sanitation commissioner catherine garcia thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> and we will have more on the storm coverage in just a moment. you are watching cbs 2 news sunday morning. in new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. all across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, the lowest taxes in decades, and university partnerships, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. and in albany, the nanotechnology capital of the world. let us help grow your company's tomorrow, today at business.ny.gov all: milk! milk! milk! milk! milk! okay! fun's over. aw. aw. thirsty? they said it would make me cool. they don't sound cool to me. guess not. you got to stick up for yourself, like with the name your price tool. people tell us their budget, not the other way around. aren't you lactose intolerant? >>> there's been a lot of snow pictures and we want to see more of them. >> we are collecting them all on social media twitter facebook instagram and tony has been monitoring it all for us. you have your ha

> i want to bring up two of my colleagues, first, working little our sanitation commissioner catherine garcia. >>> he e-mails me at 2:00 in the morning. as the mayor said we have over wide today. we have over 900 pieces in queens but more importantly, we've moved over 170 front end loaders into queens. because some of those streets of plow is not affected. the snow is too deep and not enough room so we are literally going in dragging it out. queens is our first priority to make sure we have the small streets open and hauling operations which means we'll put the snow in dump trucks and take it away. some of that started in the other buroughs and we'll begin melting operations as well across the city. today our focus is on those closed streets piling and crosswalks and anywhere near a school. in addition to our sanitation workers, we have 920 snow laborers as the mayor mentioned. i do believe we are making streets. we still have more work to do and we are moving very quickly which is very slow. we have to use two front end loaders moving into inbound the street to take the snow out. i want to t

catherine garcia says, salt spreaders begin pretreating roads starting tomorrow. >> that salt spreader number is actually much higher than it was last year and will allow us to lay down a brine of salt to try and keep those accumulations down. >> reporter: we also have another late development for you. alternate side regulations suspended for saturday. that's a big deal in a lot of neighborhoods where saturday is a parking rule and people getting up to move their cars in the middle of the snow. you don't have to do that, suspended for saturday and the mayor told me earlier today, most likely suspended for monday, if the forecast holds. we're live at penn station, andrew siff, news 4 new york. >> good to be getting a little bit of a break, andrew, thank you. >>> in just over 24 hours, this could be the scene along parts of the jersey shore. rough seas pushing water into the streets of coastal communities just like a nor'easter did last fall. but even before the storm gets here, it's already causing some issues. news 4 ted greenburg reports from ocean city. >> the weather doesn't look ve

continuing our coverage now joining us by phone is the city sanitation commissioner catherine garcia, thank you for being with us. >>> let me ask you this, we are still early in the game how is this storm meeting up to the sanitation department's expectations. >> so the storm is much heavier than we anticipated luckily we 9:30 last night. we were at full plowing by 5 a.m. this morning and we have snow depth anywhere from 6 inches to 4 inches on the ground as of about an hour ago seeing intensities of 1 inch an hour which is bigger than i think we projected but we have full force in, we have right now about 2300 pieces on the road and been joined in the last half an hour by our other sister agencies who have brought in additional pieces of equipment so i anticipate that in the next half an hour we'll have 2500 pieces of equipment on the road plowing. but this is a storm where when we see intensities of up to 3 inches an hour, it is going to be very difficult to fight. >> i know you're talking about ramping it up to 2500 salt spreaders and plowers on the roads today. what are you seeing

challenge in some parts of the city, with us on the phone, new york city sanitation commissioner catherine garcia. thanks for joining us this morning what are some of the trouble spots you are getting at this hour. >>> there are definitely pockets across the city, been the most sort of in portions of queens, particularly on those very narrow blocks. we've been having to go into them with front end loaders with extremely slow work and actually pull the snow out of the street to get them clear. but one of our biggest challenges has been how much snow ends up back in the street when people start to dig out their cars and people are definitely digging out their cars all over this area and i know they have to go to work school so it is very challenging and there is nowhere to put snow at this point. but many people are getting stuck or did get stuck on the over night in passenger cars after we actually opened up streets. >>> commissioner, can we ask you about your concerns with schools being open today in new york city getting those buses to those children and getting the children to the bus stops the

. >> commissioner catherine garcia with new york city sanitation a very busy day ahead we thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. so preparing for the worst here john. what are we looking at on the intensity of this storm and the track of it at this hour. >> catherine talking about the potential for three inch per hour snow fall rates. this morning we had a brief period of two inches an hour in newark. crews have to pace themselves to astay ahead of it. at home you have to pace yourself too. you can't wait too long but you also have to bet out there prematurely as well. checking with the weather watchers great they are inside and watching the weather. look at this john on the jersey shore winds gusting to 50 miles per hour so just like meg it's unrelenting wind. and again high tide cycle for the morning has passed for the jersey shore but it is still just brutally cold. blowing snow. i like his advice to stay safe and inside. numbers are lower as far as temperatures to the north. we are not seeing as much snow but we are starting to get some great pictures sent in. this is

catherine can go over the what commissioner garcia did which did not happen in the past efficiently enough in my view. i remember 2010 when i was public advocate going all over the city. we all remember that storm. the city didn't make adjustments as quickly as it could have and it took days, my block, i remember, was at least 2 or 3 days after the had finished my block in brooklyn had not been cleared and is not passable. the difference is we're sending the equipment where the need is greatest. as manhattan and brooklyn and bronx got secured, all of the additional equipment was moved off to queens to reenforce the queens effort. yesterday when i was in corona, i saw some unpassable streets. i went back, they were fully passable because the reenforcements helped. when this is over, we'll look though it is one of the biggest snow falls we've had, we'll do an after action report to figure out where there were problems we could do better on and what adjustments we want to make. i'm becoming an expert on blizzards the last couple of years. we make an adjustment every single time. the team ther