emergency. as you can tell things in jersey for the time being, total stand still. conditions should get better as we make our way through the afternoon, evening and tomorrow. still, interesting times to deal with the aftermath of all the snow and all this wind. back to you. >> reynolds you're giving a snow update and fitness tips as we move along the morning here. you're really i think, inspiring a lot of the 5:30 folks watching "way too early" on the treadmill. so thank you, sir. appreciate it. we'll talk again soon. back now to nbc's chris pollone in boston. chris, as we were hearing there from reynolds it really is about the feeder bands coming through and how we have seen certain areas more impacted in different hours than others. so let's talk about the state of emergency certainly for massachusetts, certain governors have reacted a little differently as we heard chris christie with his reaction about the storm than we say a governor cuomo. so what are we seeing from yours? >> reporter: yeah. here there clearly are no cars

on the roads besides plows and emergency personnel. and not even that many of those at this point as people are heeding the warnings to stay off the roads. they could be ticketed or even arrested if they're caught out on the roads. now, the governor here in massachusetts said that's not their goal they don't want police pulling people over and just handing out tickets or hauling people to jail. they want people to take seriously the warning to stay off the road. there is no reason for most people to go out at this point, school is canceled, businesses are closed. so the governor has said look you know stay home you could be in your home for two to three days. and that's kind of the situation here. and you mentioned the feeder bands, absolutely remarkable. some points where we're getting heavy snow that is probably falling at that 1 to 2, 2 to 3 inches per hour and backs off a little bit. that's what we're going to go through here probably through noon at the very least. >> okay chris pollone reporting there in boston for us. chris, we'll check back in

later. thank you, sir. here in new york luke russert, we join him live at laguardia airport. what is the scene like as travelers find themselves stranded? i was flying back in to laguardia yesterday. they diverted us like at 11:00 a.m. they diverted us to kennedy. thought they could handle the situation a little bit better. explain what you're seeing today. >> reporter: yeah, well, good morning, thomas. as you see behind me what would often be a somewhat busy road at this hour with people starting to get to their flights, early morning shuttles it is empty because there are no cars on the roads. that's because honestly thomas there is no flights here to take. and we don't even see that many people here at the airport. you see right here to my right, the sort of luggage cars well they're not going to be used a lot today. i looked at the boards all cancellations and delays as you heard earlier, over a thousand so far in the area. but, thomas i got to tell you, your story, you just mentioned, it is important, because it seems that authorities by being so proactive early on really got

the message across to travelers at the airports but especially here at laguardia they should not come to the airport, that they should check in with their airlines, there will be cancellations and delays and quite honestly we were expecting to see a lot of stranded travelers all around the food court, some horrific scenes you've seen in the past with cots and what not, but we haven't seen that. we heard there is a few dozen people who spent the night here at the airport, but they're closer to the gate. as far as that sort of widespread horrific scene you often see during these types of storms, it seems the warning was heeded and people did not show up to the airport, decided to wait it out at home and there was enough time to redirect them to other routes through other cities. precautions seems to have paid off. >> we talk about the 700500 flights canceled across the seaboard, there is a huge ripple effect that that creates. have you heard anything from sources at laguardia about when

things might pick back up as they continue to watch this system. it is fluid. >> reporter: yeah. as you mentioned, whenever you have the three airports in new york city when those close, essentially causes a cold for the rest of the country regarding air travel. you saw massive delays as far out as denver and in california because of the cancellations and delays in new york. as far as when things get back on track, it is unclear as of right now. the roads seem to be decently passable, but, of course you have to get the runways cleared up, have to get planes de-iced, passengers have to be rerouted. i think it is safe to say it is going to be a long time today before that happens and probably looking into early tomorrow, thomas. >> okay. everybody is going to wait out patiently. we'll see how this rolls out. luke russert, great to see you this morning, buddy. thank you, appreciate it. >> take care. >> adam reese is on long island where they have been hit with several inches so far. want to check back with adam to see how things developed there since we last spoke. looks like it is coming down a little bit heavier.

>> reporter: thomas, good morning. it is coming down really hard. winds whipping at about 31 miles per hour. i'll walk through these drifts. some of them 2 feet 3 feet. look up here this is a long island expressway which some call the nation's biggest parking lot, the busiest highway, completely empty. it is a ghost town. you don't see any cars whatsoever. we have seen some plows come through, some caravans of plows, about 650 pieces of equipment on long island, clearing the roads. governor cuomo issued a complete travel ban at 11:00 last night. basically we haven't seen any cars any people out here. it is a very unpredictable storm. so we're looking out for some power outages, trees down power lines down best to stay inside stay safe stay warm check on your friends, elderly neighbors, elderly relatives, to make sure they're safe. the national guard is on alert and they will be ready in case

of emergency. just want to show you some of the snow. it is still very flaky but getting thicker. and the drifts continue. the wind continues, very heavy, continues to shift patterns here on long island coming from the east, whipping back to the west. so very unpredictable, thomas and continues to come down hard. >> and drifts so important to talk about as you mentioned, the winds kind of increasing as we get people waking up to find out exactly what happened overnight. adam thanks so much. adam reese on long island. we'll talk later. i want to check back in now with meteorologist domenica davis standing in. a sight on the board you have there about who has been impacted the most and we see connecticut coming in with the top numbers. >> yeah, these are some widespread snowfalls. and, yes, connecticut gets it. marlborough, connecticut, 16.2. the interesting thing about this is it took -- it was only an hour and they got 4 inches of that 16.2. the snow is coming down at a

pretty good clip in most areas. slews bure s shrewsbury, mass 10.3. we're expecting additional snowfall in central park but not a blockbuster like we're seeing through southern new england. now, i want to show you this is interesting, because we do have a stationary band of snow that is basically set up through eastern long island. it goes all the way past providence, right up the massachusetts turnpike right into canada. so that's where we're looking at basically a stationary band of very heavy snow. that is going to add to those snow totals. so massachusetts, providence rhode island, they are all going to be in that jackpot of snow and i think many cases are going to get if not close to that 1 foot, certainly over it and in some cases we'll see 2. this storm is still very much alive. we're in the brunt of it. we are looking at heavy snow

pretty much all through the massachusetts area. even boston iss bands. where you see the blue that's where we have the heavier snow coming in. we have the blowing snow the winds are very high. 39-mile-per-hour wind gusts in boston now. 61 in providence town. 51 in the vineyard. 68 in martha's vineyard. what they have been looking at band after band of heavy snow. with the winds, not only does it knock down the visibility but it makes it hard when you try to clear the roads or shovel your driveway, you take it off it blows it right back on. that's what they're dealing with right now. it is a pretty bad situation and this will continue through the duration of the morning, right into the afternoon before this storm winds down. so this blizzard warning is very much in effect for all of new england. thomas? >> okay, domenica thanks so much. we appreciate that. we go right now to the weather channel's mike seidel live in plymouth massachusetts. mike, more than 5,000 people

there already out of power across massachusetts. and we can see how things are for you right now. you gave us that interesting taped shot before where you were trying to walk through and needed the snowshoes. have you gotten them yet? it looks like you're having a hard time standing still. >> reporter: no, i'm waiting for the fedex truck, thomas. i don't think it is going to be here anytime soon. what we have had this morning, though, is that surge, that high tide. the tide is going out. we had reports of coastal flooding thomas in scituate down to the cape. and here the water came up and covered the entire front yard of the east bay grill. now you can see a little bit of water here surging back up the tide is still way above where it should be. the entire parking lot behind me, that's -- let's zoom in. the wind out here and the drifting, zoom past me. look at the waves out there. can you see those, thomas? >> yes. >> reporter: that is not the harbor. that's the parking lot here in

plymouth. so the whole parking lot is under water. the coastal flood warning, this one goes until 7:00. but then we have another one, they upgraded the watch to a warning for 3:00 to 7:00 this afternoon because this wind is going to be unrelenting, all day long. we're gusting now over 50 miles an hour, taped at 64. they had gusts of hurricane force down in i believe in nantucket and across the cape gusting up over 70 miles an hour. all the power outages are down here on the south shore, south coast and the cape. i want to show you some of the drifts. some of these are 3 or 4 1/2 footers. all the snow we had, i don't know how much we actually that. it is impossible to measure in this area. easily over a foot of snow. we have got another 8 to 12 inches through today. the winds are going to be howling until this evening. the blizzard warning goes until 1:00 a.m. wednesday morning. we have another, what's that that's a long time another 20 hours, 18 hours. and these drifts back here cover the entire front yard.

the winds are howling and we have visibility now down to about a quarter mile here in the plymouth area. other than that everybody is pretty much staying home. there is a travel ban here in massachusetts. mass transit shut down in boston. all schools are closed. everybody is basically, hopefully staying home and hopefully staying warm and we're keeping our fingers crossed we don't have a lot of power going out. i can tell you our how tell parking lot is full of power company trucks and other companies. they're ready to pounce on this once the weather backs off later today and tonight. >> mike real quickly, though, i want to explain to the viewers at home there is a crisscross of snow we're seeing as you're talking about the drifts. explain how the snow and wind effect, it is not just one direction, it seems to be coming from all different directions. >> reporter: well, yeah the primary wind direction now is north. it was northeast and then north/northeast. as the wind backed around to the north, one thing that changed is the temperature has fallen from

around 30 to 24. and that's of course the windchill down to around 7. remember sustained winds 40 miles an hour that's a tropical storm force wind. here comes more water. so what happens is the wind comes in around the restaurant which is basically an l shape or almost like a u shape and it swerves around and as it does so, this area in the foreground is almost snow free and then all of the snow drifts back here. we have waves and waves of drifts almost like a picture of the sahara as the wind and the undulations here in the snow. and way back there, that has to be a 4 1/2 footer. amazing looking at the parking lot how we have the whole parking lot under water, and wave action. this will back off, but, again, later today, thomas another high tide. and it will be until late tonight and early tomorrow morning before things really calm down. tomorrow much much better day and good day to dig out here in -- not only here, but certainly all the way down the coast, new york city long

island. back to you, thomas. >> we'll be watching this until 1:00 a.m. on wednesday. you get me that fedex tracking number i'll track the snowshoes for you, buddy. you need them. thank you. the politics of snowstorms our major weather disasters have been known to take out some of the most popular politicians. that and much more as we update you on the blizzard of '15 right after this.

chris, have you ever seen it like this before? i cannot recall. i mean i think the last time i saw fifth avenue this empty was the night of september 11th in 2001. it really is very, very dramatic. >> welcome back everybody. just getting it breaking news

that the blizzard winter storm warning is lifted right now. winter storm warning remaining in effect for new york city. so a big characterization difference there as we still continue to watch this snowfall and certainly the dangers that it means for traveling around in new york. but the blizzard winter storm warning has been lifted. dangerous weather can turn into a nightmare for so many people. and that actually includes politicians. adding days of bad press into days of treacherous weather. in atlanta last year, all the highways were left icy in the jam reminding me of the walking dead the tv show shoots in atlanta. it took some commuters more than 2 hours to get home and some schoolchildren were stuck at schools overnight. some stuck on buses, just a few years after another snowstorm that paralyzed the city for a week because of lack of preparation. >> okay. thank you, mayor. good luck with the next storm. i hope that the two storms have

helped a little bit. and if you would like to send us some names of people who actually are responsible for the highways since you're not, i'd love to talk to them. >> well i feel terrible about anyone who is trapped on the highway. and we did everything we could on a partnering fashion to clear our highways and to keep folks safe. >> so who screwed up mayor? >> i think we all have responsibility in terms of -- >> so are you responsible or not? >> the question is -- i shared that i was responsible for. images you've shown, as you talked about it atlanta, were often photos that were not in the city and that the streets in the city were 80% -- >> it is just not helping you. >> tough right there. it can be devastating in places known for tough weather. in denver 1982 the christmas eve blizzard shut down the city for several days. it cost the re-election after serving some 14 years in office. >> a year ago christmas day, denver was hit with a snowstorm

that dumped two feet of snow and paralyzed the city for more than a week. there is a new mayor and a new snow emergency plan. >> and marion barry rode out a d.c. snowstorm from the comfort of los angeles, watching the new york giants and denver broncos play in the super bowl. snow brought down half a century of machine politics rule in chicago. get this when mayor richard daly died michael wilindek was chosen as the successor. but his new york times obituary reads, the city snow removal was so terrible that people guessed mayor daly must have taken the snowplows with him, but perhaps no one knows that better than new york politicians. we have mayor john lindsey earlier seeing his administration toppling after a snowstorm struck in '69. it left 42 people dead in boroughs like queens got short thrift. and days of impassable roads while crews maintain their focus

on manhattan. mayor michael bloomberg and his new jersey governor chris christie both took it on the chin for being on vacation during part of storms in 2010. >> we did not do as good a job as we wanted to do or as the city has a right to expect. when it works, it works and we take credit. when it doesn't work, we stand up there and say, okay we did it and we'll try to find out what went wrong and make that information public. >> i was not going to rescind my child's christmas gift especially when i was convinced that we had a plan in place, that this is not like in the 1800s when you know no one can get me. believe me my cell phone was ringing where i was, much more than i would have preferred it to under normal circumstances, when i'm away on a family vacation. but, you know i was not going to look at my children and say, no, we're not going. >> governing by cell phone, nothing wrong with that in 2015.

then there is al roker, who dug into current mayor bill de blasio after last february's snow. the mayor did not close the city's schools claiming the national weather service blew the forecast well roker took to twitter to blast him for saying that. and he issued his own prediction that de blasio would only get one term. >> i respect al roker a lot, watch him on tv for many many years. it is a different thing to run a city than to give the weather on tv. so i am comfortable with our decision-making. >> it is about safety. safety first for children. that's what we talk about. parents who can't afford to stay home, i get that too. but, again what is more difficult to know your kids will stay home or have to all of a sudden figure out how to get them home when school lets out early. i made a prediction there would be only one term of his administration. i apologize for that. that was -- that was a little above -- below the line. >> so stay with us as our coverage of the blizzard of 2015

continues. after this, we're going to have a look at the storm through the eyes of late night comedians. they're having a little bit of fun with this as you can only imagine they are. >> well the situation in eaton town has been a transformation from yesterday afternoon to what we're dealing with now. we had strong winds that have come through, right now i would say about 25 tops. the snow at this point, it is actually kind of like a powder. but it is coming down heavily in spots. we expect quit a bit more before the day is done. roads, really in rough shape. that's despite the great work that men and women have been doing out here in terms of plows and salt trucks. they have been doing all they possibly can but they're battling nature. and nature the winter storms continues to roar off the coast. we still have the snow. we still have the iciness and a lot of the overpasses and bridges and folks are advised to stay off the roads. the travel ban remains in effect. that's the latest from northern new jersey. right back to you in the studio.

plifrdblizzard warnings issued from the jersey shore to maine. new york is expected to get as much as three feet of snow. a bad time to travel. more than 4,000 flights were canceled before the storm even started. they say if you're trying to get home to or are from the east coast this week, you should find a new family. >> the storm blanketing the northeast is known as a bombogenesis, has to do with how quickly the storm intensifies. as it drops, the storm strengthens. if the pressure drops 24 millibars or more in less than 24 hours, this is the kind you have on your hands right now. you see them in the north atlantic, especially out to see, but also on the seaboard from october to march. only a handful of storms turn into bombs each year. okay. so we encourage you not to go anywhere. we have much more coming up after the break here on msnbc. as "morning joe" will be picking up.

before, we want to go ahead and leave you with a few more images of what blizzard of 2015 is doing to people out there. take a look.

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