with strong winds and poor visibility are likely. this will lead to whiteout conditions making travel extremely dangerous. they said do not travel. new york city might get up to a foot of snow and as we said, the new mayor is facing his first big test after less than 48 hours in office. richard qwest is breathing the streets live and our role in coverage vehicle joins us now. where are you ruling? we are rolling down seventh avenue and that is times square at the end, which of course, there was the best part of 1 million people just 48 hours ago. as we stop here of these lights, you can start to see the emergency vehicles which are now peppering new york. there are some 1700 snow plows out and about in the city at the moment.
calling of schools two days in advance and the mayor offered sounded by said of the storm. take precautions and take public transportation. take care of one another. our team is ready, we have been through this before and we will get through this storm and public works is ready to do their work. the public seems to be cooperating. boston is trying to plow the streets but they cannot keep up and many people off the streets. live from boston. we want to show you how bad the dress can get. if we come over here this is a place where the snow plow actually went through a couple of minutes ago. it is quite smooth but then when we walk over to this side of the road the winds are blowing heavily. you can tell how it comes up and the snow was higher on this side because it has been blown by the wind.
clinton faithful their relationship with him may inoculate them. reporter: laguardia once said, there s no democrat or republican way of cleaning the streets. one analyst suggests the snowstorm might test that philosophy. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. so take a peek at some of the worst nor easters on record. remember superstorm sandy? it hit in october 2012. sandy was a hurricane that morphed into a nor easter as it moved up the eastern seaboard of the u.s. the storm was blamed for 117 deaths in the u.s., 69 more in canada and the caribbean. 1993 storm of the century stretched from canada all the way to central america, dumping snow, causing tornadoes and eastern hurricane-force winds in some places. in 1991, the so-called perfect storm blasted the u.s. east coast. it killed more than a dozen
how cold is it for you? good morning. the story, i think, is the cold. the colder temperatures. we have several inches of snow on the ground and as you can see, it blows the snow around. they can be occasional wind gusts which necessitate the blizzard warning. it is about how frigid it feels. in many cases these are temperatures people have not felt in many years and that is across many different states affected by the storm. that is why this storm bills different from so many others. that is why it is harder for so many of the road crews and the officials who are trying to keep up with the storm. behind this is the long island expressway. nothing out there because it is officially shut down. that went into effect midnight local time and will stay in effect for several more hours. the highway was shut down so the
communities that will have to do that. certainly there are some that will be suffering from the snow especially in the outlying areas. not in the city where we re seeing more snowfall and those places are harder to reach for things like snowplows as well. thank you. in boston for us. thanks. in new york state the governor has declared a state of emergency and authorities are warning people to stay off the roads. albany expecting as much as 18 inches with wind chills of 15 to 20 below. new york city could get anywhere from 6-12 inches of snow. it would be the first test for the new mayor who was sworn and just wednesday. to the east of new york city, long island is under a blizzard warning until friday afternoon. that is where will he is breathing ailments.