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Alone. rhode island has nearly 172,000 without power. connecticut more than 40,000 outages. and strong winds and high tides are battering the massachusetts coastline. reporter susan trent from our nbc affiliate whdh was on plum island right as the high tide slammed into the coast. reporter: i can show you what is going on with the ocean right now at high tide. the erosion has actually eaten up onto a floor of this home. there are pieces of furniture coming out of that home and washing into the ocean. it is just a couple of seconds ago right before i came out here. we saw a mattress and a springboard actually come out of the flooring of that home and then wash start washing out into the ocean. oh, my goodness. you can see the waves crashing right onto shore here. well, providence, rhode island fell just a little short of an all-time snowfall record. they are digging out from 19 1/2 inches today. and joining me from downtown ....
Our governor here in new york. he said not only is he deploying supplies to areas in suffolk county that need it but he s also trying to reach a helping hand out to folks there in connecticut and in massachusetts. you re sending snowplows and front loaders and utility crews. do you have all the resources that you need there? hartford? or do you need some help? we need some help. we need some help. we have all of our plows out. but it s just an incredible amount of snow to get it all out of the way. and it s going to require an effort of loading on the snow into trucks and hauling it out. we ve done a good job in our major streets, but still we re going to do curb to curb. it s going to definitely increase the volume on the aprons and on the sidewalk. we need to avoid that because it on structure visibility and presents a danger to our pedestrians. and also for vehicles once they get moving. because it s kind of hard to see around the corners. so eventually we re going to have to load ....
Roadways cleared. it s going to be tougher for crews to do that if people decide let s go out and take a look and see how bad things are. they want you to stay home. give them a day. and then maybe tomorrow things are going to be a little bit better. stay home. watch it on tv. you can get out perhaps better tomorrow. ron mott thanks for the report. let s go to another area buried under deep snow. that s connecticut. we have nbc s ron allen standing by for us in hartford. it looks a little better. you were being pelted earlier today. reporter: yeah, it stopped snowing, alex. the temperatures are as ron was saying hovering around freezing. it s very cold out here. you can see a lot of blowing and drifting snow. over here, this is snow that s been plowed by the plows off the main roadway. it s about four feet tall. but there are snowdrifts in other parts of the state as high as 7 or 8 feet. the highest snowfall total is about 38 inches. overall at the airport it s about 32 inches. t ....
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Well, we have much more on the storm to come. putting the business angle of the storm. but to recap for all of you, more than half a million customers remain without power across the region. all roads are closed in the states of massachusetts, connecticut and rhode island. and at least three people, some reports of four having died. now to politics and his new weekly address today, president obama issued a warning about the latest fiscal crisis threatening the u.s. economy. if congress doesn t act by march 1st, a series of harmful automatic cuts to job-creating investment and defense spending, also known as the sequester, are scheduled to take effect. and the results could be a huge blow to middle class families and our economy as a whole. joining me now for today s strategy talk, is former u.s. senator and majority leader tom daschell, senior policy adviser for dla piper and author of a new book the u.s. senate. looks like a great book. thank you for joining us. my pleasure, ....