what better way to bring people together than with music from different generations? gorgeous day, bank holiday weekend, it s amazing. i it s electric, everybody is in a really good mood, it s nice. after what we ve all been through, i think it s magical, to be honest. not many people in the world could get the likes of duran duran, sir rod stewart and diana ross to share the same stage on the same night, it s a testament to how well admired and respected the queen is across the world. this is a line up that music festival bosses would die for, and don t take my word for it. cheering. # babyjane, don t leave me hanging on the line. this party at the palace has been designed to appeal to her majesty s supporters, of all ages. # space man.
frolicking, sledding. tomorrow will be a better one as well. not too cold. we ll see a lot of the snow getting up and out of the way. thankfully a weekend storm. we have a great day to dig out. eric? eric: great day for kids to go sledding. after the whiteout. molly line in plymouth. arthel? arthel: the nor easter leaving nearly 50,000 customers in northeastern massachusetts without power. joining me by phone is a caroline, the spokesperson forever source, new england s largest electric provider. the 48,000 customers, when will they get their power back? well, good afternoon. we ve been working around the clock. we re looking at now having the majority of our customers back by the end of the day tomorrow. the good news we have about 1700 line and tree crews working and as molly mentioned what a difference a day makes because
arthel: clear progress, not too many road challenges facing the crews today? exactly. a big part is working closely with the communities because they re the ones where we need to get to, what roads need to get to certain circuits to restore power in the trouble spots. but those high winds yesterday, we saw gusts of over 80 miles an hour, those brought down a lot of utility polls and trees on to the wires that caused a lot of havoc down here. arthel: what about getting those back up, those downed wires and clearing the roads from the downed trees? that s right. essentially it is like rebuilding the electric system in certain circumstances. the good news what we did was we brought a lot of crews prior to the storm hitting. we flew crews from california, canada, florida, and we gave them our trucks earlier this week. so they could be ready to go. they were on the ground yesterday working. that is why you re able to have everybody up and running with power by end of day
tomorrow. okay. very good to hear. we thank you for your time and your good work there. caroline prettymann from eversource. thank you. eric: united nations security council set to meet tomorrow on the tensions over russian troops amassed at ukraine s border potentially poised for an invasion. the meeting comes as president biden says u.s. troops could soon be on the move into eastern europe as an answer to vladmir putin s push. lucas tomlinson in washington now with more on the latest on this. reporter: that s right, eric. two days after president biden announced he is sending quote, not a lot of american troops to eastern europe nato s secretary-general reiterated today no nato forces would be deploying to ukraine. pentagon press secretary john kirby says if russia invades, sanctions will be unleashed. the thing about sanctions, if you trip that the deterrent effect is lost.
those community hit particularly hard. here is the lieutenant governor karen polito. many restorations have been made, thanks to the utilities. prestaging, having crews available, made the difference to turn on power where they could. reporter: those big wind gusts and the flooding hitting hard here across massachusetts. you can look at some incredible video off nantucket the island. ocean waters surging into the downtown neighbors. you re looking at easy street. thankfully the waters in the downtown area have receded on nantucket island. a few streets are still frozen. the warming center is open at nantucket high school. logan airport, a big jumbled mess. lots of cancellations and lots of delays as well at jfk and laguardia. that is something to clean up in the days ahead. a gorgeous day, a lot of