the numbers really tell the story. the state of pennsylvania has already blown through half of its snow removal budget, if you can believe it. take a look at the driving conditions in boston. in new york, the situation is not good. many here are braving the snow and the shivers and reports of six-hour commutes are their reward. swror arteries are major arteries are crawling because of all the ice and snow obviously. there is a state of emergency and a level one driving in effect in jersey. let s start with meteorologist indra petersons live from bone-chilling boston, massachusetts. i was forced to come inside by other news, otherwise i would still be outside.
news throughout the day. shifting gears now. plows and shovels are still working overtime across the northeast this morning, digging out from a record storm. 19 inches of snow took new yorkers by surprise, making it the snowiest january on record. airports are getting back on track after 1,000 flights were canceled here in this area alone. roofs loaded down by heavy snow are caving in from washington, d.c. to boston and seven deaths are now attributed to the storm. well, on top of all of that, new york has already burned through its entire snow removal budget for the year and there will actually not be much time to recover before the next winter wallop heads this way. we turn now to accuweather and our meteorologist ava dinges. good morning. good morning, rob and vinita. dare i say the word snow in the forecast for the northeast? well, that s what s going to be happening through these next couple of days, if not into the upcoming weeks. here we have a quick-moving storm out o
issue for drivers. if you don t have to get out, by all means, stay at home for the time being. let s kick it back to the studio. you re right. if you don t need to be out there, some of the schools are closed, offices closed as well. don t do it. reynolds, thanks so much. we re also talking about the snow budget in the nation s capital. they ve all right spent about 40% of their $6.4 million budget. here in new york, they re reportedly burned through the entire thing, $38.8 million in the snow removal budget. and the city here, gone. also in boston they depleted about 66% of their snow budget which is $16 million. take a look at what happened on one stretch of i-95 in connecticut. this is just north of new york. it was closed all night long. a five-mile stretch. take a look at that, folks. trucks stuck. not going anywhere. we are told this stretch of i-95 did reopen just a few minutes ago. yeah. boy, it s been quite a mess,
morning. jfk and newark at least. laguardia is reporting that they are open and dealing with 15-minute delays. don t know how true that is. but we know there are at least a thousand flights canceled so far. you really need to check online with anything having to do with travel in and out of the northeast. all of the snow crushing the snow removal budgets on the east coast as well. here in new york city, they ve spent the entire thing already. we re talking about just the end of january. $38 million. that s how much it costs. i believe mayor bloomberg was talking about using more than 200,000 pounds of rock salt already and counting. just north in boston, they ve already reportedly burned through 66% of their $16 million snow removal budget. i want to turn to washington, d.c. right now, the new house speaker john boehner says he wants to change things. he wants to change the way congress is run. he s revealing some of his plans to our kathleen parker, take a
you put it in dumpsters and haul it appear costing a lot of money. the city of new york says $1 million 1 and many have blown through their snow removal budget and winter . we is barely reached the middle. our senior correspondent at a snowy airport in queens with huge travel problems at la guardia but first from the fox business network in lower manhattan. $1 million for 1 a snow? reporter: when you put that in terms of how much snow we have the costs pile up. business as usual on the stock exchange, but as you say one storm after another has caused problems in the northeast, where the costs are piling up. and now the numbers: new york city has $38 million set aside to clear snow for the entire season. that money gone. spent expirely on december 26th. so, maybe they will look for a