thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. right now a powerful and potentially historic winter storm is slamming the east coast from virginia to maine. ten state are under a blizzard warning. some areas could see more than 2 feet of snow. hurricane force wind gusts are possible creating coastal flooding and power outages. rhode island and massachusetts are seeing the most of it. massachusetts already recorded more than 110,000 customers without power. cnn has teams covering this nor easter. our tyler mall den is keeping an eye on the forecast from the cnn weather center. tyler, what are the latest storm advisories? this winter storm has rapidly intensified. it was officially a bomb cyclone as it pushes up the eastern seaboard spreading all this snowfall. it has dropped a lot of snowfall, too, more than a foot across the delmarva and going on into the northeast. you can see parts of new jersey
yet. still a lot of driving snow around here. but again, people are venturing out and plows are out to try to get ahead of this once it ends in a couple hours. already a nail birt,ter that for sure. brian todd, thank you so much. and tyler mauldin is keeping an eye on the forecast from the cnn weather center. so what is the latest? i mean, it sounds pretty hopeful when you listen to the conditions right there from brian that couple more hours of enduring this. but what about if you are further up north. something that brian mentioned was the triple whammy. and one of those areas is nantucket. you can see that with some individual why where you see the storm surge, coastal flooding, you can see the heavy snowfall. trees coated in the snow and also the breezy conditions. and here in nantucket, they have actually dealt with wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour at times. so almost hurricane-force. and when you start to widen the view here and start looking at
so to speak. tyler, thank you so much. appreciate that. new jersey one several in the region that is under this state of emergency. joining me right now by phone is new jersey governor phil murphy. everyone keeps referring to this as the triple whammy particularly for your state. you got accumulation, you have wind, and possible tidal surge as well. how are you assessing things? good to be with you. i think that you have it exactly right. it is a statewide event, so there is snow all over the state but it is really the jersey shore that is getting clobbered. your colleague in atlantic city had a right. you pick any number of towns that i ve been in touch with, but asbury park, avalon, any number of communities are clocking in somewhere 15 plus inches of snow with several hours still to run.
north, and eventually it will be impacting us in new hampshire and maine as we go through the day. you take the coastal flooding, you take the wind, you take all that snowfall and that is a recipe for disaster when it comes to travel and also power outages. we re seeing right now they re mainly across eastern massachusetts, more than 100,000 people, customers, currently without power. it s tremendous. a huge impact already. like you said, it s not over yet. thank you so much, tyler. polo sandoval is live in boston. oh, my goodness. how are you doing? and everybody else? reporter: i promise it s me under here. i m pretty warm. it s like being in a snow globe because one second the snow is gently falling and the next second with the bands it s all of a sudden getting whipped up against your face. so really just speak to those winds that pick up from one second to another, we re feeling it this very second. in a little bit, it will calm