otherwise. we were out in one of the coldest nights when the temperature was about 6 or 8 degrees. we had buses out. we had almost 400 people came. it s heartbreaking. it is. what do you thing about the grief the new mayor of new york city bill de blasio is getting for keeping schools in the five boroughs open today? once again an affirmation, these jobs, no matter what you do, you ll get criticism from somebody. you shut the schools in d.c. today. i did. we shut the schools down because we erred on the side of caution. i think mayor de blasio made a good point with the fact that there are kids who otherwise might not get a meal or a full meal, a nutritional meal if they don t go to school. you re making judgment calls at every step of the way. we made the judgment call to shut down the skooms just erring on the side of caution. that s your decision, you as mayor, you make that decision. tomorrow it s a professional day, but the charter schools you re keeping open. that
know they have to hunker down and let the snow plows go to work and don t go to school. we have to just i don t know. play cheesy today, i guess, right? you re working hard out there. nice to see you, lori. new york public schools now just cancelling school today so boston and new york. massachusetts where we have been talking to a lot of folks this morning is among the hardest hit areas by this powerful winter storm. joining us is kevin morley, the barnes stable county director of emergency management. thanks so much. we know you re busy this morning so we appreciate you taking a few minutes with us. thanks very much. one quick correction on the public information officer, i m not the director and that would get me in trouble. we just gave you a promotion this morning! well, okay. thank you for that. what are the conditions like for on you on the ground in the cape cod areas? your report is in chatham and that is about 12 miles from where i am. we have the blowing snow.
police. they re saying that 60% of the search is done. they re saying that. in the watertown area? they re saying boston police here s the tweet 60% of the search is done but there s still more work to be done. boston police department referring to the massachusetts police department. again, that s just a tweet. which suggests this lockdown in the city asking everyone to stay put, don t use public transportation, don t go to school, don t go to that situation. you know what, we re getting live pictures coming in now. this is the home of the uncle of these two suspects. the uncle s name ruslan tsarni. he probably shortened it from the russian original tsarnaev, probably shortened to tsarni. there you see the uncle walking outside the home. i don t know if that uncle s going to come to the microphone, speak out. as you know, erin, he did speak out extensively a couple hours or so ago and made a very passionate statement
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our families to eat and commute. this is absolutely crazy. what they really should be doing is handling these protests in a nice sane way and say we need more representation in washington, d.c. but, that is not what they re all about. they want to disrupt businesses and people s lives. my take it is probably going to fizzle out pretty soon. martha: the slogan as you point out, the message they are putting out there today, don t go to work, don t go to school, don t bank and don t shop. i mean, i don t know how that will resonate with a large group of americans who have to do all those things just to basically get through the day of the as you point out, when they were moved out of the tent cities in lower manhattan the idea was to kind of take a break, regroup and come back in a way that would work better for them. right. martha: and that s the question as to whether we hear they will be fired up all through the summer. we ll get an indication today. right after that, towards end