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batter, boston, and new york. blizzard warnings are issued across the region and people are told to stay home and brace for extreme cold. also coming up a 2nd term for italy's president, despite his wish to step down 80 year old sergio matter. rella is set for another 7 years in the office after multiple votes failed to find a successor. and raphael and dal chase is a record 21st grand slam at the australian. open a denise mid, yet it is determined to wreck his dream. ah, i'm nick spicer, welcome to the program. a major winter storm has slammed into the us east coast with high winds and heavy snow. severe weather alerts were issued across a region of around 70000000 people. residents are being urged to stay in doors and

avoid unnecessary travel. the snow storm has almost emptied the streets of boston, with authorities urging people to stay at home. the bumps, cycling is met, the religious call. it has generated a dangerous mixture of snow and hurricane force winds. in new england storm searches, a threatening communities along the coast, forcing many people to flee inland to safety. we got some sand bags. we elevated things in our basement, but this is one of the worst storms i've seen so far. tens of thousands have been left without power along the east and us. in rhode island, driving is only allowed in emergencies. new york city was spared the worst of the blizzard. some were out enjoying a rare sight manhattan blanketed by half a meter of snow. this is just a nice sweet winter snowfall along so happy that it is harry unless you hit her

and soon. ha, okay, there snowball fights. this storm is expected to continue until sunday morning until then. it's stay home or get there as soon as possible. and cape cod in massachusetts is one of the worst hit places with 100 percent of customers in the town of province town losing power on saturday. and from there i'm joined by meteorologist matthew capuchin matthew. at least 10 states apparently been affected by the storm. it, that's the 5th of the entire united states. what's the situation like now? yes, if lea a pretty impressive storm, you know, we had about 10000000 people who saw foot or more of snow fall behind right now you can see about 50 to 60 cent heaters on the ground. the snow just ended about 2 or 3 hours ago. we'll look at this, we're going to bare pavement yesterday. now, all of

a sudden we have really impressive snow totals that fence over there is roughly about as tall as me. and now all of a sudden notice about how deep that snow is. now one of the interesting element to talk about how this is a bomb site. well, indeed it is. but what does that mean? well, we're a strong low pressure system. it starts air and evacuated out the top. this thing intensified so quickly that its central pressure just plummeted. it was like a vacuum cleaner. so went from barely anything, a blip on weather maps to a hurricane force low in just 24 hours time, almost doubling the pace of rapid strengthening to get that bomb psych loan status . well, that's pretty impressive and, and this blizzard is expected to keep the east coast in its grip from what we hear well into sunday, to the authorities, you feel have a situation under control. what was it right now? so i'm actually pulling way for the canadian maritime, so no more blizzard for us. but now it's kind of around the weather because

temperatures are dropping quite a bit. a lot of folks, as you mentioned, you don't have power 100 percent to provincetown without power about 20 percent of cape cod as a whole without power. now, temperature is about minus 5 to minus 10 degrees celsius. that's dangerous for the elderly population who don't have heat. and so will officials are crying. i haven't really going to press like even a road phone with no phone but centimeters per hour earlier on. that's something that no road crew can handle. so my 3, for example, still has been plowed that it's cold temperatures. dangerous for people who don't have the necessary precautions in place. yeah, i can imagine and listen, we're just starting 2022. we look back on 2021 in the states, the weather stories, the deadly colds in texas, california, burning kentucky, tornadoes this year is there seems to be starting off on, on, on a negative foot again. is there some sort of relationship to this pattern to global warming? that's a really good question. now the ne does see these storms quite

a bit once or twice every winter ones. this magnitude are pretty rare. now. overall, thanks. if you want to do climate change, where you think less snow in general, because obviously it's a little bit warmer, so it's tougher to get snow. but the cool thing is because it's a little warm or we're adding more moisture to the air. so for occasions where we already be below freezing now there's just that much extra moisture to work with. so we actually get bigger snow during the high and event. so to recap, overall less snow. but when we do get snow storms once in a while, they tend to be a little bigger than they otherwise would be. boston actually set their rhetoric with snow january day, ever observe with record stating that the 1800. so this really was a high end of that. okay, that's the meteorologist math and compute. she showing us the snow storm and cape cod, massachusetts. thanks so much. thank you. sergio marilla has been re elected as italy's president after 6 days and 8 rounds of voting. the 80 year old previously said he

didn't want to serve another term. prime minister mario draggy urged him to stay on to insure political stability in the country. at a rela, is seen as a compromise camp. after all, the other candidates put forward by the coalition government failed to gain enough support this urgent matter. rella said he is staying in power to help italy recover from recent hardships with their quantity. only these conditions require that one doesn't slip away from the duties to which one is called upon and all meant that they won't. but naturally these must have pre valence over other considerations. and other personal prospects with the commitment to interpret the expectations and the hopes of our fellow citizens. and if parents, if they're not, they're going to study in and seem a group to has been following the story force from room earlier, we asked her if sergio met her as reelections president was a last resort. well,

it seemed to be the only resort at this stage in terms of the only one that all political factions, whether the center, right, or the center left, felt that the could get behind. i mean, this voting process went through 6 days, 8 rounds of voting before the president was re elected with 759 boat right after he was, he passed that 505 threshold that made him president. there was a lot of laws in the parliament, and people finally found the solution. mario drug, the prime minister, releasing a statement after the election thing. it was blended news for italian. he thank the president and said that the strong parliament parliamentary backing show that he was the right man for the jobs. and pretty much the just for we do like said martha rella as president and mario drug remaining in his role is prime minister.

britain is preparing to offer nato. a major deployment of troops worships and jets to eastern europe. prime minister boers, johnson said the move was in response to russia's rising hostility towards ukraine . if nato accepts the offer, it could double. the number of british troops already stationed there. american president joe biden, also plans to send american troops to boost their presence in the region. us defense officials are warning that russia has deployed enough forces on ukraine's border to invade the entire country. detentions on another border, you remember, poland is working on a permanent security fence along its frontier with bellows for months. thousands of migrants have been trying to reach the european union via that route. poland says the wall is justified response to the crisis. the critics say it's also a barrier for genuine asylum seekers. the foundation for

a border wall is dug into the frozen ground along the polish bellow ruffian border . the 1st stage for a 5 me to high steel fence with motion detectors, poland barrier to prevent people from crossing whatever these fence is being erected for safety reasons. so that we don't have to fear any further provocation from belarus. details of the exact route of the fence are being kept secret. every day between $20.50 undocumented people tried across the border, se polish border gods that significantly less than a few months ago. but there met by almost 10000 polish soldiers and gods, and loudspeakers blaring in different languages. the polish border is closed. this is the end of your journey go back to minsk. but refugee 8 organizations believe the more than 360000000 euro project is miss guide. it snapped on and the vast sums of money spent on building this barrier would be enough to establish an effective

arrival and asylum system in poland. this has been lacking for years. back we open up for critics. the fence is not a sign of strength, but rather of the failure of polish and european refugee policies. time for sports . so raphael nadeau is chasing a record 21st grand slam in today's australian open final. in melbourne. the spanish tennis champion will face off against de niel madrid of 25 year old russian player is aiming to with his 2nd successive grand slam title after his victory at the us open. in september. this year's competition was marked by the deportation of the unvaccinated tennis star novak joker ridge. and let's go to tim countdown and melbourne. he's a sports journalist for a b, c television. thanks for joining us. rafael adel had a foot injury last year. could that hurt his chances are the 21st grand slam title you think? well yes, look, i mean the return to refound,

adult content here is connect with her hands on, including re laskey, put him out of wimbledon. and he was open at one stage including could still be in the east ria, but he's come back. he also had on even little minerals about of covered $98.00. so it looked at one stage in early part of the year last night. even see, you know, with a now the final numbers. and so what if those were entitled for living self image and grabbing a tiny bit of trouble hearing if you could just talk a little bit louder, that would be grand. second question here. magenta has a history of stopping grand slam records. doesn't me? absolutely. well, we saw last year, which in the us i've been final and that was not the 1st time it made a final but to search and feel there. and he could put in

a real real to read tonight because it has been down in a couple of years. it was down to fit to love it for the final, but managed to kind of find a way for the real difference in it. but it has managed to win matches journalists, tim, calendar and melbourne. thanks so much. we'll be staying in touch to see who is going to win the trailing open later today. man's final monday, thanks. since 2018 close to a 3rd of australia's corrales have died as a result of bush fires, disease and deforestation. now the australian government is increasing is spending by over 30000000 euros over the next 4 years to restore koala habitats and expand research on the vulnerable species. researchers estimate there could be as few as $100000.00 of the native marsupials left on the continent. and a reminder, the top stories were following for you. a major winter storm has slammed into the

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