let's get to greg cergol from wnbc, live in port jefferson. give us an update of how it is there. >> reporter: alex, you talk about stranded cars. a perfect example of what we've seen this driver trying to make it into a parking lot in port jefferson, snow piled up around the vehicle, he or she just left it here. partial until the roadway blocking traffic. situations like this all around long island today. as you said, reports from the local police of hundreds of vehicles stranded in the snow snow. one cop told me a little while ago, the conditions are absolutely miserable. everywhere you turn he said, cars are stuck. even police vehicles that were sent out to try and help people who were stranded, they have become stuck as well. plows, fire trucks, you name it, everyone have problems getting through. we spoke to the county executive in suffolk county, and he said while cars are standed it appears most of the drivers have been taken safely -- taken away safely. no injuries reported as a result of the stranding, that's good news. but the condit

we have greg siegel out at port jefferson. sunlight will bring clarity. what's the latest on the cars? >> alex where we are on port jefferson, we have about 20 inches on the ground and still snowing. as for the cars, stranded cars all around suffolk county. suffolk police, the police department out here telling us that there are literally still stuck in the snow. as far as the l.i.e. is concerned, the estimate is about 60 to 100 cars stuck there. big area of trouble is behind two tractor-trailers that jackknifed around midnight. all the cars behind them got stuck, because of the problem with the tractor-trailers and at last word, police and rescue crews trying to get those cars out from behind the tractor-trailer. so a lot of work to do, we've been told that no one has been immune to getting stuck in the snowdrifts, we've heard of buses of even plows getting stuck here, one guy told me the snowdrifts in some areas in port jefferson are shoulder length. as far as travel nightmare stories, we've heard a few of them. one of our photographers, it took him fiv

and then port jefferson, they have ferries that go from here to bridgeport, connecticut.dgeport, up towards the hartford area, we're talking 30-plus inches there. >> geez. >> reporter: so, i don't know who got it worse, you know? is 25 worse than 28? >> it's all relative at that point. >> reporter: yeah, it's all bad and it will take a while before this is gone. >> paul goodloe with the weather channel. president obama declared a state of emergency in connecticut earlier today and you can see why. thank you, paul. >> reporter: sure. >>> back to politics now. among the attendees at president obama's state of the union tuesday night will be former congresswoman gabrielle giffords. at last year's state of the union, while in the early stages of her recovery from gunshot wounds, giffords was warmly greeted when she entered. she resigned her seat in congress the very next day. a powerful image. i want to turn to the political war room. chris kofinis, former chief of staff of west virginia senator joe manchin and msnbc contributor robert traynham, a former bush/cheney senior ad

i'm here in port jefferson. they picked up 25 inches of snow.my measuring stick, and that's only 22 inches. now because the snow has been blowing and drifting, i'm going to attempt to walk out here. you talk about will people be able to get to work and dig out their cars, they've got to dig through very heavy and hard snow now. measured here, now it's about 26 inches. and i'm trying still to get to this car, and then imagine once you get there, you've got to dig that out. you can see one of the plows out here to plow this area. it is more and more difficult to get here. here's the thing. that was 25, 26 inches of snow i walked through. let's measure the bumper of this car. that's about 12 inches off the ground. so unless all this is plowed out of here, there's no way, even if you dig this car out, it can get out of here. this is a giant parking lot. imagine this scene in people's driveways. hundreds and then thousands that keep multiplying. this part of eastern long island, it will be very difficult to get out of here by car, if your car has bee

they jefferson city of port has been brought to a standstill by mass protests in a sheeted by football fans several thousand activists blocked access to local railroad ports and forced factories to shut down this follows a wave of unrest in general sparked wide death sentences given to twenty one football fans they were found guilty of inciting last year's rise that left more than seventy people did belcher has the latest from cairo. the ultra hardcore football fans who call these that disobedience house said they will escalate in the next few days if their demands a not match the story about three thousand people come to the streets of poor saeed basically show anger against the president and the authorities they reportedly surrounded the governor's building they managed to actually get government employees on science they stopped the hobbit from working and even went to the telecom buildings this however was not just the ultras the hardcore football fans who were involved other sectors got in there were students teachers who staged protests after the death of a young student over the

that picture was on the port jefferson ferry. and jesse was the love of my life. it's hard for me to be here today to talk about my deceased son. i have to. i am not here for the sympathy. a pat on the back. but as many people stated in the town of newtown, i'm here to speak up for my son. there's many changes that has to happen to make a change effective. mental health issues, better background checks, bans on these weapons, bans on the high capacity magazines. they all have to come together and they all have to work effectively. common sense tells you that. i watched that video this morning. that's a dangerous weapon, and anybody that can deny or argue that isn't being honest. jesse was 6 1/2 years old. his birthday was june 30, 2006, he was born. it was the happiest day of my life. saddest day of my life was december 14. it was the worst day of my life. i waited in that fire house until 1:00 in the morning, 1:30 until i knew jesse was confirmed dead. senator blumenthal was there, governor malloy, the other congressmen from connecticut, along with the police and

patrick henry, thomas jefferson would find themselves in the same virginia assembly but the port of boston was about to be closed and the king had issued that order and they came together with a makeshift caucus and said, what can we best do to help out in boston. you know what that group came up with? they said the most important thing they could do is ask the citizens of virginia to play for the people in boston. and they spent that night writing a prayer resolution. they looked back at old resolutions and wrote one and didn't know how it was going to be received. the next day, the virginia assembly voted unanimously and didn't change a word. the governor stormed in with a proclamation in his hand and dissolved the virginia assembly. they didn't like the word no, so they walked across the street, thomas jefferson, patrick henry and george washington and several others and they wrote a resolution that changed the world. a resolution that said that an attack on one colony was an attack on all of them and called on the first congressional continental congress. that congress as you know woul