alissa, annie, david and heather again. heather keeps me sane. she makes sure i don t completely go crazy on the air. thank you to you all. it takes a team to make some show work. paula reid coming up. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reid in washington. a christmas eve storm for the ages. we are tracking the very latest on the severe weather impacting millions across the u.s. at least 16 storm-related deaths have been reported, including two in erie county, new york, in what may be the area s worst winter storm since the famous 1977 buffalo blizzard. jefferson county, new york, is experiencing life-threatening blizzard conditions, banning travel and declaring a state of emergency. jaw dropping sub zero temperatures across huge swaths of the country. 100 people people remain under windchill alerts. atlanta and philadelphia are facing their coldest christmas ever. and nearly two million people are without power. power companies in ohio, kentucky, and memphis are
Through for the morning drive, tomorrow my advice is set the alarm extra early tomorrow. You know how these weaker systems can treat us sometimes, we do tend to get a little will confident sometimes with these weaker developments and as a result you can end up with more problems traffic wise then if you had a foot of snow, right . Primary expectations for most of us will be straight up snow and light snow no less but snow regardless. The snow and rain may mix, further south you go and that is more so on the tail end of the system and that doesnt start until later on tonight. So for now were sitting pretty, chilly, but pretty at 28 at the a airport and in the 20s every where else, we will have a colder air by comparison at mount pocono but with that said heres how we end up, at best just 41 degrees. Normal high in the upper 40s. The we are colder then average, anyway and this cold air is setting stage for things to come as we see the snow moving in later on tonight, and into tomorrow, e
Snowboarding down the empty roads, and this is a live look right now at the white house. But it is new york being especially hard. Theres time square. Only police cars. All traffic banned. Look at this image from space. The orange lights are major cities buried under snow and clouds from the massive storm. From space to the center of the storm, our team has covered it all and we start with abcs Ron Claiborne in hardhit new york. Reporter tonight the nations largest city in a bullseye in an epic storm creating whiteout conditions. Forcen an extraordinary travel ban. Unless it is truly an emergency, you should not be on the road. Travel is now banned, and the reason were doing that is to trect people. Reporter the snow still coming down strong tonight exceeding expectations. Top snowstorms on record here in new york stained no letup expected for hours. One of the worse blizzards, winter storms, that ive seen here in new york. Oh, yeah. Its no fun. Reporter no fun at all . No. Its not a w
Observation from the park up to 20 Miles Per Hour. Air temperature readings as low as 6 in the area but now have wind chills a little lower. Pretty typical in the sunrise hour the numbers retreat a bit but it feels like 3 in bedford and 2 below in liberty. The wind chill in the city is just 12. Hour by hour we are still going to factor those wind chills into your kay. 29 at lunch time feels like 19. 34 your high still shy of the mark and that wind over the snow pack is going to make it feel colder and speaking of that snow pack 15 to over 30 inches in the bright color. There the blue thats a few inches to some folks flirting with a foot and then i did not care basically nothing in the white. Clean up is going to be a big chore. Pace yourself and wear sunglasses too. Back to the desk. Sorry for coughing. Drink i started choking instead of swallowing it. Now that the snow has stopped falling its time to dig out. And a lot of parts of the area its not going to be an easy task. Alice gaine
Drive times. Gene Stormtracker Weather Center a busy place. Sarah wroblewski and shiri spear are updating the snow totals as a team this morning. Corridor. Shiri as expected between 5 and 6, boston made that boston, boston, north shore. You are a winter storm warning until 3 00 in afternoon. We have heavy rain over southeastern mass with temperatures upper 30s, lower 40s. 35 in boston with snow. Not sticking as well from worcester up to fitchburg where temperatures are closer to or just below freezing. Rainsnow line through bridgewater. Halifax, marshfield. Getting reports mixing in. Snow in the boston area and andover and lawrence have this blip of rain, northeastern massachusetts aside from cape anne have already made that change and will continue to do so. By 9 a. M. , we have that way to the cape cod canal. Where we have the snow, pockets of heavy snow from the cape and islands. You will see snowflakes sneak you will see snowflakes sneaking in with that heavy rain. Pulls down the c