Mayor bill de blasio of new york is expected to lay out the winter storm plans for his city in about 30 minutes. The nice room starts right now. Hello again, and youre about to see some live pictures from boston. Take a look right now, and new york, it looks so placid and gorgeous but this just might be the calm before the storm. A major blizzard hit an area all the way to maine. Now a onetwo punch, authorities warn another powerful worn some places could see up to two feet of snow Hurricane Force winds are expected along the coast. Widespread Power Outages and there is coastal flooding to deal. Airlines are already offering passengers the chance to change their flights for year. Mayor bill de blasio holding that press conference in about to minutes. Ivan cabrera is trafficking this new storm us. Here we go again. Here we go again, if we categorized winter storms the way we go hurricanes this past weekend storm would have been a cat 1, this one is a cat 5. This is the kind of storm wer
Historic and catastrophic describing the storm. Worst case, snowfall amounts could range from 2 to 3 feet from boston to new york. It is not just the snow here. The winds could be devastating. The new york city mayor bill de blasio warns the forecast to blow in tonight could break records. This literally could be one of the top two or three largest storms in the history of this city and we need to plan accordingly. You know they are planning. Cities around the northeast and midwest have been on this for days. Columbus, ohio, put 70 to 80 plows on the roads. The Pennsylvania Department of transportation will have 400 trucks out in the philadelphia area plowing and salting their way through this epic storm. Epic. Lets bring in meteorologist Pedram Javaheri for the potentially devastating storm. There is a lot of snow. The winds, the winds are what make this dangerous, i think. Absolutely. The winds make it dangerous. We think the winds could be 40 to 50 miles an hour tuesday and wednesda
That is kind of the bottom line. Im going to tell everyone from southern new england, new york city, eastern portions of new jersey and all coast, stay off the roads starting by about 6 00 p. M. Today. Some of the roads will start getting closed, be prepared for that. Bridges, tunnels, they want people off the roads. We dont want people getting stuck and having snowmobiler rescues out in the worst of the storm. We have to think of the elderly and people by themselves. People have to be prepared for 60 hours in their houses snowed in with a possibility of no power and a very cold house. People you worry about, 29 Million People under the blizzard warnings. You have to figure at least a couple hundred of women have to be pregnant near full term who are nervous about this situation. Unfortunately, like a lot of the major storms well have people stuck in their houses dealing with situations like that. So heres the warnings. The actual areas of greatest concern are the blizzard warnings. Th
Island. Thats where i live. Those places still bruised by super storm sandy. Chris, im happy to see youre safe. I know had you a heck of a time getting to boston so. I hope youll share your odyssey, the pictures of the journey you took. Many in new york and new jersey are calling the blizzard a bust. How did the forecasters get it so wrong here . Well examine the two different forecasting systems, the european and the u. S. And figure out which one was right. Well have that for everyone. Chris. Alisyn weve got new york and new jersey covered between the two of us. Still, we saw, heard and felt things in the northeast that will stay with us for a lifetime. Here is a taste of everything from the most severe to the sublime. The sound of a blizzard. Hurricaneforce winds, 78 Miles Per Hour in nantucket. The site of storm surge breaching a seawall. Along the Southern Coast of massachusetts. Roads like sled paths. Drivers crawling through a whiteout near boston. This is new england, buried by
Drivers have been stranded now for hours. And further south in kentucky parts of interstate 75 are iced over creating a backup of 35 miles. Some drivers were forced to spend the night in their own cars and their trucks without food, without water. It is gridlock. Lets get more on some of the worst hardhit areas. Cnn meteorologist allyson chinchar joining me in the cnn weather center. Lets begin in kentucky where you have a 35 mile backup. Youre talking about people who have been spending the night in their cars, no food, no water. Give us the latest on whats expected there. Thats right. Theyve already had parts in kentucky over a foot of snow, especially in the eastern portion of the state where theyve had some of the highest totals. You go farther east of that. Virginia, over two feet of snow just near the Dulles International airport. Theyve had a report of 23 inches. Again, thats obvious right there. Why theyve had so many flight delays and Flight Cancellations not just at dulles, b