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and snowplows hit the street northeast of boston. at daybreak a blizzard warning still in effect. the area could experience near hurricane force winds. >> i just got off of a plow out there. it is very bad. these roads are not safe. the snow is still coming down several inches an hour. and we still have wind gusts, 35, 40, 50 miles an hour. visibility is extremely poor. we expect that the snow will continue to fall heavily throughout the afternoon. we're expecting at least an additional 5 to 6 inches between now and, say, 4:00 or 5:00. >> the storm's also affecting air travel all across the country. the website flightaware.com says airlines canceled almost 4,700 flights today, on top of the 2,800 that were grounded yesterday. hundreds more flights have already been canceled for tomorrow.

our cnn correspondents are strategically positioned along the path of the storm to bring you the very latest as it happens this hour. we have live reports from massachusetts, from out on long island and montauk, also points in between. let's start with the breaking news the dramatic flooding now under way in parts of massachusetts. our alexandra field is joining us from scituate, massachusetts. alexandra, tell us what you're seeing right now because we know a wall has broken and the water is coming in and the flooding has started. >> reporter: yeah that's right, wolf. and it hasn't stopped yet. they had a big hit this morning when the high tide came in. we'll try to show you what's going on. this is something of the water that's come up. it came up during high tide this morning and it went right over this fence. that's what the people are telling me who live inside this house. right now, their basement is flooded four or five feet. look how far back this water goes. these houses are built up on

stilts. but this is water from earlier that came over the seawall. that's the seawall right down there, down that road. the water came up between and around these houses and flooded in between here and then it actually whipped all the way across this street and you can see some of the damage that it's already left in its past. you have some of this debris lining the sidewalk outside this home. these sticks that are down even some buoys we're seeing in people's yards, a tremendous amount of damage. these roads are becoming impassable all around this neighborhood because this water is in some spots could be a foot, maybe two feet deep. we're not sure. this road slopes down a bit. but cars absolutely cannot pass through here. the national guard did come through, they came in earlier today and they rescued people from this house. we're also seeing police in high-axle vehicles coming through as well. they have cut through the water along with some front-end loaders. but you can't drive through this. there are people who are still in these houses. we keep seeing people coming out

of the door there, those steps, people coming out, looking around and assesses the conditions. what i've seen since i've been out here for the last hour or so not only is the wind picking up but the snow is coming down, too. this street is covered in snow. it wasn't when we got out here. people in these houses when they come out are doing what they can. they can't walk through that water. one gentleman had boots on garbage bags over his boots and he rode a bicycle through it. and we saw people who walked all the way down the street there going to the beach. they brought sleds with them like it's going to be a dangerous thing to do. the wind is really kicking up. the major concern for people that live here is the fact that high tide will come back and we're expecting to see a lot more flooding. that's between 4:00 and 5:00 tonight and they could see what they saw around 4:00 and 5:00 this morning, the high tide combined with these wind gusts. that's when you get the storm surge that floods these streets.

they've seen it in scituate before. this is a community used to flooding. they see the water come over those roads. but people who live here tell me this is more than they have seen before. it took their breath away. >> alexandra, i want you to stand by. our meteorologist, ivan cabrera, is taking a look at the bigger picture over there. is this an isolated area of massachusetts, scituate where this flooding is occurring, it could get worse later with high tide or all along the massachusetts coast? >> the national weather service essentially has a coastal flood watch for the entire coastline. we have had sustained tropical storm force wind gusts with the wind pushing in out of the northeast. if you're familiar with this area where we're broadcasting from live scituate that's the south shore of boston about 30 miles south of boston. that will get you to scituate and what you're looking at right now. it's a very exposed area. with those nor'easters, they typically flood out.

the next high tide we're talking about winds backing away. that means we'll get more of a northwesterly wind. so the high tide won't produce what you're seeing there. i think the worst of the flooding has already happened. we have to wait for that water to recede. i don't think we're going to be talking about the kinds of levels we've seen because of the combination of a couple of tides that we saw with that strong northeasterly wind. >> that's encouraging at least for later. but looks pretty awful right now. as you say, that warning is all along the coast of massachusetts, not just there in scituate scituate. stand by. another casualty of the storm, this coastal surge we've been talking about, the major seawalls in various areas, including in marshfield, massachusetts. brian todd is traveling in the area right now. brian, what are you seeing about this damaged seawall and its impact? >> reporter: wolf we're heading

to marshfield massachusetts, right now. we've been on the phone with officials there. the state representative, i talked to a short time ago and fire officials there. what we know now is that a seawall breached early this morning in marshfield, massachusetts. it caused significant flooding and the state rep just told me at least 11 homes suffered significant damage in marshfield, massachusetts. they had to do evacuations with the help of the national guard. the fire department was on hand to do those evacuations, to rescue people who are stranded from their homes. they don't have a head count on how many people have been in need of rescue throughout the day or how many people they still have yet to pull out possibly from this situation. but they do say that no one has been luther that they know of so far. but, again, this is still kind of a rolling situation there in marshfield with their attempt to get people out of their homes. what they are concerned about is the situation with high tide. i think you mentioned that a

short time ago in the nearby town of scituate. high tide in marshfield will be about 5:00 p.m. eastern time today. and what we're told is the real worry is if the power is still on in some of these houses and the water rushes in they could have short-circuiting fires could be caused by that. and they did tell us that they had at least one house burn down in another incident some years ago when that did happen. so they are really concerned about high tide later on today, wolf. >> what about the area where you've been in massachusetts, the roads? what are they like? >> reporter: wolf we're heading into massachusetts right now. i believe we're on the i-95 corridor. and we can show you kind of the view out our dashcam. our photojournalist can show you the dashcam here. the roads aren't too bad. you have about half of it plowed on a given interstate. but a lot of the roads are passable today and we're seeing some of that. but it is inconsistent. we're looking at some areas that

we come across that have not been completely plowed. and where we are at the moment now, it's not snowing really at all. but we know we're heading into some areas in massachusetts where it's still snowing pretty heavily. they may see some records broken there. >> thanks very much brian. let's check in with jennifer gray who's on the ground in boston right now. boston, jennifer, has been hit pretty hard. how many inches of snow so far and how many more are they expecting? >> reporter: in portions of boston they've received over 18 inches of snow. other areas east in the city received about a foot. where i'm standing i had a tape measure earlier but it's buried out in the snow somewhere. i'm guessing we've had about 15 inches right here where we've been standing all day. it's really hard to measure because the problem is all those snow drifts the winds whipping 30 and 40 miles per hour. and it's just taking this powdery snow and moving it elsewhere elsewhere. hard to get an exact measurement.

but i would say a little over a foot. it's an eerie feeling here because the roads are essentially empty. there's no street traffic. and you can hear the winds howling between the buildings. boston is protected right here. so we weren't getting the coastal flooding like you're seeing elsewhere in massachusetts. but we are getting a lot of snow. and the winds are picking up. power outages are to a minimum as well. and the plows have been out clearing the streets. if we pan a little bit over here you see things are starting to clear out in the streets. these plows are keeping a good job with that. we are getting these snow mounds though, on the sides of the streets. dogs having a good time. some people are out and about. but when these gusts of wind come, you basically can't see anything. that's the danger. that's why people are urged to stay off the streets. that travel ban still in place here in boston. wolf? >> jennifer 15 inches so far. still expecting more in boston or is it basically over?

yesterday, there were great fears they could hit that record of 27 inches. . >> reporter: yeah. some places in the city could definitely get into the mid-20s or so before this is all said and over. it's still going to come down. those bands are still coming into boston as we speak. that low churning just off the coast of the cape. by the time we get to tomorrow morning, this storm will have lifted north and will be off the coast of nova scotia. we have from now until about midnight for this snow. then it's going to start tapering off and things will improve. but several more inches will be picked up here in boston. >> jennifer, we'll get back to you as well. thank you. as we've been saying massachusetts, that's one of the states hit hardest by this blizzard with some spots nearing near 80-mile-per-hour winds. now there's some significant flooding as we've been showing you. up next i'll speak with an emergency management official about the extent of the damage. and later on a somber ceremony marking 70 years since the liberation of the most

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take a look at these pictures north of boston only about four miles from the coast. pretty grim looking over there as you can see. massachusetts is getting the brunt of this blizzard. right now, more than two feet of snow have fallen, at least in parts of the state. it's expected to get more before it's all over. the snow continuing for several

more hours. just a little while ago, the governor of massachusetts, charlie baker, said he was lifting the travel ban for some of the counties around the state but added this important word of caution -- >> the lieutenant governor has talked to a lot of the local officials out there and they have all asked us to ask the public to use what i would describe as sort of best judgment with respect to going out. if you don't need to go out, i think those folks who are still in the process of cleaning up would appreciate it if you would give them the room and the opportunity to do that. >> joining us on the phone is peter judge, right now, spokesman for the massachusetts emergency management agency. thanks so much for joining us, peter. we spoke with you yesterday. let me get right to the breaking news we've been following, this flooding along the massachusetts coast. we were showing our viewers live pictures of the water coming in off the atlantic coast and the houses now, at least parts of the houses under water. there are some of the pictures right there. what's going on along the

massachusetts coast? >> well our concern is really with the next high tide particularly around the 4:00 hour. we're expecting it to be a little bit worse than our 4:00 a.m. high tide which put a lot of that water in those communities. although we didn't have major damage associated with that high tide we could very well see something on a worse level later this evening. >> it's not just in scituate it's all over the massachusetts coastline, is that right? >> absolutely. all the south coast, parts of nantucket, parts up on the north shore of massachusetts as well. so any coastal areas really have to hunker down for this afternoon. >> and some of the seawalls have broken, is that right? >> there's a particular seawall that breaches in the town of marshfield. there was a home there that was unoccupied that sustained some serious damage. but other than that that's been the main issue.

but, again, whether there are dunes or whether there are seawalls we have to watch everything this afternoon. >> how many more hours are your experts telling you the snow will continue coming down in at least parts of boston area, other parts of massachusetts? >> well into the dark right now. there are areas they say will probably get an additional 10 inches of snow. some areas right now, it's snowing harder than it's snowed at any time during this snowfall. where it's coming down inches an hour. so looks like the snow kind of broke up. western massachusetts lightened up. eastern massachusetts, we're getting the worst of it. >> boston we're saying -- at least parts of boston got 18 inches so far. they could get a whole lot more, is that right? >> right. they're talking about creeping up on that 27.5-inch record. >> so this could be as you told us yesterday, one of the five worst snowstorms in the history of massachusetts, certainly in the history of boston? >> i think i could comfortably say that at this point, yes.

>> is everybody dealing with it okay? you're in charge of emergency management. what's the latest? >> people are doing a great job. we've lifted the travel ban for the western part of the state. eastern part of the state as well, folks have stayed off the roads, allowed the folks with the plows to try to stay up with this storm. hopefully it will get people back to work and back on the roads some time tomorrow hopefully. 5:00 this afternoon, governor baker will then have a press conference and maybe there will be some decisions in that regard as well. >> because what we were worried about yesterday also on top of everything else were power outages. there could be a lot. how is the situation with power outages? as you know i'm especially concerned about the elderly if they lose power, they lose their heat, that could be a disaster. >> you're right. we're very lucky in that the snow for the most part even most of the state, it was very light and fluffy. we were really concerned with wet and heavy snow. that produces the power outages. so therefore the highest we've

hit all day is 36,000 which if you're one of those people, that's a lot. but in the great scheme of things we were anticipating as much as hundreds of thousands of outages. so in that regard i think local officials have reached out to those elderly populations and a lot of shelters have been set up and basically a lot of friends and neighbors, i think, are doing a great job of taking care of those folks out there. >> finally, any deaths yet related to the storm? >> no, no deaths. no serious injuries that we're aware of at this point. >> that's good news on that point. peter, we'll check back with you. good luck to you and to all the folks in massachusetts which has been heavily hit. while massachusetts is certainly suffering, new york city was spared the worst of the storm. connecticut was hit relatively hard with some high winds, heavy snow. we're going live to connecticut when we come back. the exhilaration of a new engine. painstakingly engineered without compromise. to be more powerful... and, miraculously, unleash 46 mpg highway. an extravagance reserved for the privileged

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take a look at this. as you can see, this storm seems to have stalled at least a bit in the new england area over parts of massachusetts. the snow is continuing to come down for several more hours into the evening, we're told. we're monitoring this situation in the boston area and other parts of massachusetts, especially along the coast where there already has been some serious flooding. but i want to get to connecticut right now where the governor there says the travel ban will be lifted by the end of this hour. the governor dan malloy is urging people to limit their travel to use common sense while driving. let's go to cnn's rosa flores who joins us from new london. what's going on over there? >> reporter: you know the governor lifted the state travel

ban. but in a lot of the municipalities including this one, that travel ban is still going to be into effect even after 2:00 p.m. once that state travel ban has been lifted. why? take a look around a lot of these smaller towns, in this particular town about 30,000 residents, they have a limited amount of plows worthat are working around the clock. you can see one right here right now. they've been plowing this street. as you take a look at this scene -- notice a few things. here is the key, wolf. this is why the mayor tells us that things are not so bad in connecticut. first of all, you see the streets are plowed. there are plows able to get access to the roads. the other thing, those red traffic lights, very important. the power here in connecticut has been on. the governor was saying that they were preparing for about 120,000 people to be without

power. and guess what? that didn't happen. there's only about -- right now, i just checked. and connecticut light and power are showing about 29 people without power. and i'll tell you exactly why. if you take a look at the snow, it's very powdery. it's very light. it's not the kind of snow that is going to pull down power lines, that's going to pull down branches and create chaos. it's very powdery. it's still dangerous, wolf. but it's not causing the power outages that were expected. >> looks like in connecticut they dodged a significant bullet over there. rosa thanks very much. meanwhile, the snow and the ice and the wind and now the flooding that's significant at least in parts of massachusetts, take a look at these live pictures we're showing you, one ft hardest-hit areas along the massachusetts coast. we'll update you and all the day's other important news right after this. k at life. especially now that i live with a higher risk of

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welcome back. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. new england is getting pounded right now by that powerful winter storm moving across the northeast. in massachusetts, officials say strong waves washed away part of a seawall in marshfield causing significant damage to at least one home in the area. officials are deeply concerned about the high tide later today between 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. along the shore that could cause significant flooding. the nearby town of scituate reported icily floodwaters and debris flowing through the streets. seven states from new jersey to new hampshire declared states of emergency ahead of the storm. a blizzard warning is still in

effect for parts of new england. besides the heavy snow the area could still experience near hurricane force winds. let's get the very latest on the flooding along the massachusetts coast. our alexandra field is joining us now. she's in scituate right on the coast in massachusetts. what are you seeing now, alexandra? >> reporter: what's amazing is in the last hour the snow's really starting to come down, the wind starting to pick up. these roads are impassable. that's a high-axle police vehicle that just cut through this water. these are the only vehicles that can get through at this point. they're up at the beach. that's the ocean and that's the cause of the problem. that's the seawall that's right down this road. and that's where all of that water came from the high tide, caused the water to breach that seawall. it caused this incredible flooding more flooding than

people say here they have ever remembered seeing. those are homes that are used to flooding. they've seen it before. but in this case these homeowners tell me they have floodwaters four or five feet high in their basement. and now they are only wondering what the next high tide will bring that comes between 4:00 and 5:00 today. it's a big concern for the people out here because they have water on that side water on that side and they have the ocean behind me. i want you to see this car trying to get down the road here. this is a jeep. it's had to turn around. there are a few cars that have been making their way out to where we are. but at a certain point, they are forced to turn around because you can't get through. so many of these streets blocked by the water that's come up. in some cases, still a few feet deep. the wind and the water combined causing a number of problems for the people who own the houses out here. you see some of the debris that's been left behind as the water ripped through here. down in this driveway things knocked over, chaos all down

this street. the big concern, though what will happen later this afternoon. i spoke to a couple of guys who actually took their sheds out to the beach about an hour ago. when we got here there wasn't this much wind or snow. those guys just came through here and told me the waves are really big and it was time for them to pack it up. wolf? >> alexandra, we'll get back to you. but i want to go to our meteorologist jennifer gray. she's in boston. give us an update on where the storm is heading. has it stalled over the boston area? is that what i'm hearing? >> reporter: yeah it's slowed down just a little bit. it is swirling just off the coast of the cape. that's where it's going to be about 6:00 tonight, that low turning offshore. by 6:00 tomorrow morning, though it's going to really have moved north quite a bit. it's going to be off the coast of nova scotia. that means things will be tapering off. we expect the snow to continue over the next several hours and

then taper off during the overnight hours. by tomorrow morning, we should be in better shape. but the snow has been coming down just like this since i was eating dinner last night around 7:00. so we're still seeing the snow. then we get this gust of wind and you can see the snow coming off the ground the blowing snow combined with the snow that's falling. i've had this little weather station out here all day as well. it's picked up winds of about 25 30 miles per hour where we are. but we know that there have been gusts quite a bit stronger elsewhere around the city especially like we've been talking about around nantucket where they had winds at around 78 miles per hour. that's where you're getting the power outages. still roughly 30,000 people without power in the state of massachusetts. we're also concerned with plowing the streets. people have been off the roads, which has been good. it's almost eerie here in boston because the lack of people out and about. you can just hear that wind howling. but here are some of the roads that have been plowed. if you look over here that's where it's all being pushed to.

we're seeing snow mounds all over the city. it's far from over. we're still going to be dealing with this snow for at least 12 more hours. we could get close to the record 28 inches of snow. >> the two blizzards i remember in '78 and then in 2013 we had 27 inches in boston. if they get more, that will be a record for boston. we'll stay on top of this together with you, jennifer, thanks very much. no surprise the storm is crippling travel thousands and thousands of flights already have been canceled. roads, a lot of them, have been impassable. there are train tracks covered with snow. we'll update you on all the travel situation information you need to know. also other news we're going to hear directly from president obama about his critical meeting with the new king of saudi arabia. the president spoke exclusively with cnn today. our own fareed zakaria. stand by. he also spoke about that drone

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the blizzard causing a nightmare for travelers. more than 4,700 flights in and out of the united states are canceled today. new york boston philadelphia among the hardest-hit areas. let's go to rene marsh who's over at laguardia in new york. you have new information rene? >> reporter: yes absolutely it's not every day that you see one of the country's busiest airports look like this, wolf. not a lot of activity here. but we are getting new information that in about another hour from now, the very first flight will land here at laguardia airport. that's pretty significant. it is only one flight but it is significant in the sense that yesterday we saw all operations suspended here. we were the only ones here.

look around, there's not a lot of activity now. so again, in about another hour spirit airlines coming from ft. lauderdale here to laguardia. i spoke with one passenger who was able to get a boarding pass on that flight. and she's just very excited because she spent 24 hours here sleeping at laguardia. i spoke with several others who did the same thing. and it's not just here. we're talking about a ripple effect at airports along the northeastern corridor. jfk, newark airport had a tough time as far as cancellations. boston had a tough time as well. the top five airports that really got hit hard again, newark jfk, laguardia, philadelphia all of them really seeing lots of cancellations. but the first sign that things are slowly coming back to life with this one flight coming here limited operations at some of the other northeastern airports, wolf. >> it's encouraging, especially

in new york obviously not hit as hard as a lot of people had feared. rene, thank you. new york city may have escaped the worst of the storm but the same can't be said for areas outside the city. we'll talk to an official from long island especially the eastern part of long island, suffolk county. what are they doing to keep people safe over there right now? also coming up a very dark chapter nor world history. we go live to auschwitz in poland as it commemorates the 70th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz. my goal was to finally get in shape. not to be focusing again, on my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis. so i finally made a decision to talk to my dermatologist about humira. humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. in clinical trials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin

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we're continuing our coverage of the storm that's still hitting parts of the northeast. new york city certainly missed the worst of this blizzard. but just to the east on long island a very dangerous and different situation. some areas already have seen 28 inches of snow so far. power has been knocked out for hundreds of customers, if not more. and there are deep concerns right now about flooding and erosion along the long island shore. two deaths already have been reported. joining us on the phone right now is suffolk county executive steve ballone. this storm is still going on. if you move east of islip, the airport there in islip and move out towards the hamptons and montauk, it's still pretty awful, right? >> yeah, absolutely. there are parts of the region here in new york that feel like they dodged a bullet. but in suffolk county we were hit by it and hit hard. and the storm is still going on. on the east end of long island out in montauk, other areas out

there, in the hamptons the snow is still falling and we have more than two feet of accumulation in large parts of the county huge amount of snow to move out of the way. >> and so already two feet, let's say. are you expecting more in the coming hours or is it basically over? >> we think it's wrapping up. there's maybe a little more coming down at this point. now we turn to the mass operation of removing the snow. and it actually worked out. the governor's travel ban that was put in place worked really effectively. we had a nor'easter a couple of years ago where we had hundreds of motorists stranded out here in suffolk county. the difference between then and now is night and day. and it's because the operators were out there without the vehicles and the cars in the way. and the public did a great job of responding to the calls from local officials and the governor. >> what about flooding? >> flooding is always a concern here when we're dealing with sandy victims who are still --

many of whom are still struggling to recover, still aren't in their homes. that's always a concern. we've had relatively moderate flooding at this point, isolated and scattered instances of flooding. thankfully we've been fairly fortunate on that end. >> steve bellone, thanks very much. good luck. more on the blizzard coming up on cnn. but up next, a very different story. survivors and other dignitaries have gathered today to mark a somber anniversary. it was on this day 70 years ago that the outside world got a glimpse of the horrors of auschwitz. auschwitz, the death camp was liberated on this day 70 years ago. we'll go there live for a report. eh, you don't want that one. yea, actually i do. it's mucinex fast-max night time and it's got a nasal decongestant. is that really a thing? it sounds made up. i can't sleep when i'm all stuffy. i take offense to that. i'm not going to argue with a talking ball of mucus. i think you're being a little hasty... he's not with me.

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president obama paid his respects in saudi arabia today. he made a quick stop there following his visit to india to meet with the new king who succeeded the late king abdullah. the president wanted to reiterate the u.s. partnership with saudi arabia in this very volatile middle east. the first lady several prominent republicans, including john mccain, condoleezza rice were part of the official u.s. delegation. before heading to saudi arabia the president spoke exclusively to our own fareed zakaria and gave insight on america's complicated relationship the saudi kingdom and the issue of human rights. >> will you speak about the

blogger to the saudis? >> i think on this visit, obviously, a lot of this is just paying respects to king abdullah who in his own fashion represented some modest reform efforts within the kingdom. but we have maintained a sustained dialogue with the saudis and with all the other countries that we work with. what i've found effective is to apply steady consistent pressure even as we are getting business done that needs to get done and oftentimes that makes some of our allies uncomfortable. it makes them frustrated. sometimes we have to balance our need to speak to them about human rights issues with immediate concerns that we have in terms of counterterrorism or dealing with regional stability.

but the trend line is one that i will sustain throughout the rest of my presidency and that is to make an argument to those friends and allies of ours that if they want a society that is going to be able to sustain itself in this age, then they're going to have to change how they do business. >> we also now know that the drone that crashed on the white house lawn yesterday was just being used recreationally by u.s. government employees. the accident has certainly raised a lot of questions about white house security and drones. fareed also asked the president about that during the exclusive conversation they had in india. >> americans have been very interested to hear about this drone that landed in the white house, your backyard where you and your family lives. are you confident that you understand how you would prevent the next one from being armed? >> well this is a broader problem. i'll leave the secret service to

talk about this particular event. but i've actually asked the faa and a number of agencies to examine how are we managing this new technology. because the drone that landed in the white house you buy at radio shack. you know that there are companies like amazon that are talking about using small drones to deliver packages. there are incredibly useful functions that these drones can play in terms of farmers who are managing crops and conservations who want to, you know take stock of wildlife. so there are a whole range of things we can do with it but we don't really have any kind of regulatory sturructure at all for

it. so i've assigned some of the relevant agencies to start talking to stakeholders and figure out how we're going to put an architecture in place that makes sure that these things aren't dangerous and that they're not violating people's privacy. you know in some ways fareed this is similar to what's happened in cyberspace. these technologies that we're developing had the capacity to empower individuals in ways that we couldn't even imagine 10 15 years ago. >> you can see fareed's full interview with president obama this sunday 10:00 a.m. eastern on "fareed zakaria gps" only here on cnn. witnessing the atrocities committed there is more than enough to keep me awake until the end of time. those haunting words spoken today by an auschwitz survivor at a ceremony parking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious death camp. by then more than about 1.1

million jews and 100,000 other non-jews had been sent to the complex and were murdered there in occupied poland. they were killed by the nazis. world leaders joined nearly 300 ageing survivors today to pause and to remember. cnn's ivan watson is joining us live from the camp. ivan i was watching a lot of this earlier today. tell us what happened because you were there. it was a powerful few hours. >> absolutely. when you consider that some 300 elderly survivors of the nazi death camps here they came back to this compound of barbed wire of prison barracks of snow for this moving ceremony. we heard from some of the survivors, a woman who described it how she was a little girl who was shot in the arm by a nazi ss officer.

a polish political prisoner who described how if you were jew, you had two days to live. if you were a priest you had a week or two to live here. and if you were a political prisoner or healthy, maybe you had two or three months to live. the organizers here say that this may be one of the last gatherings of its kind with so many eyewitnesses to this -- one of the darkest chapters in human history, eyewitnesses gathered together because sadly, these survivors are in their 80s, 90s, and that added poignancy to this gathering. but also there were messages of warning. i'd like you to take a listen to one man, an 86-year-old polish jew named roman kent who broke down while speaking at the podium. take a listen. >> that's the key to my

existence. we survivors do not want our past to be our children's future. i hope -- i hope and believe that this generation will bet on mankind's great traditions tempered by understanding that these traditions must embrace pluralism and tolerance, decency and human rights for all people. >> and some of the speakers here wolf warned also what they described as a rising tide of anti-semitism in europe. you've had an attack in paris against a jewish supermarket just a few weeks ago, a deadly attack against the jewish museum in the belgian capital brussels just last may. and the president of the world

jewish congress saying how can this be possible that 70 years after 6 million jews were murdered across europe that once again jews are afraid in some european cities to walk wearing their ya ma cans in public. that added a contemporary worrying thought to what should have been a day of remembrance for the dead some 70 years ago. wolf? >> and ivan there were many world leaders who were there, right? >> absolutely. you had the french president, francois hollande who came. of course france and paris still reeling from the attacks that took place in paris a few weeks ago. you had the polish president, who was hosting the event, as well as the president of poland's neighbor to the east, ukraine. a notable absence here was vladimir putin, the president of russia. poland having tough relations

with ukraine -- with russia rather because of the war in the east. also very notable, wolf, because it was soviet soldiers that liberated these death camps 70 years ago from the nazis. >> yes, it was. all right. we're going to have much more on this story coming up. ivan thank you very much. don't miss cnn's special report "voices of auschwitz." it will premiere tomorrow night, 9:00 p.m. eastern. it's a very powerful documentary. that's it for me. see you at 5:00 p.m. eastern in "the situation room." "news room" with brooke baldwin starts right now. good afternoon. i am brooke baldwin live here in boston. i want you to stay with me because for the next two hours, we'll be live in the thick of it here in the conditions. we will show you what people are facing not just here in the city of boston all up and down the new england