. we asked the people to stay off the roads, and as you can see the roads are very very clear right now. it's a health and safety thing. it allows our plows to come through and keep the streets clean.

thank you to all of our residents, and also i have to commend all our public works employees. they're doing an excellent job keeping our streets safe. >> i did hear officials say, look the snow's going to come down faster than they can plow the roads. >> it is. it is. it's all about preparation. and execution. a lot went into planning the operations for today. and so far, everything has gone well. but our plan is to stay ahead of the storm. it's a storm of historic proportions. we're simply asking people please stay off of the roads. if you stay off of the roads, it allows public works and the city and state to do our job and we'll get our streets clean. but that depends on everybody chipg chipping in. so far, everybody's been a team player. i have to commend all our residents here. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> the seaside communities, 22 of the 39 communities here in the state are right there along the coastal area. there's a concern about

flooding, especially when the high tide happens around 4:27 a.m. that coincides really with the worst of this storm. so you know they will be keeping an eye on that as well. as the storm picks up. we're seeing a little more snow come in. the winds are picking up a bit. we expect to be in for quite a night. >> george thanks very much. one of the things you don't anticipate until you're actually outside, it's not just wind coming from one direction, it's swirling all around bringing the snow up from the street. >> this is very light snow. we talked about the potential for 30 inches of light snow. you'll never see one spot with 30. there will be zero and then eight feet. that's how the wind is going to blow this around. huge drifts. every time they clear an east-west road those waves -- those winds are going to blow that drift right back in and the streets will be closed again rather quickly. that's why we don't want anybody on the road. it's the wind blowing the snow around. this will be a blizzard. people will be lost in the blizzard if they're not at their

house. so go home and stay there. >> it will be fascinating to see new york essentially shut down. the travel ban in effect the tunnels shutting down bridges as well. right now, you can still see some buses, and a few taxis. but it's just a handful on what is normally a very busy columbus circle this time of night. we're going to have a lot more on the storm coming up next. looking at asbury park new jersey. high winds and waves are expected to be real trouble. ♪ ♪ you're only young once. unless you have a subaru. (announcer) the subaru xv crosstrek. symmetrical all-wheel drive plus 34 mpg. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. huh, fifteen minutes could save you

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welcome back. the snowy sidewalks and streets of boston you're looking at right now, snowy and largely empty, thank goodness. the advice tonight stay off the roads, stay off the streets, get warm stay at home. you heard the mayor of providence rhode island saying it's a message repeated all across the coast tonight, massachusetts, new york and connecticut. randi kaye joins me now. what's it like there right now? >> it's getting worse, anderson. we've been here for a couple of

hours. we had light snow when we first got here. now the flurries are actually bigger the snow is thicker. it feels like it's poking you in the face. it's starting to stick. if you look done oun the ground here the sidewalk where we are, this had a light dusting and now there's a fair amount of snow you're able to kick around. it's also getting colder. we had this temperature gauge with us in the car when it was 80 degrees in the car. it says 40. there's no way it's 40 degrees out here, but that was because it was in the car with us. it's dropping rapidly. the wind is also kicking up. we're expecting winds here anywhere from 40 to 60 miles per hour and this snow is supposed to be falling at up to four inches an hour. so i think we are just starting to get some of the worst parts of what we are expecting to get hit with overnight here in new london, connecticut, anderson. >> in the last hour the connecticut spokesperson expressed concern that the people weren't heeding the warnings and stay inside. are you still seeing cars out on the road? >> we're seeing more people on

foot than we're seeing actual cars driving around. but we have seen some cars. we've certainly seen plow trucks. we're in a busy part of town here. there's somebody from the fire department going by. we have been seeing a lot of officials. little less than an hour before the ban, the travel ban kicks in. the homes here have been pretty quiet. if you take a look at this park here this is usually an area that's pretty busy. a lot of people on foot. but tonight it's pretty quiet. a lot of people staying home probably got their groceries for the next few days and going to hang out. we've seen a couple of dog walkers, but that's about it. mainly plow trucks and authorities and fire department trucks. we've seen a couple of officers and even one car being towed. they don't want anybody on the streets here. >> let's hope they've got a lot of equipment out on the streets tonight. randi, thank you very much. chad i look downtown i actually cleaned a sidewalk outside. i shoveled three times today, basically every two, three hours. >> it was coming down about inch

and a half an hour for three hours. so that's four and a half inches on the grass in the park. most of it was melting. yesterday was beautiful, a 43-degree afternoon with sunshine. a lot of the early snow may have melted on the concrete at least a little bit. now it's just nothing, nothing melting, it's all freezing. >> you talked about it peaking in new york around noon tomorrow. do you have a sense of when it's over? >> no i don't. because this is a lingering storm. it's going to move about 30 miles per hour alberta clippers can move 60 miles per hour. this is doing a little loop. the loop is the problem if it stalls briefly. even for three hours. and you get three inches an hour. you've now added three times three, that's nine inches on top of the total that you thought you were going to get. that's the rub with this storm. does it keep moving or does it do a little loop over cape cod. >> we'll be watching closely. late work that amtrak has suspended northeast regional and

express service between new york and boston for tomorrow. it's going to obviously inconvenience a lot of people. i want to go back to brian todd on the jersey shore where he's at the leading edge of the storm right now. brian, streets pretty empty there? >> the streets are very empty, anderson. people are pretty much heeding the warnings to not go out in your car, or even on foot. very few people we're seeing along the boardwalk here or the streets near the boardwalk. right now, anderson you've got a triple threat along the jersey shore. the tide the snow and the wind first to the tide it is coming closer. you can see it there. it's been coming closer and closer over the last couple of hours. in a little less than four and a half hours, it will be high tide here. that's got officials worried about coastal flooding because it won't take much for the heavy wind that we're experiencing now, that's the second part of the threat to blow some of these waters into the streets, and start to flood the streets. then you've got the snow.

we're told the worst part is coming in the overnight hours. officials told me a short time ago they expect one to two inches per hour in some of these areas around asbury park and along the coast. that's got them very worried, of course. they're telling people do not go out on the roads. do not leave your vehicle out if you feel you're getting stuck. try to get it off the main roads, off the interstate. because that creates what they call a cascading effect. it really behinders the ability of the plows, the spreaders, the trucks to do their jobs and clear some of the snow. they hope people heed those warnings. transit systems in connecticut new york and other places shutting down. it's shutting down in new jersey in the next couple of hours. 10:00 p.m. eastern time. no more light rail train, or bus service anywhere. that's the time everyone's got to hunker down and stay inside. >> brian todd thank you. it's kind of amazing when you think about the limitations on travel we're going to be seeing

not just tonight, but tomorrow. amtrak the train, subways in new york overnight shut down. getting into or out of the northeast by plane is going to be nearly impossible tonight as well as tomorrow. it's going to be a real nightmare for anyone trying to get around. >> let me rewind the clock a little over a year for atlanta's snowmageddon. had someone said everybody off the road we're going to get snow we're done everybody go home that story that what took three to five days to go away would have never happened. they're doing the right thing. the mayors the governors, they're doing the correct thing to keep people off the roadways from being stuck behind the guy stuck in front of you, and all of a sudden you're running out of gas and you're cold and your kids in the back of the car are cold. this is the best thing that could possibly happen. >> in new york city a lot 6 the offices were telling people to go home if they came in at all today. people trying to work from home as well. getting in and out of the

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look at the scene in new london connecticut. tonight we're less than half an hour away -- >> looks like conditions are getting worse there for anderson cooper there with chad myers. we'll continue this coverage of the massive blizzard that is bearing down on the northeast right now. but amtrak trains north to boston from new york have been canceled for tomorrow. and there is no joy at the airport. on any normal day, new york's big three, kennedy, newark and laguardia handle nearly 4,000 flights in and out. now, this is not a normal day. tomorrow it won't be either. renee marsh is at the airport

right now. what is the latest on the flight cancellations? >> i mean take a look behind me here. this is one of the busier airports in the country. and we're pretty much the only ones here. the machines are empty. look at the ticket counters. it is only 8:42 on a week night. and no one is here. it's a ghost town. the only action happening here at laguardia airport is the plows op the runway clearing the snow. look at the boards arrivals and departures looking all the way down top to bottom, all red, amara. all of these flights have been canceled today. nearly 3,000 cancellations tomorrow. more than 4,000 cancellations. things will get worse tomorrow. we're already seeing cancellations for wednesday. anderson?

>> we actually got knocked off the air. you get a sense that things are already starting to get worse. that may happen again. i appreciate amara jumping in for us. renee, if you're on the west coast trying to get to the northeast, are you basically stuck there until wednesday or so? >> here's the situation. we know that all of the major airlines anderson they have essentially suspended all flights coming into new york city airports as well as new jersey and boston airports. there's no action. a lot of people i spoke to today, they're so frustrated. they're thinking about ditching air travel altogether and hopping on the drain. but bad news there as well amtrak is canceling many of their routes going from new york to the northeast corridor. places like boston places in the northeast. so bottom line is travelers are running out of options, anderson. >> yeah.

it seems like -- i mean at least, i guess until wednesday probably. >> sure. because you just lost all the flights today. essentially anything after 8:00 9:00 they're not there. so all those travelers want to go. i want to go home thursday or friday. now the flight i wanted to be on is booked. when you have planes 95% sold out, you don't automatically reroute those people that got knocked off the flight. it takes some time to get them back on empty seats. >> we've seen long lines at supermarkets a lot of supermarket shelves empty here in new york. alexander fields is in boston tonight. how are the roads? you've been driving around. >> a lot of the cars we're seeing out on the roads are the cars that are supposed to be out here the people getting to work plows and salters and sanders. we know there is a driving ban that goes into effect but not until midnight.

now the thing that people are talking about is the parking ban. the city is under a snow emergency. at 8:00 city officials warn that if you are parked on a main street your car would be towed. and they meant it when they said it, because we're actually seeingsee ing tow trucks come out and pick up cars that are still out here. we heard someone driving with a bullhorn reminding people to get those cars out of those spots. because these are streets that they're going to need to clean up. and these are the streets that they're going to want to clean first. these are the priority roads in boston. as we've been driving around over the last couple of hours, we're starting to see more of the snow starting to stick. most of the stores most of the restaurants have closed. of course you know it's boston. we're seeing a few bars restaurants open here and there. i have to point out, it's almost been amusing to our crews, we drive around that the majority of the people that we seem to see out here on the streets are joggers. this is boston.

the marathon is 84 days away. some people just don't want to seem to hang up those sneakers just yet. although at this point i think they're going to be pretty much forced to. >> jogging at this time of the night in these conditions that's a hearty athlete right there. we'll check in with you, thank you very much. joining me on the phone is eric adams. mr. adams, how is brooklyn coming with the storm so far? >> good. good. i almost feel bad, because i'm getting ready to go out and do a quick jog. >> oh good. >> the streets are good. the mayor and his team has done an excellent job of really cleaning the streets, staying ahead of the snow. >> trent, public transport stops at 11:00, what are people who have to work past that time how are they going to be able to get home? >> this is a 24-hour city so it's always -- it becomes an issue when you talk about

closing down transportation. i think what the mayor did, and oem did, by putting the message out early enough as you remember the snowfall of 2010 many buses were stuck as they tried to navigate the streets, with the snowfall. so they really moved on the side of caution so people could know early enough so they won't be stranded. >> what happens if somebody is found out driving after the ban goes into effect? is it a warning, or what actually happens? >> i know on the highways it was handed down to my office that if you're on the highways you can receive a $300 summons for that. so they're taking this seriously. we learned from hurricane sandy that you don't mess with mother nature. and we've got one of the best teams on the field. so using a football analogy, when a team is on the field, they shouldn't get in the way to get in the field to keep the

plows from cleaning the road. >> how long do you expect it to be stopped for? >> when you're dealing with storms like this anderson as you probably know better than i, that you really have to call it as it moves forward. sometimes it seems as though it's not going to be that harsh, then out of nowhere mother nature starts dumping on us some serious weather. so i think oem and the mayor's office is going to call it based on how they see it move forward. >> one of the things i was surprised to hear the mayor spoeskly said the travel ban also applied to food deliverymen on their bikes. that's also the case obviously in brooklyn, right? >> so true. the winds are really blowing out there. the roads are hazardous. it is extremely slippery. you know just driving on the road or riding a bike if one falls or stumbles you could create an accident. then it will overburden the 911 system and the emergency responders that have to be

responding to a large number of calls. so the least we do to get in the way of that the better we are. >> eric adams, i appreciate you talking to us. have a good run. we'll talk to you maybe when you get back. it's another thing to consider chad you know just as somebody said earlier, it's difficult for some of the operators of these big vehicles that are out trying to clear the snow to see somebody riding a bike to see somebody out walking around. there's a lot of danger for pedestrians. >> there is. there's also something that our mike brooks brought up to me. when the snow finally comes, those people would love for you to clear around the fire hydrant so that they know where that fire hydrant is in case there's an emergency. if you get 20 or 25 inches of snowfall, or a drift over the fire hydrant, and they can't find it it may cost the time to help you save your house. >> we'll have an update from the streets from times square. usually packed with tourists but certainly not tonight. we'll take a look there when we

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welcome back. we're here in new york city. broadway shows went dark tonight. many canceled performances tomorrow as well.

ashleigh banfield joins us now. i understand you've been driving around manhattan. where are you now? what do things look like? >> we're on 7th avenue. from our place, where we work down to times square it usually takes anywhere from i don't know, 10 to 20 minutes to drive. there's no one out here. this is as clear as it gets. when you're going into times square. i'm driving in there, so you're about to see the bright lights of times square. as you said, bright lights but no city when it comes to theater. it is effectively dark even though the lights are on. i talked to the office of emergency management. they've been driving around like us. we got permission to be out here even though in two hours, you're out here you get caught a $300 ticket. people taking warnings and heeds seriously. very few cars out. very few of those yellow cabs out as well. but what we have been seeing are some of the giant garbage trucks

affixed with the snow plows. that's how new york city gets the number of pieces of equipment to clear the 6,000 miles -- i said that right -- 6,000 miles they expect to have to clear before tomorrow and the big part of the storm is over. we're in the lull right now. that's a great thing. but we just talked to the weather folks who said get used to your lull because it will be over in about an hour and you'll have another big, big band of snow. what you're seeing out the front heading into times square will be nothing like this shortly. a couple of cabs but very few people. that's a good thing. i want to show you quickly, if you can pop back to my camera this is just what came out on the -- what came out on the alert, we're getting the alerts that say 11:00, you better be off the streets. that's something we weren't expecting to see. i do want to hop out on the side of the road if i can, for a minute so i can show you, when you talk about tourism, times square is usually jammed at six

minutes to 9:00 eastern time. look at this anderson it is deadsville out here. there's no way that i would be able to do this on any other night. but it's very very quiet. that's a great thing. i've got to be honest with you, if you knew the stats of what these guys have got to do they are up against really big odds to try to get this city cleared. they're effectively driving the distance with the snow plows between new york and los angeles and back again. that's how much roadway needs to be cleared. 126,000 tons of salt and i'm just watching one of the sanitation trucks go by big and noisy, but it's got a nice clear path right through times square which would usually be teeming with people. no one in the theaters no one seeing inging cabaret tonight, or lion king and that's a good thing because it would be jammed with cabs afterwards if they were. 1,800 pieces of equipment snow

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thanks for joining us 9:00 p.m. here in new york city on the east coast which is starting to experience the worst of a winter storm that could be one for the record books. it's getting very windy up here. we're overlooking columbus circle from the time warner center. the snow picking up in the last couple of minutes. we're expecting several inches of snow an hour until late tomorrow possibly.

wind approaching hurricane force. flooding possible as well. people have been told to stay off the roads, so emergency vehicles can get through. in a little less than two hours, new york city will be shutting down. at 11:00 p.m. tonight, all nonemergency vehicles are supposed to be off the streets. you get a $300 fine if you're not. local bus and commuter rail traffic stopped. bridges and tunnels closed. and the subways, the city's life line will stop running. we have correspondents all across the northeast. we're going to be checking in with all of them throughout the coming hours. first, we want to bring in chad myers monitoring this massive storm with me right here. take us through the timeline what to expect overnight into tomorrow. >> you know i think that by 10:00 we're not going to see fifth avenue. those buildings will all be gone in the snow. for a while we had visibility down to 100 feet today. it was really coming down. we're losing central park north

up there because of the snow starting. from central long island now back toward here back toward manhattan, the wind is blowing that snow harder and harder. and then by 10:00, 11:00 tonight, we start to see it pick up to almost its max intensity for montauk. that's a few hours east of here. >> the far east end of long island. >> correct. this is going to spin up and continue to get stronger. the water, although warm in the gulf of mexico and in the atlantic relative to this cold air up here is 47 degrees. think about a hurricane that gets into 85-degree water. what happens? the hurricane gets bigger. so this very cold storm is now over very warm water, 47 relative it's warmer than lake erie and you get lake-effect snow from lake erie. this is what's called a bomb-ogenesis, the winds pick up and snow comes down at rates of two to four inches per hour. >> in some areas, possibly as high as hurricane force winds.

what's that 75 miles per hour? >> probably hurricane force gusts. so 75 miles per hour. >> not sustained -- >> no sustained will be 50. along the coast where the water's flat there's no friction and that's where the waves and the winds will be the strongest. right along any coastal section. again, montauk, or back toward the cape or anywhere up into maine. i think that's where you'll see the 75-mile-per-hour gusts, and probably cape cod. >> and tomorrow in terms of people trying to plan whether to go in to work. travel is going to be incredibly difficult. rail travel shut down. probably a lot of offices shut down as well. this thing's going to last well into tomorrow. >> it's cold out here. it truly is. it's 24 degrees. and the windchill is probably around 10. later tonight it will probably get 10 below windchill. i couldn't feel my toes about ten minutes ago. i went in to warm up a little bit. take care of the pets out there, too. they can't go inside and go get hand warmers. they need your help. they need your help at home to

stay safe to stay warm and stay alive tonight. it's going to be deadly for not only people but for pets as well. >> in terms of when this is over when the worst is done we're not even sure the timeline on this. >> it doesn't stop here for 24 hours. if we get a half inch of snow per hour that's an additional foot. if we get an inch of snow per hour which is likely that's 24 additional inches. we already have about five on the ground. all of a sudden you're back to the 24 to 30 inches to come. >> a lot to cover in this hour. coming back to you throughout the next hour let's go to anna cabrera, on the farther tip of long island to see the worst of it first. anna? >> hey, anderson. this is by many accounts the end of long island here in montauk. it's the end of the day as people are just boarding up their houses hunkering down preparing for the worst tonight, expecting 11 to 18 inches of snow in the overnight hours on

top of a few inches that have already fallen. and then another 7 to 11 inches tomorrow. so we're going to see two to three feet of snow is what they're anticipating for this area. the snow is swirling and picking up here and the winds are picking up as well. at times it's hard to stay standing as the big gusts continue to blow us out here. it could -- we could see wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour is what we're expecting in the overnight hours. and then you also have the storm surge to worry about in this touristy island community, where they're anticipating two to four feet above the normal tide. and here we're seeing folks on snowmobiles also out and about here this evening. not very many cars out, but now people are finding ways to get around creatively and still trying to stay safe on the roads. but you can see folks like this are certainly prepared. excuse me gentlemen, we're live on cnn right now.

why are you out in these conditions? >> because it's really nice. it's not scary. >> and you're here. >> are you making any preparations for the incoming storm? >> yes. we're enjoying it. a little windy. >> it is a little windy. >> it's beautiful out here. >> be safe. thank you for taking a moment. do be safe this evening. just a few people out here anderson. we talked to some other residents earlier who say that they have really stocked up on supplies on gas for their generators, and are going to hope for the best. power has been by the way, improved since superstorm sandy, we're told. they had some major power outages for weeks during superstorm sandy here on long island. and since then the power companies made extra efforts in the improvements of the infrastructure. there's a lot of people hoping that that does the trick for this storm as it passes through, anderson. >> anna, i think chad has

questions as well. >> are you talking about burying 9 power lines, or shoring up the existing power lines? because from what i remember of montauk, and it's been a long long time ago, there's a lot of trees out there, and those tree limbs could take down power lines above the ground. kind of give us the lay of the land there. >> that is the big concern here. we heard that from governor andrew cuomo here. he said there's still a lot of the power lines and infrastructure supporting the power grid here. that is still above ground. and so while they've made improvements they haven't been perfect. he specifically did mention the many trees, and the tree limbs that could come crashing down in the overnight hours with those wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour on top of the heavy snow. so there's still a great hope that those improvements that have been made while haven't been as specific as we'd like that there has been definitely an effort put in place. talking to residents out here they're feeling more confident

than ever that they will be able to kind of ride out the storm so to speak. >> the power company out there on the eastern long island they came under a lot of criticism from residents in the wake of the -- of sandy, just for the way that they dealt with the long time it took to bring back power to a lot of areas. anna we'll continue to check with you. the jersey shore we remember took a pounding from hurricane sandy. it started taking one now. brian todd is there for us. the wind seems to be a real problem where you are, right, brian? >> it is anderson. it's a huge problem now. i can tell you since the last time we spoke to you about 30 minutes or so ago, it has gotten considerably worse here along the jersey shore in asbury park. look at the way the wind is whipping all around the boardwalk. it is really getting stronger now. it is very difficult to stand out here and walk to maneuver

cars anything like this. the wind picking up along with the tide. you can't see the ocean quite as well as you could a little while ago, but the tide is coming in. in a little bit more than three hours from now, it's going to be high tide. and that's considered a real danger for some coastal flooding here. there is no travel ban being instituted here in new jersey but you can see in the way i'm trying to get around on the boardwalk here it is very difficult to move around. they're telling people while there's no travel ban, you really should not risk going out on the roads. they're saying you've got to get your vehicle out of the main roadways if you think you're going to get stuck, because everything will be towed if it is left there in place. i think i heard you mention a little while ago, anderson the roads and bridges, the tunnels and bridges, rather from new jersey here to new york are going to be closed in a couple of hours. we got word on that as well from new jersey state police. check this out, now in addition to the wind which is getting worse, the snow volume is

getting worse. you can see it behind me. you can see it all around me. it is really picking up the snow and wind together. earlier the wind was bad. the snow wasn't quite so bad. but now it is getting very bad on both counts. along with the tide coming in they expect maybe one to two inches per hour starting right about now, anderson, until about noon tomorrow. >> brian, hey, it's chad. it looks like you're on another planet. it looks like you're in a wind tunnel of some sort. we know that millions and millions of dollars were spent on restoring that beach. is that beach just going away? >> you know chad i'm not sure if the beach is. i can't see the beach too well. i can walk over here now and take a look at it and see what i can see. when we talk about the white-out conditions we're really starting to see the beginning of the whiteout conditions. my visibility is getting much much worse. i don't think the beach is

eroding at the moment. from what i can see, it's not. but again, we've got several more hours of this kind of condition here along the jersey shore. so you could see some erosion. and as we talked about, this area was just slammed by superstorm sandy a couple of years ago. some of it hasn't recovered yet. and now they've got this to deal with. it's getting much, much worse. where i'm standing right now. >> brian, it looks like you're getting whipped around from all directions. that wind is just kind of swirling and bringing up a lot of snow. it just keeps changing and moving around. >> it really is anderson. you're getting it from the northeast, kind of coming down hitting me square in the face. if i turn this way, you can still -- i can get some of the back swirl coming up from the south. we know the system is kind of moving this way. what's also a little bit deceiving here it doesn't look like it's accumulating on the boardwalk, and it's not, because the wind is so hellacious right

now. it's getting dangerous, because again, we talk whiteout conditions. the state police told me a short time ago, that's what they're really worried about. they can't get around so well in these conditions and they're telling motorists if we can't get around and get to you, you'll be in a bad way if you try to venture out in this stuff. >> brian, are you seeing people still out? i know when we talked at the beginning of the last hour there was somebody out walking their dog. are the streets pretty empty by now? >> they are empty now. because really in the last half hour or so anderson it has gotten significantly worse. it is very difficult to be out and moving around. we did see a father and a son come out and take pictures about a half hour ago. but nobody is out right now. >> all right. brian, we're going to continue to check in with you, try to stay warm for a little bit. it's amazing to see him out there. >> it's mesmerizing to watch

that. we have a five-inch monitor. if you're watching on a 65-inch big screen at home i can't imagine. >> no reason to be out here as pretty as it is. you see handfuls of people here and there, kind of walking around. but really the roads now significantly reduced in traffic. i mean you can only see about three or four vehicles right here in columbus circle which is rare this time of night. >> all the cell phones are going off. everybody's cell phone is going off with a warning. you must be out of your car and stop driving at 11:00. i was just inside for a few minutes and i could hear all the cell phones. >> set your dvr, watch 360 whenever you want. a lot of storm coverage throughout the hour. we'll take you to connecticut, all private vehicles are supposed to be off the roads statewide right now. also boston the roads closed to cars and trucks at midnight. we'll be right back.

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it's 27 degrees here in new york. the wind is starting to pick up here in columbus circle. the conditions getting worse and worse across the area especially in long island. i think i said the power company here was lilco. it's now pse&g. we've been getting a lot of tweets kathleen fox said she

doesn't believe that i clean up outside my house. i literally own a firehouse in downtown new york and everybody is near it because they're responsible for the sidewalk in front of your house. you have to do it three or four times. as you said the snow keeps coming back. you've got to spread out a lot of salt. >> there must have been 15 people trying to clear it down here. i'm telling you, in five minutes, what was just plowed was completely covered again. >> you've also got to keep putting the salt down a couple hours later doing it again. everybody in new york is responsible legally for the sidewalk in front of their house. if you don't do it i don't know who would do it. >> i'm glad you're a socially responsible citizen. >> anna how is it in mounntauk? >> anderson you talked about shoveling. i'm on a sidewalk that's in much need of shoveling. if you have one handy.

the wind gusts just seem to come out of nowhere. like we're experiencing right now. we're already seeing some significant drifting of snow including where we're standing. it's almost a foot deep with just the snow drifts right here where we're standing. again, we're anticipating the worst of it yet to come with two to three more feet of snow on top of what is already falling. adding in the really gusty winds, up to 70 miles per hour is still what the forecasts are saying. we could see in the next few hours, as the storm system continues to really dump here particularly as we are kind of in the heart of where this storm is supposed to pass. we're just 20 miles from the coast of connecticut. to give you some perspective of where montauk is on the tip of long island. and we're still seeing the very barren roads out here as these winds really just whip across the roads. it gives you a sense of what

could be with the blizzard conditions we're expecting to pick up here a little bit later. for that reason we know that long island will go into a travel ban, starting at 11:00 tonight. and so everybody is asked to stay indoors, stay at home and get ready for what could come. and the folks here are all hoping that it's a 24-hour thing. and it's beyond and we're kind of able to pick up and continue on. but that of course is not what is to be expected. it could be days even -- well to the end of the week before this place is back to normal anderson. >> hey, anna it's chad. as that wind picks up to 60 miles per hour your windchills are going to get really really cold. try to protect yourself from that the cameraman, too. we talked about the pets giving them shelter, making sure they have water, someplace away from the wind. because that windchill affects not only people but it affects the pets as well. >> anna thank you very much. >> right. we know that the --

>> go ahead, anna. >> i was going to say, we know right now, wind gusts are already -- the windchill effect is in the single digits out here. so you're right, when the wind comes, you definitely feel a huge difference in the change in temperature. >> it's definitely getting colder here and we're feeling the wind pick up. >> congratulations, you've been outside for a while. he walks out at 8:00 and says it's not so bad. i told him, i've been standing out here since 9:00 this morning. it's cold. >> brooke baldwin is standing by in boston. brooke we talked to the mayor a short time ago. it sounds like they have things -- they're prepared for this. they've got a lot of equipment out there. how are things right now? >> yeah i heard the interview with mayor marty walsh with you, anderson out of boston. just make sure you check on your neighbors, right? walk with me a little bit, and you can see the biggest difference in talking to you now from the last hour is definitely fewer cars on the road.

you can see somebody's plowing this park area where we are. we've seen a couple of plows, a couple of salt trucks rolling down the main thoroughfare here. just to give you an example, this is the sidewalk here in this park. this is sort of what the streets are starting to look like here in boston. we're watching and waiting to see exactly how much snow accumulates here in the city of boston. i think what we had been seeing tonight, in new york new jersey is really -- and chad can, he can tell you exactly, about an hour maybe an hour and a half from now, just walking back over here we've seen a couple of people with dogs hanging out. listen i've said this before this is a hearty group of people in boston. they know how to do snow. i think the mayor really underlined the issue of towing. because as of 6:00 tonight, if you had your car parked on a main street in boston you had

to move it. they're offering discounts on parking lots because they have to be able to plow the roads. a huge concern here which is the concern really up and down new england, is power outages. i was listening earlier, and there are potentially anticipating hundreds of thousands of power outages. just talking to people they say if they lived through the '78 blizzard they know it will never be knock on wood as bad. we really had the heads-up. if you're a patriots fan, the big concern today in boston is will the pats get out of logan airport before this happens. indeed they have. they should now be in sunny phoenix, arizona. we'll ride this out tonight and see. in about an hour it's definitely coming down but it should really intensify maybe by 10:00 tonight, and we'll be here in the middle of it. anderson? >> brooke it's chad. it's going to go all night. >> exactly. >> we're not going to see a peak at 10:00. you'll see a peak at 10:00,

going to go up at 11:00, keep going up at 3:00 and 6:00. this will not taper off for you until noon tomorrow. >> when i hear that i just want to -- no absolutely. that's what i meant by that's when we really start to see the beginning of the snow pelting us right? >> sorry to be a debbie downer there, brooke but it's going to be coming down for a while. a travel ban has just gone into effect. we'll be right back.

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welcome back. we're live in new york city. 27 degrees, dropping here in columbus circle. it is coming up on 9:30. i'm told the snow will be so bad here we will not be able to see the sign behind us from where we're at. on the other side of the screen it's already getting bad out on the cape. randi, are people still outside at all?

are people -- is the traffic banned at this point? >> anderson we have seen people outside. there's a car going by behind me. so we aren't seeing that many people, we're seeing plow trucks and fire trucks. this is a very busy area so they're taking care of the streets, they call them priority streets, so they're making sure they are clear. i checked with the weather folks, and the wind is certainly picking up. gusting to about 29 miles an hour right now. that's going to be going on. we're getting whiteout conditions beginning here and also experiencing those, and told officially by our weather folks, and the snow is coming down one to two inches per hour. it's a light snow. sort of heavy as it comes down. it's not packed. it's sort of lighter, like this. so that's what you're seeing on the ground. but don't let that fool you, because it is eventually going to get heavy, causing problems with the power lines above ground. they're expecting 120,000 people

to lose power here in the state of connecticut. that's a real problem for folks who couldn't get a generator. we talked with the folks who live across the street here. they have two little kids. they went right after the storm was announced, and they couldn't get a generator. they were already sold out. they couldn't get milk, water, or salt to put on their driveway. luckily, this guy told us that his dad lives a couple of houses down so they know if they do lose power, they can get over there and hopefully get some warmth there. but they have candles going. and heat going right now. the park here they've cut some of the trees here because they want to make sure that the trees, if the snow gets too heavy, that the branches don't fall on the power lines. so they were taking precautions. but again, there are still some folks out wanting to see what's going on curious and still driving around this area. >> randi, try to get warm. we'll check in with you throughout the hour. joining us on the phone, the mayor of hartford connecticut. how well prepared are you in

hartford for what you're seeing out there? >> we're more prepared than ever. we've learned from the previous storms that we know that getting the word out early on and coordinating our resources early in the process is very important. we issued a snow ban at 3:00 this afternoon. and people generally have been abiding by it. i just got a report on the -- i got a report on the number of cars stalled so far. only about 120 cars. that's significantly reduced from previous storms. so people are abiding by the parking ban. we are in the financial and insurance center of the region. we're also the medical hub, all the major hospitals are in hartford. so it's very important for us to provide clear access because we service a broader region. so the routes the major routes going in to the hospitals, they get priority. and i hear that they're absolutely clear in terms of salt. as the storm intensifies, it's just a matter of keeping the

pressure on and keep on removing the snow. in the past sometimes we've had up to four inches falling, and when you get whiteout conditions it's very difficult to continue the snow removal operations. we're hoping that that's not the case. and we're hoping to aggressively pursue the cleaning of the roads. >> people are supposed to be off the roads right now. how long does that stay in effect for? when does that ban get lifted? >> the governor has issued a driving ban on state roads. there's light traffic right now in the streets. it's very light. in the highways it's almost completely gone. i saw no vehicles. i've been driving around the city just making sure that i keep my eye on the different areas of the city making sure that things are running smoothly. the highway system pretty much there's absolutely no traffic. and very very light traffic in the city. we hope that that stays the same. we've been encouraging residents to take advantage, to just stay at home. not be out on the roads.

i'm proud of the community. i want them to continue to do that until the snow finishes and we're able to clear all the roads. it will make it a lot easier for us. but you know again, we're just keeping our fingers crossed that we don't get anything up to 30 inches and anytime that we see where the condition can come down. >> the governor said the state's preparing for 120,000 people to lose power. have you had any power outages so far? >> no. and our experience has been that the power outages tend to be concentrated along the coastline. the last major storm that we had, basically in hartford we had a lot less outages. most of our infrastructure for power distribution is underground. but we do still have quite a substantial number of lines in the neighborhoods. last time though we were very quick to recuperate from being 50% without power to just 10%

without power. we were able to recuperate very quickly. that was in the case in the suburban coastal communities. because, of course the infrastructure that needed to be repaired was a lot more extensive. we're keeping our fingers crossed. there are timely advisories. but we're just making sure that we prepare. we have representatives from the light company that are at the emergency operation center and the point is to make sure that they can assist in clearing trees, but not allowed to touch power lines, that's up to clnp. and we hope to be as successful as we've been in the past in terms of restoring power. >> mr. mayor, i know you've got a lot to do. we wish you the best tonight. >> my pleasure. >> we'll check back with brian todd who's really in the teeth of the storm right now on the new jersey shore. we'll also go back to long island. a quick update on travel around the area when our storm coverage continues throughout the hour, and throughout the night. you know.... there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious

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welcome back. you're looking at a live picture from the top of time warner center here in columbus circle. across the park chad you and i were talking around 8:00

tonight, we looked across the park. you could still see fifth avenue which is about four or five blocks away. there was still enough visibility to see it. you look out there now, you can barely make out the outline of it. >> our visibility is down to about four miles. which translates to about a half inch per hour. when we can't see fifth avenue that would be about three-quarters of an inch per hour. when we can't see the buildings right there, you're talking about one to two inches per hour. the important note here people are going, is this really going to happen? because it doesn't look like a not, and it's flurries. but the storm has only been over the gulf stream for about seven hours now. 30 hours from now, it finally gets past cape cod. that warm water, that is the gulf stream the atlantic ocean, is the fuel to this storm's fire. so it's still going to build for almost another full day. before it finally passes and heads toward nova scotia. we have a lot more to go. >> noon tomorrow we'll still be seeing very difficult, dangerous conditions. >> the winds are still going to

be getting stronger. the snow eventually for new york is going to stop and it will be in connecticut, vermont, new hampshire and boston all of massachusetts. it depends on how long it snows here. if we get 20 more hours of snow we're going to get 20 more inches on top of what we already have. >> let's check in with our brian todd in asbury park on the boardwalk. the wind was swirling all around him. bribe, explain where you are and what you're seeing. >> anderson we're on the boardwalk in asbury park new jersey. the wind is still swirling. it's getting worse. i think it's gotten worse and worse every hour since we've been out here. it is knocking some of the snow drifts off the boardwalk. don't let that deceive you. i just spoke with an asbury park police officer, he said a block or two inland the side roads are really horrible. they don't think they can get snow plows out until maybe 4:00 in the morning. and it will get worse in the

overnight hours. you can see the drift out here. the wind is very very strong. we're told it is maybe 36 miles an hour where we are. i can tell you it feels a lot stronger because the snow is hitting us from different directions. it hits you like needles on your face. constantly when you're out here. the tide is coming up in a couple of hours it's going to be high tide. that's creating more of a concern here because of potential flooding. we also just got told by this officer that in a couple of hours, less than a couple of hours, 11:00 p.m. a travel ban will be in place for this area of new jersey. so they're just telling everyone right now, you cannot come out here. this is the problem. the wind is so strong right now, it's just destroying visibility. it's hard for me to see out here, just a couple of feet from me because it's hitting me. i can see a little bit better because the wind is blowing that way. when i look that direction, the visibility is a little bit better. but when you're driving around you can't take those chances, and you cannot under any circumstances we're told leave

your vehicle anywhere on any of these roads. they will tow it get rid of it. it will just create more of a cascading effect for the snow plows, the spreaders. it will hinder them from doing their job. they're really warning people this is a dangerous period between now and between maybe 10:00 a.m. and noon tomorrow anderson. >> brian, chad was talking earlier about the storm that hit atlanta last year. a lot of people trapped on the highways the lack of preparation for it. it seems like a lot of lessons have been learned not only from that but from sandy. it seems like certainly in asbury there's been a lot more preparation, at least today. >> there has been preparation today, anderson. but as you guys have been discussing the real awareness of this storm didn't start to creep in until yesterday. even nationwide. they knew a storm was coming. they didn't know it was going to be this bad until really last night and this morning. but the people here having been through superstorm sandy a

couple of years ago, they know that -- they now know what the power of nature can do when these storms hit these coastal areas with such force. and this one right now is hitting with considerable force. it's really hard to be out here. >> yeah. brian, go inside get warm. appreciate you being out there for us. late word tonight from amtrak. regional and trains between new york and boston canceled tomorrow. as for air travel it was certainly not a normal day. tomorrow will not be either. renee marsh is at laguardia airport. are they canceled all tomorrow as well? >> well yes, anderson out of laguardia they are all canceled. you will not see any activity. you talk about abnormal this is abnormal. this is one of the country's busiest airports. look we're the only ones in here. you look at the machines no one there. you look at the ticket counters, empty. this is the scene at a lot of the country's busiest airports.

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welcome back to our continuing coverage of the storm. new jersey has announced a state-wide travel ban for all non-emergency vehicles that goes into effect at 11:00 tonight at least until day break. that's what they're saying at this point. that may change throughout the evening. and again, i just want to give you a sense of the conditions that we're starting to see. when we were first on the air

around 8:00 that's a view across new york central park which is five or six blocks. you can easily see the skyline along fifth avenue, it's getting harder to see. and throughout the course of the night, that visibility is going to be drastically reduced. i want to check in with george howe in providence rhode island. george are the conditions there getting worse now in the last hour or so? >> anderson absolutely. hard to even look at the camera because the winds are picking up and you feel that snow kind of hitting you in the face. take a look we're in the middle of the street here in providence rhode island and no one's out here. that's because people are doing what the officials said stay off the streets. at midnight, there's a curfew in effect a travel ban. can we pan over there, so you can show what it looks like under the light with the snow blowing through. the winds have picked up a bit. keep in mind, it's a lot tougher

on the coastline. they're expecting winds up to 60 to 70 miles per hour. right now in the center of providence not too bad, but we are expecting it to get worse hour by hour. >> george thank you very much. you can actually hear a large rumbling rumbling it's the sound of sanitation vehicles on the streets in new york. you see convoys of sanitation vehicles. that's the shot right there. they're usually used to pick up garbage, but they've got snowplows attached to them salt spreaders as well and that's one way that this city is able to get so much coverage of all the boroughs using the sanitation vehicles. right now they're moving around columbus circle and looks like they may be heading up the west side of new york. i want to check in with anna cabrera, on the eastern end of

long island out in montauk. anna, it's getting bad out there. >> blustery to say the least. that snow just hit me in the face right in the eyeballs doesn't feel good. you can see it whipping across the road and when you point to the light, that's when you see how hard the snow is falling, and the wind blowing it sideways. we're expecting some of the strongest wind gusts to hit this peak this point of long island here on montauk, the end of long island that very eastern tip, not far from the coast of connecticut. and i just got an update on significant coastal flooding and the storm surge that's anticipated as well. we might see now 10 to 15-foot waves crashing on the shore. right now, it's two to four foot above normal levels which could cause beach erosion.

but the roads, another huge concern. very treacherous at this hour getting icier, deeper snow drifts starting to pile up on the sides of roads and that's a big concern for this community that is somewhat rural, somewhat removed, a couple of hours outside of new york city and will there be enough support out here for the folks should the worst of the storm really dig in as the night goes on. we have seen a number of plows come up and down this road. so they're trying to get a jump-start on it but pretty tough when you have the wind continuing to blow show over the roadway, anderson. >> going to be a long night for a lot of workers all across long island across new york and the entire northeastern seaboard. we'll be right back. our coverage continues in a minute.

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looking at live images from asbury park in new jersey where conditions have been deteriorating over the last two hours. we've been talking for the last two hours about how bad it looks and how much worse it can get. we want to put it in some perspective. if we get more than 27 inches of snow in new york it will be the largest snowfall in the city's history, beating a record that was set nine years ago. i want to look at other storms in recent past that have made the record books and the history

books. in 1993 they called it the storm of the century, a major nor'easter hit the entire eastern third of the united states. severe weather in the south and blizzards in the north. for the first time in history, all major eastern airports were shut down at the same time. this storm caused more than 300 deaths. in january 1996 the eastern seaboard was hit by another major nor'easter but on the heels of a government shutdown that put most federal employees on leave. heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions hit cities from washington to new york to boston. nine states were declared disaster areas, 60 people died in that storm. the great blizzard of 2003 started with snow in the rockies on february 14th cold temperatures and strong winds turned the storm into a full-blown nor'easter that reached full intensity on president's day, february 17th. more than two feet of snow

covered parts of maryland all the way north to southern new england. 42 people were killed in this storm. the biggest winter storm in new york city history was february 2006, a system that dumped snow from virginia to maine, 26.9 inches of snow was recorded in central park by the end of the storm, the largest amount of snowfall to date. three back-to-back blizzards hit the northeast in february of 2010 each storm bringing prolonged periods of heavy snowfall. by the end of the last one, 68% of the country was covered in snow. >> we've weathered a lot of storms over the year, this one too. but it's going to be a long night indeed. we expect conditions just to continue to deteriorate all throughout the night. travel advisories in effect in some areas and more will be starting to come into effect in

the next hour and two. thank you very much for watching. our coverage continues right now with don lemon and cnn tonight. don? >> anderson thank you very much. yeah it's going to be a long evening for a lot of people here in the northeast. i'm standing outside here on the west side of manhattan and i'm going to do my best to show you around what people are dealing with here. it's really unbelievable what the city of new york and really cities all over the country, all over the northeast, i should say, are dealing with right now. in about an hour this will be illegal, what we're doing, unless you are an emergency vehicle. because the mayor and the governor they have ordered everyone off the roads unless you are emergency personnel. the tunnels and bridges, most of them into and out of manhattan, they have been shut down. virtually shutting down the island of manhattan. it is essentially that an island and there's no communication, at least no tran