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We come across that have not been completely plowed. and where we are at the moment now, its not snowing really at all. but we know were heading into some areas in massachusetts where its still snowing pretty heavily. they may see some records broken there. >> thanks very much brian. lets check in with jennifer gray whos on the ground in boston right now. boston, jennifer, has been hit pretty hard. how many inches of snow so far and how many more are they expecting? >> reporter: in portions of b...

Canadians. youre probably used to this kind of thing. but were in the boston harbor part of the city. the north end is over here. you can see me trudging through it. its just about almost to my knees and i was out until about 1:00 in the morning. let me try to walk semi gracefully. you see this was once a sidewalk. clearly no longer. its so incredibly quiet out. people really have been heeding the travel ban that went into effect at midnight last night. we did hear that the travel ban for four c...

Got to go over the hump. were good. were good. >> i dont want your weather channel bosses calling us. >> oh, well -- >> all of a sudden he plows into a tree. no no, no, this is keith venturing out on his own. >> as long as we dont lose cantore, thats good. >> or mike seidel for that reason. at least you know where you stand there. >> i know how it goes. we can -- im dispense i believe. so this is -- you know we got probably 15 16 inches of fresh snow on top of it here in the common. and it is th...

View on that. >> reporter: mr. mayor, thank you for being with us. alisyn we have rosa flores out there. very different world in connecticut. rosa please tell us what youre dealing with there. >> reporter: hi. good morning. you know the wind has been whistling through the buildings overnight and throughout the morning. the temperature, about 19 degrees with the wind chill about 2 degrees. i talked to the mayor. i want you to take a look around me. he told me that they were expecting about 30 inc...

Inches inches. about 27 inches. now i want to pluck over here in the middle of the road because youll see that a lot of this has been accumulating throughout the evening. and it really gives us a sense of what this community is dealing with. over here you see about 19 inches. so it varies a little bit. now, heres the thing, this community is about 30,000 people so how does a community with about 30,000 people deal with this? chris, they told me theyre prioritizing they are plowing the main arter...

Its definitely steadily falling. ive been out here five hours or so and its definitely continuing to come down. were in boston harbor area. the aquarium right and the corner. still a fair amount of snow. and there was a fair amount of snow when we started our evening, but what was once a clear sidewalk is now entirely covered over by snow. let me point out something. when we talk so much about boston you have to think about cape cod, nantucket, 16-mile-per-hour winds being clocked. so theres wor...

Schools are closed tomorrow but thats because we use our school parking lot as the overflow parking in order to accommodate the parking ban and bring the city back to normal as promptly as possible. were on our way to recovery. well continue our efforts in snow removal during the week. after eight inches of snow it starts to become almost a hallway operation. so we want to make sure all our communities are freed of snow a as promptly as possible. we might be getting more snow on friday. >> mayor...

Looks like a beautiful winter wonder land. do not be fooled. the temperature about 20 degrees, the wind chill about 4 degrees. from talking to the mayor of this town im in new london connecticut, he was ready for about 30 inches of snow and here is the key. he told me rosa we dont want to lose the roads. that has happened in the past and we do not want that to happen. now i want you to take a look at a yard stick that i have right there in the snow because that gives you an idea of what weve see...

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