as the amount of snow, the coverage of snow, the number of states that got 30 inches of snow now includes new york state, connecticut, down through new hampshire, maine, and massachusetts. it s just incredible that it s that widespread. that s the rarity in this one. absolutely. you know i love what you re saying about being a good neighbor. i want to actually applaud governor cuomo who s sending all the resources needed to suffolk county. that s been really hard hit. he s also helping out our neighbors in massachusetts and connecticut. he s sending snowplows, utility crews to the really hard-hit areas. that s called being a good neighbor. are going to do the same for us. reporter: there are towns with 80 to 90% of the people without power. these people have to get out of there. go to hotels or somewhere else in different portions of the state. the only way to do that is to clear the roads. they got to do it in a hurry. they sure do. thank you so much. let s go now to connectic
into trucks and haul it out to designated areas that we have ready. hopefully just continue the clean up effort. mayor pedro segarra of hartford, connecticut. good luck to you, sir, as you get through it all. thanks so much. coming up the next big three, president obama s drone program under scrutiny. would democrats be tougher if it was a republican president? , bl? yes! one phillips colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues. with three strains of good bacteria. [ phillips lady ] live the regular life. phillips . [ phillips lady ] live the regular life. how do you keep an older car running like new? you ask a ford customer. when they tell you that you need your oil changed you got to bring it in. if your tires need to be rotated, you have to get that done as well. jackie, tell me why somebody should bring they re car here to the ford dealership for service instead of any one of those other places out there. they are going to take care of
with this question, todd, when will things return to normal? reporter: hey there, alex. it may take awhile for many areas. because this is coming into saturday they ve had time to work at clearing the roadways. awe yoengsed we re still dealing with a lot of areas of snowfall. monday we should have chance of rain in and around above the boston. that may help melt things quickly. the system is starting to move away from the coast. not out of the woods for cape cod. i wanted to mention some of the five boroughs. snowfall totals between 5 and 10 inches. laguardia over a foot there. starting to get things back to normal in airport. bradley connecticut not expected to open until 6:00 tonight as far as maybe getting traffic out. boston may take until late tonight before they get things moving again. there s a look at isolated snowfall totals. millford, connecticut 38 inches. a huge area of 2 foot plus
reporter: it s cold, alex, and it s windy. but it has stopped snowing. it stopped about 9:00 in the morning. cleanup has begun already in this city about 70 middle east northeast of new york city. we have more snow than a lot of people have seen in their floois one time. some of the veteran plow drivers have come by. they say this is worse than the blizzard of 1978. but that was so long ago. it really doesn t matter. this is bad enough. we have thousands of people in connecticut without power. i m trying to show you a man who s piling up snow, snow banking i call it, in order to get a gas station open here. so many people without power in connecticut, the bulk of them live in the area between the connecticut casinos and long island sound. i know the governor of connecticut is headed down that way to check out one of the shelters. dannel malloy has issued a travel ban, ordered people off all the streets large and small in connecticut so that plows like this one and the big plows that
city. areas of connecticut had 2 1/2 to 3 feet of snow. it will be awhile before they re cleared out. the airports are open here. but again flights are limited. you hope to get everything back into schedule as we head into this afternoon and into your sunday. alex? paul goodloe,safe getting down from that little pile there. appreciate it. we re going have much more coverage of this historic nor easter coming up. we ll give you a report on the travel ripple effect this storm is having even across the world. now to politics, today first lady michelle obama is attending the funeral in chicago for hidea pendleton. the 15-year-old honor student shot and killed last week just about a mile from the obama s family home. she participated in inaugural events just a week earlier. meantime in his weekly address today, the president is warning the economy will get hit hard if automatic spending cuts scheduled for next month aren t delayed. the results could be a huge blow to middle class fa