western massachusetts lightened up. eastern massachusetts, we're getting the worst of it. >> boston we're saying -- at least parts of boston got 18 inches so far. they could get a whole lot more, is that right? >> right. they're talking about creeping up on that 27.5-inch record. >> so this could be as you told us yesterday, one of the five worst snowstorms in the history of massachusetts, certainly in the history of boston? >> i think i could comfortably say that at this point, yes. >> is everybody dealing with it okay? you're in charge of emergency management. what's the latest? >> people are doing a great job. we've lifted the travel ban for the western part of the state. eastern part of the state as well, folks have stayed off the roads, allowed the folks with the plows to try to stay up with this storm. hopefully it will get people back to work and back on the roads some time tomorrow hopefully. 5:00 this afternoon, governor baker will then have a press conference and maybe there will be some decisions in that rega

residents traveling to massachusetts -- or anyone traveling to massachusetts or rhode island should be advised that their travel bans are still in effect for most counties in their states. while the ban is lifted here in connecticut, you should assume that this is a normal storm condition or snow condition. so we're not saying that the roads are -- that we want you to get on the roads. they are -- still will have -- would be as they would be in a normal storm as opposed to a storm, the likes of which we have just come through. on the other hand, we understand that people need to get to places and get to jobs and the like. there are parts of the state that may have reached record snowfall, particularly in the northeastern portion of connecticut. the e.o.c. will remain open to monitor and provide necessary assistance to cities and towns that they may request. we have a couple of other announcements. metronorth will resume sunday service as of 1:00 p.m. full service will resume tomorrow and parking lots will be cleared for commuters, we are informed. amtrak currently remains closed north

she's in massachusetts. tell us where you are, alexandra, and tell us about some of the conditions that you're seeing. >> reporter: hey, brianna. we're in scituate south of boston as you head toward the cape. you can probably see we're just taking a beating out here right now. the big concern is really when high tide comes in. i want to show you what happened the last time the high tide came in. this is seawater. it breached the sea wall. there's water on the other side here. this is where the flooding started. if you look at the wind whipping off of the water, there are chunks can of ice and debris in this water. this was a storm surge that people around here haven't seen in a very long time. neighbors say it came up over this fence. the basement is flooded. the flood water moved all the way across this street. this street now covered in snow to a large extent. this has happened over the last couple hours. this is when the wind and snow has really picked up. the big concern is still all the water out here.

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these are live pictures of saugus massachusetts.hammer the northeast and new england. coastal flooding is a growing threat. take a look at these pictures coming in from marshville. it's high tide right now. part of the seawall has collapsed. much more coming up in a few moments. >>> but there's other news including some secret meetings and coded messages sent to moscow. the fbi has busted a spy ring in new york city. our joe johns has details. it sounds like a spy story that's happening now but straight out of the cold war. >> it certainly is wolf. three russian men are charged in this case. two have already left the country with diplomatic immunity. the third is being held for holding suspecting information, including destabilization of economic markets and how to limit trading robots. listen. he claimed to be a russian banker working in his company's new york office. but the justice department alleges that he was one of three russian spies under surveillance in this country for years. the u.s. attorney said two decades after the p

it's still affecting massachusetts. but how does it compare historically with other storms you've had that were officials, governor included, were saying this was going to be like a top five storm for massachusetts. is it? >> oh definitely going to be a top five storm. there are areas that will get over three feet of snow before all is said and done. the snow has not stopped in most of the state, and it's going to be impactful. we were just very very lucky that this turned out to be light and fluffy snow and not the wet, heavy snow that we were anticipating. we were expecting lit alleyerally hundreds of thousands of outages. our top number today was like 36,000 total and the number is going down as we speak. so that's the giant bullet we dodged today, the lack of power outages only because mother nature decided to give us a break on that. >> thank god for that although of course the poor people in nantucket are facing an islandwide power outages. peter judge thank you so much. really appreciate it. of course it's not ju

the worst is around massachusetts. over two feet of snow in one spot along with wind gusts close to 8 miles an hour. national guard was deployed overnight. this morning the governor said they are happy with the way things have gone. >> the power outage numbers are significantly below where we anticipated them to be. that's a good. thing. it's been a relatively incident-free night. >> states of emergency are still in place for eight states and we could still see close to two feet of snow up north. but in some places like new york city, the blizzard was more of a bust. about six inches of snow in the big apple. we should mention there's been one death blamed on the storm. a teen was killed in a sledding accident. for millions of people up north, today and tomorrow will be days to dig out. the ripple effect will be felt when it comes to air travel. about 4600 flights have been cancelled. that's today alone. but as we said the situation on the roads, starting to get back to normal. >> the roads are not clear, so we don't w

and there is close to a foot in parts of massachusetts. there are also snow drifts between 2 to 3 feet and here is the important part wind gusts, they have already topped 70 miles per hour in nantucket. right now there are 60 million people under a winter weather alert and nearly 30 million people facing blizzard conditions. thousands are in the dark after losing power during the storm including nearly 6,000 in massachusetts alone. and this is a live look now at new york city. it is one of the many places that is virtually a ghost town after transit has shut down and nonemergency vehicles have been ordered off the road as a precaution. >> i keep saying to everyone take caution, take precautions, be careful. a lot ahead of us. this is literally the calm before the storm. it is about to start in earnest. when it does it is going to come in very fast very hard and people have to be very very careful. stay off the streets. stay off the sidewalks. >> okay. so most importantly let's get you up to the minute on the forecast, the very latest from

at least here in massachusetts, the travel ban in massachusetts continues and for good reason.f you go out on the streets here, it's just a virtual whiteout. even though the snow is not coming down as hard as it was. a warning until tomorrow morning. that's because even though the snow stops we'll have the ground blizzards blizzards. winds are gusting over 50 miles per hour and will do that through a good part of the afternoon. this is about as bad as i have seen it in my career, the combination of snow and surge. it's like a winter time tropical storm. >> what you're seeing with mike right there is why there are states of emergency declared in eight states. l certainly the storm is impacting much of the country. mike, thank you very much. >>> still ahead, the latest on the blizzard. bill karins has the up to the minute track of the storm and exactly where it's headed in the next few hours, stay with us. >>> mother nature has decided once again to come visit us. >> this is potentially a dangerous storm with significant accumulation of snow sdplp this is going to be a significan

massachusetts and cape cod at this point. as the storm keeps going, they say the intense snowfall coming at a couple inches maybe more than that an hour could continue through noon eastern time. the storm itself will continue past midnight into wednesday a little bit. so this is certainly an intense storm that was promised in new england, milissa. >> it looks bitterly cold. let's say warm. let's go to mike seidel who is reporting and filed this report from plymouth, massachusetts. >> what we have this morning is surge, high tide. the tide going out, down to the cape. right here the water came up and covered the entire front yard. you can see the tide way above where it should be. the parking lot behind me let's zoom in -- the wind out here and drifting. look at the waves out there. can you see those? that is not the harbor. that's the parking lot here in plymouth. so the whole parking lot is under water. the coastal flood warning, which one goes to 7:00. then another one, upgraded the watch to warning from 3:00 to 7:00 this a

by the massachusetts historical society , and the abigail adams historical society. it is about 30 minutes. >> thank you. what an interesting time to be giving a talk on infection and disease and epidemic, right? with ebola in the news, we tend to forget in our modern health crazed society that early americans, the founders and ordinary people alike, really understood infectious diseases in ways we don't. they knew the protocols. they knew how to respond to them. they knew what to do if there was infection in their homes. they knew the rules. i think that is something we are relearning, so maybe we can shed some light there. i want you to imagine the emotions running through the mind of 19-year-old abigail smith in the spring of 1764. she and her then fiancÉ john had been betrothed for at least a year when john announced he intended to delay their proposed spring or summer wedding to the fall so he could have himself purposefully infected with smallpox, the most dreaded disease of the age. when john left abigail on april 7, 1764, to begin the preparatory regimen for

he's in massachusetts by the coastline. high tide is having a massive impact up and down the east coast. msnbc has special coverage and the rest of the blizzard of 2015. >>> with all of the snow that's falling, road salt's needed. and by the tons. it's being spread as fast as trucks can pick it up and drop it across the region. how effective is it at the temperature as it gets cold into the teens. jane tim is at the depot of sanitation, road salt storage facility. that's the question. we hit the teens. and the big brains shall we say, estimate between 10 and 15 degrees, salt doesn't work, as well, at least. >> yeah. yeah. early this morning, we got here around 2:00 we didn't see nearly any salt trucks going up and down. it was strictly plows. we've seen a few more. that makes me start to think they're preparing for when it gets warmer in the coming hours to get the salt trucks out. right behind me you can see how much salt the city has to arm itself against the storm. this is a salt storage facility. it's about 80 paces dow

talking about parts of eastern massachusetts. i mean, i heard stories up in their backyard for five feet of snow in some of these places. eastern mass providence. the roading of the state, we talked about it in new york city roads being closed for 12 hours or whatever. we're talking about three or four days. interstates closed. complete downtown boston shut down. big hockey tournament being played in the boston garden the old sports arena while this was happening. by the time they let out of the first blizzard there was nowhere for people to go. 200 people were trapped in the boston garden for three days. ate hot dogs slept in the locker rooms. >> who were the politicians at that time and how were they viewed? this seems like, i mean what could you do to prepare for that? >> the mayor of the city of boston at the time kevin white, was in a tropical place. he could not get back to the city. he was out of the city. meanwhile -- >> tropical place. >> he didn't have bloomberg money. it was bad timing. unprepared. the other one was mi

coastal massachusetts was hardest hit. about 30 miles south of boston, high tides and 75-mile-an-hour winds took out a section of sea wall in marshfield. took out seven homes, several were condemned. >> we've got to make a determination as to whether to evacuate some of the people down here now that the breach is open, it's going to cause more flooding. >> reporter: one man had to be rescued from his home after a large wave slammed into his home. at least 30,000 homes and businesses were without power in the boston/cape cod area, including the entire island of nantucket. all around new england, snowplows couldn't keep up. by last night, just under 2 feet of snow covered most of boston. a travel ban was in effect in eastern and central massachusetts until midnight. other parts of new england from connecticut to maine were also hard hit. in addition to the snow and the wind, there is the bitter cold. the low in boston, only around 10 degrees, with the windchill closer to negative 5. across massachusetts, schools are closed t

massachusetts is really getting hammered. taking a look at some of the totals coming in and they are already getting above that 8-inch mark along the south shore, even into western massachusetts starting to close in on that foot. so we are still on track for upwards of 2 feet in many parts of massachusetts. we could even see an isolated three-foot zone. here's a look though. we were talking about the cold it is very cold. here's a look at the arctic forecast we're going to have. this arctic air continues to fill down throughout the week. temperatures in many places are not going to make it above freezing until we get to -- until we get to -- rather until we get to friday. we'll be above freezing. look what happens here betty. on saturday we fall into the 20s a. by sunday in the teens. so the snow will go but the cold will stay and that is certainly going to create problems on the roads right through the weekend because we will have some melting and refreezing. >> that could be very problematic with black ice and all kinds of

travel ban s in connecticut, massachusetts and rhode island. late tonight, new jersey issued a travel ban. >> absolutely. this is a big storm you are seeing right now with 30 million people in its path. depending where they are as the storm continues to move in millions are in for a night of heavy snow and gusting winds. coastal areas are preparing for storm surges. emergency personnel are watching for possible power outages. i want to start with the latest from our weather team. for that bring in our meteorologist. people want to know what kind of conditions we are seeing out there right now and where's the storm the strongest? >> the storm is strongest over new england, southern new england. that's where we are looking at the worst conditions and where this historic storm is ramping up. providence to boston is where the worst is. blizzard warnings are in effect from coastal new jersey to bangor, maine. with blizzard warnings it is not necessarily the amount of snow you will get but the winds and visibility and all of those things that make it

16 inches in plymouth massachusetts.to 15 inches on top. >> there will be places that hit the 2 to 3 feet of snow. talk to me about the winds here. >> the winds are the big factor. once the storm starts to exit the new england coast, that is where it is headed at the moment it will leave a lot of wind in its wake. just because the plows are out now, it doesn't matter. the wind will push the snow over the roads again. it will create tricky travel conditions. >> i have been hearing reports of coastal flooding particularly in massachusetts. high tides in some of the areas as the storm is reaching the peak in the next few hours. >> going toward low tide now. i have checked twitter. we have not seen damage in terms of coastal storm surge. on average 2 to 3 feet above normal. it was timing with high tide. >> that is good news. we have seen here largely what we are hearing all across the new england and new york area. most people did stay off the roads allowing the emergency crews to do their work. we are not hearing reports of

massachusetts, though, really still in the crosshairs right now. snowfall expected to get more than two feet in some areas. coastal flooding becoming another major concern. also expected to get hit hard maine and new hampshire. both of those states still under a state of emergency. officials still urging people to stay off the roads and to stay at home. let's kick things off with our meteorologist who continues to follow the storm's track. who is getting hammered right now? >> right now eastern massachusetts and rhode island. they are in the brunt of the storm. we have impressive snow totals. this is a new update. for mass 30 inches. worcester 26 inches. boston, 21 1/2 with an inch of snow coming down per hour. still looking at heavy bands. we will see it lighten up. we can see it lighten up as we head through the afternoon so by tonight the storm system will start to die down. we will not see these heavy bands of snow. they will start to lighten up. what we will continue to get is that blowing and drifting know. this is going to continue to be a p

the massachusetts national guard. betty, just to give you a sense, i've been telling you about the amount of snow that's been coming down here in the plaza. i'll take you over here to the side because i don't know if you can tell here but this is the curb right here. >> you can't even see it. >> and an hour ago, and i don't know if you can stand -- fudge move out of the way here because i got the light here great. i'll just carve away this -- so you can see it. >> you know what's amazing? i think it was just what five, ten minutes ago. we saw a snow plow come behind you. and that quickly the snow started to pile up again. >> this area right here you see this is the street. an hour ago i could see the street here. and then within that amount of time since you and i have been on air it has filled up about three inches here 3 1/2 inches. so that's the difference that we're seeing here. and the snow again, is very light and fluffy but there's no wind. i'm just putting this in my face right now. but it's very fluffy. there

aveling to massachusetts or anyone traveling to massachusetts or rhode island should be advised that their travel bans are still in effect. >> and that was governor connecticut governor malloy moments ago with an update with travel in connecticut. some of the biggest weather related problems around nantucket island off the massachusetts coast which has been dealing with hurricane-force winds. power was out throughout the morning. local officials are dealing with that and heavy flooding. william pitman is chief of police on nantucket and joins me by phone. first of all, the power, do you have power back yet? >> we don't. we are close to finding out whether our efforts to repair the power have been successful but we're still probably 30 minutes or so away from learning the extent of it. >> and what about the flooding and damage from -- you had hurricane-force winds. there's, of course a lot of historic buildings. what do you know about the damage assessment? >> the good thing is that we didn't have flooding anywhere we didn't expect flooding. so there are areas of the island that get i

mike, more than 5,000 people there already out of power across massachusetts. and we can see how things are for you right now. you gave us that interesting taped shot before where you were trying to walk through and needed the snowshoes. have you gotten them yet? it looks like you're having a hard time standing still. >> reporter: no, i'm waiting for the fedex truck, thomas. i don't think it is going to be here anytime soon. what we have had this morning, though, is that surge, that high tide. the tide is going out. we had reports of coastal flooding thomas in scituate down to the cape. and here the water came up and covered the entire front yard of the east bay grill. now you can see a little bit of water here surging back up the tide is still way above where it should be. the entire parking lot behind me, that's -- let's zoom in. the wind out here and the drifting, zoom past me. look at the waves out there. can you see those, thomas? >> yes. >> reporter: that is not the harbor. that's the parking lot here in plymouth. so the whole parking lot is under water.

of massachusetts.aryland, massachusetts, and new england hashed statutes or common law. particularly the one based on what were articles 39 and 40 of the 1215 edition of the magna carta, about no freemen being taken of their liberties. to none lowly cell to nunnally delay right or justice. william penn in 1687 published the entire text of magna carta printed in the western haven't -- hemisphere. for residents of pennsylvania. every freeborn subject of england is aired unto by birthright. unparalleled privilege of liberty and -- liberty. he said, it is signed most conspicuously into things, parliament and juries. as i said, the people who came were extremely litigious. one of my favorite examples is massachusetts. in 1664, a massachusetts play assembly wrote a letter to their sovereign taking issues with a royal commission the accused a new england colonies of passing laws republic -- repugnant. other new england colonies -- massachusetts reminded charles the first that their charter written by him to e

massachusetts could see up to three feet of snow by tomorrow. the near whiteout conditions are also expected to last there through the day, along with parts of rhode island new hampshire, and maine. let's go back to meteorologist bill karins standing in rockefeller plaza in new york but watching it all from that location. >> yes. >> bill, we were talking to one of the city officials from shrewsbury massachusetts thrks he were at 29 30 inches. >> no disappointment there. talking about historic one of the highest totals in that area. you get a picture there. the tourists are back out, got the word new york city is open. friends from brazil and they're more fascinated than anything else with the snow. obviously wanted to see the big blizzard, but they're not complaining too much about getting around and out of hotel rooms today. couple things that are interesting. the cameraman's van was hit by a chunk of ice falling off the buildings. around new york city that's a concern with storms like this the storm is up there, sticks to roofs, and start to m

coastal massachusetts was hardest hit. about 30 miles south of boston high tides and 75-mile-an-hour winds took out a sections of sea wall in marshfield. >> we've got to make a determination as to whether to evacuate some of the people down here now that the breach is open, it's going to cause more flooding. >> reporter: one man had to be rescued from his home after a large wave slammed into his home. at least 30,000 homes and businesses were without power in the boston/cape cod area including the entire island of nantucket. all around new england, snow mrous couldn't keep up. by last night, just under 2 feet covered most of the boston. a travel ban was in effect in central and eastern massachusetts until midnight. other parts of new england from connecticut to maine were hardest hit. in addition to the snow and the wind, there is the bitter cold. the low in boston only around 10 degrees, with the windchill closer to negative 5. across massachusetts, schools are closed today. some districts are closed tomorrow. chris van c

nantucket in massachusetts. massachusetts is bearing the brunt of the storm.ing a state of emergency. boston's logan airport is shutdown until tomorrow. a statewide ban in place for the state. imagine a statewide ban of driving. hundreds of school systems have canceled classes. no mail in boston. a lot of the post offices are closed across the state. national reporter nick valencia is live in boston with the latest from there. good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, john. you can see the wind is starting to pick up as you toss to me. that has been the problem in the last hour. 4:00 a.m. according to massachusetts state governor this is supposed to be the height of the storm. potentially high tide was supposed to happen at 4:00 a.m. we have seen here where they are trying to clear out the snow. those plows dumping the excess snow they want to move off the streets with the containers. in the last hour we have seen it -- >> nick sorry. the storm causing issues with the communications gear. sometimes it jams things up. that's the situation in boston. nick w

of the massachusetts in 1646. in maryland, massachusetts, in new england, they hashed statutes providing common law in chapters of magna carta particularly of what were articles 39 and 40 of the 1215 edition of the magna carta. the first addition about no freemen being taken or dispossessed of his free liberties. or free customs or to be outlawed or exiled in any way destroyed, nor we we condemn him except by legal judgment of his peers or law of the land. to will be self, deny, or delay the right of justice. william penn in 1687, published the entire text of magna carta. it was the first printing in the western hemisphere. the resident of pennsylvania, as he put it, are strangers to the to understanding of that inheritance. every freeborn subject of england is aired on two by birthright. unparalleled privilege of liberty and property. he praised this happy frame of government which he said, it is assigned most conspicuously into two things, parliament and juries. the jerry part i am sure you will be hearing about

in massachusetts just over 1500 people are without power.he storm will intensify as the storm develops. high tide is at 4:30 this morning where a great deal of damage will occur. i'm afraid to speculate how strong the winds are where you are, mike. >> not quite hurricane force, gusting up to 54 miles an hour. hurricane force is 74 miles an hour. we may still do that but we're still in the early stages. the low is still to the south and it is still intensifying don't have to worry about the rain mix here on the cape it may mix a little bit. you mentioned power outages, we have plenty of power crews, they're ready, sitting in the lobby, just ready to pounce on any kind of power outages, with this kind of weather, if the power goes out they will have to wait until the winds die down some, that won't be until this evening. what i want to show you is the power of the wind what happened happens with the snow. back here look at these drifts back in here these drifts are already over four feet. >> wow. >> whoa! >> be careful out there. >> and you ge

>>pam moore:new video from massachusetts tonight.ng the high winds that have been hammering that state and its neighbors. roads are impassable power lines down. homeowners, power crews and snow removal workers will be digging out tomorrow in brutal conditions: forecasters say wednesday's low temperature in boston will be 10 degrees, with a minus-5 wind chill. tonight only on 4. a heartbroken man who was left stranded at s-f-o. is finally on his way back home. he originally traveled thousands of miles to the bay area. to see an ex -girlfriend here. but during the visit he got some tough news. then, as he was heading home he got stuck by the storm. kron 4's j.r. stone has the story from s-f-o. >>j r stone: been stuck at an airport due to a snowstorm at al east having this major relationship a share the same time as a whole other thing that happened to one here in san francisco. >>: i'm trapped here till probably wednesday. i have no family friends here and i don't wanna be here due to my situation. >>j r stone: he has been all over the

the massachusetts coastline got the brunt of the storm. hurricane force wind gusts and a storm surge caused flooding and property damage as well. power is back on for some people on nantucket island. that's good news. but thousands more remain in the dark and in the cold. >> the flooding was more intense and a lot higher than predicted, and it wasn't until late last night that we realized although it was 35 degrees, it was going to continue to snow. that's when we really started realizing that we had a bigger problem than what we originally anticipated. but we were prepared, but i don't know how anybody can be prepared entirely when you lose all your communications and electricity electricity. >> the blizzard dumped up to three feet of snow more than 90 centimeters in eastern massachusetts. similar amounts fell in new england, as well as the eastern part of long island. the storm snarled roads and air travel with more than 4700 flights canceled. >> but in new york city it was certainly a different story. some may have called it a blizzard

massachusetts governor charlie baker just announced moments ago the travel ban in the state of massachusettsl be lifted tonight at midnight. that travel ban will be lifted tonight at midnight. we will bring you any updates as we get them. in other news president obama has a plan to open up areas of the nation's federally owned waters to oil and natural gas drilling in the atlantic ocean. parts of the plan is expected to include leases off the southern atlantic states including virginia and both north carolina and south carolina. opening the eastern seaboard to oil drilling is a prize the oil industry has been working toward for decades. oil and gas drilling is prohibited on 12 million acres. the area includes 1.4 million oil rich acres along the coast. both proposals are part of the interior department's latest five-year plan that they want to implement. the department wants to sell federal leases for oil and gas development from the years 2017 to 2022. it does not require a congressional approval. environmentalists think the proposal is simply inviting another possible bp disaster of sorts.

we're going to go to rehema ellis who is on the road in massachusetts. what are conditions like there, rehema? >> the conditions are getting worse by the minute one of the things i wanted to mention as we were driving around as we have been driving around tonight is that people have been heeding the warning, they're getting off the roads, they're taking their time, they're going slowly. we have not seen one wreck on the road and i hope i don't spoil that and we start to see a lot of accidents. but we have not seen one. no one pulled over on the side no one spinning out, not yet. and the good news is that people are getting off of the roads. we have got a lot of crews that have been out here that have been trying to prepare these roads with salt and sand to make it easier for people to get around, but here's the thing, in an hour a travel ban goes into effects here in massachusetts and only essential vehicles are to be out on the roads so as to make it easier for these snowplows when they come through to clear the streets. the snow is coming down it's blo

this is part of massachusetts.hat happened is all the wind with the storm pushed up to 4 feet of water over and then because of the snow and ice already there, it had clogged the drains so it couldn't go anywhere. more of the images where does the snow and water go now? it clears out. this is by tomorrow morning, clearing out. as you heard others on the broadcast mention, another system behind this this one looks like more widespread will be measured in inches versus feet. more of a clipper system versus the coastal monster we had. >> the houthis say they want a peaceful transition of pour in yemen. the special envoy to yemen is leading talks to end a crisis beginning when the president resigned and rebels took control. houthi leaders want better representation in the central government. other separatists want to create an autonomous state in southern yemen. in kosovo adding insult to injury 80 were hurt led by an albanian political group. a party is demanding the resignation of a member of parliament who called th

massachusetts pummeled with over 30 inches of snow. in hudson even too much for the plows to handle. >> this is a very significant storm and in many parts of massachusetts, i think you could call it in fact an historic event. >> reporter: the last 24 hours, a blowing, blinding mess. painful to be outside. the wind is blowing the snow sideways. visibility at times dropping down to zero. the wind and snow not letting up even through the morning. you can't see anything this morning. this blizzard is dropping visibilities down to near zero at times. and it shows no signs of letting up. the boston fire department digging out the stranded. even shuttling hospital workers. some doctors skiing to work. tens of thousands without power across the region. in connecticut, 30-plus inches of snow in spots. burying cars. in rhode island winds toppling the massive wooden uss providence. overnight, travel banned in five states. over two feet of snow in long island. on the long island expressway an army of snowplows. the storm's track saving new york ci

we'll take you to scituate coastal massachusetts.ew york definitely feeling some of the brunt of this especially when you head all the way down in long island, all the way out to that eastern tip of montauk. that is where ana cabrera is. she was up very late last night riding this out. she's back with us this afternoon. ana, what does it look like right now? >> well strangely, the weather seems to be deteriorating a little bit from what we saw earlier today. a little more reminiscent of what i experienced in the midnight hours. we're here along the beach. we were watching the coastal flooding possibilities. that seems to have passed for now, that threat. high tide here was a couple of hours ago. not exactly a day that you want to walk along the beach. we're still seeing the pounding snow wind gusts in the 20-mile-per-hour -- steady that is around 20 miles per hour but gusts around 30. there are people who are taking advantage of those winds and the higher water and big waves. in fact we talked to a gentleman who is a surf photographe

one more picture from boston massachusetts, this is the oldest section of boston the only way to get around is to sled down. the cars are completely buried and a long time before they find their cars. >> in boston the big of the january snow storm in the history books and the fourth highest of all time for southern new england. locally at home 33 in trenton and 27 in allentown and wilmington and dover as well as millville and 16 in mt. pocono. the big story is the drop in temperature and the windchills come tomorrow morning, right now down to 16 in trenton and 17 in reading and 23 in wildwood. satellite and radar we have all the energy in southern new england, that is rising air to supply the wind and snow and whatever goes up must come down so the periphery of that storm you have sinking air and we are starting to see the clouds fall apart here and that is the trend overnight tonight as high pressure comes in from the south and west. midweek, 30 degrees on the chilly side, feeling colder with windchills in the 20s and brilliant sunshine tomorrow and a very weak system arrives late o

across massachusetts -- across massachusetts there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me. i was there yesterday witnessing firsthand the progress that has been made in a few short years there. and despite all of their issues and they have many, a renaissance is underway in the public schools. attendance is up and dropout rates are down and test scores and graduation rates are up, the school day is longer and they are hardly alone. there are exceptional schools and many of our disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout the commonwealth proving that they can get it done for kids no matter what the circumstances are. [applause] [applause] and other schools really do need to step it up. the children and the families that they serve poor performance giving the dramatic success that other schools have demonstrated can no longer be tolerated. while traditional public schools will always be the backbone of our education system, we need more high-performance charter schools, especially in underperforming school districts to complement

nick reporting from scituate in massachusetts. nick. >> reporter: it's coastal communities like this one in massachusetts, scituate that bore the brunt of that severe weather system that moved through massachusetts. the bad news for this community is that they may not be out of it just yet. a coastal flood advisory is still in effect for scituate until 7:00 a.m. and high tide happening between 5:00 a.m. -- 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. so there still could be more problems to come. but for now it seems that they may be in the clear. less than 24 hours ago, that wasn't the case. so much so that the national guard sent two teams in here to rescue some families families that chose not to evacuate despite the guidance of the massachusetts governor. some people here in this community, they've been through things like this before. so they thought they'd stick it out. that simply wasn't the case. some people had to be picked up by the national guard. for now we understand the majority of residents in this area have been evacuated and are stayi

in western and central massachusetts they got more. here in boston, 20 inches.out there 40 minutes away from the city 35 inches. i counted more than a dozen communities in the state that got over 30 inches of snow. there are plenty of others that got over 20. you mentioned some of that coastal flooding. that's a big issue happening here. one of the big towns we've been watching is scituate. they've had an inch in some places several in the others. and a sea wall breach in marshfield. >> any idea what's going on on nantucket? any update on that? >> really an incredible story out there. they literally knocked everybody out of power on the island of nantucket. as of this afternoon they were saying they felt pretty good about possibly being able to get people back online in 24 hours. they made some progress. they were out of power on nantucket and cape cod hit pretty bad. it had been up to 36,000. now it's closer to around 20,000 people. they're making some progress. frankly, greta it's still snowing at this point in time. >> molly, back to you. >>> while new york c

>> tip o'neill was from massachusetts.he was the classic liberal politician of the old school, a new dealer from fdr's days. he was born in 1912. his first campaign, he worked as a campaigner in 1928. tip o'neill's whole life was politics. he was on the cambridge, massachusetts city council. he was born in cambridge. he served a cambridge district. it was a district in north cambridge that was mostly irish. he was even called old dublin. he never forgot where he came from. he always thought that was important. he said all politics with local. that was a pretty good, shrewd observation. whether you are fixing a pothole in a local street or bidding on the national budget, someone has to have the money to fix a problem and someone has to set the priority of what problem to fix. in that sense, all politics is local, whether it is a pothole or a jillion dollars budget. >> what kind of speaker was he? >> he was affable. i think that is a good word for it. he could be tough. but if you were on the floor, he would call you how, an

we'll show the maps upon look at the scenes out of boston massachusetts.the scenes into the afternoon hours on tuesday. literally deslate on the streets out there. it wasn't a historic snowstorm investment boston, the city had never in recorded history seen this much snow in the month of january. that went into the books. look at the numbers, newark new jersey 6.5 inches of snowfall ten miles east at laguardia. nearly double that up to 11 inches. 50-plus miles. over say, 100 kim orms to the east around islip. two feet of snow came down. that range critical when it comes to the storm system. taking a 55 to 65-mile trip offshore as opposed to closer to land. boston 24.5 inches. worcester, more than 31 inches of snow with one storm. 36 inches across the board in multiple areas of massachusetts. up to three feet of snow. that verified, blizzard conditions verified. the storm historic in that it was in the top six of the biggest snowstorms in boston history. we can still see that with the additional one to three inches possible put it in the top two to top thre

of massachusetts.re a nonessential employee other than police fire rescue those types, you need to stay home and stay off the roads, that way you don't get stuck and they can get the plows out as the snow winds down tomorrow evening. this is a long duration event. blizzard warning for 30 hours for many hours here in massachusetts and down the coast towards new york city. we'll be right here -- >> 30 hours. >> reporter: it gets wild and wooly. >> you've been in the weather game a long time man. 30 hours, give me historical perspective here? when was the last time there had been a blizzard warning in effect for that length of time? >> reporter: i don't ever remember one that long. i've been out in the field here over 20 years on the weather channel. i was in three blizzards last year, i was here in january, we were under a blizzard warning, i don't know effectively if we had a blizzard, you have to have three consecutive hours, visibility a quarter mile less and consistent gusts over 35 miles per hour, t

massachusetts has a state of emergency. we got lucky but we were told was going to be a lot worse than this and the place shut down. the people. new york did what the mayor told them to do. martha: the subways were shut down. so people who wanted to get to work had to walk to work in the snow. bill: it was 2 1/2 miles. i hit a deli at 38th street. terror in tripoli. terrorists opened fire on hotel staff. at least 8 people are dead. witnesses say staffers tried to escape through the hotel's back door wet a car bomb explode in the parking lot. what happened here, gregg? >> reporter: we have been tracking with it our sources on the ground if it's a dangerous and murky part of the ground. but our sources say this thing is over, it's done, by the was very dangerous and bloody. the latest we are told is that a car bomb was detonated in the parking lot of the hotel first. this an iconic big hotel on the seaside in tripoli libya to distract security. 2 or 3 gunmen entered the lobby sprayed the place with business and worked their w

connecticut into massachusetts. i would say over the next seven ten hours, we'll get moderate snowfall across new york city. certainly could pick up heavy snow. when it's said and done, it's going to be here when it comes to records going down. worcester to boston plymouth cape cod. snowfall around two feet over the regions. the winds also of course a big story. 45 to 55 miles per hour in and around new york city. going to be a major issue. this is category one hurricane force from unanimous tuck tote portions of boston. 75 mile-per-hour gusts are possible. so you put that together with all the foliage, with all the himself across the region, potentially come down. the coastal areas would have widespread possible for power outages, becomes more scattered the farther inland they go. even more into interior new england, a spotty sort of event when it comes to outages across the region. here are the wind speeds as far as gusts in the past six hours, notice closing in on 50 miles per hour in and around montauk and easte

if it doesn't massachusetts is going to get up to two feet of snow. there will be less here on the shore. that's it. janice dean says this is expected to still be an epic blizzard in some spots. we'll check in with her in just a minute. but first let's look at our slide show from images of the storm already. a snowy day for new york city and the surrounding area. this is a first look from nasa. i mean that's florida right there. look how incredibly large this thing is. this is somebody crossing the street here in manhattan. this is rush hour this afternoon just after the sun went down. see this lonely person right here. man alive, that's rush hour. nobody on the street. scene from earlier today people fighting the snow. here in midtown manhattan, this is prospect park in brooklyn enjoying a little cross country skiing there. lady liberty from the jersey side. lots of snow for the jersey side of the hudson river. and a mad rush to the grocery stores today. this woman trying to fight away the winds which were really gusty this from bedford, massachusett

so areas around boston and eastern massachusetts.eds of storm systems over the past 100 years or so have come across the region. this is top six. possibly the top three. and never in the month of january have we seen this much snow in boston. so the track changed about 55 to 60 miles offshore. had it back to the west, you would have a couple feet in new york city. as you come outside, desolate city taking up 23 1/2 inches of snowfall in 24 hours. so still awaiting for the latest total to bring the number potentially higher than that. here are the actual totals we have numbers for. at new york city 11.4 inches of snowfall. in massachusetts, 33 inches here. of course boston at over 23 inches of snowfall. but i want to show you how vast of a difference with just several miles here. newark 6 inches double that ten miles to the east. and 50 plus miles to the east of new york city islip has over two feet of snowfall. so the snow tracked further to the east but areas like boston and new england are still in there. around 90 centimeters in s