live look at the roads in how well, new jersey right now. >> fox's joel waldman live in new york. s correct travel ban is minutes away. people still out and about? >> reporter: lucy and iain about 21 minutes away right now. 11:00 o'clock eastern time subways, buses and trains here in new york city will be suspended and there's a noticeable difference out on the streets of new york city. not a whole lot of people. it does seem like kind of your proverbial ghost town it seems people are heeding these warnings as they should very seriously. staying off the streets and inside far away from the danger zone outside. guys? >> all right. thank you very much, joel waldman live in the snow stricken new york city. wall street by the way so far vowing to stay open tomorrow and in your money uber rates are spiking but apparently there's limit. dough mapped for the car service is way up in the big apple right now. the rates are rising right along with that demand but uber has promised the cap prices during the state of emergency and the governor declared one at noon today. under the agreement ub

in washington, joel waldman, fox news. >>> wedding bells were ringing for gay couples in south floridaas the state becomes the 36th in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. >> i'm lifting the stay. >> a statewide ban on gay marriage ends at mid-night but a judge in miami lifted the ban in that county today and it didn't take long for couples to start exchanging their vow. massed weddings are said to take place in parts of florida tomorrow. the gay ban was approved by 62% of voters in 2008 but was ruled unconstitutional earlier this year. >>> the u.s. ski team is in shock. the avalanche that killed two promising skiers. >> temperatures on the rebound i'm tracking how much your area is going to warm up in the coming days. >> up first, e cigarettes targeted the new campaign to curve their use in public. >>> a first of its kind campaign is about to launch in san francisco. its goal is to curve the growing trend of e-cigarettes. the city wants users to vape outdoors away from the public. it plans to spend $115,000 on an ad campaign telling users they're taking risks since e- cigarettes

fox's joel waldman live for us in new york city tonight. joel, what's going thon. >> reporter: i can tell you this. i grew up in this area you guys are not far away. lot of hype about storms in the past but this one really looking and feeling like it might in fact live up to all the hype. they're saying up to 3 feet of snow up in boston and upwards of 2 feet of snow here and obviously all the way from where you are in philly up to southern maine entire region affected with more than 50 million people in the path of this nor'easter. winds up to 75 miles per hour. and obviously widespread coastal flooding. there's -- this is what it looks like out here on the streets of new york. 18 to 24-inches as i mentioned expected in new york city 250,000 tons of salt on hand ready to go in new york. 40% more ambulances on the ready as well. now mayor diblasio coming out and saying all non emergency vehicles will be banned from the streets of new york city beginning at 11:00 p.m. this evening. and subway service as well will be limited beginning at 7:00 o

congress reconvenes next week, as fox's joel waldman reports it looks like a showdown with the president is taking shape. >> reporter: just one day after the 114th congress convenes, the senate's energy and commerce committee will hold a hearing on the $5.4 billion keystone xl pipeline. >> people want jobs, and this project will create well paying high wage jobs for our people. >> reporter: fox news has learn the house of representatives will also take up the controversial measure in the next few weeks. president obama threatening to use his veto penn against the new republican congress says there are better ways to get americans back to work. >> rebuilding our roads and bridges around the country something that congress could authorize we can probably create hundreds of thousands of jobs or million jobs. >> reporter: back in november, the senate failed to pass a keystone xl pipeline bill by just one vote. the new republican congress setting up much better odds for the controversial measure to become reality. >> this could be showdown that we haven't seen often with the president vetoing

joel waldman is live inside new york city. looking behind you, it's like a ghost town in there. >> it's absolute ghost town here. and frank, as you just eluded to, this blizzard continuing to reek havoc on parts of the northeast. for others, it was just a plain old snowfall. >> parts of new england baring the brunt of the winter storm. some areas getting several feet of snow. in western massachusetts, things are better than expected. governor charlie baker lifting the travel ban. but on the eastern side of the state, a blizzard warning remains in effect. heavy snow continuing to fall. >> this is clearly a very big storm. for most of massachusetts and i'm glad we had a little bit of a warning to plan for it. >> conditions in rhode island not much better. roughly 2 feet of snow reported in some areas there. >> we want everybody off the roads. travel ban is still in effect. >> in new york on the other hand, it is the big blizzard that never was. the winter storm predictions failing to live up to the hype. roads reopened and mass

fox's joel waldman is in washington with the very latest. >> reporter: in the wake of terror attacks in france, president obama promiseing continued support to its oldest ally. >> i want the people of france to know that the united states stands with you today. stands with you tomorrow. >> reporter: hours earlier explosions and gunfire at a printing plant outside of paris where two brothers suspected of killing 12 people in a terror attack at a paris newspaper were holding a single hostage. the brothers said and cherif kouachi reportedly came out shooting killed by police. the sole hostage freed. moments later more bullets flying at a police standoff at a kosher market on the eastern end of paris. there an alleged associate of the two brothers held several people hostage. that gunman also killed by police. four hostages dying in the attack too. french president calling the violence at the company cher market an anti semitic act and pressed for unity across france following the worst spree of violence the country has seen in decades. >> i assure you we will come out stronger from this

fox's joel waldman is in the nation's capitol tonight. >> reporter: after sweeping victories in last november's mid term elections republicans now control both chambers of congress. and already a battle is brewing between the gop and president obama. as freshmen members are sworn in on capitol hill this afternoon senators already pushing legislation to approve construction of the 1200-mile keystone xl pipeline. >> we will put that on the president's desk, and he's going to have to decide if he's going to side with jobs and the economy and the american workers or instead if he's going to stay with his extreme supporters. >> reporter: kentucky senator mitch mcconnell now majority leader promised a keystone would be the first order of business after the senate failed to pass a bill last month by just one vote. >> we put out a state of administration position indicating that the president would have vetoed that that bill passed the previous congress. i can confirm for if you this bill passes this congress, the president wouldn't sign it either. >> reporter: over in the house where the go

in washington, joel waldman, fox news. >>> an 83-year-old man robbed of his brand-new iphone and the crime caught on camera. where it happened and who police are searching for. >>> plus, a minor warmup in store for the weekend. rosemary orozco will be here with the forecast. and is there any rain on the horizon? >>> and roger goodell issues his state of the nfl address. what he said about the year overall and about the calls r for him to resign. o?oowq >>> police in berkeley have released surveillance video of a man who stole a brand-new iphone from an 83-year-old man in berkeley. it happened back on december 26th. police say the man had just bought the iphone at the apple store on 4th street when a man in a red hoodie walked up to him and ripped the phone from his hand. here's another look at the suspect. police say he escaped in a silver audi with paper license plates. no other information about the suspect. police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. >>> mitt romney will not be making a run for the white house in 2016. he made the at nounsment a few -- the an

fox's joel waldman a life at laguardia airport tonight. joel got to tell was a difference a day makes. it sounds like crickets behind you. >> reporter: absolutely. lucy more of a bust than a blizzard here at laguardia. of course, yesterday forecasters were calling for upwards of 2 feet of snow. but in central park we got just about 5.5-inches take look here at laguardia international airport. 1400 flight cancellations out of here empty ticket counter and a rifle and departure board you're about to see that is littered with flight cancellations here at laguardia more than 500 flight cancellations. people wondering why did we get such less snow than was predicted and forecasters today saying that the storm track actually stayed about 75 to 100 miles east of the predicted track and if it had not done that, we would have actually gotten 10 plus more inches of snow. so that is the meteorological logic behind all of that. meanwhile in new york as you're well aware subways buses and trains shut down yesterday really essentially paralyzeing new yor

in washington, joel waldman fox news. >>> president barack obama and vice-president biden will be inladelphia next week. the two are expected to speak at the house democrats policy retreat. the three-day event is aim at planning out democrat street strategy for the neck two years in congress. president obama is set to visit the group on thursday with the vice-president's visit set for friday. >>> all right. if you haven't heard by now we're tracking a little storm weekend nor'easter. >> looks like we are getting a one-two punch. let's head over to chief meteorologist scott williams. you are tracking its every move, scott. >> chris and karen, the first system is moving in in the next several hours. if you are stepping outdoors on this friday evening it's dry root now, but look at the rain trying to cross the chesapeake bay as we speak. and look at all of the moisture off to the south. snow is trying to move north and west right now of the nation's capitol and this will continue to head in our direction. so watching this area of low pressure that will churn up the eastern seaboard inte

in washington, joel waldman fox news. >> among michelle obama's invite invited case allen gross and hisll join the first lady tomorrow night. gross walked free from cuban prison late last year. cuba sent him back to the united states in december as part of a deal. the obama administration struck with cuba to normalize relations. you can watch the president's state of the union right here on fox 29 starting at 9:00 stay with us for fox 29 news at 10:00. >> the iconic empire state building lighting up the colors of the two teams heading to the super bowl. it's the seahawks and the patriots. they're going to head to arizona next month seahawks will be there for the second straight year after that improbable come back win over the packers 28-twenty two in overtime they'll take the patriots who took care of the colts easily 45-seven but there's a lot of controversy surrounding the patriots and their win over the colts last night. did patriots coach bill belichick cheat again. >> first it was fry gate and now deflate gate. howard eskin has the story line as we get ready for the super bowl. ho