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Plows but head to wait for the 2 inches of snow on the ground before they could go about their business. overall, the city is working two shifts of 12 hours each to make sure those around the clock coverage in insuring not just manhattan but the outer boroughs too get cleared. too many people remember 2010 when the city failed to clean the streets after a snowfall. from there, bill de blasio, his his first big challenge having only just taken office. perhaps somewhat unfairly, but maybe hell be ...

Communities that will have to do that. certainly there are some that will be suffering from the snow especially in the outlying areas. not in the city where were seeing more snowfall and those places are harder to reach for things like snowplows as well. >> thank you. in boston for us. thanks. in new york state the governor has declared a state of emergency and authorities are warning people to stay off the roads. albany expecting as much as 18 inches with wind chills of 15 to 20 below. new york...

>> thanks, tahman. we are getting details about the storm as it blows across the northeast. >> jim dicky has a live update. good morning, jim. >> good morning. snow coming down heavily from new york into boston. in the past half-hour, really seeing progress of that surface low. off shore, making its way further off to the east, even as it strengthens, and winds turning now due north. that will bring an end to the heavy snow through the next couple of hours. again, it is brutally cold out there...

Light snow thats causing some problems for flights, flights were canceled from logan last night until this afternoon. we are seeing is up in the air there because logans not too far away planes land. i was supposed to fly out tonight. my flight has been canceled. >> youre not going anywhere. especially with the wind and cold. its not even as bad in boston as it is in cape cod southeast of boston. the conditions can even worse. laurie segall is there. the winds and snowfall really, really tough w...

Stream is in a particular figuration thats giving us a very cold and stormy weather here in the eastern u.s. and that configuration will break down, and warmer conditions lie, you know, lie ahead. but theres also an interesting climate change connection there as well. because there has been some interesting recent scientific research that shows that the dramatic decrease in sea ice in the arctic over the past few decades, a decrease by 50% just in a matter of decades, may be influencing the jet ...

John? >> and the good news is that theyre out there shoveling today. its could not going to get easier as it gets colder in boston. theres a special place in heaven for people who bring chocolate chip cookies to reporters. appreciate it. lets come backing to new york where jean casarez is covering the impact here in the big apple. how do new yorkers seem to be dealing with it so far, jean? >> john, we are in the heart of new york city in columbus circle. for the most part, all the roads are plow...

>> best of both worlds. >> indeed. did you see the fur hats? i loved those -- >> i did. i think i need to get me one of those. im from florida, so im not used to the cold weather. >> i grew up in toronto, i got no sympathy for anybody upset over the weather. >> our coverage does not end here. later this hour, a live update from new jerseys department of transportation as the snow keeps falling. keep it here all morning long. a man in chicago is in critical condition this morning after a dramat...

Major cities including some of the busiest travel hubs are buried under heavy snowfall and getting blasted by these fierce wind gusts. and then there are the dangerously cold temperatures. well below zero with the windchill in many places. even without the chind windchill its pretty darn cold. were covering the story from all angles today. our correspondents are in boston and the streets of new york as well as at laguardia airport and at airports in washington, as well. lets first go to boston. ...

Just ten minutes. that is all it takes. think about all the people if theyre trying to get on the road and they get stuck, those are very dangerous conditions. you also talk about these winds out here, winds are gusting from the north, even 20, as much as 40 miles per hour. with that we have blizzard conditions. we have them in massachusetts. we also have them in long island. a lot of people have been asking, what makes it a blizzard versus a winter storm? its the steady winds continually pickin...

Up tomorrow and some places in massachusetts, john, there are counties reporting more than a foot of snow on the ground, john. >> it looks plenty unpleasant where you are, fred. it could be worse on the cape and much of new eng lelands co. they are getting blizzard warnings. how bad are they expecting things to be? >> bad for places like cape cod for instance. the big difference is first of all, the snowfall will be worse. the winds, of course, will be much higher, as well. what you have in this...