Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Can you believe we walked to work in this . Wow to say we got lucky in new york city is an under statement compared to what could have been. We got about six inches . Out on long island they are getting pounded and parts of new england it is coming down. Upwards of two feet of snow. I talked to my family. We live further out east and theyre getting a lot of snow. A foot and a half on the ground and still coming down. Your wife call and said please come home with a shovel. She changed the looks. Its serious in a lot of places. States of emergency declared in eight states up to maine. One of the impacts is air travel. The backlog is just getting huge. More than 4500 today. In massachusetts the National Guard has been activated. 500 members deployed to clear roadways and operate shelters there. Dylan is driving around boston and has a unique look at the area. Good morning. Reporter good morning. I certainly do. I worked in boston for six years and this is about as powerful of a storm as i have seen. Im in the comfort of a vehicle that is fully equipped to show you all different views around us so we dont have to be outside. Take a look at the view out of the front of the blue mobile here. We have heavy blowing drifting snow blowing all night long creating white out conditions. We have seen wind gusts up near 79 Miles Per Hour. We have a foot and a half of snow already in parts of southeastern massachusetts. We had serious coastal flooding prompting evacuations with high tide earlier this morning. The worst part is these blizzardlike conditions are expected to last all day long. The blizzard of 2015 begins. With more than 35 Million People in its path from maryland to maine, it is bringing to a relative stand still. The snow is measured in feet, not inches. Not as bad as predicted in new york. Saving the hardest punch for new england. Up across a 250 mile swath of the northeast, they exercised caution. The commuter railroads were shut down along with the new york city subway and buses. Lets get hunkered down and go through the storm. We are tough and have been through plenty of things before. It could mean a 300 fine for violators and nearly 7,000 flights were canceled. The only thing was flying is food off the shelves. They stocked up on supplies. People fighting for things. It was crazy. New york citys mayor asked to check on neighbors in need. You dont know if you will save someones life because you took the time to check in on them. Crews cut power lines to prevent fires. As the blizzard bore down people shared experiences from the frustrating to the fun using social media. As the hours passed and the snow keeps falling, advice from a man who has seen his share of storms. Stay in the house. Get out of the snow and let the snow people do their thing. Reporter here is the blue mobile from the outside. We are a roving satellite truck signalling up to the satellite above. We are trying to stay away from downtown boston. When you get into the buildings, we lose our signal. We are driving over a bridge where the winds are whipping across the bridge. We will give you a tour of this vehicle and show you how we stay safe and what we are trying to bring you. We will check back in thank you. Jim cantore is braving the elements in boston as well. Good morning to you. Reporter it started snowing heavily after midnight and has not stopped. You can see that the city of boston has done a nice job in the commons to keep up with the snow we had, but it accumulated in other places. You can see from this yard stick we are at about ten inches on the ground and it continues to come down. The city is shut down. Logan airport to mass transit to highways. Nobody is going anywhere. Thats the way its going to be for a good part of the afternoon. Boston 20 plus before all is said and done. What are we looking at for the rest of the day . Snow bands into philadelphia right now. Heavy activity there. Blizzard warnings in effect for connecticut all the way up into maine where they have winter storm warnings for new york city. The next 24 hours. As we look at the system you can see we have the snow from hartford and providence and it is not done yet by any stretch of the imagination. Another five to six inches of snow for connecticut and rhode island over the next 12 hours. The system pushes on up towards new england and snowfall rates two to three inches and white out conditions and coastal flooding and next high tide is four to five as we get into this afternoon. The snow will remain blowing. Subzero wind chills will be a factor. Look at the wind gusts. New york city and jfk over 39 Miles Per Hour. 49 Miles Per Hour at vineyard haven. Provincetown 68 Miles Per Hour. We are forecasting to stay strong through the afternoon and into tonight and on into early wednesday morning. The snow still an issue. This is additional on top of whats already fallen. Around portland two feet of snow. From boston to bangor about 12 inches or more still about to fall. With all that wind there will be low visibilities and blizzardlike conditions over at least the next six hours. Thank you very much. Marty walsh is the mayor of boston and joins us by phone. Good morning to you. Good morning. How are you today . Fine. As luck would have it your city is in the bullseye. What are you dealing with now . 700 feet following the main arteries in boston and they are passible right now as far as emergency vehicles and keeping the street open. We will be on secondary roads and we have a good night, but the main bulk is hitting right now. I know that amtrak canceled trains up and down the corridor. The airport is shut down although maybe not closed. Mass transit at a stand still. What are you telling the residents in terms of when they may be able to get out . Not until later tonight or maybe tonight or tomorrow. We are asking people to stay put and check on their neighbors as they go out there and start shoveling. Its too early for that and not much places you can go. We have a Police Department who is taking nurses and doctors to work the best we can. We have our Fire Departments putting additional staff on and ambulances on for medical emergencies and we are asking people to stay in their homes today and ride it out. On this tuesday, you should be knee deep in Super Bowl Party preparations but instead its snow. Leave us with a final prediction this sunday. I feel really good about our placement. You have tom brady as a quarterback and bill belichick, you cant go wrong. I hope we are able to turn around the last couple of super bowls and get a victory again. Patriots win by one. Our thoughts are with you and the people of boston. Thank you so much. All right, my friend thank you. Long island really getting hit. Jeff good morning. Whats the situation there . Reporter good morning. The blizzard warning lifted for new york city but remains in effect for Suffolk County long island. The blowing sideways snow we have been dealing with all night. Plows on the road is about all you are seeing. Let me swing the camera around. A travel ban is in effect and people are actually following it. We have been up all night. I will walk over this way. We have been up all night and i have seen about one to two cars in the past seven hours i have been driving around. Look how high savannah the snow is here. Im about 6 feet tall. If you walk into the real snow this is somebodys front yard. I hope they dont mind. We are knee deep and it is coming down several more inches expected. People are comenot coming out of their homes yet. Thank you. If he trespasses he can at least bring a shovel. This storm ground air travel and 7700 flights in and out of the northeast have been canceled. The Ripple Effect reaching across the country. Tom costello is at la guardia here in new york. Good morning. Reporter can you believe this . This is La Guardia Airport and it is a ghost town. They shut down la guardia and newark and jfk for the storm. The impact is not so great. 4500 Flights Canceled today on top of the 3,000 yesterday or so. Nothing right now. Nothing is moving. On the ground of what is normally a bustling airport, the ramps and runways are largely desserted. At jfk, hundreds are stranded after being stuck on the ramp on the plane for hours. Among them alexis dehasse. We then got ushered back into the area of the terminal and just left really. Thousands of flights on the northeast canceled. From pittsburgh i would rather be in the south. Gina was trying to get to germany. Swiss air canceled all of their flights. We booked with united but we didnt finish checking in. A ghost town by dinner town. The concourses locked up. Not a Single Person trying to check in. With a third of the nations transiting through new york airspace the delays and cancellations have been rippling. In los angeles we found Kevin Donaldson trying to get back to new york. I got about an hours sleep between the internet looking for cancellations and trying to get out of here. No dies. Take a look at this time lapse of air traffic monday and thinning out over the day and empty as night fell. The storm even shut down much of amtrak service, the northeast corridor is closed down. On the roads, snow plows have been trying to stay ahead of the storm. The message the same from pennsylvania to maine. I cant stress this part enough. Please stay off the roads. This morning a huge section of the country is quite simply frozen in place. I just checked. Its not just the northeast, but also chicago and atlanta and toronto. All these other major airports that feed into the northeast. If your flight was canceled you are not going to get the airlines putting you up in a hotel because its mother nature. You will be responsible for the hotel and your food and everything else. Back to you. Tom costello, thank you very much. Not very often you see what we saw. Looking like a ghost town. Jenna bush haeger is outside. What do you see . Reporter hi guys. Im standing in the middle of fifth avenue the city that never sleeps. Its pretty sleepy this morning. We have seen about a dozen cars and city workers, but thats it. Fifth avenue is filled with commuters and skill kids trying to get to school. Part of me wants to do a snow angel and the other part wants to get a warm cup of coffee. With the travel intact these cars risque fine driving, but seems like because we didnt get as much snow they are doing it anyway. Still freezing i have to say. Its eerie that this city is so quiet. Jenna, by the way, i might have beat you to the punch on that fifth avenue snow angel. I may have video proof that we will show you in a while. You can go ahead and do it. Did you get in a snow fight . What about a snow fight . We beat you to that. I said natalie hold my hand and lets walk together and she threw a snowball right in my face and started tackling. Missed an opportunity. First snowball fight of the year. Did this thing jog a little bit to the east . We didnt see the development we were hoping for earlier or thought we would get. What is interesting is the National WeatherService Upgraded their computers and the software and unlike in previous years where we both talked about the european model, the american models performed a little bit better than the european model and the american models saw less snow for the new york area. Hats off to our friends at the National Weather service. They are on the way to achieving parody among the awards. All right, al thank you. Up in Portland Maine, lets see the scene up there. Hes getting a microphone adjustment there. There he is. Hi john. Good morning. I dont think he can hear you. Reporter we are in Portland Maine. The chief of the storm is here. The snow is coming down at a pretty good clip the past two hours and winds have picked up and the governor declared a state of emergency. The schools are closed and there is a parking ban into wednesday in much of this region as the snow plows get through. Businesses closed and government offices closed. They say its going to keep snowing at this rate about two inches an hour all day long. It was not expected to taper off until later tonight after sundown and not stop completely until sometime wednesday. Total accumulation about 18 inches or upwards. The one bright spot if there is one is the peak of the storm is coming at low tide so that the coastal erosion of the flooding will not be as serious to the south in boston. There will be minor flooding and erosion, but not nearly as bad as the threefeet surge they are seeing in cape cod and boston. The storm intensified and expected to be here all day long. Back to you. Cold written all over your face. Thank you. Lets get mr. Rokers take on a local forecast. Around the rest of the country, we are looking at temperatures that will stay chilly in the northeast. Look out west. Temperatures from 10 to 20 degrees above normal. We will detail that coming the adventures youve been imagining. The heroes youve been admiring. The worlds youve been dreaming of. The thrills youve been craving. The moments youve been missing. The vacation youve been looking for is here. Come and take it. Universal orlando resort. Good morning. Im meteorologist bill henley. Light snow overnight. Thats all were going to see. Along with temperatures in the upper 20s and low 30s and deliver much colder air tomorrow morning. Skies will clear down to 15 degrees to start with on wednesday. Another cold morning on thursday. A chance of a shower on friday, but behind it it turns even colder saturday morning. Well start the day at 8 degrees. Just 22 in the afternoon. Have a great day. And thats your latest weather. Carson got one of the last flights out. Tamron is filling in in the orange room. Natalie got in as well. You were divert and made it in. Diverted from jfk and we are here. The snowfalls and we are hearing from you on social media. You have inundated us with pictures and videos of your commute and being stuck. All kinds of things. 260,000 tweets have coming in using blizzard of 2015. It is the top trending for hours now. We decided to share our commute with you. This was my commute earlier today. These poor gentlemen, this is what they were doing this morning as i was taking a selfie. You guys shared with us as well. Swipe it this way. I havent been here in a long time. This is natalie and savannah walking. In happier times. Happy times definitely. Things went a little crazy when here we go. Take a listen. Here we go. I would never do that to you. But i would. I love the slip in of bombo genesis. My new favorite word. This is hoda if you recognize her in this shot. Im not sure what was going on. Im at the intersection of new york city. Write it down. Amazing. Amazing, indeed. Mr. Lauer, you mentioned earlier you decided to take the snow angel route to work. Lets see it. This is one of the few times where i can get down in the middle of fifth avenue and do snow angels. Its still a half mile that way. I thought you had skis with you and i thought you would take the ski route down. This morning, you have what you are doing. Use the hash tag. My neck of the woods. Show us what you are doing clothed, i dont want any of that. Its too cold for that. My neck of the woods aw us what you are doing. Speaking of closed your snow outfit is there. I was expecting two feet of snow. I walked out ready to ski. Thank you very much. We will have more on this storm straight ahead and first on a tuesday morning. This is today on nbc. 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Jillian mele. Good morning, vai. All things considered, thes are pretty good. You head north and east, thats where we see the problems. This is in shall front, bucks county. Toms river portions of n