of electronic timing. but that record has divided opinions, with some suggesting she was helped by a faulty wind gauge. you re listening to the dialogue. so, you re listening to television. you re hearing person saying, but that can t be legal. - that can t be legal- because the wind was there. and, you know, the long jump on the parallel, you know, - they were having a wind aided jump. how does the long jump, - which is parallel to the track, have a wind aided jump, and yet still, she s- getting a legal jump? so obviously, that line l of conversation was very strong in our minds, my mind as well. . and, you know, it was - always very questionable. it was a blustery afternoon but the wind reading for flo jo s 100m race read 0.0. whilst on the triple jump runway nearby, a different meter read 4.3 metres per second over twice the legal limit. if anybody ever looked at the picture, her hair is blowing across her face,
near 80 miles per hour. and it looks like our data stopped. we lost power to it or the anemometer, the wind gauge busted. not a storm to be fooling around with in eastern new england. that s kind of what we expected the rest of the northeast, you kind of start to resume their day. yeah, absolutely, and everyone be careful on the roads. i got to say, i made my way to west chester, the roads are not plowed yet. and it s constantly coming down, if they were plowed you couldn t tell. thank you so much, good to to see you my friend. take care, be safe. as we bring you a live look at providence, rhode island, a blizzard warning in effect. all non-emergency road travel is banned there. by the way, if you re flying today, know this, most of the flights in and out of the airport around boston, are cancelled. other service has been cancelled
cancel culture so much why are they encouraging it across the country? but first richard lui here with the headlines. the latest on that nor easter. blizzard warnings still issued all the way from new jersey to maine at this moment. 2 1/2 feet of snow hitting some areas in the northeast. massachusetts hardest hit, over 88,000 people right now without power. let s go to nbc s chris pollone who is in boston. chris, we spoke an hour ago, and we re not necessarily the best at math sometimes, but that number is lower than we spoke an hour ago. yeah, that s right. under 90,000, and richard you might be able to hear there s a wind gauge here on long wharf that is blowing pretty hard right now. this wind is expected to continue into tomorrow. and even from an hour ago when we last spoke, the temperature has definitely dropped. so that is not great news for people who get their heat through electricity, who do not have power tonight. so the power crews have made
you might be able to hear there s a wind gauge here on long wharf that is blowing pretty hard right now. this wind is expected to continue into tomorrow. and even from an hour ago when we last spoke, the temperature has definitely dropped. so, that is not great news for people who get their heat through electricity who do not have power tonight. so, the power crews have made progress. they have brought that number down from a peak of about 120,000 customers without power. most of those people are on cape cod and on the south shore of massachusetts heading down towards cape cod. but there are scattered outages. the governor of massachusetts thanked people for staying off the roads. he wants them to stay off until tomorrow morning so these plows can clean up the roads, get the place ready for school and work on monday. saving grace. this is the weekend. chris pallone in boston for us. thank you so much. more ayman with ayman mohyeldin right after this break. ayman w ayman w right after
it is a decent threat, too. talk about the mechanics of the tidal measurements. among the many alerts that i have read, i can t pinpoint in my mind the last five hours i have been anchoring here where this one came from. there was a wind gauge in louisiana, it measured 148 miles per hour and it broke the measuring device. that wasn t even at full strength. it is rare that most can measure up to that point. we usually lose a lot of these meters when they get up to 80, 90, 100. rare ones survive up to 100. 148, all right, we are good on that one. let s go now to al roker. al joins us once again from new orleans. we see you in the top right corner of our screen. al, your bants are blowing in the wind. it has picked up. you have got the hang on. talk about the wind gusts and the rain that you are seeing there. well, it kind of comes and