Highways even commuter trains. Good evening, im kendra kostelecky. Thanks for joining us here tonight. The blizzard of 2016 is here. And its already creating a massive mess. There have already been 18 storm related deaths. States of emergency declared by several east coast states. And the snow is still coming down. Abcs karla barguia rena is in new york city with the latest. No hype here . The blizzard of 2016 hitting hard . Nats new york city nearly doubling its expected snow totals . Officials forced to ban travel on streets, highways, bridges and commuter rails . Even some of the citys subway system frozen. Sot mayor bill de blasio new york city if you have taken your car out for any reason, turn around and go home right now. In West Virginia white out conditions nearly snow buried Police Cruisers . The National Guard sending in soldiers to travel by air crippled . No planes going in or out of new york, washington or philadelphia. Instead, equipment lined up to clear the nats people
And already in some spots traffic is a mess. We cant get anywhere. People are running across the street super sfast fast like weaving around cars, and then even at green lights we cant move. Oh, my gosh. It took me like an hour going around trying to figure out where im going to find a parking place. Road closures include part of Market Street near the ferry building, which is being transformed into super bowl city. We found frustrated drivers blocking crosswalks and intersections. Some running red lights. We waited for, like, three green lights to turn, finally. This video from sky 7 hd shows traffic earlier in the day. Another large event, the walk for life brought out thousands who marched to Justin Herman plaza. Ziggys burgers is stocking up on restaurant supplies. The owner is unsure if delivery trucks will be able to make it there the next few weeks. This is zoo know, because you have to cross Market Street. Its very hard. The other way maybe drive 20 minutes to get here. Make a
It is being blamed for at least 20 deaths. These are lives pictures of times square where they have work to do on the roadways. One of new yorks busiest places, thousands have been affected by the storm. Lets go to meteorologist mark collins for a look at our local forecast. Is there any hope for a warmup. There is especially after coming off of freezing temperatures. We have the sunshine across the area but even though it is sunny, there is some bite in the air. It was a massive storm taking up basically the one right side of the country. The whole half of the country and the clouds have moved off the eastern seaboard and looking from sunshine from maine to florida. That high is getting closer and the winds have dropped off but we are cooler than this time yesterday. But we have certainly made we were dealing with freezing temperatures in brooksville and inverness and the coastal hills and 54 in breadenton and 52 in st. Pete. 57 is what we will have with sunshine. It will be a cool da
St. Pete mayor Rick Kriseman is laying out his vision for 2016. During todays stateofthecity ing st. Pete player Rick Kriseman is laying out his plan for 2016. He describes st. Pete as strong and sunny but didnt hesitate to point out its flaws. The number one issue involving st. Pete is gun violence, city hopes an 800,000 investment towards youth involvement will help. He plans to launch a baseball forever campaign, his goal is to pete even if they build a new ballpark. The current site reimagined and redeveloped is the best place for a new stared yum. The bottom line is this is a win win and i can assure you, st. Petersburg will come out on top. If the team decides to move, they will make use of the land. They plan to raise money for youth programs. A journey under the sea, shipwreck treasures of the deep at the st. Petersburg museum of history comes use sw in time for gasparilla. Youll travel thousands of feet below the surface, and the iconic bell willing be on display, never seen b
You know, biegel is the personality we talked about schobert who is an outstanding outside linebacker on the other si side. Kind of a little bit more low key, but my man can throw it down when its a slam dunk contest. Chris that was crazy. Harris. Again. Chased in the backfield. Kirk this is Football Team has a slam dunk contest and outside linebacker said, hey, i can handle this. Chris i love the reaction from the team. Lets say they maybe didnt expect to see that from joe . Fair to say . Kirk how many outside linebackers can do that . Chris not that many guys in College Basketball can do that. Kirk that was pretty. 62. Chris hes only 62, yeah. Hes got to get 236 pounds in the air to do that, too. Well, we talked about College Gameday location and that big game, oregon Michigan State, top ten battle on abc in east lansing. Notre dame with some momentum off this performance, goes on the road against virginia. What do you make of the oklahoma tennessee game. You like both of those teams