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>> prin poe, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. more travel problems, shuttered schools and power outages. new york central park broke a one-day record with more than a foot of snow. more fell this morning. its so bad in philadelphia, the mayor declared a snow emergency. the city pounded time and again this winter by one storm after another. in washington, d.c., half a foot of snow disrupted air travel and forced government offices to delay opening this morning. weve got live coverage th...

Off the road in new york and boston so the plows can get through. they have closed schools in all of those cities. since mid december, it has actually snowed eight times in the new york city area, about once every five days. in boston, they have gotten 50 inches and counting so far this season. gobbling through their snow removal budgets. reynolds wolf is standing by this morning. one other note. we got word from amtrak they have suspended their new york to boston service as well because of the ...

Come on, guys, lets go on through! this is a 12-hour event and under way at 7:00 and finished at sr7:00 a.m. things are moving pretty smoothly. you want to know the big reason why? take a look at this. the truck and on the front is a nice big plow and these guys are working around the clock and making sure the streets are in pretty good shape. they are in good shape. because they are in good shape, people returning to work. a lot of the city employees going back to city hall and things opened th...

Talking about 6 to 8 inches of more snowfall. the highest point we have seen in this area 11.5. kick it back to you in the studio. >> so he is telling consider ourselves lucky. could have been worse. 6 more inches. thanks. >> it could have been far worse than this. >> lets turn to the airports and give you an idea of what is happening in the northeast. heres a look where we are right now. this is a changing situation but reagan national right now open. boston logan open. john f. kennedy is close...

Were looking at capitol hill, yeah, its just starting to get light. a night of heavy snowfall. the citys covered in a white blanket, looks pretty. but not fun. this is "world one" right here on cnn. ahead on "american morning," another monster winter storm, believe me, we lived it coming in this morning. pounding the northeast. a thousand canceled flights. the roads are a mess. many schools shut down from washington to boston. doctors are now calling congresswomans gabrielle giffords recover...

Days, and that is possible. i dont think its going to happen today. the snowstorm itself has moved out towards the east. lake-effect snows coming across upstate new york. but this system right here is driving into chicago right now, and thats heading towards the northeast also. that will probably have maybe an inch or two of snow on friday and then another pulse of lighter snow on sunday. but nothing compared to the blockbuster event we just had. and its a slow go digging out piling up and havin...

Period there. and the snow itself was pretty heavy. so it wasnt like it would fall on the roadways and was cold enough and windy enough to where it blew on the side. it was snowing with heavy snow stuck immediately to the pavement and piled up really, really quickly. how much did it pile up? check out some of these numbers. central park saw 19 inches of snow. and most of that came in a 12 to 18-hour period. philadelphia saw 15.1. newark, almost 19 inches. norwalk and new cannan, 18 inches. weve ...

Road? you just couldnt move the car? what was the -- >> well, there were two lanes of cars, and i was stuck in between all the cars. so you just knew nothing for so long. and then there were emergency vehicles trying to get through. and we were so tight because the snow was coming down fiercely after about a half an hour. and so people started -- i mean, i started calling the park police and trying to get through to just find out what was happening. and then people were getting out of their cars...

Little bit, just a smidgeon, we could have seen heavier snowfall. if it had moved faster, we could have seen lower totals. it was a quick mover. more snow in the forecast. thankfully the snow we expect this weekend, not nearly as heavy. >> thank goodness. we got live aerial pictures from wabc in new york city so you can take a look at what new york looks like via air. lots of snow, karen mcginnis. reynolds says its getting better. >> when the sun is out, carol, it looks amazingly peaceful and ca...

Out towards the west, we got another storm system that is going to be coming in from the midwest that could bring another 1 to 2 inches of snowfall in the coming days and not the magnitude of what we have seen or had the last couple of weeks. still a little more snowfall but, typical, it is winter and it is boston and it does happen. back to you in the studio. >> short and sweet, simple, well put. reynolds, thanks. rob marciano is here actually in the warmer atmospheric conditions here in the st...