Extra time with the family but i know you are going to be spending time outside dealing with this in the city do watch your step as you try to navigate these streets. Roadways in much better shape but some of those sidewalks still a little challenging so a bit of a left over blizzard ballet. 20 its cooler this hour and winds west at 13 running a perfect ten far from it. Single digits dominate into the Hudson Valley. Snow totals not as great but still very cold and any wind over that snow pack is still going to feel even colder. There goes the low. Its out of here. Brilliant sun will shine. You need sunglasses or a hip new tinted ski goggle what all of the kids are wearing. Damage done. 15 to 30inches for a good part of the area around a foot into parts of the Hudson Valley and to the north and west. Numbers do stay below normal. 34 for a high this afternoon but with the wind wind chills in the teens at lunch time feels cold this afternoon so layer up. More on that in a bit right now they are ready to go. Always ready. Thank you. We are going to head out to long island where residents are watching the next high tide. Live in free port. Jennifer. Good morning from free port. During Hurricane Sandy this whole place was devastated. Boats were floating on main street, restaurants were ruined. The water is rising here on the bulk head getting higher and we are getting about six inches of water. Still only scattered outages and the newly built sea wall held. Just about 6inches of water. Just during the full moon and these high tides coming in. This of course shut down. Cars were moved to higher ground. Fishing trollers and the party boats we were standing along earlier remained in the bay because of the off shore swells measuring 18 feet off shore. Just a short time ago we spoke with the mayor of free port about whats working right now in this village. We are working with the army corps much engineers to do a Feasibility Study to install gates ocean protection gates to protect the entire nassau Superstorm Sandy. The money invested was great by hod and new york rising and fema but i really believe if we put these gates in you could prevent the entire county from flooding with another Superstorm Sandy. And of course during sandy when i was standing here the water at that time was about waist high and boats were floating up and down the street. High tide is literally in about 7 minutes so this is not so bad. Six inches here. It could have been so much worse. We are keeping our eye on this high tide reporting live to you from free port village this morning south shore Jennifer Mclogan cbs 2 news. Jennifer thank you. Joining us on the phone is Sussex County executive steve. We want to ask you first as we saw it could have been a lot worse in terms of flooding. How is it looking this morning . For us after Superstorm Sandy weve seen frequency of flooding on the south shore but we seem to have dodged a bullet here. I think the wind shift helped to push the water away as it was surging forward. Very different than the story in parts of new jersey so we were fortunate weve seen minimal to moderate flooding. And how are the roads looking with all of that. Weve made great progress. Still a lot of work to be done but i think the governor deserved a lot of credit. The travel ban had its intended impact to keep cars off the road and send a message which the public by and large heeded to stay off the roads but they let the operators do their work and made a lot of progress overnight but two feet of snow or more in some areas thats a huge storm so still a lot of work to be done especially on some of those smaller roads. Sir, at last check not too what can you tell us about pseg long island and anybody without electricity this morning. Ill tell you obviously you want to get that number down to zero. But a storm like this we were very concerned heavy snow and high winds gusting up to 65 Miles Per Hour. That is a bad combination for the grid. And i got to say pseg did a great job keeping those numbers down. They added on extra crews and i think it reflects a lot of the work theyve been doing over the last year or so to get trimming trees and things like that. So very good progress. We want to get down to zero but the electical grid seems to have held up well. Sussex county executive we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. Any last words of advice for people who have to head out today . The weekends what can we expect tomorrow. Be careful, be slow. The roads are dangerous. Stay in and watch football. Hopefully see tom brady and the patriots lose today. Yes right here on cbs 2 news. Sussex county executive making friends in this studio today. Thank you so much. Thank you. Crews have been working as we were just speaking with steve about power to those who lost it during the storm. At last report jersey central and light has 4800 customers without in the dark. Pseg has 17 outages. 11 are now without power. Weve heard from the Sussex County executive and all of the powers they are doing to get everyone left without power back up and running. City and state leaders will be providing more updates on response to the storm. Is expected to speak at 9 45. Chris christie at 10 and new york city mayor bill will speak beginning at 11. We will bring you those updates live right here on cbs 2. And a programming note for you this morning cbs sunday morning and face the nation will air live in their entirety on our sister station. Wlny t. V. 1055. Well have more eye on the storm coverage in just a moment. Time now 8 10. Time to see what was coming up this morning on face the nation. John dickerson joins us live from washington with a preview. First we are going to check in with Vanessa Murdock who has been monitoring the after math of the storm for us. Vanessa . Well good morning everybody. Here from whitestone queens it is so very bright you can see the beautiful sunshine streaming across. Just beautiful piles of snow. I say beautiful because i dont have a shovel in my hand but it is one serious task. Some people have to get over drifts higher than this just to get their cars out of their driveways this morning. We spoke to few people this morning who say listen they are not loving it. It is just too much. Take a listen. Ive never seen this in my life until today. This is the first time. Take care of my car over there. Do you have a shovel . Yes. It still wont help. You need a machine to get that out. This is terrible. Really bad. I havent seen it like this in years. Last year was a little at a time. This is crazy though. Have to clean my store here and then go home and work at home. Its too much. Yeah. So you really have to feel for some of these shop owners. They are having to not open their doors today or at least delay their opening. Yesterday they closed up. So a couple of days business lost because of the storm. Not just that, think about the exhaustion that comes with shoveling. We met a man this morning who shoveled his car out for two hours so he can make his way to work. This is a really big deal. It is going to be an all day event to clean up the snow for those who are trying to clean up the cars that have extended but the department of sanitation says we need to bring in back loaders here and dump trucks to carry out all of the snow but they are going to keep their focus on the side streets which we just before have come up to people to say hey they havent been by yet. Thankfully they took a trip here and now they are significantly clearer but still a big task. Vanessa murdock cbs 2 news. Pretty packed in snow if you can sit nicely. Now its time to see whats coming up this morning on face the nation. John dickerson has a preview. We are so excited to get to you. We tried to get to you early today. Hey andrea and diane. We know the snow we are all surrounded by it. So im happy to be with you too and not in a drift somewhere. We today are going to talk to donald trump and we are going to talk to Bernie Sanders. Theres just eight days until the voting begins in iowa so a republican side as donald trump and ted cruz Exchange Fire almost by the hour and Bernie Sanders is taking on Hillary Clinton in iowa. He is coming up and poised to perhaps upset her there. Well also have brand new numbers from our Battle Ground tracker poll. Over the last several months in the crucial early voting states well find out what they are thinking is and how to make the final decisions and at the end well have a Political Panel to sift through it all and put it into context. And john weve been monitoring all of this. Sarah palins endorsement is getting a lot of publicity. How much does that help donald trump and hurt ted cruz . I think it was helpful in the moment. They have been having a fight over who would be the best candidate to take on the establishment which is both the Republican Party and also just Big Government in washington. And ted cruz was making the sarah pail everyone who is no palin who is mostly establishment character lending to trump blunted in the moment but in terms of Long Term Benefit when voters go to the polls theyll think of cruz or trump and palin will be out of their mind at that time. You have to go i know but your report got lost in our blizzard coverage yesterday. Is new york city mayor mike bloom burg getting closer to perhaps throwing his fat officially in the ring . What are you hearing about that in terms of the campaign . He is thinking about it. The triggering mechanism would be if it looked like it was a race between donald trump and Bernie Sanders. If there are people really on the wings of their party that would create an opening for an independent candidate so hes looked at the numbers and the requirements to get on the ballot in all 50 states but it would be a tough thing for him to run and win as an independent. We appreciate your time as john thank you. You can catch John Dickerson on face the nation on t. V. 1055 at 10 30. We in the meantime will be awaiting updates from governors cuomo, christie and dib la zio. Zio. The ban on cars in manhattan was lifted at 7 this morning. But while it was in place pedestrians have the streets to hemselves and that made for unusual scenes like this one. People all over not just the sidewalks but all over the streets of times square. Some were even getting around by Cross Country skiing. Thats not something you see every day. People on the Upper East Side were using streets as their own sidewalks. This is the very normally busy corner of lexing ton avenue and 86th street and if you ever try to drive through there you know what a contrast that is. Like if there was no traffic in the city. Tristate area airports are trying to resume normal service after the storm. Its not going to be easy. Kennedy airport is reporting 54 of todays departing flights have already been canceled. An even bigger impact at laguardia where 75 of flights are canceled at Newark Liberty that number is 64 . Supposed to be leaving for vacation myself tonight. Im not sure if im going to make it out. John elliot bring me good luck. No pressure. None at all. What if people are coming in from vacation too trying to make a connection. Hello again diane and andrea. You look at the river here and sometimes you seat cruise ships coming in. Checking Royal Caribbean and anthem of the sea is supposed to be here tomorrow but its delayed coming in a day later so those people who have connections around the northeast thats going to be a Ripple Effect as well. Many respects we were spared the worst of this if it happened during a week day but this is a 24 7 city and there will be impacts throughout the course of the next few days. The next few minutes cold 20 wind out of the northwest at 13 Miles Per Hour so it feels a lot colder. Lets go to liberty, 12, 18 in stanford, stanford down through west port greenwich saw a foot in parts of coastal connecticut buffet with the wind its a but with the wind its a 6 degree temperature drop compared to yesterday. Five degrees colder in the city. 15 degrees colder in booten so the wind chills there in sub zero range. Top five snowiest we are number two, 26. 8. We didnt miss it by that much and around the area parts of queens record smashing into parts of brooklyn as well. Calendar year to calendar year anemic in the Snow Department as well, 3. 7, normal this time of the year is 10. 7. This year we smashed that and saw more in one day than we normally see in an entire year. I showed the map earlier the purple and the lighter pink core responds to the 18 to 36 inch range in our area. The bulls eye Northern Virginia but snow all the way down into dixie. So we are not alone. Peak of the storm yesterday 77 million effected by weather advisories warnings and advisories of one type or another. Right now seeing things clear up. We have flood advisories for long island. Flood warning for morning high tide cycle for the jersey shore. Reports coming in from meg and jennifer. Its so much better than it could have been. I know some folks had flooding on the first floor there along the shore in monmouth and ocean but today its all about very cold today. Part of that is a by product of wind over that snow pack. Seasonal chill tomorrow and then tuesday, hey, we are in the 40s but by tuesday weve got another system coming on board so that could bring in some rain. But with the melting and the mass of snow, you depot to be strategic if you can find a drain good luck that will help but dont forget about the fire hydrants and managing the snow in a polite way around your neighborhood. Such a contrast this morning. It looks beautiful. Its a post card but needs two advils. Youve got to go home and shovel later. No you are like ill work for the rest effect the day. Thank you john. Thank you. We now have Catherine Garcia on the phone with an update on the big dig out. Good morning thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell us about the progress about this clean up. Certainly. Clearly the department was facing a historic snow storm fight through all of yesterday with white out conditions and inches per hour. We are seeing that we need to be focused on our secondary focus today particularly in queens. We know we need to be out there. Those are the orders that went out at 5 00 a. M. This morning. But it is going to be challenging. Its a lot of snow and now as people wake up and are starting to dig out their cars streets that we may have cleared have now becoming i am passible for small cars but its really an enormous amount of snow. It is and weve been driving around and see most of the main roads look great. It is the secondary streets out in Staten IslandCastleton Corners where it didnt look like there was that much progress made. What is your message to people in those neighborhoods . That we absolutely are aware there are pockets on staten progress on the overnight and in queens there are large areas we need to get into. We are going to need to get into them with front end loaders and plows moving additional equipment around to make sure we are focused on that. But we are very aware to the department of where we need to be but this is going to be a long fight for us. I know the travel ban is lifted and people complaining they felt it wasnt necessary. Whats your response to that . The biggest thing that slows us down is that other cars get stuck and we cant get by. This is an enormous amount of snow and being out there and blocking us or making it so that we are slower just means the city wont get back on its feet for a longer period of time. I absolutely think particularly into the afternoon and saw two and three inch per hour snow falls those are dangerous conditions and people should not be driving. You are talking about the enormous amount of snow and people are worried about what to do with it. Street as you said. Any recommendations there . The extent you can pile it along the curb line that would be helpful so you leave a pathway on your sidewalk but you are creating a little mound between that and the street that would be useful. And if you end up having to dicke out your car please dont leave big chunks or mountains in the middle. A small car is going to get stuck in that and then theyll have to wait for a tow truck. In terms of the commute tomorrow everybody getting back out to school and work what do you think the conditions will be like. I know you are probably going to be working throughout the day of course today. We are cautiously optimistic i would say. But we still see a very, very large amount of work out there for us. And really to make sure that people understand that we are on it but that we really need to have an opportunity to get in and clear some of the smaller roads. Sanitation commissioner Catherine Garcia thank you so much. We appreciate it. And we will have more on the storm coverage in just a moment. You are watching cbs 2 news sunday morning. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. 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