thanks, tahman. we are getting details about the storm as it blows across the northeast. jim dicky has a live update. good morning, jim. good morning. snow coming down heavily from new york into boston. in the past half-hour, really seeing progress of that surface low. off shore, making its way further off to the east, even as it strengthens, and winds turning now due north. that will bring an end to the heavy snow through the next couple of hours. again, it is brutally cold out there right now. minus 8 in burlington at this hour. at 2 in boston. pretty rare to see temperatures this low with this intense snowfall. with that, this snow is very light, almost pure fluff. so easy to get off the cars. easy to shovel off your driveway. also with gusty winds, those roadways will stay dangerous, even as snow comes to an end. and the snow pulls out to sea as the low moves out by 7:00 a.m. see big-time improvements?
winds touch down they shut down the historic brooklyn bridge and just about every bridge and tunnel coming in to manhattan. off shore, lady liberty s torch has been extinguished. power outages spread across town. a small explosion hitting a con edison plant. there are 375,000 people who live in the evacuation zones in low-lying areas prone to flooding. we are just about a minute from high tide. this is not good. how far we have come in one year and how far we have to go for some people who are still not in their homes. it is absolutely incredible. a lot of the coverage you see there. ginger was the one in atlantic city. what was hit, we were all hit hard. but the jersey shore got a pounding. staten island really bad. incredibly media outlets didn t realize that was happening until the next day and we went back and the rain and the storm was still there. and then we saw that craziness. hard to believe. 365 days ago. still have a long ways to go. craziness.
extremely unlikely. still, taking no chances, the pentagon confirmed that the u.s.-guided missile destroy has been rerouted from the pacific ocean and is heading this way. the mccain has been here before back in december and is most likely meant to monitor activity from off shore, especially any future missile tests which are expected now to be launched by north koreans. betty, back to you. effort of taking no chances. jim maceda in south korea. courthouses across texas are on alert as the investigation into who killed a texas district attorney and his wife is now focusing on a white supremacist prison gang. a law enforcement bulletin last december warned gang members might try to attack police or prosecutors. kaufman county, d.a. mike mc mclelland and his wife were found killed. the murder of the county s
it does matter. it demonstrates clearly why having a mainstream media that is behaving as lap dogs rather than independent chroniclers and applying critical judgment can alter the outcomes in elections, this is what happens because this is a misrepresentation of a huge order on the part of the administration. now, is this president touting all of the above, energy as his position on energy. megyn: that he favors all of the above. he doesn t. tactful as a matter of fact we ve seen production on shore, off shore, gas or oil declined by 40 to 50% during the the course of his administration. i repeat declined by 40 to 50%. looking at permits, looking at production from federal lands on shore and off shore again. megyn: they can make it a lot harder for you and slow you way down. and they ve cut by just
this until the the cotton s picked and the beans and the kernels are counted. smart phones make calls, send e-mails and now you can set them to stun. it is going too far? hello, everyone, i m poppy harlow in tonight for don lemon. let s get you up to speed on the day r day s biggest stories. in syria, a senior government official with 34 years of service now says he s on the side of the rebel uprising. he was syria s ambassador to iraq, and he s the highest ranking diplomat to defect. he says he can t be part of a dictatorship any longer. you ll hear him his in his own words in just a moment. plus, i just spoke with the long-time american ambassador to syria. his reaction, our conversation coming up. an egyptian official says two americans kidnapped on the sinai peninsula are unharmed and well fed. their families want to know when they will be freed. the son of the reverend michel louis spoke to randi kaye about how the ordeal is taking a toll on the pastor s wife. it