thanks. and now let s take another look outside. this is boston with these whiteout conditions as we continue to follow breaking news on this bomb cyclone nor easter hitting the east coast right now. as this powerful storm moves north, coastal flooding is also an issue. jonathan hall from our affiliate whdh is in scituate, massachusetts, where freezing power lines are a big concern. moest power lines they ll hae an issue with will be because of trees falling, but the wind is blowing so hard at the coastline you have a potential issue. i don t see any lights on in any of these homes. some people may have done the voluntary evacuation. in other respects, there could be no power here. we re not exactly sure. we don t see any lights on. we ll pan out to the right. three hours after high tide now, and the ocean has calm doed dow
feet of snow. hurricane force wind gusts are expected creating coastal flooding and power outages. officials urge residents to stay inside, off the roads. parts of new england are seeing the worst of it right now. massachusetts is already reporting more than 110,000 customers without power. cnn has teams covering the northeast like no one else can do. brian todd is in atlantic city where you are officially meeting the criteria from a blizzard and it s not over, right? reporter: it is not over yet, fredricka. we re told that the snow is supposed to stop around 2:00 p.m. eastern time, about an hour from now. it doesn t look like it s letting up. the wind has let up a little bit, but again, it s still pretty severe. we look down pacific avenue here, some people are venn cherring out on foot. you ve got some vehicles down there that are pulled over the side but also some plowings have been coming up and down here.
looking at the storm surge with this northeast wind. nantucket is looking at 3-foot storm surge right now, boston 2 1/2, atlantic city, fredricka, a little over 2. and when you take all that together and you combine it together, we are still looking at more than 100,000 customers without power in massachusetts at this time. and that part of massachusetts is really the area that we expect the extreme impacts as we go through the day. notice that going on into the northeast, we re going to continue to see some major to extreme impacts there as well. this is something we ll be dealing with for the rest of today. it s not until daybreak tomorrow the northeast sees a break. in it for the long haul. tyler maulden thanks so much. in new york, governor kathy hochul this morning called long island the ep sicenter of this winter storm, and the national weather service confirming blizzard conditions across suffolk county joining me is executive stave billone. good to see you.
this is those winds can certainly play havoc on our live shot, but it is demonstrative of what they re dealing with there in long island and really along the entire east coast. it s trifecta. you have accumulation, you ve got wind, and then you ve got storm surge. tyler maulden is keeping an eye on these conditions for us from the cnn weather center. tyler, it s pretty dicey no matter where you look along the northeast coast. absolutely. it s phenomenal how quickly these snowfall totals are beginning to pile up. in bayville, new jersey, we re sitting at 19 inches of snow, so just over foot and a half. north babylon, new york, 18 1/2 inches. and there are areas that will be seeing more than that as we go through the rest of our saturday. in terms of the wind gusts, we have had reports of nearly 80 miles per hour wind gusts. that nantucket, we had a 74-mile-per-hour wind gusts.
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