Good evening. Im erin burnett. Record snowfall is hitting the northeast. Minutes ago, Massachusetts Governor issuing a state of emergency for the state. Boston shutting down their subway system for the next 24 hours at least. Boston has now had 60 inches over 60 inches of snow in the past couple of weeks. Thats just since midjanuary. Thats the most snow ever in one month. Its set a record for the most snow in over a week. Over 40 inches. This is the third monday in a row that the region has been ground to a halt by snow. The biggest problem is what to do with all of it. And to give you an idea of how much snow theyve had to remove in the northeast of the United StatesMassachusetts Governor says in the past month, crews have removed enough snow to fill the 70,000 new England Patriots stadium. Thats filling it not one, not twice, but 90 times over. Across the region, the weight of all of that snow is causing roofs and buildings to collapse. Its not just boston. New york state is looking up to 14 much ins of snow. Much of connecticut, new hampshire, on up to maine, 40 million americans in the path of this storm. Miguel marquez is outfront tonight. Hes in quincy, massachusetts, getting slammed from more than 2 feet of snow. How are the conditions tonight . Reporter miserable. Wicked miserable as theyd say. In quincy several roofs collapsed from the weight of the snow. Were now in north waymouth massachusetts, were on a very small road here. If we can pull off in a second we can show you some of the conditions that exist out here right now. Its about 25 degrees out here. Theyve had more than 24 inches of snow in just this one storm, in this one area. Two fronts a front from the ocean and a front from the land came together in this area which really created havoc and this one little microarea, they just got hammered. Im going to jump out and show you what this looks like along the way. I have to put on goggles because the wind is iwhipping at about 30 miles per hour. Were in a bit of a lull here but back here if you look around this side you can see the wind back here. You can come around here with me. I promise i wont get you killed. This is what they are dealing with. Drifts. Look at this. It must be ten feet high here. And they are dealing with this all over the state and the city. The area particularly hard hit on the other side of this bay, its been endless snow and they are keeping everything clear. Its amazing how new england is getting the snow and its taking an enormous toll. Erin . Miguel thank you. You can watch the wind and as he walked away five or ten feet you can hear it start taking the hits. Thats what the wind is doing to the transmission here. A major concern for emergency crews are snow and snow banks that miguel was just showing you in some parts of new england and in boston the streets have become so narrow that fire trucks cannot get to the scene of fires. Chris welch it outfront in boston. Chris, thats a pretty scary process when you think about it. Someone has a heart attack ambulance cant get to where they are, a fire truck cant get there. Reporter its absolutely very concerning. Before i get to more of what we did today with the Fire Department look behind me. Ill show you where we are standing. Were at the socalled snow farms that the city of boston has established. The pile of snows have been here a while. This is 10,000 truckloads. They are putting it into a pile here in the middle and then go over to the big machine to the left which is called a snow melter. It melts about 350 tons of snow per hour. Right now they are giving it a break. It looks like they were going to do some refueling and theyll be doing this throughout the night. Erin we spent a lot of time today with the Fire Department and they have raised some concerns. You know if this show continues to fall and we get more snow its going to be at unprecedented levels but its going to make their job even tougher. One of the toughest parts about it is the fact that the narrow streets in some neighborhoods of boston have become narrower with piles of snow and cars parked along both sides of the streets making these large fire engines essentially impossible for them to get through. Now, the other thing that they are pushing is they are saying that the fire hydrants are key in this situation and fire hydrants need to be visible for these Fire Department for the Fire Department to find them. They are asking them to help dig them out. In the neighborhoods, the residents are very good about shoveling out the fire hydrants. So its very important. There are a lot of high rises in the area and for us this is on us. So the Fire Department was kind enough to let us ride along with them today. They emphasized fire hydrants and also making sure you have a working Carbon Monoxide detector. Record after record. Thank you so much chris. And now on the phone is the mayor of boston marty walsh. Mayor walsh, youre a longtime resident of greater boston. I know youre used to snow. It seems like i was with you yesterday but one of these mondays as we were going through these horrible storms. Have you ever and i guess the answer is no when i look at the record books seen so much snow in such a short amount of time . No. The snow is just not letting up here. We had the blizzard a couple of weeks ago and were getting ahead of it and then we get 18 inches of snow athis new storm is still going on in the city so we need to get the sthoenow off the streets and the firefighters are, working hard around the clock to open up the streets and so we can get fire apparatus and safety personnel out there. When we talk about the snow and how its building up across the entire region in boston i know theres been concerns about roofs. Roofs can give way and theres been building collapses. What are you doing to try to prevent more of that from happening . The city streets are getting so narrow its literally impossible for people to drive down some of them . The governor called for a state of emergency tomorrow which is going to allow a good 24 36 hours of witenning streets in the city and trying to get as much snow off the ground so we can get them to the snow farms. Were melting the snow tonight to make room for additional snow. The roofs, were asking people to you know ask the contractors to go up there and check their roofs to get the snow off of it. Were expecting one thing that is lucky is that the snow has been light. We havent had the heavy wet, rain snow. You still need to get the snow off your roof and were asking people to reach out to their contractors. Dont do it themselves. We dont want people getting hurt. Mayor walsh, thank you and best of luck. Nasa has just tweeted a picture of the storm system. Its blanketing the northeast of the United States. Were now learning of another storm that is now starting to gain strength as it begins marching towards the northeast. This system of course breaking even possibly more records. Meteorologist tom sater is joining me. Weve now broken pretty much every record out there. Right. What are we looking at with this next storm . To give you an idea erin just the magnitude of this 140 years the record goes back to. That is 140 winner its. On average, to this date maybe they have 26 inches so far into the season. This is the latest storm. Were still waiting for an update from the National Weather service. This is from 1 00 p. M. It will probably be up to 23 24. This is the tenth snowiest season now. Just about 74 inches by the end of this week. Well be in the top four or five and continue to climb. The temperatures well into the 20s. This is going to seem balmy because were looking at subzero readings the coldest air of the season followed by another arctic blast. What is left is patchy sleet mixing in with snow in philadelphia. Dont be surprised to see a passing snow shower. Were still going to see a few more inches in massachusetts until tomorrow morning. Then the next storm system as one exits were watching it closely. This area of low pressure across the great lakes should transfer its energy to a developing storm and this is a coastal storm. This could be a noreaster working on the track. If that happens, erin were going to see totals that vary with 6 to 8 more in boston to what were leaning more towards and it could be a foot plus. For the same states that have been hit in the last three weeks with over 6 feet of snowfall. Then the numbers drop. Not one but two blasts. Notice fridays lows 3 in bangor 8 in boston and then new york city and then forcing cold air. Zero in boston on sunday. They have to get the snow off the roads before it freezes. This can also lead to a night mary problem of pipes bursting. Thats the last thing we want. How do you even find out where the like is with all of this snow . The first blast comes through following the snowfall which could be a foot. Get this a shot to the eastern u. S. Cold air could go through florida and even computer models hinting at a cold front passing puerto rico. Amazing what were dealing with. A Conveyor Belt of storms. Wow. Through puerto rico . Yes. You left my jaw still on the table. 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But western officials call it a charade. After all, he is a prisoner and he does perhaps ominously refer to this as his last message. In november 2012, cantlie and james foley were captured by isis. Jim was taken from us by an act of violence. Reporter shortly afterwards the first video showed up in a series called lepd me your ears. While he acknowledged his life was under threat there the similarity ended. Through the series cantlie has defended the fairness of sharia law and portrayed isis fighters as heroes. Hello, im john cantlie and today were in the city of kobani on the syrian turkish border. Reporter hes presented more and more as if hes a free journalist appearing in civilian clothes, roaming around and praising life under isis whether he believes those words, no one knows. His 80yearold father was in the hospital for throat surgery late last year and recorded a public message praising the work he did before he was taken. Probably about 40 guys there or so. I want john to know im very proud i am of him. Reporter were not really showing much of the video because, frankly, its propaganda pure and simple. Paul cantlie, the father there, died a few weeks after recording that. His dying message, release my son. Since then all the terror group has released more videos as john cantlie as both host and hostage. Erin . Tom foreman, thanks very much. Outfront now Counter Insurgency and specialist seth jones with the Rand Corporation and former army ranger. Good to have you here. Seth i want to emphasize what tom just said. We only showed tiny tiny pieces of that video because it is propaganda and everyone is trying to understand what is happening here with john cantlie. Hes a hostage. By definition hes doing this under duress. He wouldnt be there, right, if he wasnt a hostage. Its unclear at this point whether he believes in what hes reporting. What do you see . Well i see somebody who i think is under some duress. I mean the guy thats captured along with him has been killed and what it looks like hes doing, hes reading or has memorized transcripts and the position that isis has put him in is to try to push back against some of the really negative propaganda thats come out over the last couple of weeks. I think thats really the purpose of this particular video. And paul, this is the second video by cantlie thats being presented as if hes a free journalist and by that i mean hes not in isis garb. He called this a last in this series. Do you hear anything when you hear last in this series anything significant in terms of the intent of the terrorists . Certainly its ominous wording, given the history of what isis has done with many of its hostages. The way he phrases it at the beginning of the video, its much more casual. Yeah. Certainly one hopes that all hes saying is hey, that were closing out this story that were telling and moving on to something else. But certainly, you know it is cause for some alarm. But the situation hes in is a very tough one. Isis has not been great to hostages. And i guess, seth is it important to isis that in terms of recruiting that he appear as a free man . These beheading videos everyone has said these are effective for them among recruiting certain people. But this video essentially seems to be targeting someone else. They are letting them shave. They are truly letting him appear the way he ordinary narrowly wouldly would appear. What do they get out of that . They have been trying to recruit individuals and you see this at the end of this video, in an interview that he has with a french jihadist. Right. What they are trying to do is encourage people from the west. Hes english speaking. To come to iraq or syria or if they dont do that to conduct terrorist attacks in the west itself. Do one of those two. And whats interesting, erin is that the jihadist media has actually started to like this guy. They believe now that hes actually acting and that he believes what hes saying. So hes even convinced a number of jihadists on the forums that i read that he actually means what he says. Could that save his life . I dont know. Actually nothing that the Islamic State has done now i guess surprises me so i could very well believe that they will use him for this and then kill him. And then kill him. Paul i guess the frightening here is that that would be that would be the way that theyve operated every other time. I mean they are still getting something out of him at this point. Hes filing these reports. He interviewed the french jihadist as paul pointed out, kill people with knives and he was able to put that out in english. Certainly one can understand why john would want to seem useful to them. But their brutality knows know limits. One thing weve seen with isis is that each video they need to one up themselves in terms of their own brutality. So its certainly frightening. All right. Seth and paul thank you both very much. Thank you. And outfront next the american hostage Kayla Mueller. Isis claims an air strike killed her but theres been absolutely no proof and the question is could she still be alive . Her parents speak out. Our report next. And my guests tonight are the parents of another american who was held hostage in syria tonight. Who is he and should the u. S. Can the u. S. Do more to save him . Kid hey dad, who was that man . Dad hes our broker. He helps looks after all our money. Kid do you pay him . Dad of course. Kid how much . Dad i dont know exactly. Kid what if youre not happy . Does he have to pay you back . Dad nope. Kid why not . Dad it doesnt work that way. Kid why not . Vo are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management at Charles Schwab fact. When you take advil you get relief right at the site of pain. Wherever it is. Advil stops pain right where it starts. Relief doesnt get any better than this. 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