between new york and boston. ory as you head up the coast into new england. forecasters say the snow there will likely come down fast. in some cases two to four inches per hour. the massachusetts governor is warning of widespread poweru6 outages that could in some cases last for days. again, that's from the governor. airlines have already canceled, get this, close to 7,000:oiv flights they also delayed an additional 2,000. officials say cancellations/z1 and delays will continue into wednesday if not longer. so let's get to team fox coverage out on correspondent rick leventhal is braving the wind but the snow is not coming down at this second. leasiç gabriel outside new york bus terminal. and we're live in boston where there will be a pwhopper. but it is not snowing. so what's that about? let's get to meteorologist janice dean in the weather machine live in the extreme this is not to say it is not coming. it's to say it isn't here yet, right? >> right. the forecasters said the worst of the storm the blizzard condit

new york.esses where the jobs are being created. that is the life blood. anything we can do to generate small business is what we want to do. we want to have a tax cut for small business that is dramatic that would:0> take the small business taxes from 6.5% down to 2.5%, the lowest rate in 100 years and send a real positive signal. and that will show that new york is continuing to be a pro-job, pro-growth state. the next taxes we have to attack are the property taxes. here's a quote. the public is at least coming to realize that the increase in real estate taxes is due wholly to the increase in the cost of local and not state government. these taxes on real estate are too high. local government has in many communities been guilty of great waste and duplication. who said that quote? i'll give you a hint. me. secretary hillary clinton. fdr. ronald reagan. steve acqrario. it is not ronald reagan. it is not hillary clinton. it is not me. it is down to steve and fbr. if it is steve, he is fired. so

the new york mass transit that never closes it keeps the city functioning, the new york city subway system and all transit will close at 11:00 p.m. tonight. it closed during sandy. and that will bring the biggest city in the country to an absolute stand still. amtrak is suspending all service through new england. 7,000 flights have been cabled. a third of domestic travel. we have essentially a lock down at all of the airports. if you're traveling in or out of new york tonight you're screwed. you probably already knew that. public schools will be closed tomorrow. boston schools closed through wednesday. broadway is closed no shows will go on tonight. the storm will peak by 10:00 a.m. in new york. by about 7:00 p.m. in boston. a lot of snow and accumulation. local state officials pleading with the public right now. you have seen them all day sounding very dire warnings up and down the eastern seaboard. take a listen. >> this will most likely be one of the largest blizzards in the history of new york city. i'm asking everyone to understand that and prepare accordingly. this is not like other

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new york city.ng where you are? >> hey shep. we're outside con edison's east river plant and we're seeing a lot of activity within this power company, which supplies power to manhattan and all throughout the region. these power companies are gearing up for the long days ahead. we know they're going to be problems here at con edison. there's no exception there. we were able to take our cameras inside what they call the command and control center today. con edison's power lines run underground near manhattan and keeps the power protected but they tell is they see problems red wings 48 hours after the snow dumps as the road salt melts off. all the runoff goes underground where the lines are. conned spokesperson says lessons have been learn from the last two major storms, hurricane irene and sandy. that has prompted con ed to perform what they call storm hardening measures. they have built walls around the substationsstationsstations and installed submersible equipment and resources from other out of st

it created disorder in new york. parliament's harsh imposition of a new imperial order turned the taverns into central sites of cross class political mobile zaths in the city. new yorkers reacted to the stamp act, for instance, with outrage. this was parliament's first attempt to tax the colonies after the sen years war -- the first attempt to tax them under a kind of new regime by placing stamped paper on newspapers dice playing card, legal documents. so, in other words, they're going to threaten the groups who were most likely to complain, the lawyers and people who hang out at the printers and people who hang out at tarchs. this was a bad idea. you will see what happens, right? they threaten -- first new yorkers threaten to twok the appointed stamp officer from mnd because he was at his lodgings at the kings arms taverns in new york city in 1765-his land lady said i can't have someone stying here and she packs him off to not george. delegates from various colonies convened during the stamp act congress in october o

tonight, the order to shut down new york city as boston and parts of new england brace for up to three feet of snow as an entire region awaits near total paralysis. >>> flight risk, a drone has crash landed on the white house lawn in the middle of the night as the secret service scrambles to conduct its own investigation. just think of the security questions this raises. >>> and petty theft. controversy erupts over one of the biggest hit songs in years. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. the mayors of new york and boston say they are preparing for the worst. new york has ordered streets closed to traffic starting tonight while boston will get all the snow they can handle. and on parts of the atlantic coast this will feel just like a winter hurricane. blizzard warnings, not winter storm warnings but blizzard warnings are posted in seven states. five different states have declared states of emergency. and parts of the entire region could be paralyzed for days. we have the entire re

don't let me forget what makes new york new york. thank you and god bless you. >>> next, south carolina governor nikki haley's fifth state of the state address, her first since being re-elected to a second term last november. she talked about new worker training programs to help residents get certification in fields where there is a shortage of qualified workers. she also outlined a proposal to raise infrastructure revenue. this comes to us courtesy of the state's public educational broadcasting network, south carolina etv. >> please be seated. please be seated. ladies and gentlemen of the joint assembly and honored guests i'm proud to present to you the honorable nikki haley, governor of south carolina. >> thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. mr. speaker mr. president, ladies and gentlemen of general assembly constitutional officers, and my fellow south carolinians, tonight we have come together to discuss the state of south carolina, the success we have enjoyed and the challenges we face. but we must firs

new york has issued a travel ban in 13 counties as well as new york city.ds, bridges and tunnels are closed. >>> the governor of massachusetts is calling this historic top five storms. wind gusts approaching hurricane force, that is the word we're using over and over again. >>> and in new jersey the transit sis tell is shut down governor chris christie says it will be wednesday at the earliest before state workers return to their jobs. he has issued a state-wide travel ban. >>> connecticut also has a state-wide travel ban in place. the governor says the state is bracing for up to 120,000 homes and businesses to lose power. obviously posing problems for utility companies there. the message to residents? stay home, stay safe. the key message is do not venture outside. if you're in new york city you're going to economically get a $300 fine. >> stay home stay indoors. >> bryan, we hear you're going inside the new york city city subways for us. >> can you hear him? >> we're having a little bit of trouble hearing you right now. let's try and work that out, becaus

those road closures now in fife states, starting to kick in, they have already kicked in here in new york. the good news if everyone can make it through this storm safe and sound is that tomorrow morning, a lot of happy kids making up all throughout the northeast and heading outside. we'll be back with more live coverage of the blizzard after this break. working middle east to southwest. seven states have declared a state of emergency tonight. fife states right now, essentially banning all nonemergency, nonessential vehicles that are on the road. right now, we are looking at a sort of midway point through the blizzard and i want to bring in rehema ellis, nbc national continue, she's in the nadic framing dps ham area people are still out on the roads, another 20 minutes if i'm not mistaken. >> i want you to take a look at the view from the camera that's mounted on the windsheild and you'll see one lone car in front of me. the ice is starting to build up on our windshield wipers it's getting heavier and heavier. it's very fine wet, heavy snow. it's going to make the roads out here very diff

he was born and raised in a new york family. in 1959, his family branched out and bought loews theaters. today the loews corporation has , $80 billion in assets that generate $15 billion in annual revenue with interest from everything in hotels, insurance, oil and gas. jonathan tisch runs the company with his cousin and is also the chairman of loews hotels. >> he took this area and made it guest friendly. >> true to his roots he , completed a massive luxury renovation of a flagship hotel that is near and dear to his heart. >> i grew up in this hotel. >> but that work has not stopped him from writing three business strategy books. and bringing the super bowl to the new york region. >> you get about six hours of sleep? >> 5 to 6 hours of sleep. you will get an e-mail from me at 3:00 in the morning. >> despite a demanding schedule, he tries to make it to every giants home game. i caught up with him at his team's home turf -- metlife stadium. ♪ >> it is incredible to be out here. how does it make you feel? >> pretty amazing. i think

more than four inches in new york city. i want to take you to the maps. there is a blizzard warning from coastal new jersey through long island:00 kk rhode island massachusetts, coastal new hampshire, you are included too. you can't make a blizzard without wind and snow. and we will have plenty of snow. we're putting that 16 to 24-inch swath in that really darker magenta. the hot pink is right on the edge there. new york city to the north and east are the heaviest and some places see two to three feet in pockets. now, you add the wind and the -- you see nantucket there, it went to 71 miles per hour early tomorrow morning. mon talk going to see some of those gusting winds. 50 to 60. and yes, 75 the peak wind gusts. let's time it out. tonight, it reintense phipps out there in the ocean. it sends those bands swinging back. long island to new york city getting it. hartford boston all the way through tuesday 8:00 a.m. and then it slowly starts to progress away from new york city and connecticut and leaves boston with everything until 11:00. really wednesday is

so in response to the growing threat that the new york city government, new york city police even under this new mayor have continued to commit resources to that priority. rose: is the level of communication between nypd the justice department the f.b.i. a law enforcement agencies domestically and foreign at the highest 11. >> it's the best it's ever been. rose: that's essential. >> it is essential. i would defy you to try to find somebody on either side of the fence, nypd side or the federal side that would not say that the relationships now are the best they have ever been which is important because we are continually trying to improve those relationships. we need as much trans piece we need to have a seamless web of enter activity between us. i really believe that we do have that personal relationships with the f.b.i. and other agent sees and we socialize with each other, go to professional con fences were each other and we are in really constant communication. >> that's absolutely critical. rose: it has been said to me that the biggest concern by law enforcement is somebody is going

the parts of new york particularly new york city dodged the worst part of the storm.ig impact. governor cuomo declared a state of emergency for the southern counties. thousands of flights canceled at the airports. non emergency travel banned on new york city streets. we have not seen many cars out here at all. fewer than ten cars in the last several hours. subway and rail and bus service suspended. new york city schools are closed today. having a big impact here. having a big impact christine, all over the region. >> john you are right. it is inconsistent the kinds of snow totals and impacts we are seeing. the philadelphia and suburbs, this point, at least, dodged a bullet like manhattan. still snow accumulation no question but not the worst snow totals many had been fearing, john. new jersey, we are watching new jersey. it is getting walloped by the blizzard. governor christie declaring a state of emergency. mass transit shutdown. newark airport remains open. 3.3 inches of snow there as of 1:00 a.m. in the morning. still some falling. the cancellations today are like

you have "new york post," passionate in their dislike of mayor de blasio. "daily news" depending on the day and the issue. the "new york times" who feels the mayor is not far enough to the left for their liking, so as far as they praise him they are just as likely to bang away at him, which is ironic because he is truly a progressive. >> trying to push him to the left. >> and the "wall street journal" -- it is owned by the same person who owns the "new york post." they are than that all the road on a lot of issues. the "wall street journal" reporting on police issues is probably some of the most balanced in the city. and "news day" a long island newspaper, good reporting relative to policing. >> how long have you known him? >> from when he was first campaigning. he was the outsider. not favored to win. i recall meeting him for the first time at the st. patrick's parade. bitterly cold, windy day. he had a truck where he was dispensing coffee and hot chocolate. i have known pat for 20 years. >> does he want to do something to make the relationship between the

crime in new york city continued to fall in 2014. homicides fell to the lowest since 1963. t the nypd confronts challenges. thousands of new yorkers have taken to the streets to focus -- protest against the nypd's approach to policing. they responded to the staten island grand jury's decision not to prosecute the death of eric garner. there has been a widening between police, police unions, and the mayor, who expressed solidarity with some protesters. tensions peaked after the killing of two officers last month. offices turned their back on the mayor at funerals. they also had a significant slowdown in arrests and summonses. recent numbers show enforcement activity is rising, but still short of last year's levels. the washington post wrote "the spirit of community-police partnership has been damaged in new york and around the country, but the best model for how to heal the racial and critical divide is bratton's onwn experience." i'm pleased to have bill bratton back on this program. good to have you here. the first time we have had a chance to talk about you in a job you kn

. >> new york and new england getting hit hard.abc is covering all of the angles. >> crazy, crazy! >> the city that never sleeps has essentially been shut down tonight. this is flatbush avenue. it is so empty right now. this so that crews can clean these streets as seamlessly and quickly as possible. >> from the upper west side usually a place where you can find food or anything else anytime but tonight a ghost town. >> take a look. it's not completely empty. it is definitely as close to empty as i have ever seen it, of course but it is not empty and all of these folks are supposed to be somewhere by now. it seems like most of the folks we spoke to seem to think you can get a taxi by 11:00 or su 11:00 but they shut down after that. that's not what the mayor said. that's what they heard. so most of those folks are stranded here. we thought we'd go outside and give you an idea of what manhattan looks like when a big snowstorm conspires to shut it down. >> up 7th avenue, look at how desolate this is. they are walking in the middle of

it didn't get the forecast right for new york city. >> mother nature is hard to predict. i know you showed me that great new model that you had but, still, it could be wrong, too, because you can't predict the weather. i mean you have the toughest job, right? everybody says you can be wrong and you stelill keep your job, but it's not that easy is it. >> computer models will never be perfect. the computer models separate the atmosphere into a number of layers maybe like 10 or 12 or 15. the atmosphere isn't 10 or 12 or 15 layers it's an infinite number of layers. we can't put that into a forecast. it would take you five days to make a 24 hour forecast if you put everything in it. the computers aren't fast enough to get everything in it. when we can get everything in it it will be better. for now you've got what you got. you get what you get. >> that's right. darn it. chad myers, thanks so much. >> you're welcome. >>> our team coverage is just getting started. before we head to break, blizzard tweets are piling up faster than the snow. twitter hashtags. it's not just in the n

and new york post put it simply with the word closed. we will be back with more coverage of blizzard 2015. >>> we continue to follow the storm moving across new england with blizzard like conditions. eight states remain under emergency declarations. statewide travel ban remains in effect for the state in all but two counties in connecticut. 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. obv

in new york, new jersey, pennsylvania connecticut, elsewhere, drivers are being warned, some orderedzard that could be historic churns its way northward. we're talking about 3 feet of snow that could fall accompanied by hurricane-force winds. joining me to talk about this louis uccellini, director of the national weather service. you spent 14 years leading the national centers for environmental prediction. in your career how would you rate this storm that is expected to hit the northeast? >> well actually, you could say in my lifetime i've been interested in snowstorms i grew up on long island. and paul wrote a snowstorm monograph and we actually have studied many of these storms, and created an index for them and we think this storm is going to rank up in the -- as a historic storm in the 3, 4 range. in our index. and with the snow cover, the snow amount it's going to rank right up there with some of the bigger storms that have hit that area. >> what are the weather conditions that are causing what really could be this historic storm? if you're thinking that it could be a number 3 o

to new york, where a state of emergency is in effect as well. mayor bill de blasio announcing a short time ago that all public schools will be shut down tomorrow and getting that news conference happening about an hour or so ago. new york governor andrew cuomo announcing state restrictions and state controlled highways will shut down at 10:00 tonight. the new york subway system will be operating on a limited schedule. that will start at 8:00 tonight. the governor and the mayor say these steps are essential. >> this is not a storm to take lightly. and we're taking what we believe are prudent measures. >> it is not business as usual and if my fellow new yorkers join me in doing the smart and safe thing we are all going to get through this okay. >> the mayor bill de blasio. james tim joins me from the new york city department of sanitation. when i came to you before we saw the salt trucks an the plows as well. but now it looks like we see your feet? there you are. >> it is starting to accumulate down here and now you can see quite a bit of snow stic

new jersey and new york both in the path of the storm. >> absolutely. these blizzard warnings are for coastal new jersey and all the way up to maine. this goes through new england. the reason why this is so major, 29 million people that are going to be affected from this. it's not just conditions but we're talking about a lot of snow and a lot of people that this is going to impact over the next 48 hours. here's a look at storm tracker. it's important to note this isn't the main part of the storm. this is an alberta clipper we're looking at. the storm is still organizing over the carolina coastline. that low pressure moves up this evening and that's when we'll see the storm intensify. for new york it's going to be closer to the evening commute, around 6:00 7:00 we'll see the snow pick up and conditions start to deteriorate. through boston and further north we'll see that closer to about 10:00, overnight everybody is in the thick of it. we'll be looking at the worst 6 this. here's a look at future cast as we roll through the day. the storm starting to mov

and/or out of new york. one thing though is because of the preemptive action taken by officials, there were not a lot of travelers stranded at laguardia and other new york airports overnight. just about 70 last night and they had access to cots and it wasn't sort of horrific scenes weaver seen during other blizzards where there's fights over food and chargers and what not. the people who had to spend the night most made the best of it and decently taken care. one thing we should point out for travelers inconvenienced airlines have switched up flights and waived the usual change fees for those who have been stranded they are not going to be reimbursed -- the airline doesn't put them up in a hotel or anything. those who are more cost conscious and can't afford hotels, are mainly the ones staying here. now, as to when the flights will get out of laguardia. one thing that was interesting, you talked about -- well that's had a direct impact on airport. now the weather is getting better and more likely than not th

was performed in 2009 on the new york city subway. he followed it up with "the sweet cheat," a play about a post-apocalyptic new york that was performed in an abandoned warehouse north of the city. and he's not the only one making site-specific theater. in fact, one of new york's more popular long-running shows is "sleep no more" an avant-garde retelling of shakespeare's "macbeth," performed in three adjoining warehouses in manhattan designed to look like an old hotel. john gould rubin has also used the site-specific format in his own work. >> i did it because it was much less expensive and because it would endow the audience, which- - with an entirely different experience. you're in an experience if you go to the theater which is one that you're accustomed to. but if you go to a place, the address of which you've been given that morning by a telephone or an e-mail, you're already primed for an unusual experience. and so, it is economics. but it's also a way of endowing the audience with an unusual experience. >> we are not here for y

live pictures right now of one of the pieces of equipment likely to be used in new york city. moment we expect the mayor bill de blasio to take to the microphone to talk about the city's preparedness for the big storm. >>> mean nim, overseas a new leader in saudi arabia and political chaos in yemen are adding to concerns over stability in the middle east as our tom foreman explains the complexity of the situation could end up benefiting iran. >> there are good reasons that leaders all around the world are watching the middle east because the uncertainly there could affect many nations. it starts right here with saudi arabia. the death of the king there, the ascension of his half-brother to power theoretically would mean a continuation of existing policies an ally of the u.s. an influencer in the region but there are questioning about how that will proceed, we are these the largest exporter of 0i8 and that i military is a force to be reckoned with. what about yemen down here? yemen is in chaos. rebel forces are pushing the government. it's not even clear who is in charge or who

this event was hosted by the new york military affairs symposium. it's about an hour. >>> good evening and welcome. i am pleased to welcome howard blum, an investigative journalist and author of the new new york times best-seller become become as well as many other great books. he is currently a contributing editor at "vanity fair." while at the "new york times" he was twice nominated for a pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. several of his books were non-fiction best sellers including, among others "i pledge allegiance, the true story of the walkers, an american spy family" that was turned into a great mini series on cbs, perhaps some of you watched it in the past. "gang land" how the fbi broke the mob in 1993. "the eve of destruction." the untold story of the yom kippur war in 2003. "american lightning" terror of mystery and the birth of hollywood and the crime of the century" in 2008. "a floor of heaven, a true tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold rush in 2011." i should also mention that warner brothers is preparing a film of "dar

that's down the raul, steve, "new york times" versus sullivan. the times runs an ad signed by celebrities including jackie robinson and eleanor roosevelt. tell us what the ad says and the objection-mr. sullivan. >> the ad 'twas a full page ad in "the new york times" and it was aimed at trying to rally support for the civil rights movement and particularly dr. martin luther king the ad said that law enforcement officials in montgomery alabama, interestingly it didn't name any officials, just said law enforcement officials -- had harassed dr. king had padlocked the dining hall at the local college, had expelled students talked about student protests singing "my country 'tis of thee" and ran through six paragraphs of describing civil rights era activities in the montgomery alabama, area. lb sullivan was the sheriff of montgomery, alabama, and basically said that the ad damaged his reputation and libeled him. the falsehoods were relatively minor, the dining room wasn't padlocked but some students were not allowed to eat in the dining room. the police

in new york.after wavering stocks in the green after traders weighed greek voters picking the anti-austerity program. a man is claiming responsibility for the drone that crashed in the white house yard this morning. it triggered a lockdown and a secret service investigation. the obama administration planning to overhaul medical payments to doctors and hospitals. they want half of the payments to be made on quality of care than quantity of care. we'll see if the government can pull that off. those are some of the stories in the news tonight. in anticipation of the blizzard in the northeast, shoppers emptied out entire grocery store shelves, grabbing every single piece of bread. are people just overreacting to some winter weather? the host of the new phone numbers show kennedy premiering tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. kennedy is right here on the set. it's so nice to have you. kennedy: thank you for having me back. gerri: can i show you the tweets? empty store shelves. there's a dude tweeting his ja

but he stuck to and it made "the new york times --" he committed "the new york times" to the same idea of all the news that is fit to print that it still practices today, albeit under a different ownership. >> -- how does he fit into this scenario. >> bennett was the first on the scene and was the oldest and born in scotland, before the turn of the 19th century, fell in love with newspapers, had a facility for language so he got jobs as a translator of foreign news, and then ultimately wrote so many good things about the andrew jackson administration that he expected that jackson and jackson's successor, martin van buren, would find a way to get him money to start his own newspaper. the administration didn't like it. vaguely foreign, a little smarmy and from that day on, bennett is more independent than practically any newspaper editor in the country. totally prodemocratic racist antisemitic, a little crazy, but amazing self-promoter. he wrote about himself the way other reporters wrote about politicians and he thought the world wanted to know about his come examination goings his sche

that's tomorrow as well. >> that's new york mayor bill de blasio. i'm joined by the police commissioner bill bratton. what should new yorkers do? talk to the public. what should they be doing right now? >> caller: one, they should be at home watching the mayor on tv with the advice from him and others involved trying to keep the city safe during the next several days. right now weather wise we're in a lull. a storm came through earlier and dropped three to four inches. problem is it's so cold up here this is going to freeze over quickly on sidewalks and et cetera. when we get snow later tonight, the mayor is indicating it will be treacherous walking and on the roads. >> what are the dangers when you have to shut down the city at 11:00. is this danger to orlando people living alone? what are the terms? >> the city has a list of who's who in the various housing developments, senior citizen homes. after the experience with sandy several years ago, that was greatly expanded upon. we'll be assisting city ambulance services operated by the fire department.

in new york. a member of the assembly and lieutenant governor of new york while he was editor of the "new york times." that beats even greely, and here is 150 years ago if you were alive 150 years ago you would have sea henry raymond has done the hat trick. he is editor of the "new york times," chairman of the republican national committee, and he is running for congress as a republican from manhattan in new york city. and just in his spare time, he writes a campaign biography of abraham lincoln about 700 pages of lincoln's speeches with commentary, which is the equivalent of campaign biographies where are very important in the 1850s and '60s so that's the equivalent of actually producing the television commercials for the candidate. so that's all in a day's work for the editor of "the new york

that is clearly not the case in february in the new york and new jersey area. >> they changed that rulehis game. it went away. >> the stadium has a team of 1000 at the ready to clear snow from the stands with a network of chutes. facility operations vp dave duernberger says they are ready for the snow. >> we put a snowmelt on the 300 concourse, and one down here on the field. they have a 600-ton snowmelter we can use in the parking lot. they have a jet engine inside. the heat that is produced from the jet engines is what melts the snow. >> it is a big operation. >> no matter what the weather, it will be a great day. >> some of the greatest games in the history of the nfl have been played in inclement weather. it may snow, it may rain, but it could also be 45 degrees and gorgeous. super bowl xlviii at metlife stadium will be very exciting. we want to make sure that the region knows that the super bowl has been here. >> when we come back, jonathan tisch confesses a secret. >> when people ask me what i'd be doing if i wasn't in the hotel business -- i'm a frustrated architect. ♪ >> the reg

and so classic new york. and so specific new york you have the son of immigrants coming in and really wanting to be a good american as they called him joe, and looking at the line of work that he chose. >> and for many of the immigrant families especially when a son or daughter says that i want to be a police officer, the families coming in from other countries, they say, you can't be a police aufofficer in the united states, and this is the wild west and the rest of america looks at us with our 300 million gun s ins in a population of 320 million looks at us as violence and out of control and the violence on the streets and the wild west atmosphere and so in some ways when they hear that their family members want to be a police officer, they rare terrified, and that is probably why he had to call his dad after every shift to say he is still alive he made him. >> and i would want my son to call me after his shift everyday too, so i understand. and we have a sea of oblue and police men from all over the countr

new york and new jersey have already declared states of emergency, and now the weather channel's tom nizzle is tracking the storm. >> we're now using terms like historic for winter storm juno as it moves up the northeast coast over the next 36 hours. let's take a look. over 28 million people now under blizzard warnings in the northeast. nearly 60 million under some type of winter alert. take a look at how this system is going to move over the next 24 hours. the snow breaks out and really begins to increase this evening. in that stretch from philly to new york and boston winds will increase as well so that by later tonight, we will be in full-blown blizzard conditions from new york to boston with snowfall coming down at an inch an hour. this continues right into the tuesday morning time frame. now by tuesday evening, new york city will begin to see the snowfall wane across your area but in eastern new england, that snow will continue along with the strong winds and blizzard conditions. it's not until during the day on wednesday that the system begins to lose some of the punch as it mo

fair to say that new york city took a hit, but not the worst hit. worst is east of the city in long island. norah. >> lonnie thank you. our storm coverage continues all morning. we will show you a new app that follows the snow plows in your areas. you can find out if the streets have been plowed in your area. >>> the fbi is taking credit this morning for breaking up an alleged russian spy ring. prosecutors say one suspect posed as a bank employee and tried to send information back to russia's intelligence agency. jeff begay is in washington and tells us about what they had planned. >> good morning. the russian spy ring was operating since 2012 in new york city. the fbi used informants and wire taps. 39-year-old alleged spy appeared in court on monday. the justice department stated he was employed by a russian bank undercover for the russian kgb. two others attempted to recruit new yorker as they tried to gather u.s. documents to help the russian government collect information about potential u.s. economic sanctions against russian banks. u.s. officia

willie in the middle of new york city. llie, i saw some tweets last night that millions and millions of new yorkers were horrified that they were going to be facing the possibility of not having internet service and actually having to talk to their families. even that appears to be a crisis averted. but new york city looks, still, even though the blizzard warning has been lifted new york city still looks like it hasn't looked rarely probably in your lifetime or many other lifetimes, practically deserted. >> yeah joe, it's crazy. i mean i think a lot of us woke up expecting to see these two-foot mountains of snow outside our door when we walked outside. that obviously didn't happen. it's windy and it's cold but, as bill pointed out, only about seven inches of snow and some people thought it was going to be two feet of snow. to your point, as of 11:00 last night, there was no getting in or out of this city. the port authority closed all the bridges and tunnels getting on to the island of manhattan. subways shut down. the buse

new york city highway is also closed. trucks dropping up to 126,000 tons of salt on roads. d new jersey is shutting down trains until thursday to give you a sense of the scope of the storm. boston's airport is closed, there are ground stops at laguardia and jfk and newark. more than 6,000 flights canceled. while it's been snowing all day, the worst of the storm is just starting at this hour. >> what you're going to see in the few hours is something that hits very hard and very fast and people cannot be caught off guard. >> as we are waiting a press conference from mayor de blasio chad myers is here with me at central park. i had a frog in my throat. i think it was just the cold. this is pretty incredible when you think about the travel bans alone, wa alone, what they are expecting is historic. >> yes. the 20 30 or even 12 inches will be devastating for the city at least for a while. 12 maybe for one day, 20 for two days 3 feet the weather service is still doing 30 inches possible. that would be a three to four-day cleanup. boston is going to get it no matter what. this is th

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in connecticut, new york and new jersey have issued a travel ban.ally illegal to be on the streets right now. we can feel the wind whipping through right now. >> we are in the brunt of what could be a historic blizzard on this tuesday, january 27th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> i'm sorry. good morning, everyone. i'm reena ninan. this is t.j. holmes. we were talking about our worse moment on television ever. are we on? are we on? that was hard i have to say. >> only idiots on the street by the way. >> there was a police car circling around. because they are taking this ban seriously. >> you are not supposed to be out there. as you see there are no cars on the road. the ban has been in place a few hours now. at 11:00 p.m. a lot of places have the bans. people are heeding the warning. it costs 300 bucks if you are caught out there driving around. you can see them trying to get the snow off the road. a live picture outside of our studio, just down the street here. it is kind of nasty. this is the middle of this massive snows

al sharpton, "new york post" -- it was all old stuff. ompanies for years. >> basically his response was there is nothing new there. that was all covered in a 2008 article which he claims was discredited. in his release he didn't provide any links. >> nobody did. >> he didn't provide any. we have done searching. we didn't find any. we are left to stand with his word that it has been discredited. >> how it works he would approach a company. other people do it. we are going to accuse you of racism unless you donate this much money to whatever it may be. pepsy was paying him $25,000 a year. the money goes to him. it goes in his pocket. and what it morphed into now, as we saw with sony and its executive, fusai something that is racist as she did, you have to go bend a knee to al sharpton, kiss the ring. and then he is somehow the spokesman for the african-american community who will give absolution to some people. >> who is sharpton's best friend in new york city? >> who is his best friend in the white house? >> in new york city who is his bes

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parts of new jersey and eastern new york state have a winter advisory. this storm tracked 50 to 75 miles east and that is why manhattan was spared and new england is still getting slammed. wind gusts in parts of massachusetts are 60 miles per hour. that's actually near hurricane force and is creating some dangerous whiteout conditions. some towns the snow is actually falling sideways. and now coastal flooding is a major concern, prompting evacuations. just look at these pictures. that's not even high tide. here's a run-down of who got how much. 30 inches in framingham massachusetts. just shy of that in long island. 21 inches in boston. foot and a 1/2 in proveidence rhode island. the height of the storm, more than 28,000 homes were without power. among today's cancelations the u.s. postal service. delivery is suspended in connecticut, rhode island and massachusetts. experts put the price tag of lost business at half a billion dollars. that's low if you can believe it. 2014 polar vortex cost more than $50 billion. we can get into more of that ahead. start o

ennbc has reported. >> both the city of new york the state partners in new york and new jersey have a much better understanding as to how big the cost can be and they've made a wise decision from the infrastructure perspective. the long-term cost can be enormous, not as much as sandy or katrina, of course. but to make smart use of the infrastructure they have now can really save them costs in the long run and help them to truly get out of the snow later when the storm is done and get back to regular economic business. >> so what holds cities back from doing that all the time just money? or a concern about looking like you were overreacting in advance? >> this is one of the biggest responsibilities that mayors have. there's a great article in the atlantic right now, over 125 years ago, the super blizzard of 1888 and how important that was for mayors across the country to understand their needs especially in times of crisis. but it also helps us understand the importance of infrastructure. the best infrastructure's oftentimes that you don't notice it at all. in moments like this you und

you're the senator from new york. are you saying you're not going to take a position on this at all? >> no. i think that again, having talked to people on both sides, i think that the chasm is not unbridgeable at all. commissioner bratton has done a good job in los angeles in dealing with this issue well. he's dealing with the issue well here. and i think it can be solved. >> schieffer: all right. i'll let it go at that. let's talk about the new congress that is going to convene. we understand the first thing that republicans are going to do is pass the keystone pipeline legislation. the president hasn't said flatly that he's going to veto it but looks like it's headed that way. what do you see happening there? >> well, look, our republican colleagues say this is a jobs bill. but that's really not true at all. by most estimates it would create several thousand temporary construction jobs only 35 permanent jobs. compare that to the number of jobs created in the economy last month, 300,000. and so democrats are dubious