Mixing in over eastern long island and over the south jersey shore. High winds, thats coming. 50 to 60plusmileanhour winds along the coast. That will create blizzard conditions. The coastal flooding is going to occur. We have flood warnings for tomorrow, particularly tomorrow evenings high tide cycle. Snows off to the southwest. A lot of this isnt reaching the ground. The air is so dry. Theres more coming up on fox 5 sky guardian 3d as it advances northward. Blizzard warning in red. Thats new york city, long island, most of new jersey for tomorrow. Winter storm warning further north. Winter weather advisories moving into connecticut and north jersey. As we look at our snowfall map, you can see this gradient weve been talking about for the last two days. Ive gone back to my original thinking of wednesday. Probably should have stuck to that last night. About eight to 14 inches across the city towards western long island. Less on the east end if we get into mixing. Northward it drops off. Central westchester. Southern connecticut. The jackpot is here, monmouth county, 16 to 22 inches. Heres the coastal flood warning, western Long Island Sound into queens, the south shore of long island and the bays and down the jersey shore. Bad tomorrow morning but worse in tomorrow evenings high tide. Ernie thank you for that. Talking about this flood prone areas like hoboken, new jersey, are trying to avoid Serious Problems with this storm. Lets go over to antwan lewis who is there for us right now. Good evening. Tell us more about whats going on there. Reporter theyre worried about flooding as well as accessibility to city streets. Officials in hoboken and jersey city are asking Vehicle Owners not to double park so the spreaders and plows can attack snowcovered streets. We need people to move off the emergency snow routes. The streets are white. We have our brine down. Into action when the snow starts. Reporter jersey city increased the number of trucks and routes to be covered. Crews will have faster access to salt depots. On the technology front, were experimenting with gps tracking that all of our trucks are equipped with. Residents can see the trucks moving and know when theyre turning on their streets in realtime. Field crews are prepared for outages which would come from snow or ice buildup on power lines. They acknowledge concerns about flooding. For right now were not expecting inbound flooding, which is what happened during sandy. We are closely monitoring that. If that changes, well be putting out an alert and letting residents know. Thats one of the big concerns this weekend. Our hope is that were just dealing with snow. Reporter both mayors are saying coastal flood warnings what potentially could happen. Back to you. Ernie all hoping for the best. Thank you. New york city is preparing for the winter storm. The city says salt trucks will hit the streets as soon as the snow starts to fall. Plowing will begin once two inches has accumulated. Mayor de blasio says the city is ready. We do not see a scenario where there will be a need for evacuation. We do have evacuation sites ready. We have 16 sites ready that can be up and running within hours if anything were to change. Ernie tomorrow the mayor says alternate side parking is suspended. A reminder, you can stay on top of this right up to date on the storm with the fox 5 ny weather app wherever you are. All you have to do is search fox 5 ny weather in the itunes store or google play to download the free app. Joining me right now to talk about this, a favorite to have on board, d. O. T. Commissioner, polly trottenberg. Nice to have you here. Ernie were talking about this weather. Youre on top of it. Weve been lucky so far. Here it comes. How does the city look to you in terms of preparations . We are lucky. Weve had a very mild winter. Now Mother Nature is about to bring us a storm. At the city level, weve been preparing for several days led by the office of emergency management, fire department, police department. We have our equipment out. The plows will be ready. The mayor has declared for tomorrow a winter storm emergency and is asking motorists please stay off the roadways. Ernie thats important. Very important. From 8 00 a. M. To midnight so plows can work and emergency vehicles can move around the city. We hope people will be safe. Ernie people have to take that seriously. Theres such a big job trying to run the city. So many times we do interviews or think about it. Its a massive job, trying to keep all of the agencies coordinated. Especially when we have situations like a snowstorm coming. When we have moments like its works force at its finest. Theres great coordination between the city agencies, the men and women are ready to go. I hope tomorrow will go smoothly and people will be safe on the roadways and well get the snow cleared. Ernie we hope so. Lets talk about vision zero. There was an announcement early this week, an update on the situation, trying to keep our city safer. Tell us more about that. I was very proud to stand with the mayor earlier this week and announce in 2015 last year, we had the lowest number of traffic fatalities in the history of new york city. Ernie very good. Very exciting. Thats due to the leadership of the mayor and the work of a bunch of city agencies together on vision zero. Ernie whats making a real difference . I think there are a number of things. Weve been doing engineering in dangerous intersections and doors door corridors, weve lowered the speed limit. Weve been working together. Were seeing results. Ernie good to see positive results. One of the pet peeves everybody traffic, traffic. Its really a terrible situation sometimes when youre stuck with traffic and youre wondering where is this coming from. How are you dealing with congestion, all the construction sites that are going on . Its a challenge. It is a challenge. I certainly hear a lot from my fellow new yorkers about it. The city just put out a report on the for hire vehicle industry and talked about congestion. The big factors, we have the largest population in the citys history, 8. 4 million. We had 58 million tourists last year. Ernie 58 million. That is recordbreaking. Construction projects. The subway ridership is topping 6 million a day. It is a challenge. Were working at d. O. T. To do our best to manage traffic conditions. Were working with the mta on speeding up bus service. The mayor made an historic contribution to the capital investing. People. Ernie if somebody is listening and they have a concern, something i need an answer to or some help, whats the best way for people to deal with that . The quickest is call or email 311. If you want to report something. For new york city d. O. T. , we love to engage on concerns about transportation and streets. Were on social media. You can come to our web site. Love to hear from you. Ernie thank you for joining us. Get your shovel ready. Ill be busy. Come back. A reminder that were going to continue our conversations with next week. Bill bratton will take us inside the nypd tuesday and the challenges they face in 2016. Next week, a look at women making it big in business. Were talking about female billionaires with maya forbes. Butcher and ran through the streets in queens is spared. We tell you where hes going. Were coming right back with that story and more. Keep it here. Behave for uncle pete. Bye, see you guys later. [boys screaming] now Time Warner Cable makes your internet go faster. Up to 300 megs. Are you having fun . Yeah its ok. Its good. Inhome wifi powered by the latest equipment available to cover all your devices. So when you need more from your internet, its there for you. Discover how much more is included. Get 50 meg internet for 39. 99 per month. Call 1855want twc. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in the hudson valley, with world class biotech. And on long island, where great universities are creating next generation technologies. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow, today ernie welcome back. Heres a story a lot of people are talking about. The runaway cow that made a daring escape from a queens slaughterhouse has been granted a new lease on life. The cow will live at an animal sanctuary. A rescue worker heard about the story, rushed to the slaughterhouse in jamaica queens, just in time. We ended up, with the traffic, getting there around 7 10 and they were gone already. So we spent the night in the truck outside and eventually he relented and said i could take the animal. Ernie since the cow was rescued from queens, he was appropriately named freddie after legendary queens singer freddie mercury. Freddie better be ready for all that snow, like the rest of us. Got a new lease on life. What about us . Nick i would have named him ernie i love that movie. It was terrific. Well, listen, weve got the weather on the way. Nick we do. Weve been advertising this all week. Its here. Its going to happen. Well have blizzard conditions tomorrow. It will be rough. Ernie its good its on the weekend. Nick could have been a bigger problem. Youre right. If you can stay home tomorrow, thats the best advice. You dont want to be on the roads when theres almost zero visibility and 40mileanhour winds driving the snow at you or just to be outside and have that hit you as it happens. If you can stay home, thats the best thing to do. 30, 21 today. A colder day than i was thinking. We have a lot of dry air around. That will be the battle this evening is how the snow overtakes the dryer area tomorrow. 38, 27 is average. 61 and 0 in the records. That was back in 1888. Dont worry about the sunrise. You wont see it tomorrow. The air is dry with a 5 degree dew point. 30. 18 and the pressure is high. About 30 most areas today. 31 on the east end. Upper 20s to the north and west. Everybody is pretty much at or below 30. Bridgeport, islip, 30. 28 hudson valley. 29 in newark and the city. And i want to show you these dew point temperatures. The reason i point that out is you saw the temperatures are upper 20s to 30. The dew point is down around 5. Thats a huge margin. We have to get the air to become more saturated before the snow starts falling and reaching the ground. That may take several hours tonight. When you look at the radar, youll see its sort of fighting off that dry air trying to get in here. Heres the northnortheast wind developing. Look at this. Heres fox 5 sky guardian. This has been kind of sitting here not really moving. The question is where is the dryer air battle zone end up . Looks like to the north of new york city with the heaviest snow southwest of new york city. Snowing down to baltimore, washington d. C. And the heavier snow in West Virginia as the storm is showing intensity on the radar. Well watch that transfer its energy here. That storm gets going and heads off to the north and east. Again, put that strong northeasterly wind tomorrow and produces wind gusts of up to 50 miles an hour. We have to deal with the coastal flooding. The snow will be heavy at times, varying rates. What happens with these type of storms, you get the bands set up. Well see that tomorrow. You get another band, you can pick up a burst of three, four inches of snow. 20s to 30 for tomorrow. Temperature not going anywhere. A little sleet or rain briefly could makes in over eastern long island. Im not sure thats going to happen. I think thats a better case along the south jersey shore. Futurecast, notice the northern cutoff. Its tough. Thats the tough part of the forecast. The Faster Movement means by sunday morning, its gone. Well be looking for improvements. Sunday will be a better day. Snowfall totals, eight to 14 inches across the city towards most of the central long island. Less on the east end. Four to eight as you move northward and one to four in the mid hudson valley. Jackpot southwest. 16 to 22 inches there. 18 in the suburbs. Heavy snow, windy tomorrow. There. 30 will be the high. Then well get back to sunshine, 36 sunday. Good days. How about low 40s tuesday. Could be showers tuesday night. That may happen. 40 on wednesday. Seasonally cold and dry weather at the end of the week. Ernie looks like everybody is getting ready. Nick its going to be a tough day to get around tomorrow. We cant emphasize about the coastal flooding. Nights tomorrow evenings high tide. That will be the worst. Ernie theres a new survey on babies and families. My question is all about that. Most americans think that two children is the ideal number for a family. What do you think about that . What do you say . What number would you choose . Your answers are coming up. First, russ is going to join me to talk about a mets star possibly leaving for a rival. Were coming back with that story and more on fox 5 news at that sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Its always worth remembering. That icing the Cinnamon Rolls is a privilege not a right. Unleash the power of dough. Ernie russ is here. Big football weekend and big news in baseball. Mets on the plate. Russ its one of those situations, ernie, like if you read the back pages today, nat mare for the mets. Theyre talking of something with the washington nationals, five years, 100 or so million. That. We said that last season. They werent going for that. The word is the mets have come back. Theyre talking with him maybe for a three year deal but giving him an opt out after one year which might make it more enticing. Then he can become a free agent again. Ernie the mets are in play. He has expressed his feeling he would like to stay on as a met. Russ he said that initially. Its all about staying for the if he would stay, i would be shocked. You never say never. I told you this a long time. Im never going to criticize a team if they dont want to pony up Something Like 100 million for five years. The other thing is this. Why havent everybody else been knocking down his door . Other people might feel the same way. Ernie the money issue. Listen, its always a big factor. Russ listen, its very easy to spend somebody elses money. For all the applause that the yankees have gotten when they won i remember the years ago george steinbrenner, rest in peace, they were criticizing him bad. Cant have it both way. Ernie talk about the cavaliers. Fired their coach. Russ david black gets fired. They win over the clippers. They get fired. Listen, you dont get fired with that kind of record unless you get the blessing to be fired by lebron james. There had to be a disconnect someplace otherwise he wouldnt have been fired. Ernie we have been talking about sports and a lot of stars. The real stash star of the day, russ is a grandfather twice. We have some pictures. This is max. Russ thats max, the first son of my daughter ashley and her husband dave. Ernie what a sweet little boy. How many pounds . Russ seven pounds, 14 ounces. Ernie saw him with the football. Russ little cousin to miles. You know what i was thinking about . Know what that represents . You know this. Its like winning the powerball every day for the rest of my life. Ernie absolutely. Russ am i right . Ernie youve got it. Congratulations. Congratulations. Russ feel free to drop off an envelope. Thats grandchild no. 2 for russ. Tonight i have a question about a survey. How many kids makes an ideal family . Okay. For the soccer team. For the girl scout meeting. How many meetings are you having . p at stop shop, prices are down. Savings are up. Victory lane. Ernie a recent poll finds most americans think that two children is the ideal number for a family. What do you think . I have two children. Obviously thats what i think. Ernie you have two. I have two. I agree with that 100 percent. Ernie is do you think two is a good number . For me personally, three would be too much. I only have one. Ernie thats okay. No excuses. I only think one is enough. Ernie one is enough. I think two is great. Ernie two is a good number . Especially if its a boy and girl. With the economy, less money, if you have a bigger family, its harder to go on vacation. A friend of mine has five kids plus him. Thats seven people. To go on Vacation Costs a lot of money. Ernie what do you think . Well, i have two kids. I would like another one. Ernie you want to go for three. Yes. Ernie why . Because i love having them. Theyre a joy. My husband doesnt want three. He thinks two is the ideal number. Ernie he thinks two. You want three. Whos going to win . He is. Ernie enjoy what youve got. You would like to have two when you start . Yes. Ernie depends on what your wife says. Yes. Ernie she could have a big say. A big say in that. Ernie thanks so much. Have a great day. Thank you. Ernie tell me what you think. Go to my facebook page. Thank you for joining us tonight. Im ernie anastos. For all of us in studio 5 and our control room, big john, give this weekend. Be careful out there with the weather. We look to see you on monday. Have a nice weekend