Hey, everybody. Im Suzanne Malveaux. Were looking at a monster storm potential of a lot of stress and a lot of action thats going to happen over the next 24 hours here. I want you to take a look at what were watching here. This is boston. Two to three inches of snow expected. Perhaps up to three feet that is predicted in in boston for the weekend. This is being compared to the great blizzard of 1978, if you can believe that. That is when the city is literally shutting down after a monster storm. What are we watching here. Shoppers, gas station lines. Folks who will be hitting the stores, hitting their neighborhoods trying to hunker down if they can for the weekend. Right now its a bad time to get around. More than 3,000 flights have already been canceled. That is for friday and saturday going into the weekend. We are watching boston as well. There are a lot of requirements, of course, to make sure that people are safe. As well as hospitals, getting around. And so they are requiring that all the vehicles get off the roads by 12 00 noon. We are also watching some real changes in the Public Transportation system. The public rail stopping at 3 30, we understand, this afternoon. There are already folks getting out there. You can imagine the officials. You can imagine the resources, the technology, the equipment that they are putting out onto the roads. 600 snow removers are out there already in place for this monster storm that is expected all the way from new york to maine. Quite an amazing thing that were watching here. Were going to be bringing this to you minute by minute, hour by hour as this unfolds over the next 24 hours. I want to take you to boston here. Indra peterson, youre already bundled up. What can we expect . Yes. Its definitely already snowing. And what a difference from an hour or so ago. We had people hanging out. They were taking their dogs out for a run. Now the snow is wet and sticky, it may stick to the ground a little bit, its just us out here. Lets talk habit this blizzard is expected to storm. The first storm in thats yesterday bringing heavy thunderstorms moved up to the midatlantic. Then we have the cool dry air out of the arctic and canada. Thats a second storm around the ohio valley. When these two storms merge together, that brings us the coastal bomb that we like to call it. This noreaster bringing snowfall rates of two to three inches per hour. 70 Miles Per Hour are possible. And visibility could drop to zero. All day im going to continue to do this. Im going to show you here is the customs tower behind me. We like to tauz about visibility below a quarter mile. We can still see it. So this is the thing i feel like im cold and wet out here. But i am still on the upslope of the roller coaster waiting for the scary part through the overnight hours tonight. Well continue to update you throughout the evening hours. Thank you. I know what its like to be out there. I covered a lot of weather out there. I want to bring in Ashleigh Banfield in new york to take us through a lot of the snow, the rain, the ice, everything that will happen in the next 24 hours. Ashleigh . Reporter you know new york too well. I look like im in a rainstorm, a sleet storm, i am. Were in a morphing stage right now. Where these people are all trying to gorks taking the yellow cabs, maybe a visit in central park its not going to last. Its going to get really ugly and things will shut down. They are looking to revise the transit in and out of the city. But new york has been to this before. A couple of months ago we dealt with sandy. Traffic was really light into manhattan today. Me thinks its going to stay light as well. Look at this guy right here. He is right now using a skimmer just to make sure that people dont skid along in the slushy mess. But hes going to have to get himself a big shovel like the rest of us. Fema has already put out the warnings to new englanders. Get ready. Get preprayered. Batteries, shovels, candles, gasoline. There are already lines for gasoline. We went through this in sandy. Many of us waiting for days. My town was dry in connecticut. Couldnt get gas for days. There are blizzard warnings in effect for these states. Connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, maine and new hampshire. There are coastal Flood Warnings along with the blizzard warnings. It seems weird to connect those two, but they have them. Theyre expecting the floods to be three to five feet of storm surge along the coastal areas as well. And heres the thing, its like sandy all over again in terms of patterns converging. Cold air coming up the coast and a big wind restorm from the midwest. Jennifer delgado is monitoring the science of this much better than i did. You did a good job. I think youve been studying with chad myers. Were following the storm and were watch twog areas, as ashleigh just said. One is the low off the coast. Then another merging in off the great lakes. What this is going to do, this is going to produce a tremendous amount of snowfall. Were talking crippling. Potentially historic. And some of the locations are going to see three feet of snow but you can see for areas including providence, boston, already heavy snow. Its only going to get heavier throughout the day. By 4 00, new york will see all snow working in. As we go later in the day into even thing, more snow coming down, combined with the strong winds. Some of the winds up to 60 Miles Per Hour. Thats going to create the blizzard conditions. We expect that to arrive tonight and tomorrow. And notice for yourself the low continues to move up to the north. Were talking this low is not going to make its way away from the coastline in until tomorrow night. In addition to the snow and strong winds, anywhere youre seeing areas like 21 inches of snowfall in new york, nearly 11. So suzanne, ashleigh, we need to make sure you have the shovels ready. Im finding it hard to believe you have one next to you. I have a snow blower. Two years. Hey, by the way, jennifer, before you go, what do you call it when the snow comes down and feels like razor blades hitting my face. Speaking of the bosses, i hope theyre listening. One was supposed to fly out today and leave here and go back to where we are. So 3,600 flights are being canceled. Zain asher has been dispatched to laguardia, one of the big centers here for flying and the best way to put it is its a bit of a drag. Right, zain . Reporter yeah, ashleigh. Its just crazy here. United air lirns stopping flights into new york until 3 00 p. M. Just to give you an idea of how severe this storm is expected to be. Weve been here since 3 30 this morning. And i was able to chitchat with some travelers who were explaining their travel woes to me. One person saying he was on the phone with American Airlines for about an hour and a half yesterday trying to get his flight rescheduled. He was lucky. Another family saying their flights out of boston were completely canceled. So they had to drive all the way to new york to get out of here. Anyone planning travel today should of course kak the airline beforehand. Take a look right there. You can see that you know, its all yellow, pretty much all across the board. Im going to break that down for you. 3,600 flights across the northeast canceled 300 alone at laguardia. Jfk, 400 Flights Canceled. And even though at the airport right now its calm, we predict ha in the next few days it will be mayhem here as everyone descends on the airport. Everyone trying to get out at the same time. So weve been covering the two huge stories. The country is a bit of a bookend with really massive developing stories. This big weather system is going to paralyze and affect tens of millions of people on the east coast. On the west coast theres an outrageous man hunt upside way where police are trying to find a guy before he finds them. Suzanne malveaux is tracking all of the developments in the remarkable story. What more do you know now . Its really quite amazing. The former Police Officer who is now suspected of killing a fellow cop and two other folks is still on the the loose. Christopher dorner is set on revenge for being kicked off the force if 2008 after accusing another officer of brutalizing a suspect. But he is still out of sight. Police are expected to update the reporters in the next hour. What is happening with the search. Its happening moments from now. Im going to bring bring that to you as soon as it starts. We all remember the alabama boy who survived. We are now seeing the first pictures of him. He is ethan. He just turned 6 on wednesday, two days after he was rescued. 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Casey wian is joining us from larngs where police all over Southern California have been watching their backs, literally, trying to hunt down a man who is frying to hunt them down, too. Casey, tell us the latest on charles and how he has promised to kill lapd officers anywhere he can find them. Casey, i dont think you can hear me. And i certainly cant hear you. My apologies while we work to establish caseys ifb, which is our listening capacity from coast to coast, im going to throw it back to Suzanne Malveaux who has other news that shes covering. Well get back to this lead story as well. Youre absolutely right. The man hunt is continuing for the former los angeles Police Officer who is now suspected of killing a fellow cop, two other people still on the loose. I want to bring in new York Attorney and former prosecutor. The retired chief of police in maryland who led a successful man hunt for the beltway sniper in the d. C. Area a decade ago. I remember that very well, very clearly. I was in the d. C. Area at the time. It was very frightening for a lot of us who were ducking and dodging while we went to go fill our cars up at the gas station. People who were shot at bus stops, at stores, the sniper investigation that continued for week weeks and weeks as we try to search for the killer. Are there similarities here . Well, certainly one of the things that make it different is that they know who they are looking for. Yesterday felt like hot pursuit. As we get into the day and maybe tomorrow, its starting to feel like maybe its an investigation. And if it is an investigation, then certainly we will need some time of organization or structure. Some type of command structures. I realize the Police Officers in Southern California network. As we look at nevada, mexico, Southern California, there may have to be some type of way to prevent stove piping, put some kind of organization in place to coordinate the investigation, as opposed to the hot pursuit man hunt that it felt like yesterday. Does it feel like the tracks are cold . Hes already dumped his truck. Apparently tried to steal a boat as well. We know theres a pattern or path to follow him. Do we know where he might be going . Do we have a sense as time passes on that the trail is cold . Will, i think thats why it moves towards investigation as opposed to pursuit. I also think we need to realize based on the d. C. Experience how fearful the Police Officers must be knowing that at any moment he could be targeting them. So the stress is extremely high. But i dont imagine its a cold path. The investigative pieces havent all come together and certainly a lot offing the information woebl wont be released. Theres no doubt in anyones mind that hes also paying attention to p the media, trying to follow the investigation over the airways. But also the knowledge that hes trying to gather intelligence in order to protect himself. And so hes going to be looking at the media to try to gatt irthat sbel. And i understand there are Police Officers who are normally on motorcycles who have been taken off motorcycles, normally who are in traffic. Cops who are on the beat, who are now inside their cars because they want to protect thmss and everybody who is on alert at this point. Is it a good idea for them perhaps to get out of their uniforms for them to hide in some way . How safe are the Police Officers on the streets now . All of them out there looking for them who are clearly targets . Well, certainly, i think all people in Law Enforcement will appreciate your concern and that is certainly well thought out on your part. But the reality is, i think they sign up to send that message in uniform to the public that they are there. That blue line between the good guys and the bad guys, and so i think the Police Officers will stay visible, will stay in uniform. Thats what they sign on to do. Thats their mission in life. And yes, it is dangerous, but its always dangerous. This is a more specific target. But i really dont an tis pace that the Police Officers will make any effort to hide or disguise themselves. Their goal is to be on the alert and to bring this person to justice. Okay. Thank you very much. Really appreciate it. Were following the other breaking news. That is the massive snowstorm that is coming. Lets look to boston mayor. Under a blizzard warning until 1 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Were also under a coastal Flood Warning until noontime on saturday. This is a large and powerful storm. However, we are encouraged by the numbers of people who stayed home today and who are moving their cars off the streets. And all city buildings are closed as of noontime today because the nta will not service them at 3 30 this afternoon. Make sure the city workers have the ability to get home from their jobs. The snow emergency goes into effect at 12 00 p. M. They will remain intact on the main arteries. Please get your cars off the streets. You have to show a city parking sticker to get one of those reduced rates. Go to the cityofboston. Gov for further information on where the 19 parking lots are. Our 24hour service will remain open and ready to help. 6354500 is the number. We have a team here for all operations and residents concerns. We have 34,000 tons of salt. Now over 600 pieces of equipment ready to be deployed throughout the storm. Again, this is a major portion. Stay off the roads. Let the public works crews do their job over the next 48 to 72 hours. Maybe sure the Public Safety vehicles are able to get through the streets of our city. So the message really is we are here if you need us. Call our hot line once again. Or 911 if its an emergency. If its an emergency only. If its a question about snowplowing or parking call the 6354500 number. Please check on your neighbors. Well continue to update you as we receive more information over the next few hours. Well continue to update the constituents. Like to have the public works commissioner say a few words about what public works is doing at this time. Boston mayor knows what hes talking about. This could really rival the record of back in 1978 when they had a massive storm. I want to brick back Ashleigh Banfield. New york will get it as well. Probably not as bad, but significant because its a different ball game when youre talking about new york and dealing with a lot of snow and a lot of ice. See whats over here . Those are kids. Theyre already aware that the cameras are here. Let me tell you something about kids, coup san. The there are School Closures all over the place. Connecticut has a number of School Closures. Manhattan is likely dealing with School Closures or early dismissals. There are going to be thousands and thousands of kids up and down the eastern seaboard like these kids looking for something to do today. Tree limbs fall. Trees fall. Plenty of deaths are reported in the storms because of it. Maybe these kids are headed to the mall nearby to find something to do while school is out. In fact, the mayor of connecticut already declared a state of emergency. When we come back after the break, how bad its going to get as you move up the coast. As we continue to watch this huge noreaster colliding over new york and massachusetts and a number of new england states, were also watching a very Serious Development in the west coast as well. In the los angeles area, theres a man hunt under way for the exlapd officer and exnavy lieutenant who has vowed revenge on the lapd by hunting down and killing officers anywhere he