, atlantic city 36. new york city, again, those winds are not expected to die down any time soon. but you combine that with high tide tonight around 7:30 and the full moon. this is going to cause significant coastal flooding around new injury is he and also into parts of new york city, poppy. they're agen they're going to have to keep a close eye for the next 24 hours zrchl . >> reporter: we appreciate it so much. you heard allison mention that flooding. it is devastating. some parts of new jersey, especially atlantic city on the catastrophic flooding there ahead. milk has 8 grams to help give you energy to unleash your potential. start every day with milk's protein and milk life. start every day with you know the symptoms when they start. abdominal pain. urgent diarrhea. now there's prescription xifaxan. xifaxan is a new ibs-d treatment that helps relieve your diarrhea and abdominal pain symptoms. and xifaxan works differently. it's a prescription antibiotic that acts mainly in the digestive tract. do not u

we're hearing from the new york city mayor. e travel ban will extend past midnight into sunday morning. so something to be aware of. let me also show you what the fire department of new york, the fdny put out, if you have 15 minutes now before you go home, before you go inside, try to clear the snow away from your fire hydrant. that will potentially save lives. same goes for d.c., same goes for philadelphia. and this just in from the nypd. they're setting up checkpoints around manhattan. so it's probably not worth the risk. they are saying that they will arrest people and they've set up checkpoints to keep people from moving around the city as best they can. as you mentioned a lot of people putting out the best of the storm. this was put out by noaa a few hours ago. this shows you the power of this storm and why it is we're seeing continuing to see snowfall across the new york city area, across philadelphia. the storm is almost backing over the city again, which is why we're seeing this really high snow totals. a bit of bad news

travel ban in effect for new york city, all of the roads in and out of new york city, all of new yorky proper, shut down until further notice. there is of course an exception for emergency vehicles and some members of the media. that's where we find brian stelter out in a roving vehicle. how does it look? i know it's night now which makes everything a lot more complex. >> reporter: we are actually pretty lonely out here. that's good news for emergency officials. let's take the dash cam live shot. you will see we are inside a snow globe. that is how it feels out here as the wind whips the snow around. we are at the south street seaport. we will pull in actually here by the water, by the east river, because coastal flooding will be a concern the next couple of hours as we approach another high tide cycle. looks like there are a grand total of three or four people standing out here by the south street seaport. i will hop out of the vehicle for a moment and walk out, show you from the dash cam what it's like out here. the snow continues to come down at an impressive rate. for snow junkies

over northern new jersey and new york city. there's also a computer model that's been screening all week that new york city could get up to 3 feet of snow. and that almost blasted up last year and it didn't not the most reliable of models. that's my thinking right now. it's just this little shift in bands that we have to watch and monitor. we're getting a blizzard and big time snowstorm. notice the dusting on the car top here. a sheen on the area road was already getting slick. that means by morning, they could be three to 6-inches of snow on the ground and it's not just a good idea to go out and travel in the morning. could get heavier wet snow right along the immediate coast. really it's not going to be too much of a heavy wet snow just a few miles inland. it'll be a cold snow in the 20s. winds starting to freshen at the coast. we'll be gusting at 45 by daybreak. already blizzard conditions as we go through the day. on the jersey shore we could see gusts of 60 or 70 miles per hour. we have the heaviest snow in the afternoon an

over northern new jersey and new york city. there's also a computer model that's been screening all week that new york city could get up to 3 feet of snow. and that almost blasted up last not the most reliable of models. that's my thinking right now. it's just this little shift in bands that we gusting at 45 by daybreak. already blizzard conditions as we go through the day. on the jersey shore we could see gusts of 60 or 70 miles per hour. we have the heaviest snow in the afternoon and then things start to taper off. tremendous moisture being vacuumed down the storm. and heavy moisture. we see heavy snow. that puts down snow very quickly one right over i80 and that's what i saw in lucy's live shot. light snow starting to break out. see it's having a tough time everyone in the -- even in the hudson valley. hour by hour, obviously the snow moving in now. accumulating a little faster. in the wee hours in the morning. but heavy banding and really stacking up. this is really confirming what i was just talking about. look at the darke

new york city should get a 20-inch snowfall out of this. imates another ten inches in new york city. this goes back an hour or two so you would add seven or eight on top of what we had but the computer thinking we're get the 20-inch range and new haven will get thumped in the next couple hours philadelphia six inches more and trenton eight. further to the south we'll be dealing with the snow ending as we go through the next 12 hours or so especially washington, d.c.. washington, d.c., does not quite look like they'll get up to the 20-inch mark. it will be close. they've had 14 and 15 and it's slowed down a little bit, they may end up with 18 inches of snow but that's an amazing snowfall when you head into the beltway and a lot of areas outside of d.c. have seen significantly more. you can actually see, we're actually in a pretty good band right here. that's supposed to be the capitol dome, we were looking at the pictures earlier today and you could see it pretty well. i want to look at the radar for d.c., it looks impressive. they must have

new jersey. snow, wind, coastal flooding a big concern. city. the higher amounts south and west of new york city. you heard about the blizzard watches. that doesn't mean higher snow totals. that just means sustained gusts to 35, heavy snow and visibility. if it lasts for more than three hours a blizzard is declared. 33 in old bridge. 34 mount pleasant. these are the areas that we highlight for the worst of the storm. chilly breeze out there. during the overnight. 6 to 12 miles per hour winds. tomorrow increasing clouds. temperatures in the lower 30s and the clouds thicken during the evening hours. a couple of flurries but that is not from the storm. this storm is through east texas. there is the moisture. the futurecast, how it evolves, it's coming out of the deep south. by tomorrow at this time, maybe at 5:00, you got snow breaking out in d.c. we are just dry at that point with clouds increasing. we don't have much of any wind at that point. here is where it changes. late tomorrow night snow can get to about 195 in new jersey. that is where ocea

west of new york city. we'll highlight that and show you the new snowfall map in just a few minutes. >> you mentioned that coastal flooding. it is a big issue in a lot of areas. barricades are in place in many communities. toni yates is live at union beach with the preparations there. >> it is so cold out here right now, the colder it gets, the more i pull my hat down. today we're all running around in the cold trying to get things done so we don't have to run around in the cold and the snow. here in union beach they're either going to get a lot of rain or an awful lot of snow but they're preparing for whatever may come. >> that's what i'm out here doing right now, working on the snowblower, getting ready for that. >> reporter: the salt trucks are filled, the snow plows are are drawing out battle plans. what they worry about the most, flooding. >> we can push the snow to the side. the flooding is an issue. right now the national weather service is calling it a major flooding event. >> reporter: public works

much more on how the city is preparing. eyewitness news reporter david evans is in downtown brooklyn continuing our coverage. >> reporter: the tone seems to have changed somewhat about how the city is responding to the storm. earlier this week they didn't seem concerned. all hands on deck. at sanitation garages, chains are going on for what could be a bigger snow operation than city officials once expected. this afternoon, the mayor issued a winter weather emergency, translation, avoid driving in the city this weekend. >> unless it is urgent, stay off the roads. it's as simple as that. make your plans now to not be on the streets of this city tomorrow, and i would say sunday likely as well. >> reporter: the higher snow totals also have sanitation considering an operation called pile and haul. snow would be moved to large snow fields and then melted if it's bad enough. >> i really don't know yet. it would be based on a 12 to operation. should the storm shift and we get closer to 6 to 12, we might not have to do that. >> reporter: city offic

major cities have been brought to a standstill as public transportation in new york city, philadelphia, baltimore, and washington, d.c., just some of the places where it's been shut down. new york city mayor bill de blasio has warned, the nypd will arrest anyone who breaks the city wide travel ban. >> no one wants to have to arrest people, but the nypd will take any measures necessary to keep our roads clear. >> meanwhile the national weather service is predicting up to a half inch of ice for the carolinas and potentially serious coastal flooding for the mid atlantic region as well. dangerous conditions are expected to persist in many areas until early sunday. by the time the storm is over, 1 in 7 americans from kentucky to connecticut could be under at least half a foot of snow. bonnie schneider has been tracking the storm for us for the last 24 hours. we still have some concerns over the next several hours here. >> that's right. this just in, it's now been the snowiest day ever for jfk airport. over two feet of snow, shattering records that go way, way back. so the snow keeps coming

one thing in new york city just at 2:30 p.m. e the travel ban went into effect for new york city roads and nassau county, only nonemergency vehicles allowed on the roads. talk about the road issues down there and how people are getting around, mass transit,ish issues like that. >> the mass transit has been shut down since last friday. we've basically asked all of our residents to stay off the roads and we were doing good until we got a little bit of a reprieve in the snow today and a whole bunch of folks came out not heeding the warning and then, of course, another ban came through and went right back to about 2 inches of snow per hour and about 35-mile-an-hour winds which kind of cleared up real quick right after that. >> so, when we think about this and the system continues to move through and snow is on the ground, do you think that they're going to have to be more national guard troops called up for response issues or do you think there's a handle on that? >> actually, we have the national guard troops partnered up with our m

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to new york city, where we could see up to 30 inchless of snow now. that is spanning 11 states from georgia through new jersey. you've got 200,000 americans without power. 9,000 flights canceled. you also have eight people who have died in the storm thus far. i want to go straight to allison, cnn severe weather center. when we look at the scope, it's very slow moving. we have hours ahead, don't we? >> indeed, we do. you kind of talked about those delays and cancelations. this is why. dulles airport, picking up almost 2 feet of snow. philadelphia, 17 inches. laguardia, 16. jfk picking up 13 inches, and for a lot of these, they're still going to pile up. they're going to continue to rise. until they get to numbers like this. very impressive. west virginia, 40 inches of snow. incredible. red hose, maryland, 38 inchless. hancock, west virginia, 35 and win burn, west virginia, 30 inches of snow. the bottom one by the way, it's still snowing there. we're looking at the radar. still snowing in virginia, pennsylvania, new jersey and some of the heaviest bands

more than two feet of show fell in new york city. plow trucks have been out on the streets all day and all night clearing all that snow. abc news reporter marci gonzalez is along the west side highway at a travel ban check point. marcy. >> you hear that sign behind me. that means an officer is seeing yet another driver breaking that travel ban. these nypd officers have been parked here in the middle of the west side highway since this afternoon, stopping every driver, warning them to stay off the roads through this treacherous historic storm. the city prepared for the worst and got it. more than two feet of snow >> i walked out the door this morning and it was worse than i thought. >> reporter: like the best efforts of the sanitation department operating 1800 plows and 500 salt spreaders. the roads are a dangerous mess. a travel ban in effect with drivers ordered off the roads until 7:00 tomorrow morning. >> they have to let emergency services, fire department, and most of al san day, do their jobs. if they're on the road, they're goi

of course going on into new york city. new york city's totals going up as well.inds are supposed to hit their peak around midday. we'll see winds with gusts up to 40, 50, miles an hour, up until the noon area, until it's just as miserable or more miserable than we thought it would be. people are paying attention to city officials who said stay off the roads. the snowplows having a difficult time. they're doing the primary streets but as soon as they get done with one main road, they have to turn around and do it again because of the wind. they're not getting to the secondary streets or residential streets at all. so all the neighborhoods, where you have a foot and a half of snow or so, there's no plow to help out. >> we were speaking to the head coach of the duquesne men's basketball team. they're trying to get back to pittsburgh. he was telling us there were a lot of cars on the highways, on the pennsylvania turnpike. have you gotten a sense from pennsylvania officials, even philadelphia city officials what efforts are being taken to try and get some of that tra

in new york city, the snow totals could pass 2 feet now. new york governor andrew cuomo declares a state of emergency as the storm paralyzes the i-95 corridor. tens of thousands of people are affected here by this storm. and many of the shore town, and 34,000 along new jersey's coast are without power at this hour. the nation's capital is still at a standstill. heavy snow is expected to continue there throughout the afternoon, and wind gusts of 40 miles per hour causing the extreme whiteouts, and the storm is being blamed for ten deaths across four states, and some traffic along the icy roads. air traffic ground to a halt. all flights have been canceled at the the airports in washington, baltimore and philadelphia. we have reporters stationed for you up and down the east coast. rehema ellis on the jersey shore, and adam reiss in new york city's central park, but first, staying in studio the go to meteorologist bill karins who is monitoring the latest. >> find the locations on the coast with the heavy wind and snow, and even coming close to t

new york city and new jersey. washington d.c. itself didn't dwi airport got their big jest snowstorm on record. it's a wide swath of near- record snowfalls. compared to the storm of '06, this storm was much more impressive. i can't say it enough. the highest total in that one was just in central park a very val band of heavy snow back in '06. this one was more like a 50 to 100-mile-wide band. look at the snow piles on the upper west side of manhattan. new york city sanitation doing a great job in parts of the say e-- in parts of the city. the temperature is 35. because of a snow pack, it will help to keep temperatures a little cooler the next couple of days. cooler than they would be had there not been a snow pack. because it acts as a refrigerator in the atmosphere. watch for black ice the next will get melting during the day and then temperatures go back to freezing overnight. a shower could show up in the forecast by late tuesday. that's a pretty weak front moving on by. if that's all we have to talk about, that's not a bad ac

just about every single new york city agency is in high gear. from sanitation trucks, to mta buses with chains. new york is ready and prepared for the worse. >> 579 salt spreaders will be predeployed tonight and ready to go. we have by the way over 300,000 pounds of salt ready. >> reporter: you can expect lots of closures in the blizzard. all public school events have been cancelled this weekend including athletic games and debate tournaments. system at 11:00 tonight. and code blue for the homeless will go into effect when the temperature drops below 32 degrees. that means she means -- that means shelter will be provided but not stressed. >> if you see a homeless person stressed on the street call 911 immediately so we can do something about it. >> reporter: the mayor urging everyone stay off the streets so plows can do their work throughout the city. >> governor cuomo is telling new yorkers to stay home. >> in all of these situations one of the greatest burdens becomes stranded vehicles or stuck vehicles from people who are on the roads it's not

snow getting into new york city. prior or around midnight into northern new jersey. here in the overnight to continue to push through thed hudson valley. during the day we're snowing heavily at times especially in the northern end of the city. three to 6-inches about a foot in new york city. six to 12-inches northern new jersey. central and southern new jersey into parts of new york city. let's zoom in and look at this. you can see the best chance for over a foot in new york city would be staten island, brooklyn and queens. even some of this could streak into long island. look at this difference. looking at late data coming in. it's very possible this foot line trying to get into morris county as well. that's something we'll be watching as well. here's another look at the map and we've posted on abc7 nly. on sunday what a much improved day. you have sunshine. the winds are getting lighter as we get into next week, 40 degrees, we're quiet. the snow will continue to melt. as you go into wednesday it'll be a storm we're watching offshore. even if that was close that woul

i'm alex witt here in new york city. we have a big development overnight including a new and dramatic rise in some snow totals. let's bring you the very latest right here now. in new york city a dramatic change in the forecast. the city could see up to 2 1/2 feet of snow, and that may come as a surprise to some of you just waking up here. the storm could paralyze the entire i-95 corridor from washington to new york. well into monday. tens of millions of people from northern georgia to new york are being affected by this storm. the nation's capital right now virtually paralyzed. heavy snow expected into the afternoon. wind gusts could reach 40 miles per hour. casing some whiteouts to be concerned about. the storm is blamed for at least ten deaths in four states. some in traffic accidents along these icy roads. in kentucky, thousands of motorists are stranded along forships of interstate -- portions of interstate 45. some have been trapped since friday and you're about to see video that just came in. you can see a line of t

and there's the changeover line over new york city. more rain drops in queens and brooklyn, and snow snowflakes in manhattan and staten island, and rain showers on the island. you see a clear break coming into the new york city within

this is a tricky forecast for the north portions of our area, new york city included in this. we could actually see places just within 40 miles of new york city, and then we could see a half foot in the city. out on long island eight to 12 inches possible, and then six to 12 through central new jersey. that's the place that really gg to get hammered with the storm, and then, of course, outside of our area in philadelphia 18 two 24 inches of snowfall. that's going to be a real cleanup for them. plenty of cold air over the weekend. we do rebound nicely sunday afternoon an then monday looks good at this point. we'll continue to update and put some of the maps up on twitter this morning so you can take a real good look at them. i'll try to zoom in so you can get some ideas of what's going to happen. i still feel like it's a tricky forecast for new york city and the boroughs. i think parts of staten island will get the most snow while you see parts of northern manhattan and stretching into yonkers and that maybe getting less snow, three inches, four inches. it really is a tricky for

york city, completely shut down by mandate of the mayor here. the main passages into newcoln tunnel, the george washington bridge, are shut down. all the trains coming in from new jersey and long island, those will be shut in one hours time. i want to go straight to our chad meyers, covering it all in times square. you cannot overstate the sa severity of the storm. it is beautiful, yes, people enjoying it, yes, however, this is looking to be one of the five worst storms in

it's like this one was custom built for new york city. i know we're getting 30 inches over parts of new jersey but we're going to close in on that number in new york city. let's go check out what is a blinding snowstorm continuing over the george washington bridge. we're at 27, northeast wind gusts at 32. what we're noticing is this one band which continues to hold its momentum is still sitting over new york city. jeff smith is out in it. we keep looking at our tool that shows the heavy snow bands and going crazy. back to you. can you hear me out this there? jeff? >> jeff, are you there, buddy? >> they're working on it. this is the tool he's going to use. see all the grays, that's some of the diminishing intensity so it's happening in the hudson valley, parts of island and down through monmouth and ocean city. not over new york city. it went to the pink and then the reds came back. we start tacking on that. let's estimate that we're closing in on 22 inches of snow. we could start pushing 2 feet or more. jeff is outside. this is what that b

that is what we're dealing with right now in new york city. on the jersey shore, they are dealing with heavy flooding. more than 50 people already pushed out of their homes as water pours into neighborhoods across new jersey. 50,000 homes without power. that number expected to rise because of the heavy, wet snow and high winds. jason carroll live in the west village. brian in manhattan. you have seen a lot of people out and about. now there is no one behind you. well, one person. >> one person. and a lot of mounds behind me too. how is it going, guys? these huge mounds you see behind me of drifting snow. beneath the mounds are buried cars, poppy. this is what we have been seeing all around driving through the streets of manhattan, very slowly, safely, hell's kitchen, surrounding central park, downtown, west village, it will be a big dig. that will be the story for tomorrow. also, the story is about what's happening out here tonight. a number of people have been getting out of their homes to stretch their legs. joining me now one family here in

to new york city. eight hours. heavy snowfall and snow-covered streets naturally forced us to take it very slowly. you know, we did not make it back to new york city before that travel ban kicked in at 2:30 this afternoon. but the press deemed us essential vehicles. they did allow us through the lincoln tunnel. we actually made it through in record time seeing as there was no other traffic going through the tunnel. we are now on sixth avenue in midtown manhattan right outside our nbc studios and it is a virtual vehicle ghost town with police threatening to arrest travel ban. i'll tell you it's very surreal being in new york city on a saturday night with no traffic and no horn honking. now despite winds gusting up near 30 to 40 miles per hour, there are so many people walking around, just taking in this storm. we've seen folks on skis. some on snowboards. we've also seen several just standing in the middle of the street taking pictures. something you can only do when the biggest story hits the city. jose? >> they inc

council held a closed session this afternoon and is meeting right now to vote and approve a new city manager contract. the new manager will replace james spore. he served as city manager for 24 years. he just retired december 31st. portsmouth city council meets tonight after recent drama over a policy aimed at silencing members-- and the mayor's recent arrest. tonight will be the first regularly- scheduled council meeting since councilman bill moody paid a 15- hundred dollar new rule, which prohibits members from speaking about information discussed in closed door meetings. 10 on your side's andy fox will have an update on moody's fine-- ahead on wavy news 10 at 6. you can sign up to speak at tonight's meeting. according to city rules, you are only allowed to speak for up to three minutes. it starts at 7:00, at city hall. coming up on wavy news 10 - ride sharing companies versus taxis. why this is now becoming an "air" war in france. the aftermath continues following a jet fuel leak that caused a chesapeake neighborhood to evacuate. today, we're learning how the incident has wow. the

we should point out the mayor of new york city, mayor bill de blasio, is going to hold a news conference. we'll get the latest on how the city is coping. meanwhile, there are other cities having a difficult time. philadelphia, another major city trying to deal with the grips of this particular storm right now. pennsylvania and philadelphia in particular has really found itself under the hammer of this storm and continues to be so. and so it's a problem there, both for the emergency response teams, also for the snow clearance teams. and the people there are being given the same advice that they're giving everywhere else, which is like don't go out. don't go out at all. don't even think about going out because right now it is just too dangerous if you do. in the meantime though, there's another area, new jersey, that is suffering. we want to check in right now to see what the circumstances are up there. and, mr. sanchez -- yeah, boris. sorry. losing my train of thought out here in the cold. fill me in on how we're doing out there on the coast. >> reporter: it happens to anybody in these co

. >> new york city will soon have specially dedicated gun courts. mayor de blasio says two courtrooms in brooklyn will be dedicated solely to dealing with gun cases. it's part of his new system to deal with gun-related violence. that's what's happening now in the news. and joining us is nick. and i hear the s word is coming back. a little snow? nick: the snow word. okay. yes. a little bit. we've got a squall, a snow shower or squall line that's trying to come in from eastern pennsylvania. ernie: think it will amount to anything? nick: a coating to an inch is what i'm thinking north and westward. nick: so far. we'll be lucky for a while longer. we'll get a blast of cold air into tomorrow and a little recovery end of the week and then we'll see what happens next week as we trend colder. 44, 25 today. we did manage to go above average after a cold start to the day. not so bad this morning. we have had a couple of rain showers around. the record high, 64. that was in 1890. 100 years later, it was 2 on this date. tomorrow. 36 now. the air is moderately mo

a blizzard watch is up for long island, new york city, and parts of new jersey as well. you hear that and you're thinking we're going to get buried. that's not the case. a blizzard watch indicates the blizzard conditions with strong winds, low visibilities and a period of heavy snow can exist. that doesn't translate to amounts. to the west, lower snowfall amounts but still 6 inch potential to the north and west. coastal flooding a huge concern. we'll give you those tides where there could be a storm surge equivalent of a tropical storm clouds right now, about 1100 miles away. this tornado watch with this right now. icing breaking out on the northern side of the storm. strong storm and well forecast by our computer models so far but now we're seeing a trend today where the storm track is shifting a little farther north and east. lower impact in our northern suburbs. we're very close to some of the hev just snow bands to our south and west. going to have big winds and coastal flooding. toward dawn on saturday. i think it's going to leave saturday night, probably wee hours

those in new york city in 1836. in 1836, new york city and america actually is undergoing a real estate frenzy. prices are going-- they are skyrocketing everywhere. and really for the only time in his business career hamilton follows the herd and jumps in and he buys real estate. he buys 47 lots of land in a soria. but, he also buys in poughkeepsie. he buys several acres of land, the mansion house, which is perhaps the flashiest hassan poughkeepsie. he finds a wharf with three violet-- buildings on it, so he is actually going long on real estate. he buys about three or four weeks short of the top of the real estate market and it is going to go bust. he had borrowed money like real estate-- falling real estate prices and mortgages, un- unholy, as we have seen repeatedly since then. what actually happened then is that hamilton-- with the next five years is fending off creditors who are after him. he is one of thousands of new yorkers who are on the verge of bankruptcy. he actually takes advantage of the new federal leg

in for long nights ahead with several towns with craig boswell is out. >> the foot traffic in new york city's times squares was crazy friday night. >> the rate of this snowstorm continues to be intense between 1 and 3 inches per hour. >> major coastal flooding pushed water up to resident's door steps in new jersey. philadelphia can get up to 2 feet of snow by the time the storm ends. >> well beyond the idea of winter wonder land. there is no beauty in my mind. >> this pennsylvania bride was on her way. basketball team is finally on the move. high winds caused blinding white capital. worked together. and crews can't feel roads and officials warns it can slow some 911 response times. >> our center is in our public safety in being able to move the first responders in getting the city back open. >> the storm stranded thousands of travellers and the runways at regan and dallas airport closed. craig cleveland 19. >> we dodged the bullet. ohio got some snow and not as bad as new york. we were kind of looking to get it soon there. >> yeah, we have no weather worries until tuesday. that's good news. >

. >> plus, live team coverage next. t os >>> live from the cbs broadcast center in new york city. this is cbs 2 news at 11:00. >>> the worst night of my life. >> it's unbelievable. >> the tristate area buried in a blizzard. a state of emergency in effect, mass transit shut down. >> it is really a treacherous, treacherous situation. >> a seasons worth of snow in just one day. intense winds, street flooding, even a roof collapse. >> this is a storm that has a lot of -- packing a lot of punch. >> cars lose control, police and ambulances stuck in the snow and the storm isn't over yet. >> good evening, i'm jake brennan. >> and i'm cindy chu. the snow has not stopped for we're on track to break a record for the most snow in city history. >> mobile 2 is out in times square. one of the few vehicles on the roads right now. new york city is under a travel ban until 7:00 tomorrow morning. that's also when all port authority bridges and tunnels will reopen. nj transit, long island railroad. mta buses and aboveground parts of the subway system are shut down and remain shut down. >> we have a te

as you know, we have already suspended bus service in new york city, to mta, new york city transit buss no longer running. we will also be suspending above-ground subway service at 4:00. what does that mean? we are seeing issues with the third rail. subway service in new york relies on third rail power. when our outdoor third rail gets ice or drifts or these blizzard conditions, there can be times when trains and subway cars in particular cannot run. that is a dangerous condition, obviously, for our customers, as well as for our employees. so we are doing the best thing that we think is reasonable, which is to recommend that we suspend service on the above-ground stations at 4:00. in order to make that information user-friendly and readily available, we will be posting on mta.info an extreme weather service plan. that will be a map that will clearly indicate what service will be running, which is basically our underground service. so please go to mta.info, look for the extreme weather map, and you will be able to clearly see whether or not subway service will be running for you. thank y

and, dylan, what are you seeing along the roads in new york city? ehicles to me. >> you know, surprisingly, thomas, we have seen some regular vehicles and driving very fast at that. it's a surreal feeling here in new york city because, yes, there are some vehicles but normally there would be a lot more vehicles on a saturday night in new york city. and instead we're just seeing a lot of pedestrians. people walking around braving not only the snow but the really gusty winds. it's like that kind of view if you can see out front just people, you know, head down, hood up and just walking anywhere they can find a place to walk. because not all the sidewalks are cleared off yet. but that also means they're walking across the road. that's why this travel ban is in effect so that the crews can get the snow off the road. and other people in the cars don't hit the people who are walking because there are a lot of pedestrians just walking around. >> now, what part of the city are you in right now? >> it's a very bizarre thing. we're right near columbus circle.

to new york city. in the blue mobile it took us eight hours. heavy snowfall and snow-covered streets naturally forced us to take it very slowly. you know, we did not make it back to new york city before that travel ban kicked in at 2:30 this afternoon. but the press deemed us essential vehicles. they did allow us through the lincoln tunnel. we actually made it through in record time seeing as there was no other traffic going through the tunnel. we are now on sixth avenue in midtown manhattan right outside our nbc studios and it is a virtual vehicle ghost town with police threatening to arrest people who do not heed that travel ban. i'll tell you it's very surreal being in new york city on a saturday night with no traffic and no horn honking. now despite winds gusting up near 30 to 40 miles per hour, there are so many people walking around, just taking in this storm. we've seen folks on skis. some on snowboards. we've also seen several just standing in the middle of the street taking pictures. something you can only do when the biggest story hits

and children from this carcinogen. >> we have seen dramatic cuts in the rates of smoking here in new york city. and yet the cost of cigarettes goes sky-high. when i was growing up, the cost was 25 or 30 cents a pack. now a pack of cigarettes is $12 to $14 in new york. $6 of that is tax. >> mm-hmm. >> it's very expensive to smoke, and yet the rates -- as we said on that graphic, the rates of smoking among people below the poverty level is twice as much the rates, twice as much high as they are among people above the poverty level. so how do you jive those two things? >> yeah, i mean, it is no secret that smoking rates are exponentially higher in lower-income, lower-educated communities. that said, we know that higher cigarette costs, tobacco taxes, these are incredible tools at lowering smoking rates, and new york city has been a pioneer when it comes to lowering so it is something that definitely works. but it has to go in tandem with, you know, smoke-free housing, with, you know, graphic warning labels, with smoking cessation available through your insurance. so, once you have that whole pack

i am dara brown in new york city. here's the latest. at 7:00 a.m. eastern just moments ago, travel bans in and around new york city have been lifted. millions of people across the northeast are waking up to record snow totals dumped by the massive storm. in central park, 28.6 inches snow fell. an inch short of tying the previous record. the storm headed farther east and out to sea. snow totals in connecticut hit 16 inches. boston which was clobbered by snow in 2015 had just 6 inch ls of snow as of midnight. 28 inches of snow paralyzed the nation's capital and it could take days to get back to normal. virginia's governor warned residents to stay off the roads today and monday. the storm left at least 20 dead, more than 60,000 customers from the carolinas to new york remain without power this morning. but it was the flooding and not the snow that created major problems for seaside new jersey towns. rehema ellis is in point place, new jersey. was as much flooding there as expected? >> reporter: well, what people will tell you is that they were told the

new york city jails' rikers island -- it is rough, it is violent, and it's expensive, the cost to house a prisoner more than twice the price of the median family income in new york. the correction commissioner now trying to change things, especially to make it less violent. but some correctional officers claim the reforms he's making are making their jobs more dangerous. are they? this morning, we ask correction commissioner joseph ponte. but first, another commissioner with us this morning -- fire commissioner dan nigro. a record number of emergency calls for his department last year, but civilian fire deaths are way down. fire-safe? turns out it is not that hard. good morning, everyone. diana williams. fire deaths are now at near record low level. 59 people died in fires in new york city last year. that's down 17% and just one more than the record-low deaths set in 2012. but as we enter the coldest part of the winter, the risk of fires and of carbon-monoxide poisonings increase as we close warm. joining us this morning, fire commissioner dan nigro. and full disclosure -- and we say it

new york city we knew the whole time even two days in advance. i sent a note out to our staff tough forecast for new york, the low end could be like nothing to two inches, high end could be 20 inches. i never said 26. i don't usually predict record breaking snows of any storm. it wasn't until about 24 hours in advance we went oh, oh, new york is in trouble. trending north. it happened right up to the point where it started. new york got hit the hardest. baltimore had more snow than new york. baltimore was the bull's eye. let me take you through. the snow ended. cape cod ended up in a blizzard warning. one spot that verified to call that blizzard was nantucket island. there they had the consecutive wind gusts. classified as a blizzard. all the other big cities didn't quite get there. let me take you through what we're looking at here. this is the new york state totals. second all time. s new york city now seven of the ten greatest snowfalls happened in the last 20 years. there you go. that will lead you into your climate change discussion. forecast

the amount of snow in new york city, 26.8 inch, 1 inch shy of the single snowiest storm in new york city. the temperatures in the northeast are going to be above freezing. a lot of people are surprised to know it takes three consecutive days of temperatures to exceed 50 degrees fahrenheit to melt just 2 inches of snow. other variables like winds in the atmosphere, makes a difference. with this rate, the cold temperatures expected to stay in place, several weeks and several months for everything to melt off across the region. the seven-day forecast shows the see-saw battle. it doesn't get to 50 degrees until sunday and it is short lived. back to you. >> that's good for the ski hills around here that have been struggling. they have not been able to get any snow. now they have some. >>> for those facing the tough commute, this is a reminder. sometimes snow is prettiest when you have perspective and not if it. look at the great drone video. this was taken above the shoreline on new york's staten island. pretty. >> it is very nice. >> i hope that drone is registered. >> we should get someone

like new york are going to compete and be world-class cities, we have to have modern infrastructure and we've got to have more of it. >> reporter: the state controller lists new york's debt at $63 billion. that's about it does not include all the new projects the governor is now pushing. at the javits center, dave evans, channel 7 eyewitness news. >>> judith kay was 77 years old. the cause of her death was not released. she was named chief judge by the court of appeals by mario cuomo in 1993. andrea stewart cousins says kay is being remembered as a towering figure in new york state, citing her work on a range of issues from gay rights to mental health. >>> taking a quick look at wall street and another brutal day for investors on wall street. the sell-off started in china and it continued to wall street. the dow lost another 392 points today. the nasdaq is down 146. and the s all three down between 2% and 3% today. >> it hurts for so many. half of americans have investment accounts. >>> as we continue with eyewitness news at 6:00, an amazing life saving rescue by firefighters. this

the snowfall totals we've been talking about in new york city, not just in new york city central parkwith belmont, you get the idea. a lot of snow for a lot of places. this is a look at the storm. it is gone. fortunately it's out of here. but it left such an incredible footprint. a lot of the east coast has not had any snow. the models were right on this except at the new york city area and extended in there unfortunately -- fortunately or unfortunately depending on your viewpoint but at the record level right there. all right. want to tell you the winds across the eastern seaboard were intense. 85-mile-an-hour. that is a category 1 hurricane force wind. same with dewy beach, delaware. the wind direction has changed. the flooding we saw along the coastal areas of new jersey, especially, now you have a north wind starting to push that water away from the coast and that will continue to pull the water away. i think the flooding that we saw, that is going to be gone. you still have winds across cape cod and the islands. that will begin to taper off as we go through the afternoon and we w

"everyone understands that the values in new york city are socially liberal, pro-abortion or pro- gay marriage, focused around money and the media. not a lot of conservatives come out of manahttan.""new york is a great place, it's got great people, it's got loving people, wonderful people. when the world trade center came down i saw something that no place on more beautifully, more humanely than new york." the two men also sparred over the canadian-born cruz'seligibility to be president. trump said democrats are planning lawsuits to keep cruz from the white house. cruz said any lawsuit against him would not succeed. one four of the five teens accused of raping an 18- year-old woman in a brooklyn park last week are released from jail. that doesn't mean this is a lot... he comes from a tight knit close family they're obviously concerned... the defense attorney representing 14 year old denzel murray--- one of the five teenagers accused of gang raping an 18- year-old woman inside a brownsville park last week--- says his client is back home with his family. that's because the brooklyn dist

both of new york city's major airports broke records. laguardia got nearly 28 inches and jfk international had 38.5. while central park was 0.1 off the previous record. nearby newark, new jersey, on the other hand was 0.1 above the city's previous record. farther south along the jersey shore, several areas experienced record flooding, with chunks of ice flowing with the water. the town of north wildwood was flooded with half a foot more water than during superstorm sandy. and the town's police shared this picture of a rescuer carrying a little girl after her home was flooded. federal government offices in the nation's capital will remain closed monday after getting nearly 20 inches of powder. no word yet if there will be a round two of yesterday's epic snowball fight at du pont circle. that's what happens when you get stuck inside. but it's a pretty good pet the obama family dogs bo and sunny will be dreaming of their time playing in the snow picture perfect. the washington redskins probably weren't as happy. the roof of their practice fa

this is about how much new york city got. just about 27, less than 27. that's very scientific of you. >> it's almost the size of my head. it's a very scientific measure of how much snow we got here in new york city. it was quite measurable. >> there are some hopeful signs this morning. >> things are getting back to normal. >> new york and philadelphia lifted their snow emergency. >> washington and baltimore are still restricting travel with all government offices including federal and local closed. and schools are closed, as well there. but we have to mention more than two dozen deaths were blamed on the weather. airlines canceled more than 14,000 flights over the weekend. and the snowfall in new york city missed setting a record just short of 27 inches. >>> baltimore had about 30 inches of snow but the official measurement in washington is only 17.8. even though seed like so much more. it probably was. can you believe this, the measuring device at reagan national airport was buried in the snow and stopped working. >> it will be days before the nation's c

in new york city, they're expecting up to 30 inches of snow. this spans 11 states, from georgia up through new jersey where they have some severe flooding right around atlantic city. we're going to take a quick break, we'll be back with much more in a moment. you're down with crestor. alright! now there's a way you can get crestor for $3. adding crestor, along with diet, lowers bad cholesterol. crestor is not for people with liver disease, or women who are nursing,pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor all medicines you take. call your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness; feel unusually tired; have loss of appetite, upper belly pain, dark urine or yellowing of skin or eyes. these could be signs of serious side effects. ask for the crestor $3 card. ask your doctor about crestor. >>> welcome back. you're looking at live images of new york city, where there's not a car in sight there, that's on washington square park by the nyu campus in lower manhattan. a travel ban in effect, that manes no cars other than emergencies allowed on

new york city as well, watch out for bands of still heavy snow. ape cod and boston. richard? >> bonnie, t

>> you know new york city. new yorkers are used to this. city officials are used to dealing with snowstorms. it's january. it's new york city. so they're expecting to receive snowstorms like this. a foot, foot and a half is significant in terms of historic storms. does it rank in terms of historic storms? no. so new yorkers are prepared for snowstorms like this. the city is prepared. the state is prepared as well. the governor speaking earlier about this, we're going to evaluate the situation and pull back if need be. >> jason carroll, live for us in new york. >> we have correspondents up and down the eastern seaboard. we'll check in with virginia, new jersey and pennsylvania. live reports as we push on into our breaking news here on cnn. are you powered by protein? milk has 8 grams to help give you energy to unleash your potential. start every day with milk's protein and milk life. start every day with my man, lemme guess who you're wearing... everyone's lookin' red carpet ready. toenail fungus!? whaaat?!? fight it! with jublia. jublia is a