it is quiet, quiet, quiet. it s not just here in new york city. we have reporters around the northeast covering this for you. i want to take you up and down the coast right now. i m going to take you first to blake mccoy. blake, what is it like out there? reporter: we are further inland. we are getting socked with snow. this is ridgewood, new jersey about an hour, 40 minutes rather, north of new york city. look how heavy the snow is coming down. i have been out here since 4:00 a.m. earlier, it was blowing, drifting snow. it s turned to wet, heavy snow, still blowing at us. believe it or not, these are road that is have been plowed. hasn t done much good but we have seen plows come through about every hour or so to keep the roads clear. thankfully, people are heeding the warnings to stay home. sometimes in the snowstorms we see kids out throwing snowballs and with sleds. not with this storm.
people have been stocking up on food and supplies. authorities are warning people to stay inside to make sure they don t go out unless it s an emergency. stephanie? i mean, look at this for a minute. boom. this is new york city in the middle of march. if you don t think this is enough, 170 miles north to worcester, mass where miguel is standing by. 18-24 inches, that s a big day in boston. reporter: absolutely. they are bracing for a record day in boston. light snowfall in the area. the bad news, they are certainly bracing for steady snowfall, up to two to four inches an hour as we get into the peak of the storm, which is expected to hit over the next few hours and coming down all day and all night. again, up to 24 inches in parts of boston. 16 in worcester. 12 inches over in boston. we are expecting this storm to whip through the area.
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welcome back to new york city everyone. i am on columbus circle right at the edge of central park. and what this morning was a very blustery and snowy blizzard-like city, but now the temperature s 34 degrees so it s become a bonified rainstorm, sleet storm, rainstorm, very uncomfortable. and here s a strange statistic that turns out to be true. new york city s experiencing a shortage in snow boots. go figure. apparently all of the merchandisers really didn t predict we were going to have this many storms sequentially, one after the other. my thought is jersey s probably experienced a lot of stress as well when it comes to that state of emergency in this state, state of emergency in new jersey as well. and now we can say ten people have died as a result of this storm in the united states going up and down the eastern seaboard. in north carolina, two deaths can be attributed to this storm. so, listen, it is a dangerous storm no matter where you are.
view, everything covered in white here. we haven t seen a lot of people outside. i think most people are heeding the warnings of the authorities, staying indoors. what we see is what you see behind me, people coming out with their dogs or playing in the snow. trying to stay off the roads. that s very important because it is still the storm causing major problems on the roads. governor cuomo declared a state of emergency for this area specifically although he said that at this point they have no plans to close the highways. but people, they are telling people to please just if you do not have to drive, do not use your cars and use mass transit. they are running with delays of course. the buses and the trains. but you will be much better off if you do that. they have seen a few accidents already on the roads in this area, but fortunately with no serious injuries. another problem for the plows we have a full crew of plows out here, about 75 to 80 trucks with