this is margate city south of the shore. we're here on vintner. >> reporter: this guy is backing up. we have to be very careful here. >> this is the cavalry line. look at the snow plows. this is the capitol beltway. they're trying to clear as much of a swath as possible. >> so far so good. the eye of the storm is supposed to hit new york at about 11:00. we're afraid the continuation starts to deer i don't remember rate from there. >> more snow is coming later today with the winds picking up, so, you know, our focus is really trying to get plows to -- on the roadways throughout the extent of today. the cleanup will certainly occur well into tomorrow. >> i've got to walk five miles in this. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> there is, indeed, breaking news. i'm christi paul. so glad to have you with us. 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 on the west. "cnn newsroom" is with you now. we've been following this massive winter storm all morning long. want to share with you some dramatic new images here showing you the incredible impact.

this is the city in margate city just south of atlantic city. just as forecasters feared, there is plenty of ice on the roads and now heavy, heavy flooding. it is making for treacherous

this is margate city south of the shore.lry line. look at the snow plows. this is the capitol beltway. they're trying to clear as much of a swath as possible. >> so far so good. the eye of the storm is supposed to hit new york at about 11:00. we're afraid the continuation starts to deer i don't remember rate from there. >> more snow is coming later today with the winds picking up, so, you know, our focus is really trying to get plows to -- on the roadways throughout the extent of today. the cleanup will certainly

there is a big variance in elevation here in margate city. some roads are clear like this one.merged. down the street here, we were looking at other businesses that had water go inside. we would be interested in going there later today and seeing how they are doing because they had sandbags outside their doors and the sandbags really didn't do much. as we wait for high tide, we also wait for the winds to shift around noon today. several flood watches are set to expire and hopefully they have seen the last of this flood. >> reporter: is this one of those seasonal communities? a lot of people in the summertime but not many people this time of the year? >> reporter: that's exactly how it is, martin. there are very few people that came out yesterday at the peak of this flood. just to check out how things were going. for the most part, summer homes are in this area or apartments that are set up for summertime, not necessarily an area that is populated right now. further north in atlantic city, there are many more people out there but that is certainly at a high elevation so they did

look at this picture from manasquan, and take a look at the video from margate city in atlantic county just south of atlantic city. severe flooding on the roads right now. eyewitness news reporter a.j. ross, she is in point pleasant, ocean county. a.j. >> reporter: joe, sandra, been putting on a show here along the beach in point pleasant all day today with this wintry, snowy ice mix that's just been blustery. the wind gusts have been extremely powerful pushing the ocean closer and closer to the shoreline. the good news is that the sand dunes here seem to have withheld the high tide. there's no noticeable erosion. but as we now begin to recover, flooding is certainly the next concern. all day the waves have been crashing here along point pleasant beach wrestling with these double-digit wind gusts. earlier today we caught up with governor chris christie as he visited the shoreline and detailed how crews have been working around the clock to clear the major roadways and highways and restore power to thousands of homes. >> we're now down to 50,000. now, we have very few outages in the nor

train of thought quite a few times in this cold, freezing flood that we're dealing with here in margate city. this is just south of atlantic city, and we're looking at essentially a bay that overflowove overflooded and came into a neighborhood hitting residences and homes as well. you can see the water pretty substantial. i'd say it's at 3 or 4 inches, maybe 5, and it moves fast. we saw this water recede a few moments ago. >> reporter: i'm going to interrupt you right now because the mayor of new york is speaking. let's go right there. >> morning hours addressing this storm. let me give you a couple updates immediately. so the storm projection has increased just in the last hour or so from the national weather service.rvice. e with an assumption of 20 to 25 inches, and obviously we prepare for even worse. so you could see a situation of 25 to 30 inches in a worst-case scenario. right now the official estimate from the national weather service for new york city is in the 20 to 25 inches range. as of 10:00 a.m. there was already 11.5 inches at central park, which is the historic composite meas

appears we don't have that sound, martin, but chris christie essentially said that areas like this, margate city, just south of atlantic city, are a concern for flooding. there's not as much snow here as some other parts of the state. it's expected to stay in the single digits, but there's nowhere for that water to go except into these neighborhoods. by monday, at best, some of this will clear up. i talked to one young woman who lives not far from here. she said the water was right at her door. when we get a chance to cross the street and see how these sandbags were holding up by these businesses, they didn't do much. a lot of sand, debris, and water getting into these businesses behind me. it will be a long time before the waters recede and we can see the full extent of this damage, martin. >> i want to be certain, boris, we're talking about flooding here. i think it's been described as street flooding and that sort of thing. this is not a massive area that has been inundated. these are specific areas that as a result of tide and wind, the water has been forced into, right? >> reporter: i would

i have to ask, we talked to a few people yesterday, a bit further south in margate city and asked whyndbags outside their homes. we were told they don't do much. do you feel like preparations are pointless for neighborhoods like this because the water is coming anyway? too th the preparation you do is what we did here, take things off the floor, make sure everything is tied down. the worsest is furniture flying around. sandbags is useless because you have the water coming from all four sides plus underneath. it's going to do nothing. it's not like it surges in. just comes all around. >> reporter: got it. we've seen a couple homes in this neighborhood being raised. part of this the reason is because of the continual flooding. you mentioned sandy. are you going to do it? >> we're about 1 one foot up. the only problem we have is the garage. the worst it ever got -- see where the line is there, it got about 2 1/2 times that. over to here. which was -- which was sandy. so really that was really high. that never really got anywhere near our living area. if the house was at this level, yeah,

cities and towns up and down the coast like margate, ocean city and atlantic city will be drying outwhile. residents say they're basements are flooded and they're roads are like rivers. >> i think the water was worse than sandy. the flooding. from what i've seen, it's definitely worse than sandy. >> thank god it was only three high tides that we had to deal with and not six like a couple storms ago. i think sandy might have been six high tides. >> some of the water in wildwood has receded allowing officials to reopen some of the roads into town. >>> roofs collapse are a big problem after big snows take look at this warehouse collapse in quakertown bucks county. this is what's left of the building on north hellertown avenue. you can see some tractor trailers are actually partially stuck under the roof that came down inbound the weigh of all that snow. we don't yet know if anyone was inside at the time. >>> and then there's this. the roof collapse of a church that many depend on. it's now going to take months to fix. the calgary fellowship in downingtown. >> what was original called in

shore towns were pounded atlantic city, margate, north wildwood ocean city, some of the locales thatad the streets flooded with icy bay water that seems to be freezing over a bit. by daylight we'll have a handle on beach erosion. the storm surge sent water up to the dunes on the boardwalk which has not happened in a while. we do know businesses up and down the coast had water in them, along with basements of homes and some folks were stranded by water that flooded their homes and had to be rescued in high water military vehicles that so many police departments have now. it's a waiting game at this point. we're waiting for the high tide to come and waiting to see exactly what happens here if the streets flood out the way they did yesterday, we hope not, but we expect to have some water in the streets. for now live in ocean city, nora muchanic channel 6 "action news" back to you guys. >>> thank you. >>> a chester county church will not have traditional services today after five feet of snow caused it to cave in. it happened in downingtown overnight. the pastor said the collapse left a

this is margate city, the area that governor christie had been discussing. and you can see, it is pretty widespread street flooding. the water appears to have receded slightly, but it is expected to crawl up, once again, as we get closer to high tide, later tonight, just before 8:00 p.m., that bay will rise up, forcing us from that location. you can see there's a police car down the street, but the streets aren't exactly closed. there are some streets that are open. we've seen cars passing through. it's an interesting thing about this area. there are different elevations here in certain parts. just down the street, it seems very clear. other spots inundated, like where we're standing right now. as you heard from governor christie, it seems like we won't see the end of this until potentially monday morning. martin? >> boris, real quick, i was watching this morning as the water came up on you, it came up incredibly fast. i'm thinking that it's going to push slowly your way. it really surged your way. >> reporter: yeah. it's unlike anything i've ever seen. i've

cities and towns such as margate, ocean city, atlantic city will be drying out for a while. the residents say their basements are flooded, roads are like rivers. steve keeley live in sea isle city, new jersey with the clean up effort there. steve, good morning. >> reporter: in dry out for a while. today's story is you have to melt out before you dry out. we're in sea isle city. here's what bob kelly warned everybody about, just watch it. everything isized over. this is forty-third and central right off the main strip. it looks like what the the era head. that is water but the frozen kind. sea isle city, sea icy city. look at this driveway here. a lot of the older houses have those old concrete steps. everything is ice. everything has been frozen over. when it does melt in the afternoon sun, the snow on the rooftops, strips down, it is like a little water torture and then refreezes overnight. the just treacherous. look at this right lane here leading up to the stop sign. do you think you will stop on this this going more than 2 miles an hour. no chance. you will go right into

this was the scene along the new jersey shore in margate city. that was one of the areas that hurricane sandy devastated back in 2012. baltimore also hit pretty hard. the city was digging out from nearly two oh, feet of snow. some people getting around on snowmobiles. tides are ramping up anxiety of homeowners worried about flooding. jim smith reports. >> we were very lucky and missed a big bullet. >> brenda talks a walk on her front deck. the early saturday high tide came right up over the sea wall. but thanks to protection, the house is safe. >> this is what my husband did to protect the house this year and we feel really safe because that's wood and we don't think any waves are going to get through it. >> the wind was how long all night long, maximum gust of 51. the 11 p.m. high tide was expected to be extra high thanks to a full moon. but the south shore seems to be weathering this storm. >> we remember the big storms. the blizzard of '78, last year all the storms from last winter. winter. >> this is a walk in the park compared to last year wh

north wildwood, stone harbor, margate, atlantic city some of the towns had water in homes and businessese people because the water was so high. we checked the bay this morning, when we got here, it was in the bay in check not over the bulkhead which was good news. i'm going to check down the street to see. looks like it is still in the bulkhead. of course, we'll have street flooding, but hopefully nothing compared to yesterday. right now, 13th street freezing up on us right now him we'll have to wait and see what happens, town is looking, ocean city is looking a lot better than yesterday. i'm nora muchanic live on the action cam now back to you guys. >>> so many evacuations and rescues yesterday, fortunately nothing like that today. thank you. >>> a chester county church will not have services today after a five feet of snow caused it to cave in in downingtown. the clams left a 60 by 65-foot gaping hole in the roof. the pastor plans to hold services online for parishners. >>> the blizzard hit the lehigh valley the hardest in the area. allentown got socked with 30 inches of snow. >>> stil

people in margate, atlantic city, wildwood, you name it, got several inches of water into their homesot of them look like rivers. >> steve keeley has been out there since friday keeping an eye on the hardest hit towns, hi there steve. >> reporter: well, for philadelphia getting life back to normal after a blizzard on a monday morning usually means stopping at a local wawa but here at stone harbor the wawa got hit. i cannot interest you guys in any salt water short he is, can i. they have thrown out so much food here. the staff is working very hard inside the store where you see steam on the windows as they try to clean up, throw all of the bad foot that went out because power went out and get all new food in here. the the idea is get this story opened by 7:00 o'clock, until then, coffee and hoagies have to be bought at rio grand outside wildwood. i know how hungry you get. same you you are not here. i can get you a free short and carmel ben and jerry's, unopened but squishy. >> i'll bring it back. you got it. i will leave it on your desk. >> sound great. >> thanks, budd. >>> record we

live this morning as the clean up begins, in hard hit places, like margate, ocean city, and sea isle city. good morning to you. i'm rahel solomon. >> i'm erika von tiehl. right now we check in with justin dray brick, i believe high tide for the shore, about it time right now? >> pretty much right about now, yes. >> dogs al flood warnings until noon, so again, this is pretty much it. then see improving conditions, throughout the day, hopefully, as the wind has certainly calmed down. and the storm system continues to pass well off to the east and northeast. check out storm scan3. nothing happening. nice quiet behind this storm. and don't really have any true arctic air coming in hine the system, yes, it is very coal, because of the fresh snow at the surface, but there go, clear skies, full sunshine today. we capping know ability, winner of the last list, allentown, new all time record, 31.9 inches. malvern, 28.2, ambler, 21. broomall it, two, over foot at the atlantic city airport into delaware. northern delaware was hit the hardest, 16.1 in new castle at the airport, hokessing coming

watch that takes effect friday night and much different scene then what you will find out side margate the cityy it is all about saturday in terms of the snowfall but snow flakes begin to fly, would i say between 6:00 and midnight on friday. meisha. >> thanks, katie. i want to call your attention right a away to a very serious accident. the this is video of a fatal accident in pemberton township, new jersey, route 70 is closed right now. the absolutely closed at lakehurst road. you can see overturn dump truck a and another vehicle is involve. you are being asked to avoid this area for next several hours, if at all possible, like i said, route 70, because of this crash right now is complete thely closed. you cannot get around it and eulogy in there for you there, burlington bristol bridge is scheduled to open up at 8:45 a.m. back over to you. >>> next update 8:55. ahead on cbs this morning how a night the at museum may transform the way doctor's practice medicine. i'm erika von tiehl have a great again! again! again! again! again? again! again! general mills is removing artificial flavors and co

is this something that folks in atlantic city, in margate, are used to with the snowstorm, or is thishis confluence of events, the full moon tonight, the fact the storm is intensifies as high tide's coming in, what is it? >> reporter: great question. we are told look, you have the high tide, you have the full moon and then you have this storm. so people say look, they already are prone to flooding in this area already. but then you add all these factors on top of it and the steady snow and the wind, and you have the situation. in fact, as i walk you back this direction, we stood here all night not thinking we would get hit with a lot of snow last night and it was three to four inches. now you can see here, i'm going to step in here, you can see how it's coming up into the middle of the roadway. over there where we were standing before, it's a lot deeper so we thought we would be dealing with a lot of snow. then all of a sudden it turns into this water. in the middle of the street, if we walk back down this direction, you can see it pushing back toward the city. all this was dry less t

forecast, like the sound of that, cleve bryan down at the shore in margate, first, we want to get out to rahel sullivan in university city with the clean up effort there. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, erika, you know, today we're still seeing streets crippled by this weekend storm, even with all of the sunshine we've gotten, still seeing cars that appear to be snowed in. still seeing roads covered. now, we want to take you now to see we're at 43rd and low cut cuss, the university city section of philadelphia, where i have to be honest, is not great but one of the better streets, the only reason ' here one of the few areas where we can actually safely pull over and park. now, i got to tell you, earlier we had some video just fresh into our news room, from south philadelphia. where you can see, they're not doing much better, now, there, you can also see, there are narrow street made even more difficult to get through because of all of the snow. now today i did speak with philadelphia streets commissioner, donald carlton, and he admits to me this isn't quite the battle for them because of the duration of the snowstorm.

margate. dann cuellar is in west chester. the christie lleto is in center city. chad pradelli is in douglasville. jeff skversky is in doylestown good we will begin with meteorologist adam joseph and cecily tynan. cecily, it looks like the the worst is over. >> it is, walter. people will be happy to hear me say that the blizzard of 2016 is moving out. double scan live showing thaws this storm is really just a shadow of its former self. here's that low pressure that to continues to pull out to sea. as it does it is taking all of the snow with it. now with that being said we still do have some light snow showers, falling across south jersey, the steady rain along the garden state parkway. but this should not provide anymore accumulation. this will be moving off the coast, within the next two hours by 1:00 in the morning, 1:30 the flakes will be gone. but, this was one for the record books. the all time biggest snowfall in the the history of allentown. 31.7 inches, breaking the the old record setback in the blizzard of 96. this is pretty much a season's worth of snow

margate. >> reporter: as evening rolled in high wind and another round of snow, whipped through atlantic city, covering road and making driving treacherous. >> the road are bad. road are bad. the expressway is, um, it is wet and i think people are driving way too fast. >> you have to drive slow because the road are slushy, ice on the road. >> reporter: when high tides hit all eyes turns to the rising water. police shut down access to part of the ventnor hit the by back bay flooding this wasn't too bad. >> reporter: don lives along the channel and said he stayed during super storm sandy and has no intention of leaving now. >> even though this is bad, it is not even hitting top step. >> reporter: in neighboring margate large parts of the town were flooded as water poured over the bay bulkheads and through neighborhood. >> i looked and i said my god, i mean it was completely covered. >> reporter: catherine mclaughlin is watching and praying from her front step as water creeps closer. >> even though i did take things off the the floor, my computer stuff and now all that but i don't think it will

. >> reporter: margate is a barrier island just on the outskirts of atlantic city. the spot i'm standing in just a few hours ago was covered with floodwater. as you can see, the waters have dramatically started to recede in just the last few hours, a significant difference. and perhaps by the time we are done with this report, much of the water you see behind me could be gone. very different situation, though, 24 hours ago. take a look at video that was recorded yesterday. and you can see water pouring from the bay onto the city streets. the mayor here says the problem is that the bay does not have the type of flood walls that the oceanside of the island has, and that has contributed to the problem. but, again, the situation here was never very severe. very different flooding, though, taking mraie ing place to the s north wildwood, new jersey. we have video from there. the mayor there said the flooding was worse than super starm sandy in 2012. he said the high tides were half a foot greater than they were during the superstorm. he said the floodwaters reached height

we're in the city of margate. this is a community located on a barrier island.ersey, mainly in th that took the storm with a great deal more difficulty. joining us right now is the mayor of margate. mayor michael becker. describe to me the extent of the problems caused by the storm in your community? >> well, as you know we're on a barrier island as you said and we've been through three high tides. the damage is moderate. nowhere near as bad as sandy. we were very lucky. and pretty soon most of this water will be gone probably within the next hour. >> the water here we expect to recede very, very soon. lastly, lessons learned, next time there's going to be a storm, and there will be, anything that should be done differently? >> yeah. we need help with flood control on the bayside of the island. the oceanside is fine. we have bulkheads end to end. most of the water where the damage occurred was from the bayside. >> mayor, thank you very much. hopefully you will make a swift recovery here and very quickly, i should let you know that the situation was much worse el

atlantic city now in margate. he's driving in our mobile unit mobile three.k at this, this is just a mess down there. >> wow, really is a mess. again we saw ocean county was putting out facebook post saying do not go out. you will get stuck. let the plows do their job. officers out were multiple vehicles. just even they couldn't make it. so, i mean, this is a bad situation. >> and again, this is street flooding, we did speak to governor christie earlier. they don't major shore issues. but besides the street, no coastal flooding at this point. so again this is margate atlantic county chief photographer jim spearing in mobile three. >> cherri gregg from sister station kyy news radio 1006 is live in center city, where some folks are just getting off from work. or maybe head today work. i don't know. cherry what's going on out there. >> yes, good morning, jim, nicole. yes, at the wawa. at broad and walnut. it is the place to be for those preparing to go to work, a stopping point, because they have hot coffee. right in there. but as you can see, i mean, people are

city. i wonder if he's seeing similar stuff out there now. >> i think -- are you going to margate? u going? >> reporter: we're in atlantic city and we're trying to get up to the boardwalk. we're at a traffic light right now. but we're on martin luther king boulevard which is like mid casino area so the revel would be to our left, and the tropicana and bally's to our right. this is a main drag much this is the way you would normally take out to the white horse pike which is shut down as you heard our previous phoner say. we have people walking in the street and that's because everything starting to flood out here. we were in the inlet section notorious forgetting hit and nor'easters because that's where the bay and the ocean meet up, and we had to keep making detours because everything was flooded and we saw some cars stalled out and everything. so very tough and then you can see in front of us right now people are just walking in the street. this is still a resort town and it is still a weekend with a lot of people here visiting, you know, you have 39,000 residents but usually have

margate. you can see snow sticking to grassy areas but not the roadways. a snowy and windy scene across the center city. the flak was blowing this afternoon was snow tell if across the city. snow a welcome sight for skiers and snowboarders. here is camelback mountain. not only are the flakes falling there but thanks to the colder temperatures they've been able to make snow, too. to get updates on the changing winter weather situation anytime, be sure to check out the nbc 10 news app, a free download. >>> he was a good guy that work here. he helped everybody out. he loved his job. >> a community in mourning following a deadly shooting at a homeless shelter in north philadelphia. police are still looking for the man who shot and killed one worger and injured another employee at the station house shelter early this morning. we're told the suspect was u victim from the shelter days ago after allegedly breaking the rules. we are live with the latest on the investigation in north philadelphia. what have you learned tonight? >> reporter: well, denise, people say the suspect was last seen running here towards

this is the city of margate, streets are like a pond. or venice italy, if you will. the high tides collision coming at the same time. cnn reported some water in that area is already waist deep. other parts of the state, though, escaped flooding thanks in part to sand dune projects that resulted -- or in the wake, rather of super storm sandy. >> heather: take a look at the situation in our nation's capital over the past 24 hours. time lapsed video showing the nor'easter settling settling in dumping nearly two feet of snow in the nation's capital. the national guard had to be called in there to help people dig out. i have a friend in dc who said even the truck that was trying to clear the roads got stuck on her streets. what do you do when that truck gets snuck. >> gene: there's a lot of snow when the snow blow yous are there. >> heather: right. >> gene: the impact of the snow, the cape and islands got the worse in our area. >> heather: and fox 25 jim morelli live in sandwich this the way up, not the other way around, not down? >> reporter: yeah, that's correct. we'll

flooding was always a worry, cnn was live in margate, new jersey as the ocean waters overwhelmed the sea wall and spilled into the streets. and in new york city, the bridges and tunnels onto the island of manhattan closed at 230pm - the result of a travel ban. the normally bustling times square looks like a ghost town. the governor is calling for common sense. (gov. andrew cuomo, (d) new york): "our own citizens can create the greatest issues. you go out on the road. all it takes is stuck and now that road is not passable and the plows can't plow that road and the situation quickly descends into chaos. we have seen this time and time again." and it's far from over, with the storm tracking north overnight. (gov. andrew cuomo, (d) new york): "betweenthe snow fall and the wind, it is really a treacherous, treacherous situation." a father and son killed, 2 others injured in a bizare shootout at gun store in mississippi police say a man and his son went to the shop to pick up a gun that was being repaired when they were told it wasn't ready, one of them reportedly got frustrated and started arguing with the clerk she called for help to calm the cu

margate, new jersey ryan young. now to times square and jason carole. you know, this cityesn't sleep but doesn't see this kind of snowstormhis kind of snowstorm often as well. >> this is a city that doesn't sleep and proof is right here in times square. even though we are under a winter blizzard warning until 4:00 a.m. a lot of people are out here as the snow started to come down just in the past hour or so. new york city expecting a foot to a foot and a half of snow, don. and we are under a winter weather emergency until about 8:00 a.m., the mayor encouraging people to stay off the roads so that way emergency vehicles can get through. 2300 sanitation workers will be working 12 hour shifts. so in terms of resources the city is well prepared. in terms of how much snow we are going to be getting, expecting a foot to a foot and a half. but it's not expected basically until tomorrow morning starting at about 8:00 a.m. right now we are getting a light dusting. the worst, if it is to come, still several hours away. >> hopefully i will be watching maybe jason carroll in times squ

city streets. the mayor telling us, though, at its worst, the flooding here in margate was only moderate. in other parts of new jersey, the situation did not fare as well. in north wildwood in particular, the mayor say it is flooding was worse than superstorm sandy. he said the high tide six inches greater than in the superstorm. he also told that the flooding reached a height of as much as five feet in north wildwood. he said that there are still people in north wildwood who do not have power. there are tens of thousands of people throughout the state of new jersey waiting for the juice to be turned on as utility crews do their best to try and restor christie, he left the campaign trail to come to new jersey to declare a state of emergency. he's now left new jersey and returned to new hampshire but before doing so he had this message for new jersey residents. listen. >> please be careful. take your time as you drive around today and free to go out and do what you want to do. go to church. go to the supermarket. go to some of your kid's sporting events if they have hockey or basketball ga

margate, new jersey, just south of atlantic city.ice this is coming towards homes and businesses. moments ago, we did talk with new jersey governor chris christie about this ongoing situation and his abrupt trip home from the campaign trail. >> we're ready, we have the national guard on call for evacuations if necessary. although we don't believe there will be evacuations necessary, today along the coast. and we have shelters in every county in new jersey if people lose their power and need to stay warm. and they can't shelter with friends or family which is obviously the first choice that they can shelter with us. we have shelters with every county in the state. we're ready to have local police help them if they need assistance in getting to the shelters. they can't get to the shelters that's what they should do. what i said in the beginning was i had no plans to go home because it was too early to make a judgment. i said i'd continue to monitor the situation if necessary. if i thought the circumstances were that i go home, i would.

margate and ice floating up the streets, going over the wall that the residents in the government market said was good enough to protect them from any storm. >> reporter: after the snow forecast for new york city was raised to 76 centimetres. officials ordered a travel ban. >> all vehicles that are not emergency vehicles involved in direct urgent service to people need to be off the streets. the n.y.p.d. will begin enforcing a travel ban at 2:30 today. that ban will remain in effect until further notice. >> 150,000 households were without electricity. in north and south carolina. the outages were expected to worsen as ice builds up on powerlines. in washington. the weather turned treats in a snowboarders delight. >> one of the confinement banders couldn't get enough of the snow. >> since friday, 15% of commercial flights in the u.s. have been cancelled. meaning beginning sunday, airlines will have to cope with a backlog of passengers. tom ackerman, al jazeera, washington >>> on the other side of the world, subtropical hong kong is not immune to the odd cold snap. the government warned many not to go out in freezing conditions. many have, in the hope of seeing know. rob mcbride reports. >> repo

flooding was always a worry, cnn was live in margate, new jersey as the ocean waters overwhelmed the sea wall and spilled into the streets. and in new york city, the bridges and tunnels onto the island of manhattan closed at 230 pm - the result of a travel ban. the normally bustling times square looks like a ghost town. the governor is calling for common sense. new york: "our own citizens can road. all it takes is one car to get stuck and now that road is not passable and the plows can't plow that road and the situation quickly descends into chaos. we have seen this time and time again." and it's far from over, with the storm tracking north overnight. new york: "between the snow fall and the wind, it is really a treacherous, treacherous situation." forecasters say snowfall will probably stop in most major cities this morning. early this morning a 7-point- 1 magnitude earthquake struck alaska the quake lasted about 30 seconds and hit near cook inlet police say there were no reports of major damage or injury. and the national weather service is reporting no tsunami threat from the quake because of how deep it struck. two smaller earthquakes str