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Night. a lot of their work will be when day breaks. 6:55 is when sunrise is there, when they start going out and responding to these calls. talk about the resources they have because this is a small community. there s 67,000 people in victoria? it s a small community, but the fire department and the police department here just to show you the dedication, some of the officers live more than an hour ago. they left their families to go on shift and start working and work around the clock. some of them catching cat naps. they ve had patrols out on the street until they got as bad as it is right now. just to make sure that the few cars that were out there had a reason to be out there and not just looky lous driving around. one of the biggest problems that happens here is after a hurricane or in this case during what s going to be a prolonged hurricane, people have a tendency to get sort of couped up in their homes, and they decide to, like, well, i have a big enough pickup truck. let s go ....
As the amount of snow, the coverage of snow, the number of states that got 30 inches of snow now includes new york state, connecticut, down through new hampshire, maine, and massachusetts. it s just incredible that it s that widespread. that s the rarity in this one. absolutely. you know i love what you re saying about being a good neighbor. i want to actually applaud governor cuomo who s sending all the resources needed to suffolk county. that s been really hard hit. he s also helping out our neighbors in massachusetts and connecticut. he s sending snowplows, utility crews to the really hard-hit areas. that s called being a good neighbor. are going to do the same for us. reporter: there are towns with 80 to 90% of the people without power. these people have to get out of there. go to hotels or somewhere else in different portions of the state. the only way to do that is to clear the roads. they got to do it in a hurry. they sure do. thank you so much. let s go now to connectic ....
Amazing. we were in a top six snowstorm here. we ll get an update for the snow total in the city within the hour. but in 78 we had almost the same amount of snow but a 2-foot storm a week before. so imagine these banks up to here. that s what they were dealing with 35 years ago. we wouldn t be able to see you, erik fisher. anyway, listen. it s all good at this point. might be an improvement to the report, right? not at all. don t you go there. erik fisher, thank you so much there from boston. let s go now to politics. president obama is on a mission to avoid a series of automatic cuts that could kick in on march 1st. during his weekly address, president obama slammed the republicans approach on the sequester. the current republican plan puts the burden of avoiding those cuts mainly on seniors and middle class families. they d rather ask more from the vast majority of americans and put our recovery at risk than close even a single tax loophole that benefits the wealthy. le ....
Conditions out on the road have been so brutal the post office is cancelling services and closing branches in six states today. here s a look from the massive snow from space. before the storm intensified and grew even larger. welcome back everyone to weekends with alex witt. let s go to the big question now. when is it going to be over? we ll get the very latest and snow totals from nbc meteorologist bill karins. reporter: this storm will be compared to the blizzard of 1978 in february that struck providence and boston and gave them their all-time record snow false. in that storm we had pictures caught on the highways. a lot of people got caught on the road unlike this time. that was good. we want to minimize the number of fatalities going forward. so they re actually telling people if you re using the generators got to make sure it has ventilation. we don t want carbon monoxide fatalities out of this. the 1978 blizzard had 100 fatalities. we had a handful and we don t want more ....
Or something but got stranded there last night in the snow. so again they re urging people stay off the roads. stay in your homes to the merge cruise can get out there and make several passes to clear the way. thank you for that as we see those cars some of them away they go being taken away by tow trucks once they dig out. thank you, ron. let s go now to new york city s central park and jonathan bigliotti is there live for us. a lot of people seem to be having some fun now that the snow is subsided and the sun s out. reporter: yeah, good afternoon to you can alex. it s a great afternoon for new york city kids. we are here in central park. you can see how these kids are dealing with the aftermath of this blizzard. these newly-formed slopes if you will have now been taken over by the kids. sledding a very popular option here. we ve also seen kids with skis and even snowboard. obviously it s a little bit of a different situation when you re out on the streets driving through this a ....