day policy, tomorrow could be the perfect time for some soup, hot chocolate and a few hours of msnbc. now, here on the radar, you can see from boston to new york city, the snow is beginning to fall and we re going to break down the weather in a moment. but before we do and turn to the simulation map, we re going to get a raw and live look at the state of weather outside new york city. how you doing there? i see you got the hat. reporter: i added the hat. you mentioned a raw look, that s how my face is feeling about now. we ve felt the temperatures plummet, and we re going to feel it plummet even more. it s going to be freezing cold in the morning with about 10 inches of fresh snow. great news if you re a skier, bad news if you re a commuter. so the new york department of sanitation is already sending out about 300 salt spreaders, about 1,000 snowplows on standby. we ve seen residents today going to the stores, they re snapping up their snow shovels, food,
they re snapping up snow shovels, food, water. they want to be prepared. they want to hunker down until this storm is over. officials are saying that s exactly what people should be doing, preparing to stay inside, avoid the roads if at all possible. if you can t, they say be sure to be prepared. tuck a flashlight in your car, food, water, extra clothing, just in case you re stranded. we all remember last february when that fast-moving blizzard swept through and stranded shut down the long island expressway, stranding those cars and all of those drivers. the big word right now is be prepared. this is coming. it is unavoidable. be safe and stay warm. back to you. all right, sarah. thank you. blizzard warnings are in effect for a number of areas. this storm won t be as much about the snow totals as it will be about the wind and biting cold. weather channel meteorologist kelly cass is going to fill us in. thanks, ari. that s right. we re looking at a major winter storm affecting man
the worst winter sernlly lived up to the hype. ice picks, snow shovels and flip-flops were in short supply today, depending on which part of new york people were in. check this out, an eye storm and below-freezing temperatures was in up state new york. alexander, when i left new york, it was cold. we re three days untim christmas and you re in a t-shirt. yeah, rosa, most of the day out here in a t-shirt on december 22nd. something we vnt seen before. the last record was set in 1988. you can see i put on my jacket and a little bit of a damper on an otherwise beautiful weekend. a lot of towerists came to new york hoping they would see some snow.
recovered.& wo the next few days just unimaginable, heartbreaking devastation. sending a lot of prayers to those families overseas for sure. find any way that you can help. every moment and every dollar counts. absolutely. weather headline is an arctic blast sweeping down across a wide swath of the nation. it s already coating areas with ice and snow triggering a pre-thanksgiving weather-proofing scramble. reporter: roads are covered with ice and snow. from the great lakes to pennsylvania and western new york. lake-effec a wide it s time to . just a little bit of snow and we saw quite a bit of salt and a bunch of snow shovels. reporter: alan welk of
everything you can buy at the grocery store, you bring it home and it was all there. a lot of paperwork. people have a huge problem with what to do with paper. the crew begins carefully sifting through the debris room by room. we don t take the snow shovels and just haul the stuff into a trash can. we actually go through everything. we re going through those papers looking for stocks and bonds and photographs and birth certificates and things like that. the removal takes a seven-person crew three days to complete. we left him in really good shape. the cluttering client avoids eviction. and just months after the cleanup, they receive an unexpected call. out of the blue he has a conversation with ron and says, i want to call and thank you for saving my life. shortly after we did that project, he ended up in the hospital. and the reason was because he got a heart transplant. he said, if you had not taken