Well, youve got governors declaring states of emergency in new york, connecticut, and massachusetts, along with rhode island and maine. In boston, the city is the epicenter of two storms which could break bostons alltime snowstorm record of 27. 6 inches. Up and down the northeastern coast, between 1 and 3 feet of snow is expected to fall. Forecasters warned of blizzard conditions including wind gusts of up to 75 Miles Per Hour. This could cause widespread Power Outages this evening. The National Guard was activated in states of connecticut, massachusetts, new york, of course to help with emergency management. The storm comes. Ironically, almost 35 years to the day after the blizzard of 1978. The catastrophic snowfall and heavy winds caused more than a half billion in damage and claimed dozens of lives. As people rushed to stay ahead of the storm, many travelers found themselves stranded. 4,740 flights have been canceled through tomorrow. For more on this, lets go to nbc news correspond
Thats how bad it is. Weve seen a couple accidents. Seen a lot of people getting stuck. Its pretty bad out here if you dont have 4wheel drive, you shouldnt be on the road. It has knocked out power to customers, mainly in massachusetts. Rhode island has the second most outages. Frustrated flyers waking up in airports. Logan airport is closed. So far, airlines canceled 5,300 flights through today. The massive storm as seen from space. Noaa released this photo before the storm ens phied and grew even larger. Lets get the latest from the forecast and snow totals from nbc meteorologist bill karins who had a long night. Good morning to you. Good morning, alex. Wouldnt it be nice if one of the forecasts didnt live up to the forecast and hype . Are we say these storms are coming and they delivered, if not more. Ive seen reports of two feet of snow from new york state, rhode island, connecticut and New Hampshire. And ive seen the latest radar of the storm. East of boston, up in the gulf of mexic
400,000 outages. Rhode island has nearly 173,000 without power. Connecticut more than 38,000 outages. Other states fared a little bit better. Even though new york area airports began receiving flights today, the Ripple Effects across this country, airlines cancelling more than 5300 flights this week. And reporter Jonathan Hall from our nbc affiliate whdh was on the coast in massachusetts as the high tide came in. Reporter the water has definitely come up. Id say a good three or four inches just in the last ten minutes or so. And the National Guard is here on the scene helping people evacuate. No mandatory evacuations at hall, but they are strongly urged. People in lowlying areas, areas that normally flood, are told get out. And now it might be too late. Weve definitely got the high tide flowing in here at hall. Were going to check in with reporters throughout the region today. Nbcs ron allen is in connecticut. Were beginning with nbcs ron mott in prof dend, rhode island. Ron it was pre
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Right now the storm is being blamed for at least five deaths. About 650,000 homes and businesses do not have power right now. Dozens of cars and drivers are still being rescued from the long island expressway in new york. Meanwhile, in plum island, massachusetts, homes are in danger of being swept right into the ocean given the high tide, combined with the howling wind and snow. Bostons mayor along with the governors of new york and connecticut are urging people to stay home. Its clear we still have a lot of work to do. Please stay home so we can allow our crews easy passage to the streets. Stay home, please, unless you have urgent business to be out on the roads. This is going to go on for a number of days. This will not all be done today. No rest for the weary, not even news reporters. I thought i would borrow vickys snowshoes to make this live shot easier. That was a big mistake. So im going to do the rest of this live shot sitting down. We are under two feet of snow. I can show you