and it s going to keep coming down for quite a while out here in new jersey, cal. it s finding to be a long day for nbc s blake mccoy. thank you for getting up with us early. and joining us from philadelphia, nbc news correspondent morgan radford, where they are expecting six to ten inches of snow. morgan, this is a battle of who s got the worst live shot this morning. is it you? reporter: tell blake i think i win. stephanie, good morning. we are out here in philadelphia, you can already see the snow and mixing in with hail and sleet. it s coming down pretty hard here. we are currently under a snow emergency in philadelphia. there s a blizzard warning just north and west of the city. experts are saying this is a dangerous and a life-threatening storm, possibly a record-breaking late winter storm. something we haven t seen of this magnitude in this area since the late 19th century. the reality is that for those trying to go to work today, experts say you shouldn t leave unless it
there. morgan ratford, thank you. you can hear the sleet there. in ridgewood, new jersey, our nbc s blake mccoy is there. a lot of the talk was the storm will move so fast, people won t have time to plow. is that what you re seeing? reporter: well, we have just seen our first plows go by. i can show you here, the road is pretty smooth here through downtown ridgewood. these are the first plows to go by on the side streets. i drove here on the highway this morning, and they were plowing the highways. i still passed a jackknifed semi truck and cars were going very, very slowly. so it s very dangerous to be on the roads right now. and we are only talking about, i would say, three to four inches of snow so far here in ridgewood, new jersey. so as the morning goes on, it s going to be much, much more dangerous. on top of that, morgan was saying, you know the snow is sticking there, it s right near 32 degrees. here in northern new jersey, we are in the 20s, about 25. this snow is not goin
that s not going to be the case here in new jersey. that s a goodhing that school is canceled and businesses are closed. as i mentioned in the last half hour, trains are running on the weekend schedule. i don t imagine many people will be trying to get into the city today, though. a lot of people commute into manhattan. i don t think that is happening today, guys. it s a good excuse to stay home. blake, thank you, sir. we ll turn to the other big story, health care. a study by the congressional budget office is making republicans look at the number of people who will be uninsured by 2020. the cbo also found the substantial impact on the federal deficit. a reduction of $337 billion by 2026 compared to the smaller reduction of $124 billion by 2019 under obamacare. the stark net change in the deficit will come through limiting medicaid spending and ending the affordable care act
around 10:30 a.m. it s expected to open back up at 11:00 this morning. miami international airport closed at noon yesterday. airport officials there say operations are expected to gradually resume today. let s go to ft. lauderdale, shall we, to get the latest there on the ground is nbc news correspondent blake mccoy. what are you seeing there, blake? reporter: well, betty, good morning. the reason the airport here is reopening this morning at 11:00 is because conditions have improved dramatically from where they were last night. the storm was not as bad here as we were expecting, in fact, the last tropical storm warning has now been lifted for ft. lauderdale, so miami and ft. lauderdale at this point are in the clear as that storm has made its way up. the mayor here says there has been very minimal damage, because the eye of the hurricane ended up staying about 100 miles offshore from ft. lauderdale, so while we did see outer bands bring wind and rain, the most severe stayed offshore
in the central coast of florida. so this morning they are working to restore power to about 11,000 people, but the airports are reopening and we re told that it s going to be start looking like business as usual in south florida as focus now turns to the north. betty? looks like you guys definitely dodged a bullet in miami and ft. lauderdale. blake mccoy, thank you, blake. betty, there s another big story popping up this morning, being malaysia confirmed debris found came from the missing flight 370. more on that. also more coverage as hurricane matthew begins to make its way up the southeastern coast. back in a moment. when i started designing a bronx tale: the musical, i came up. .with this idea of four towers that we fire escapes. .essentially. i ll build a little model in photoshop and add these. .details in with a pen. i could never do that with a mac. i feel like my job is. .to put out there just enough detail to spur the audiences. .imagination to fill in all the blanks.