mail people by clearing snow and ice from t the driveways and porches. but in new england where the snow is heavier and driving conditions are extremely dangerous, post offices closed early today. new hampshire, maine, and vermont all pulled their drivers off the road today. but amazingly, the post office is expected to be back in full swing tomorrow. on saturday, mail delivery will be back. and it will be back for about seven months. you see, this week the postmaster general announced that starting in august, the post office will break with decades of tradition and will no longer deliver mail on saturdays. the post office has been downsizing for a couple of years now, shutting down locations that didn t add enough to the bottom line. but this is far and away the single most significant contraction of what the post office does. the post office belongs to you. it is a service you get from the government because the constitution says so. the united states constitution proscribes the post
the weather channel s jim cantore who is there with folks in boston who are making the best of wit snow people and dogs. i kind of love that thanks to you for reporting for us tonight. and there is lots more to come, including the amazing shrinking nra. plus, the endangered awesomeness of the postal service. and beyonce versus the universe. stay with us. [ male announcer ] when it comes to the financial obstacles military families face, we understand. our financial advice is geared specifically
massachusetts, rhode island, and connecticut, and a limited state of emergency was declared in maine. in connecticut, the governor banned all non-emergency vehicles from the highways. in massachusetts, all cars were ordered off the roads this afternoon. the archdiocese of boston urged people attending mass on sunday to use caution and prunes. and meteorologists expect this storm to leave behind 1 to 3 feet of snow. when you think of snow and rain and sleet and gloom of night, you think of the post office, right? or rather the post office creed. here in new york, you can see it there. see it? just above the colonnade at the famous james a. farley post office. neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. and for the time being, mail delivery has not been interrupted in new york state, although the postal service is asking people to help out their
tomorrow morning, the last piece of this puzzle will be the coastal areas of massachusetts at about 10:00 a.m. that s the high tide cycle when we expect the storm surge to be at its highest. the wave action to be at its highest. well could have waves 10 to 15 feet right near the coast where we have a storm surge of around 3 to 4 feet. it s not going to be any sandy or anything like that that happened on the jersey shore and long island, but we could see homes with water getting in them or possibly weakening their foundations and fall do you think to the sea. we ll watch that tomorrow morning at sunrise. nbc news mobility bill cairns, thank you very much for that update. and as you just heard, bill mentioned that the area that is expected to get hit hardest from this storm is in fact boston, where there are some models that are predicting nearly 3 feet of snow. the weather channel s jim cantore is live for us from boston tonight. jim, what is the latest? yeah, melissa, we are snowin
joining us now is nbc news meteorologist bill cairns. bill, what is the latest at this hour? well, melissa we are watching this storm maturing, if we want to call it that. it is growing into intensity. now it is becoming a full-fledged blizzard. in the last hour, about 50,000 people have lost power. and we re going to continue to add to that number to the hundreds of thousands throughout the overnight. that s the worst part of this. losing power in the middle of a winter storm when you don t know how long it s going to be until the power crews can a, get through two or three feet of snow to turn your power back on. let me show you a cool image of the storm. this is the imagery i show you during hurricane season. it almost looks like a hurricane. the spinning l is where the center of the storm is, now just south of massachusetts and cape cod. and the way it works is all of the warm air gets sucked into the storm. and on the back side, all the cold air comes in behind it. and that s wh