Public schools shutdown in new york city boston philadelphia. Mayors and governors across the area warning people to stay off the roads and stay home. Safety first. Your life matters the most and your health and safety matters the most. So the smart thing is to stay back. Any employer whose treating employees the wrong way will certainly have something to say about this. That is not a time for employers to be cheapskates. Whiteout conditions and treacherous roads will make driving anywhere extremely dangerous. I cant stress this part enough. Please stay off the roads. This has been going on for hours already. There are hours still to come. I want to bring in meteorologist derek van dam tracking this storm for us. Derek, where are we . John the storm has eerie characteristics of a hurricane. Stretching from new england and maine and long island into new york city as well. It is just we are on the outer periphery of the heavy snow bands. It is working toward connecticut and eastern secti
This huge dangerous historic blizzard of 2015 is fully underway across the northeast. Freezing temperatures snowfall amounts over 2 feet in some areas. Winds gusting up to 70 Miles Per Hour. Here where im standing about 7 inches of snow so far. The wind gusts bad. Very uncomfortable. The roads, no one is out. The roads are empty. The plows are doing their jobs. A few Lonely People on the sidewalks. As many as 58 Million People in a dozen States Affected by this storm. Widespread travel bans with Public Transportation shutdown. Only emergency vehicles allowed on streets in places. Airlines have canceled close to 8,000 flights. Hundreds more canceled tomorrow. Students will have a snow day. Many if not most Public Schools shutdown today. In new york city boston philadelphia many other cities. Mayors and governors across the area are warning people to stay off the roads. Stay at home no matter what. Safety first. Your life matters the most and your health and safety matters the most. So t
Surging in a new poll this morning. The cnn republican president ial debate just two days away. How the candidates are preparing. California on fire. Hundreds of homes burned down. Thousands evacuated as these flames turn deadly. Europes migrant crisis. Germany at its limit enforcing border control. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im alison kosik. Its monday, september 14th. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Republican candidates are sharpening their attacks for the wednesday night debate. With the abc news poll showing donald trump expanding his lead and ben carson in second place. All candidates who are stuck in Single Digits are scrambling to device an effective strategy. Rand paul saying someone has to bring trump down. Republican chairman Reince Priebus talking to jake tapper to expect to referee a rough game. You know what . Every candidate and all of these campaigns will do whatever they need to do in order to benefit their own campaigns and there will be
Is speaking out about what may happen when the kentucky clerk reports back to work tomorrow. Will she continue to deny marriage licenses to samesex couples . Well hear from her counsel. First, were just three days away from the republican debate. Our john berman is in simi valley, california, where the stage is set. The candidates will be doing their walkthroughs in the upcoming days. John. Good afternoon, fredricka. This is such a beautiful location for such a pivotal moment. Call it a republican garden party, but not nearly as gentile because what happens here in just three days, it could change the course of this campaign. All the polls right now have donald trump out in front by a lot. 32 in the latest cnn orc national poll. Ben carson has surged into second place. Now, just one of the Big Questions for the debate here is which donald trump will we see . Throwing bombs, throwing smiles, or both . Trump, ben carson, marco rubiru they were out campaigning this weekend. So many were.
Weekend. Cnns chris welch is live in new york city. What are people thinking and feeling . Reporter well, fred, a couple of weeks ago there was a lot of people voicing concern they might not be able to get out and show pride and celebrate two weeks after what happened in orlando. Take a look behind me right now. Were in the heart of new york citys west village. Here you can see there are members here from new York City Council walking down. You just mentioned Hillary Clinton, shes just a few blocks away from us where we are right now. Obviously the crowds are huge, the mayor had predicted we could see more than last years record numbers of 1. 6 million, they do expect that to be even greater this address the issue whether or not heres what he told us earlier. I think it is an act of defiance on one level to come out and say we stand by our values, ininclusion and love and tolerance and were standing up loud and proud and saying it embraces all people. I think theres a somber feeling ob