. >> we'll be bundling up. >> get out the longjohns. thanks for watching. >> the news continues now with "nbc nightly news." on our broadcast tonight, record storms cities buried under nearly three feet of snow hurricane force winds knocking out power. the travel night player and flood emergency always the atlantic comes onshore. what went wrong with the forecast for the other places that led to a complete shutdown of the nation's largestcity? why some meteorologists are issuing public apologies. tale of the tape in the football scandal that will not go away with just days left until the big game. tonight what was the patriots employee doing alone with those footballs for 90 seconds behind closed. tonight the nfl has identified what it's calling a person of interest. and making a difference the lunch rush that is taking off in

a hundred cities around the world. "nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: nbc news world headquarters from new york this is nbc titlely news with brian williams. good news and bad news in the places where total paralysis was predicted. while the mayor of new york shut down the nation's largest city for what turned out to be a moderate snowfall the storm continues tonight as basically a cold weather hurricane, pummeling the population center to the north, boston throughout new england, and now a badly damaged atlantic shoreline. those areas are getting pounded right now tonight. and we begin our coverage with nbc's miguel almaguer in worcester, mass. they broke a record there with 31 inches of snow. miguel good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. as you know, this is the second biggest city in all of new england. but tonight, as the snow continues to fall here in worcester, we know the area is essentially a ghosttown.

we're on main street in what should be the middle of rush hour. there are few cars and fewer people out on the street. this city like so many others have been crippled by the snow. a storm for the record books in new england. up to three feet of blinding whipping snow and wind gusts at nearly 80 miles an hour. >> my roof caved in. the roof collapsed, the side wall. >> reporter: 30 miles outside boston bone-chilling ice is freezing over. >> it's like a war zone right now. >> reporter: the seawall has collapsed, the ocean is pouring into town 800 residents headed to higher ground. this storm is snapping power lines and ripping apart coastal homes. high tide is rolling in. >> this is a tropical storm. this is the kind of wind we have for severe thunderstorms. >> reporter: the national guard deploying high-water rescue teams, nantucket is being hammered with monster waves.

and it isn't safe to stay. >> virtually everything we've had has failed including as of right now our 911 is not working. it was stated by one individual we've had to revert back to 1950s technology just to stay in touch. >> reporter: residents like greg hinson completely cut off. >> the wind has been howling pretty much nonstop since 10:00 last night. >> reporter: in boston, where 18 inches shattered the old record it was downright dangerous. police rescued emergency staff into hospitals. dr. kelly o'laughlin skied to work. >> it's one of the places where 24 hours a day, seven days a week it's always going. >> reporter: this couple didn't have any options either. baby brock born this morning during the peak of the storm. >> i looked out the window and i was in labor all night and said there's the snowstorm. and i was so thankful to have already been here. >> reporter: across the region

the u.s.s. providence toppled in rhode island. there were spinouts in maine, wipeouts in massachusetts. >> the snow was so deep it sucked in the tires. it just dragged me into the edge. >> reporter: tonight millions remain hunkered down and snowed in. when the snow stops here and that's forecasted to happen tomorrow morning, this is what so many cities will have to deal with. the snow berm more than 20 feet tall. there's simply no place to put all of this powder. brian? >> wicked snowfall in wooster. miguel thank you. and meantime 70 miles to the east of there, we just saw some of this a full-scale flood emergency is developing tonight as the section of that seawall gave way along the coast, sending waves surging through the streets. meteorologist dylan dreier has made her way to marchfield

massachusetts. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the winds here along the south shore are still gusting up to 40 to 60 miles per hour making it so much worse. now, the northeast winds have been pushing the waters of the atlantic ocean right over there up and over this seawall, at high tide at 5:00 this evening. we even saw waves crashing over the homes here along the coast. and it is so cold that instead of these floodwaters coming in and receding it's starting to freeze in place. now, everything here is covered in ice. as you saw, waves are crashing into and damaging homes along the coast. and we've even seen that 100-foot stretch of the seawall itself destroyed by the rough surf. we are going to see improvements here within the next couple of hours, as this storm starts to pull away. unfortunately, we're in a very active pattern, and we're going to see a series of storms move through this area over the course of the next several days. brian. >> awful night ahead for the people of marshfield mass.

dylan, thank you for that. further north they're still feeling the fury of the storm. blinding conditions in portland maine. john yang is there where he filed this report moments ago when he could still almost see the camera. >> reporter: brian, this is what portland maine, has looked like since before sunrise. the snow coming down at the rate of about two to four inches an hour wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour building a big snowdrift. this one is about 18 inches deep. but as i go into an area where the wind is coming from i can get to a spot where there is hardly any snow at all. here it's only about two inches deep. now, for drivers, that means they can be going along on an otherwise clear street and turn a corner and suddenly come across a deep snowdrift. brian? >> john yang in portland maine, for us tonight.

as this storm is fixing to spool out to sea, and that will be welcome, the damage to transportation was done early. and it's been lasting, and a lot of plans were ruined flights canceled and days spent home from work and school. watching the air for us tonight, tom costello at laguardia. tom, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. a deserted laguardia. many airlines are right now flying planes into the new york airports even though the concourses are closed. empty to all pedestrians. what does that mean? the planes are coming in empty. the hope is in 12 hours a lot of this red here that says canceled will be turning to green. in the big apple today, the big digout started early, at the three major airports. not a minute too soon for hundreds of passengers stranded at jfk overnight. after first sitting for five hours on a virgin atlantic flight that never left for london. >> i'm able to leave the tunnel because all the roads are closed. i'm able to go through security.

we have to sleep on the floor at jfk overnight. >> reporter: at laguardia roughly 50 people spent the night and most of the day waiting. >> it is a bit stressful. i feel like i'm trapped. i can't get back there, and cast go back through. >> reporter: nationwide, 78,500 flights canceled. the air space thinning out yesterday and last night. before a slow recovery today. airlines like della moved their planes out of the storm's path. on the ground new york reopened its roads and subways this morning, while amtrak service suspended in much of new england. >> i had three trains canceled this morning. and a bus cancel yesterday morning. >> reporter: back at laguardia the first departure in more than 24 hours this afternoon. destination, appropriately, florida. sounds good right about now. it's not just getting the planes into position they also have to get all the people who work here into position the people who

man the terminals, man the airlines also the airports. now the question is can they all get back and have a full work force by the morning. they're banking on it. >> tom costello at laguardia airport. predictions of doom and destruction and the worst blizzard in the history of new york led officials of making the costly decision for shutting down the subway for the first time in its 110-year history. why so many people looked out their windows this morning to find the forecast had been wrong. our report tonight from nbc's kate snow. >> reporter: in new york city and new jersey it wasn't the storm people were expecting. >> supposed to be the worst in 20 years. and it wasn't. >> reporter: in new jersey a meteorologist with the national weather service apologized to decision-makers and the public writing, you made a lot of tough decisions, expecting us to get it right, and we didn't. once again, i'm sorry. >> the storm in general was less

destructive than predicted. >> reporter: the director of the national weather service this afternoon acknowledged that 10 million to 15 million people were inconvenienced because of his agency's forecast. >> what we learned from this storm is we all need to improve how we communicate forecasts uncertainty. >> reporter: it is an uncertain science. the weather service uses different models. a new u.s. model was on target with the actual total, just under eight inches. but many forecasters were reluctant to trust that model that had just been upgraded this month. >> we always heard so much about the superiority of the european model as opposed to the american model. in this case, the american model actually handled it a little bit better. >> reporter: many areas got what they expected. the snow is still falling on long island. that's a four-lane highway behind us. 16 1/2 inches, and counting.

we spent the night with emergency responders who were thankful for the dire forecast. >> not a lot of people out here. >> no. for the traffic and the weather, they are actually heeding the warnings and staying off the roads. >> reporter: chris saw no reason at all for meteorologists to say they're sorry. >> they shouldn't apologize. that's their job. it's always better to be safe than sorry. the kids love it anyway. >> reporter: indicate snowkate snow nbc news suffolk, new york. new information about the investigation into bowe bergdahl the service member held captive by enemy forces in afghanistan for five years, before being released in a prisoner swap. tonight, senior defense officials with direct knowledge of the army's investigation are telling nbc news bergdahl who walked away from his post will likely soon be charged with desertion. they stressed today, however, that no final decisions have been made. days after the death of saudi arabia's king abdullah president obama arrived in that

country to pay his respects and meet with the new king. along for the trip the delegation of prominent americans, including three current and former secretaries of state. a cultural divide still exists as evidence when members of the all-male delegation chose not to shake the hand of the american first lady. in poland some 300 survivors returned to auschwitz to mark 70 years to the day since the camp was liberated toward the end of world war ii. those survivors who suffered so much and witnessed so much came together today in unbelievable fashion, and urged the world against letting history repeat itself. our report tonight from nbc's bill nealy. >> reporter: at the end of the auschwitz railway line where the ashes of a million jus are buried survivors marked the

camp's liberation. but it's clear they are not free of memories. >> how can i ever forget this burden? we survivors do not want our past to be our children's future. >> reporter: their numbers are dwindling, but their message was strong remembering, they warned is not enough. >> this infamous gate this entire death camp is preserved as a warning from history. but leaders and survivors here say jews in europe today face a clear and present danger. >> after seven decades, and three generations, is this new storm of anti-semitism sweeping europe. >> reporter: past echoes and this month's paris attack on jews strikes fear in those who lost almost everything. >> did you lose many friends here? >> many. >> reporter: here too, fighting

anti-semitism and the ghosts of his past, the grandson of the nazi commandant who ran auschwitz. >> it makes me angry on one hand and sad on the other. to hear what they have suffered and to know that my grandfather is the creator of all that. >> reporter: pope francis said today auschwitz cries out with pain. amid the pain here fears for the future are very real. bill nealy, nbc news auschwitz. we'll take a break here. and when we come back the fresh evidence just today, in the scandal that will not go away with a major national event approaching just days away. thoughtfully crafted and intelligently designed. with available forward collision warning and new blind spot monitor and a 2014 top safety pick plus rating. cost of entry? a fortune. until now. hey sarah, new jetta? yup.

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