Asking is it better safe than sorry, and did the officials overreact here, and shutting down the subways and forcing the businesses shutdown costing untold millions . Is that the price you pay with the weather . That is some of the questions we will be asking tonight pr boston to maine. But i want to e begin ginbegin in boston where this snow has begun in what is the snowiest january already, and i want to go to Brooke Baldwin who is doing a yeomans job out there. And what is the latest are the there, brook . Well yes. And as i walk through here, don, to the understood score how deep this snow is we are houring away from finding out whether or not it is recordbreaking for t the history of the city of boston. Let me show you what we are talk g talking about. The number that everyone is watching for and thaey wont know for a couple of days is 27. 5 inches which is the total from 2003 and that is the massive blizzard of 2003, and we had sort of the measure, and here we go the one that was wholly created here, and it is de depending where you are, and with were talking to the mayor of boston marty wallsh, and he said 21 to 24 mchs ss ss ss inches here but they rare expecting it to fall from 1 00 to 2 00 in the morning, so we will see if it is a historic snowfall for the city of boston, but a couple of footnotes, it is a total standstill here. This is one Boston Harbor there, and faneuil hall there, and nobody is out, because it is illegal, but it is about to change in two hours. They will be lifting that statewide travel ban, but if you are getting on the road be careful, go slow and one other note maybe if you are one of the unlucky with ones who have to go to work tomorrow the t will be working, and the mbta is up and at them but slow going, because it is a lot of snow and hard to believe, don, there could be more of this stuff in the morning when we wake up. Back to you in new york. Brooke saying that mass transit is open, is like telling the kid a that i have to go back to school, and that is not what you want to hear. And it is much colder there than in new york city, and the temperature there as well . It is so cold. I am a georgia girl and the farthest north i have lived is washington, d. C. Until last summer when i lived in new york, and i feel like im getting the whole indoctrination into cold and i not it is not going to be hitting freezing for one week don. Bundle up. And have you heard of my h fatalities . I haventk actually in this area. One of the big issues here that they are worried about is power outage, and i talked to the power commissioner here, and because the snow is light and fluffy, it is a god send because it is not affecting the power lines and the trees. They have not had any massive fires. Only a couple of fires in the overnight hours. And one huge concern, and this is not just boston, but anywhere as the temperature is plummeting is the ice. It is dark and you dont site, so be careful, a gond slow and check on the neighbors, because we are still in it, we are still in it here in boston. Yeah. Okay. We will get back to you, brooke. Now i want to go off to marshall, massachusetts, where my colleague brian todd is. Brian, i hear that you are getting hammered with snow. What is the conditions like where you are . Well im getting hammered like brooke in boston. This is starting to set some records here. As of 2 30 p. M. This this afternoon, they had 24 inches of snow and so well over two feet here in marshfield,ma massachusetts. And putting the arm down to see how deep it is you will go down where you cant go any moshgs because anymore, because it is so packed in. And the complyicating situation is the First Responders, because we had a eseawall that breached 50 feet of the seawall that is next to the houses that collapsed next to the high tide. In the morning, they got a second wave of the high tide as with we were arriving and dramatic pictures there, and that is just frightening, because the second breach could have caused damage. And firefighters had to use a front end loader to get in to save a man who was injured by the flooding seawall. So it is very, very dangerous with the second high tide of the day which is still hitting in the area, and wont recede for a few more earareas, and so that the flood areare in marshfield, massachusetts, still dangerous, don. It is dangerous for us, don, to get in and out of the areas. You know it is crazy as with we are looking at the video, brian. You said that they had to rush in and evacuate a man. Or get a man out. Have the residents there evacuated . Have they left or sticking around . Have they had to rescue a number of people because of this . Most of the residents on that side of the street alongside that seawall got out. They were either evacuated or got out themselves, and had help. Most of them got out, and some of the people across the street who have stayed in the homes, but the streets are flooded. That is a situation still developing because we are still getting snow still getting a driving wind whiteout conditions here and making things much more complicate pord the First Responders to get into the areas to make sure that people are okay. Luckily, no significant injuries so far, and the situation is not over. They will get more snow overnight, and we will get back to check it out tomorrow morning to see what the flooding situation is like but several people are out of the homes tonight. And wo of thef two of the homes have been condemned, don, and two of the families have lost homes don. And brian todd out there tonight, and you be safe out there. Put the video of the seawall up there, and as we talk about that, i want to bring in in peter judge, the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency here and he is going to join us by phone. This video is incredible, and my question to you, peter, you have the Massachusetts National guard who sis telling cnn they evacuated 15 people from the coastal area, and are you concern ded about the people who have not e evacuated in that area . Not that that area particular particularly, because the folks further back, if they have changed their mind, and we have seen the biggest high tide so that the next tide we dont expect to be as impactful, but if they need assistance as the guard has in the day, they have helped some folks moved. Most of the people in those areas that are susceptible to flooding, they have selfevacuated a day ago ahead of the this mornings high tide. So at this point, we have not had any people who had to be be you know rescued, if you will. They were evacuated just to get them into the safer haven. Peter, the snowfall has bneen relentless, and what that is the worst hit area . Well, just counting the snow, a belt in the middle part of the state in the worcester area where they have received well over 30 inches of snow. As we said erlarlier in the broadcast, although we may end up with record snow, it is not going to be a record disaster which it could have very well been because the snow has been light and fluffy and instead of looking at 200 or 300,000 Power Outages as we prepare for the highest number has been 36,000 because it is light and fluffy. The biggest issues as we are seeing right now, the coastal flooding and that is what is really we have been focusing on. The Power Outages have not been an issue, and the roads have not been that much of an issue because the people listen odd the driving ban, and there twins live plows have been able to do the the and the driving ban, and the plows have been able to do a very good job to stay ahead of it. And now lets go to the expert mr. Chad meyer and you heard from mr. Peter judd there talking about how the snowfall there is breaking record ss, right . Yes, dorngs it has to do with the topography with Worcester County where we are up to three solid feet of snow in one location and still snowing. It is the moisture coming on shore, and the rotation of the cell, and the cells come on shore with the little bit of the ocean effect or the ocean enhance enhancement of the snow. There is the snow snowing in boston right now, and still in portland and manchester and nashua and into nantucket still seeing the snow and portland with a little bit of the break for a while, and still some snow coming coming, and talking about close to records, a lieuen inberg and and lieuunenburg has not reported and neither has auburn but we will get all of the reported stations coming in in the morning around 9 00 but looking at what we have so far and this is the deal in nantucket, the wind blew or gusted for 17 straight hours over 78 Miles Per Hour and the winds gusted that high for over 3 4 of a day. Chad, talk to me more about the path of the storm. Same question that everybody wants to know when the heck is this going to be be over . Well, it should have been over already, and the low is headed up to newfoundland and crossing over to nova scotia and over to the bay of fundy, but what is happening is the snow coming down but the storm has made a slight loop and the little watusi out there in the ocean, and a dosido the if you will see, a little forward move, and so it goes from islip and then to newark new jersey and then it goes to 54 miles apart, and the models was on it and one of them, and the snow totals in the past and so looking at here at boston 27. 6 and so it should up here but it is not. It stopped and then rotate the around and pause and that caused an extra six hours of snowfall when the storm should be gone by now. Chad, i want you to look at the video, and this is people out surfing in long island, and i believe it is montauk the, a, and there were two fatalities. Not fatalities from the surfing. And don, you know the if they send me out to the blizzard again, i want that suit. Whatever that guy is wearing, i want to take that to the snowstorm. I cant believe he was out there in that weather. I know. We had people out here Cross Country skiing in the central park, and no hat or skiing and i dont know how anderson does it getting through the show without a hat, but i have to have a hat. I have to have one, too, because it keeps me warm. And thank you, chad myers. We will talk about the storm, and we will talk about the storm with chad myers and so many more as the storm is continuing, but it is not all bad news. We will speak to a mom who gave birthright in the middle of the blizzard next. To combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. Startupny. Its working for new york state. Already 55 companies are investing over 98 Million Dollars and creating over 2100 jobs. From long island to all across upstate new york, more businesses are coming to new york. 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I am standing right near sen ra tral park central park and it is a lot different from last night, and right now it is about 25 degrees where it was about midnight or 1 00 last night, and so if earlier it starts to ice over from when it was warmer, it is going to be causing problems. From the coast of maine, it is bearing the brunt of the blizzard tonight. And now, we have george taub is are there, and how is it look ging there at this hour . Well, it is a mess. Look around here. I have to take this off. We are having the audio issues don, but we will walk through it. They got at least 16 to 18 inches of snow don, and they are believing they could get another 7 inches to night, and we saw some to snowbands coming through tonight, and they are expecting a couple more in the next e three to four hours, a and then that is it. But you can see what we are left with here the street cover ded in snow, snow that is up to my waist in some places, and heres the thing, there was no travel restriction up here in this state, but at the same time the people know the drill, they know to stay off of the roads when they have a situation like this and it is interesting, because the last two days we were in providence rye rye, and it itit Providence Rhode island and it sis a ghost town, and this is just people waiting for the snow to be gone. I do not envy you out there, George Howell. I want to go down to scituate massachusetts, where the seawall was breached and we have Alexandra Steele there this eve evening. And you were there as some of the water was coming over the seawall and were you able to see it and how was it . Well, it was wild and furious sight to to see, don. The seawall is right down the road where i was standing, and we were right there before the seawall broke, and we saw the rocks and the sticks and the debris, and with what happened this morning is that the waves flooded the entire street. It flooded yards and basements out here, and a big swath of this neighborhood. It is something that they are used to see, but it is a great deal of water stay there. Been through so much here in scituate in boston just south of boston boston. A lot more of the the flooding, and after the roads with were flooded with water, it turned to ice and slush and then you saw more of the high tide and more water flooding the seawall. The water was just lapping over but much of the seawall was come pro promized and so there were some real consequences. I spoke to one woman earlier, and she has lost basically the back of her house. The porch sort of ripped off of the back. The walls have opened up and the walls have blown out, and she talked about being inside of stand g standing in her bedroom and looking out at the ocean, and devastating silgtght, but don, she had the good presence not to be there at high tide when so much of the presence was being done. And we got new video there, and it is devastating, alexandra, and for it to come in and frozen and ice sichltyicy. How badly damaged was the home . Total loss . Well it is not condemned, and she could get h in there to take the pictures that we are seeing, and to get that video. I think that a lot more of this will be assessed tomorrow because people in the town were trying to mitigate any further damage and disaster the, and dealing with the weather coming through here all day and the cold temperatures a and the high wind ss and the storm surge and the flooding with the high tide. So as this clears out, people will have a better idea of what they are dealing with, but i think that the photos do give you a clear picture of how much danger people were in when they were out here today the and how much jeopardy the property was in and not the mention their lives. So that is a reason that most of the people cleared out. In fact, the house be450i7bd me the National Guard came and helped the people to evacuate, because the street was flooded. The water implyicatedyimimmediately came up over the fence here don. And as you know moms and dads the newborns wait for no one. And so there was a baby that arrived in the Early Morning hours. And from hartford connecticut, anna joins us with her new bayby girl, and healthy baby daughter and at what point did you know she was coming at the biggest blizzard of the year . At midnight, we started to feel the konconstructionkon strakcontractions and so at midnight, we decide to go. And so there was a travel ban when you were in effect oh, we can hear her. Are we disturbing her . Yeah there was a travel ban, and we had actually called earlier, and we called the police station, and they said, just to go and they said if you are in labor, just go and call the ambulance and we we were like no we got it, and with we took our chances, and we headed here. Yeah. And no trouble getting there . Did you have any trouble . The roads werent that bad because nobody was on them, so we kind of did our own thing if there were other cars, it would have been more difficult but we dwot got here and i was a little relieved. Well, she is gorgeous and i feel bad because i feel like we are bugging her with her first moments of life, but i feel bad, but then i feel like you need visitor, because nobody has visited you since the travel ban. I know it is so boring i cant wait to go home. I know. Nobody can come to visit, and when my son was born, everybody was coming and going, and now i am just sitting here, and everybody is stuck at home. So yeah might as well. Yeah. Well, you have a lot of visitors, and we want to see her up closer and are you on skype . We want to see this little baby. And oh look at little baby, everyone. Look at her, everyone look at those cheeks. Little baby anna. Welcome to the world. I am so glad she is e healthy and you rare as well. Thank you so much. All right. You take care. We are going to continue on now. And the new york mayor says that they dodged a bullet with the blizzard byebye, and did they go too far by shutting down the subway and closing roads . Some answering coming up. Its new chunky beerncheese with beef and bacon soup. I love it. And mama loves you. How much money do you have in your pocket right now . I have 40 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . I dont think so. 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A lot of people in new york city are asking that question. The storm was not that bad here yet life