back to indra petersons. dra, i'm hearing from my producers as they have been watching your shot that it's really, really started to come down now. >> you know, it is starting to come down a little heavier. the gusts -- i was going to say, have kind of calmed down. we're not seeing too many of the strong gusts i was seeing a couple hours ago. i'm going to try to run and knock on wood just for that. >> i did it for you. >> we'll be talking about snowfall rates. snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches an hour, even 3 to 4 inches an hour. we have been seeing that. visibility keep switching from about a half a mile to less. there were two storms that now have merged. there was a time we were watching the models. were these guys going to merge? the european model said by last sunday that these were going to merge. we're seeing the low off the coastline. we had all this warm moist air from the storms produced in atlanta just a few days ago. that merged with the cold arctic air producing lake effect snow after lake effect sn

meteorologist indra petersons is there, indra, boston schools are already closed, the subway set to shutn at 3:30 this afternoon. it sounds like the message is stay home? >> yeah, absolutely, that's exactly what the mayor asked everyone to do, as of noon this town is expected to be at a complete standstill. currently you can see generally mild considering what is expected to come. temperature about the freezing mark. we've started to see the winds picking up and a few snow flurries are starting to fall. we know by the afternoon today this could be an epic storm. we could break the record of 24 inches of snowfall in 24 hours. let's talk about how this is expected to form. there are two systems we've been talking about the last several days expected to merge, the first one, a little colder over in ohio valley, and the second one that yesterday was in atlanta, we saw severe weather of the thunderstorms that were building. now that made its way up the atlantic coast and right to the mid-atlantic. those two are going to merge and we're going to be looking at the one large nor'easter, our coas

indra petersons live in boston for us this morning. thanks so much. >>> the northeast is seeing some signs that things are getting back on track today. all major airports are once again up and running after more than 2,000 flights across the nation were canceled, that was just yesterday according to flight aware tracking. more than 5,000 total were canceled for the weekend. and getting everyone back on those canceled flights will mean longer than usual wait times. so bring a sandwich. bring your patience. and just prepare to wait. power crews are working to restore electricity to some 400,000 people today across the nine states. massachusetts and rhode island were hit the hardest in terms of power outages. and today almost 300,000 customers remain in the dark ins massachusetts while more than 75,000 are still without electricity in rhode island. and it is going to be a messy commute when all the snow starts to melt. alexandra steele is standing by. a little bit of melting and then freezing. >> yeah, it will be a roller coaster. not a l

indra petersons is in long island, george howell is in hamden, connecticut. in boston where the big concern is power outages, how to get all of those folks out. indra, good morning. >> good morning. yeah, today it is also about getting back to normal. we still have 120,000 people this morning without power. temperatures are cold. tons of snow is on the ground. huge heaps of snow. today we have a snow emergency and school is still closed as the city takes one more day to clean out the snow. what you mentioned earlier is a weather charge today. a warm front is pushing through. highs will be in the mid 40s. a lot of the snow is expected to melt. before we get there, we will talk about more snow, several inches is possible and even freezing rain. so everyone is trying to get to work this morning. not seeing too much out here. it looks like people are listening to the warnings. when this does start to melt, there could be snow blocking the drains or ice blocking the drains, so that is a concern. logan is finally operational, but with the icing this morning and hea

indra peterson is standing by.ou're the new guy, so we stuck you in boston where they're supposed to get up to three feet of snow. i'm hearing the governor has now actually mobilized 6,000 national guards men to be on storm stand ji by. this looks like it's getting very serious there. >> yeah, it looks like definitely worsening here. just in the last few minutes we're seeing the snow start to stick. you can see the ground now is covered in white. we're looking at the custom tower. i can still see it. visibility is not below that just yet. we do the know that the system is worsening. now we just heard from the mayor that held a news conference here asking residents to stay off the the streets as of noon. we're really nearing that point at this point in time. they're shotting down public transportation at 3:30. it's been a mild season. over 15 inches below normal. they feel confident that the major has everything under control. they have these units out there to plow the streets. everyone is heeding the warnings and

hoping get back on track through today. >> indra petersons. we cued the snow -- the plow right on time. all right. thanks so much, inra petersons in boston. monday morning's commute may be a bit messy in the northeast, may also be dangerous. meteorologist alexandra steele to tell us if the weather will do anything to help. >> what we'll see today is not a help, but not a lot of melting, temperatures still cold. temperatures in the toonz, highs today in the thirtsthe 30s. winds shift, take temperatures in the 40s. 47 in springfield, hartford, boston. the problem we will see, because we are going to see rain move in, especially in storm drain areas where the storm drains are clogged by the snow. that's the potential where urban flooding could be a concern. we have this next storm moving in as indra was talking about. for tomorrow, the morning, temperatures about 30 degrees, a mix of rain and snow, by the afternoon, we'll see it all change over as temperatures rise to 43, but winds will be notable. wind and rain tomorrow for the commute home in bo

the latest on the cleanup, let's go to boston and indra petersons. wanted to ask you what it's like standing in the show doing live shots hour after hour and what is the region doing to get ready for tomorrow's rush hour? >> reporter: yeah. you know, i have to say it's pretty unbelievable to stand on the lines of history. talk about a difference. 24 hours ago we were talking about pelting ice and snow, winds gusting 60, even 70 miles per hour. and now check this out. right? the sun is out. it's gorgeous. but that's only going to mean more problems. here's the problem. yeah, let me just take a look. we show you. we're talking about 24.9 inches of snow out here. this is what we have to deal with as we go through the next couple of days. here's the problem, though. we have one day to clean this up. the reason? tomorrow, another storm is headed our way. first of all, remember i talked about the sun in temperatures will be above freezing today. we'll start to see some of this melt. then tomorrow another storm comes our way, so first we'll start off with a

indra petersons in the midst of it for us at 1:30 in the morning.it is continuing to fall in the wind, just not very fun for you. how is it going out there? >> good thing i'm a weather geek, because i actually do love this stuff. i want to show you right now, right, i want to show you the yardstick. we're measuring how much snow we've gotten at the boston harbor. i'm only seeing 9 inches in this spot. generally speaking, we're not seeing a foot just yet. eter way, we're seeing heavy snowfall. we're still seeing 1 to 2 inches per hour. at some points, 3 or 4 inches per hour. you mentioned logan airport. that's only about 2 miles away from here. these gusts will pick up out of nowhere. try being pelted by ice crystals, 50, 60, 70 miles per hour. that's what it feels like to be standing right here. currently right now, no biggy, right? we'll show you once again, i love showing this tower because it's the best way to tell how heavy the snow is falling. when you see visibility drop less than a mile, you know you have heavy snowfall. that tower is about a

indra petersons in the thick of it, joins me from a very snowy boston. i don't know if you have the wind -- the measuring the wind -- how have conditions changed since the last time we talked? there it is. >> it's fuby because every time i stand here and i think things are okay. not too bad, and one of these guszs blows by and it's just unbearable. think of ice pellets pelleting your face, 40, 50, 70 miles per hour. logan airport is only two miles from here. they had a 76-mile-per-hour wind gust. imagine that with ice pelting your face. that's what we're dealing with. this is definitely right in the thick of the blizzard. snowfall rates 1 to 2 inches per hour. we have seen 3 to 4 inches per hour. we see visibility switch up based upon that. the downside, so many people without power. in massachusetts alone, 350,000 people without power right now. in the northeast, half a million people without power. keep in mind, imagine temperatures now, nighttime, talking about 19 degrees. the windchill, below zero. negative 1 degrees to be exact. a very cold night. n

so let's check in with andrea pe indra peterson. >> exactly what we don't want to see.ringing all the cold air with it, straight to the south. we'll be watching a low producing the heavy showers in texas yesterday as it makes a bee line for the east coast. you can see where that low is. there is the cold front. keep in mind the southeast has seen so much rain. some places even southwest georgia 5 to 7 inches of rain over the last several days. today more rain on the way. and the flood threat will be the concern. there are the flood watches today. but, yes, you mentioned out towards the mid-atlantic, what's going to happen? this low will eventually make its way up to the mid-atlantic, it will combine with the cold air and overnight tonight we'll see rain switch to snow. here's the good news, it won't be a wallop by any means. a couple inches expected. you can seat advisories. 1 to 3 inches. we're talking about jersey, philly and portions of west virginia. overall not the big storm that potentially did see just a few days ago. otherwise the bigger story we're watchinging

meteorologist indra peterson joins us live from the weather center. what's up?ir. temperatures start to rebound. might be cold throughout the northeast. we'll take what we can get. a couple of days by wednesday, close to the average at 38. this is all going to be part of a pattern change that we've been waiting for. cold, arctic air lifting out of the jet stream to the north. that being the eastern half of the country and on the west coast, we know what that means, cold air dives down, bringing them cold air on their side. so all of this kind of translates into warmer temperatures in the south. warm up there first. notice, well above normal. 70s toward texas. but that doesn't mean we weon't get a chance for showers. showers in the mississippi valley and ohio valley. clippers kick on through. a few chances for snow. overall, i like the shadings of the whole story. notice the blue and purple and finally warmer temperatures on our side, right? >> thank you very much, indra peterson. >>> let's get you up to date on this morning's top stories. rescue workers on the s

indra petersons following it for us.he cnn weather center for us. >> you know i am, snright? >> it's not called a meteor until it passes through the earth's atmosphere. this is not expected to pass through the earth's atmosphere. so it will still be an asteroid. it's about to be 17,000 miles a way. what does that mean? moon 13 sometimes that distance. not as far as the moon. it will pass by twice near the ring where our weather satellites are. it won't pass through gps ring. that's 12,000 miles per way. it has two chances to go past the ring where the satellites are. we can't say no, but it's very hard to say yes. so much vast space, the chance this hits anything, is very minute. you won't be able to see this with the naked eye. even way large telescope, looks like a flicker of light. we don't know what this will exactly look like. so fast, 17,400 miles is-to-be exact. we'll try to see the length, density, and the composition of this, and that's what we'll be looking for as we go through the afternoon. >> if you are a to

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let's begin with indra peterson, live in boston. bottled water are hard to come by right now. what we're worried about, 100 people that died in another storm very similar to this one. >> yeah, absolutely. keep in mind, we've been talking about it in boston. a very mild winter so far. 15 inches below normal. but this coastal area developing off the coastline. we could set records. 24 inches of snowfall in 124 hou -- 24 hours. we could break the all-time record of 27.5 inches of snow. you saw the mad dive to get out of town. airports slammed, getting out of town was tough. traffic at a standstill. but the mayor says people are ready. >> very serious storm. we have many staff out there, right behind me you see several departments that will be called on to deal with the emergency. we are hearty new englanders. let me tell you, we are used to these types of storms and we want to remind everyone to use common sense. stay off the streets of our city. basically stay home. >> 600 snow plows ready to go. 400 on stand by. the national guard on

and indra petersons in washington. it has become impossible to find shovels or bottled water. indra, how is it? >> a mild season so far. 15 inches below normal for snow totals this season, but we all know by this point, this atomic bomb basically, this huge low pressure system developing is expected to bring heavy snowfall here by late afternoon. currently, of course, the sun support, still generally calm, visibility is great. one thing picking up here is the wind, just in the last -- my hat flew right off, not warm enough, i need the beanie on top of it. you can see the custom tower, and you remember, two to three inches of snow per hour. that's the amount of heavy snow we're expecting as we go toward late afternoon in through the evening and even all the way in through tomorrow. keep in mind, not talking about heavy snow, but high winds, and with that chances are as we go through the afternoon, we won't be able to see the tower anymore. a quarter mile away. as soon as we can't see that we know visibility is less than a quarter mile. people getting prepared. 600 trucks ready t

indra peterson in the weather center. >> good morning.ughout the weekend. chicago, the windchill, negative 16 below. ouch! all the way to the southeast. orlando, 33 degrees with the windchill. cold air in place. and down to the south and southeast, currently 15 below average. definitely cool temperatures with us. and as we go through the afternoon today, take a look at highs. d.c., 34. atlanta, 39. we'll see gusty winds here as well. with the windchill in the afternoon. this is what it is feeling like. minneapolis, negative 12. international falls, negative 24. some of the storms i'm talking about. a couple of lows made their way through as we go through the afternoon. overnight into tomorrow. and it looks like a second storm will also make its way through saturday night to sunday. you can easily tell. the cold, dry air, not a huge snow maker. all the air very driveway. here comes the second one. just enough to bring a couple of flurries out there. again, cold air that we'll deal with throughout the weekend. sorry, guys. it's not me. >> n

i want to bring up indra petersons in boston. indra, i've been watching you and your live shots from early yesterday as you watch the snow come in and the visibility go away. you were doing your yardstick measuring. how is it now? are you getting the same sunshine we have next door in connecticut? >> let me see if i see the sun. not really seeing it peek through just yet. but you can tell this is nothing like we saw in the overnight hours. the situation generally lightening up. we're in between these two bands, in between another band farther inland. either way, the big focus is having fun. so many people are running in shorts, making snow angels behind me. we see people sledding. everyone walking their dogs. i even have a family with me this morning or afternoon, and you know what, you guys tell me, are you loving this? tell me in your own words. what do you think? >> so far it's been really fun. right? >> yeah! been very fun! >> we were all here freezing and the girls just sat down in the snow. that's how you know the difference

let's talk more about the piece of meteor itself, because indra petersons, please help us understand this. as you look at this thing, it clearly is on fire when it enters the earth's atmosphere. am i right? >> absolutely. i definitely wanted to start you with the distinguishing factor between an asteroid and a meteor. it's an asteroid before it enters the earth's atmosphere. once it enters the earth's atmosphere you're talking about friction with their atmospheric compositi composition, that makes it start to be a fireball. as it moves closer towards earth it continues to burn up and gets smaller. that's what we're watching. if it hits the ground it's called a meteorite. look at the video. it entered at 33,000 miles per hour, so remember, we talked about this being ten several meters wide like a semitruck hurling at us at 10,000 miles per hour. of course it started to burn up, started to slow down with friction and then the huge boom everyone's talking about. 760 miles per hour is the speed of sound. remember this thing started off at 33,000 miles per hour, at some point it slows dow

. >>> let's go to indra petersons with a look at the weather in the gulf of mexico.'s a channel that they have to travel through as well. >> yeah. yesterday there was concern for some strong winds. better news today. currently the triumph is about 50 miles south of mobile, alabama, but this is the canal they have to get to. it's very narrow and about 30 miles long. yesterday they had a good 20-mile-per-hour wind so the concern was it could shift easily from right to left as it had to go through that narrow channel. the good news today, they're not fighting those winds. they're going to ad two additional tug boats to help protect them. yesterday they were dealing with a cold front so 25-mile-per-hour winds and heavy rain, you can see they are now behind that so that's the good news. that concern is no longer there. in fact they'll have fair conditions out there. the sun should actually come out and the winds, the most important factor, should be calm. about 10, 15 miles in the morning but you can tell by 8:00 a.m. 6 miles per hour and today at 4:00 p.m. pretty much ca

let's go to meteorologist indra peterson.s. tsunami warnings are canceled. they are expired. a locator here. australia to the south. just to the north is where the solomon islands are. 8.0 magnitude quake at 12:12 in the afternoon. 300 miles southeast of the capital, honiara. you can see the orange here, aftershocks, but even as high as the 6.0 range. a lot of activity present in the air. well offshore. the good news. weren't seeing the threat necessarily. but there are some islands closer by that did see shaking. the biggest wave of the tsunami wave was three feet. the reason? the death was 17.8 feet. with that, we would have seen a higher tsunami wave. a little bit of good news. we'll continue to monitor the situation. but warnings have expired. a good thing at this point in time. >> indra peterson, live in atlanta. thank you. >>> a big quake, a shallow quake, a lot of concern. eight minutes past the hour. >>> a 911 call for the first time in the case of the deadly shooting of a navy s.e.a.l. and his friend. moments after e

indra peterson, thank you so much and welcome aboard to cnn here for us in boston this morning. >>> good news if you're trying to get out of the northeast. all major airports are up and running today after more than 2,000 flights across the nation were canceled yesterday according to flight aware tracking. more than 5,000 have been canceled the entire weekend. that might mean some longer than usual wait times today. so bring a book. and a lot of patience. >>> power crews are working to restore electricity to some 400,000 people across nine states. massachusetts and rhode island were hit the hardest. >>> more than two dozen people will be waking up in a long island walmart this morning. road conditions became too dangerous for shoppers to leave during the blizzard, so walmart allowed them to stay. i guess they probably have plenty of things to eat and certainly tooth brushes. one customer said she threw in the towel after spending at least seven hours trying to drive just two miles home. even one of the cnn crews spent the night. >>> there's a lot of back breaking work to be done in the n

indra peterson joins us now to explain. cold and snow, indra. >> a potential nor'easter developing.n atlanta, looking at delays due to low visibility. a quarter mile or less. actually about a tenth of a mile. we're watching some delays in an hour out toward raleigh. this is what we're watching. a low down near the south. and another low down near canada. could merge. potentially good snowmaker here by the end of the weekend. this is what we're watching as we go throughout the day. through thursday, heavy showers producing in the south. atlanta, heavier storms could be out there good news, not seeing severe weather out there today. that's the great news. big news. seeing this easily. where does the logo? if it stays close to the coastline, six inches, even a foot of snow possible. all about the placement. not just the placement of the low the, but freezing line. here is one of the potential models that we'll be watching. new england, six inches to a foot of snow, farther down to the south. rain or wind, and, again, all of that depending on how far south the cold air moves. one model

this looks like a serious one, so let's get right top indra petersons who is monitoring the storm system >> we'll be watching how this storm forms. it's going to start forming out of this low that's starting to produce some heavy showers in the south. it will form a low and be a heavy rain and wind maker as it heads up toward the carolinas. notice two storms coming together. there's the two storms that will start to merge and form. we have a lot of models and they're all producing different amounts of snow and rain. the reason for this, if the model brings it closer to the coastline we see heavier amounts of moisture and snow. you bring it farther off the coastline and you'll see lesser amounts. the other thing the models are picking up is where that snow line or freezing line goes. if it moves farther down to the south, that cold air makes it farther to the south, you'll see heavier snow amounts. meaning you'll start off as snow instead of sleet. we're watching a winter storm watch for a big portion of new england. boston, portions of massachusetts, connecticut and rhode island. then ev

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meteorologist indra petersons joins us with more. >> good morning.he good news we're seeing that lift here. visibility less than a quarter of a mile. i want to get to the big story everyone is talking about, the potential for a nor easter to develop friday night in through saturday morning, all thanks to a low that could merge with a second low that could drop out of canada. first severe storms, heavy rain and wind moving up the eastern seaboard. we are talking about heavy snow, rain and wind moving into the northeast. we'll be right back. like a lot of things, trying to find a better job can be frustrating. so at university of phoenix we're working with a growing list of almost two thousand corporate partners - companies like microsoft, american red cross and adobe - to create options for you. not only that, we're using what we learn from these partners to shape our curriculum, so that when you find the job you want you'll be a perfect fit. let's get to work. email marketing from constant contact reaches people in a place they're checking every day

. >> indra petersons, thanks. manhunt under way in california.mer los angeles police officer, 33-year-old christopher jordan dorner is wanted in the murder of another former cop's daughter and her fiance. monica quan and keith lawrence were found shot to death sunday night in the parking garage of their irvine, california, condo complex. lawrence was a police officer at the university of southern california, quan an assistant women's basketball coach at cal state fullerton. here is what irvine's police chief said about the case. >> detectives have been working day and night since this tragedy. today we identified christopher jordan dorner as a subject in the double homicide. dorner was an officer in 2009 and reservist for the united states navy. of particular interest at this point in the investigation is a multipage manifesto in which the suspect has implicated himself in the slayings. >> in that manifesto dorner threatened to hurt police officers and their families according to the "l.a. times," dorner was angry with quan's father, he's now ret

meteorologist indra petersons has a look at where people will have to built an ark. >> the jet stream is sagging with the south, going to bring another round of heavy rain. many of the places have seen three to five inches of rain, today we'll see another day of it. the big concern mardi gras, looks like showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop right ahead of the fat tuesday parade, but i'm going to say i'm sure the festivities are going to go on. we'll be right back. but badger likes it, so i do too. i used to have bad dreams, but not anymore. [ barks ] i used to be scared of the basement. but when badger's with me, it's not so bad. [ barking ] [ announcer ] we know how important your dog is to your whole family. so help keep him strong and healthy with purina dog chow. because you're not just a family. you're a dog family. (music throughout) why turbo? trust us. it's just better to be in front. the sonata turbo. from hyundai. google's backyard for the wbing it on challenge.. [fight bell: ding, ding] what's your preferred search engine? search engine, uhh, probably google. i