Its the snow accumulation and wind will affect people here and if you lose power, you can lose heat in your house. I have seen people get smashed in the doors here at time warner center. They think they can get in but the wind is blowing so hard they get smashed on the way out. Thats why the Revolving Doors are there. They are not treating passengers through them like Revolving Doors are. Its tough out here. Wind blowing at 35 Miles Per Hour carol. All right. Chad myers, this could be heavy, wet snow too. Its likely that many people will lose power, right . It is the closer you get to the coast, the heavier it will be. Here it will be 10 to 1 snow. If you get 20 inches of snow and you melt it down you get two inches of water. Closer to the coast, it will be closer to 7 to 1. It will be three inches of water and much heavier to shovel. Chad myers, try to stay warm out there. You look so miserable. Im great. This is a warm coat thanks to my boss who bought this coat. Thats a good thing. Thank you so much. Chad myers reporting live from new york. Air travelers, no surprise here flight delays into the thousands. Crippling conditions beginning to make their mark. At last check nearly 3,000 flights are running on delays right now. More than 2,500 have been canceled. More than 2,600 flights have been canceled for tomorrow. Rehny y rene marsh standing by at laguardia. Good morning. Reporter this is the Main Attraction here. You see this all morning where travelers are walking up to these two boards because they want to know the situation with their flight. Here at laguardia, we know more than 600 cancellations in and out of the airport. As the morning goes on were seeing the cancellations and delays build up. We expect the same sort of trend with airports up and down the northeast corridor. So if you take a look there are some flights that are still going out of laguardia at this hour. Its still early. You are looking at the tsa checkpoint at this point. Those are lucky people. Those are people whose flights will actually get to their destination at least the first leg of their flight. So there is a slight bit of good news. Then things start to fade as the day goes on because i speak to a lot of folks here lots of airport workers and Airline Workers who say things dont look that bad just yet. They are bracing for the worst, which is really going to ramp up around the afternoon hours here. We do know the snow is coming down here at laguardia. They are paying close attention to the tarmac and runways and make sure there is no icing. Air Traffic Controllers in the tower here call this a very hectic situation in they want to make sure aircraft that are coming in or leaving is happening safely. So thats the picture we have here. The moral of the story is thousands of people will not be able to get on their flights in response to that Many Airlines allow people to switch their reservations without any charges. Carol . Thats a good thing. Rene marsh reporting live from laguardia. Connecticut governor Daniel Malloy is holding a News Conference to hell his citizens how to prepare. Lets listen. Well provide updates as conditions adjust. Continue monitoring the media throughout the day for updates. Recapping, this is potentially a dangerous storm with significant accumulation of snow heavy wind and coastal flooding. It is imperative that you have a plan in place to get home safely this evening before the heavy snow begins and remain there through the duration of the storm. The storm will no doubt pose significant challenges. Thats why we are working around the clock to mitigate problems as they arise but we also ask that over the next 24 to 48 hours that our residents remain patient and get ready for the storm. We have been down this road before in connecticut. Every time we have met the difficult challenges together. Were a resilient state and well get through this storm together. Be safe and have a plan to look out for yourself and your neighbors. And with that ill take questions on point. [ inaudible question ] ive had conversations and d. O. T. Has had conversations with our neighboring states to the north, rhode island to the east and massachusetts. We are coordinating with them. Were waiting on an announcement in new york that probably will come earlier than 9 00 p. M. We have not received their timing yet. [ inaudible question ] when we lift it well announce a lifting as we are taking the step of preannouncing closure in anticipation of blizzard conditions could arise as early as that time. Reporter it seems they are preparing for some percentage of outages here. Is there a scenario that goes with the 35mile sustained winds . Both utilities are treating this as a level 1 occurrence. So that would mean something up to 110,000 households could be out of power. That would represent 10 . Maybe slightly higher. I mean 10,000. Maybe slightly higher. Those things can change draumt dramatically. We dont know what the weight of the snow is whether well experience 35 45 or 65. Were preparing for 60 along the coast and people should make those assumptions. So i think its important to note if youre without power, youre going to be without power for a period of time. All likelihood several days. Were going to step away from this press conference. That doesnt sound very comfortable, does it . I want to bring in the mayor right now. How are you . Im probably better than you. I just heard governor malloy said if people experience a power outage in connecticut, expect to be without power for a few days. Yes. Were further inland. The estimates for wind in our city are in the 40 range so even though thats severe its still a lot lighter than the coast. We have a lot of our power is underground but we still have some power in some areas that are, you know cables. We have been working for the last 24 hours so well let schools out at noontime. Our employees will also be leaving around noontime. Were working with the private sector and all of the Insurance Companies to make sure we stagger employees to leave home to do that in an orderly fashion. Our crews are ready to go. We have 60 vehicles with plows on them. Weve all activated our Emergency Operation center effective 3 00. So weve had storms before. Weve learned from them. Were taking all of the precautions. The governor also mentioned a travel ban. Can you fill us in . Yeah. Thats important that he did that. We have some major events that were to occur in this city. We will be asking our Convention Center to give us some response. Definitely need to take into account that if theres a travel ban how these folks will get back home after the event. We should consider strongly not having that event. Having said that well continue to coordinate with our partners. A lot of this is preparation. Were asking our City Residents to ensure that they get prescriptions, what they will need to basically make it through the storm. We dont want people out on the roads during the snow emergency. We declared a snow emergency effective noontime today. And we will continue to work with our state and other town and partners to ensure that we get through the snow. Mayor, whats the cutoff time for people . When would you like to see hartford looking like a ghost town . Well i would say that by 6 00 p. M. The travel should be very very light in the city. Were working with the Insurance Companies as i said and all of the major institutions to ensure that we have orderly departure of employees that will start around noontime today. That is revery important. We dont want to have snow falling and gridlock occurred in our city. That happened years ago. We want to avoid that. Ive been on the phone with the Top Executive of these corporations to ensure that we all cooperate and make sure that we have a staggered release of workers from all of the corporations so that hopefully by 6 00 it should be light out there by that point. Youll see intensification of snow and we dont want people on the roads. All right. Mayor, thank you for being with me this morning. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. Still to come in the newsroom, residents in the northeast are preparing for every eventuality of this storm. Power companies are too building on painful lessons of the past. Hey guess what day it is . . Hump day hummmp daaay its hump day yeah hey Mike Mike MikeMike Mike MikeMike Mike Mike mike mike. Hey he knows hey guess what day it is hey camel guess what day it is its not even wednesday. Let it go, phil. If youre a camel, you put up with this all the time. Its what you do. sigh if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. 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Im sold a selling machine ready for you alert, only at lq. Com. Take a look at that. Its going to look a lot worse later on tonight. In fact the state of connecticut has issued a travel ban for all travel in that state. That begins 9 00 p. M. Eastern tonight. Also the governor says if you lose power in connecticut, if you live along the shore along the coast, expect your power to be out for a few days because the snow coming down will be wet and heavy. Just a warning. Washington, d. C. One of the many cities along the eastern seaboard bracing for that historic winter storm. President obama is overseas but he was briefed on the impending noreaster bearing down on the region. Josh earnest says the administration is making sure state and local authorities have everything they need. Fema also getting ready with assets prepositioned eded ahead of the storm preparation of state and local utilities especially the Power Companies. Extreme Winter Weather can push Power Companies to the breaking point and even past it. In 2011 a pair of storms left hundreds of thousands of massachusetts customers without electricity. Some for more than a week. The state hit several Power Companies with nearly 25 million for being inadequately prepared for the storms. Last fall the state Supreme Court reduced the amount of some of those fines. In the meantime officials are telling residents in the storms path to be ready advising them to stock up on enough supplies to last a few days. Shoppers arent taking chances hitting Grocery Stores in droves and stocking up on essentials just in case. At one store in manhattan, theyre ordering four times the regular amount of produce and buying hundreds of cases of water. The chief operating officer of that store joins me now by phone. Hi ian. How are you . Im good. So tell me what it was like in the West Side Market yesterday. Insanity. We had lines to the back of the store. Its pretty much most extreme reaction to a prediction of a storm ive seen. Really . Ever . Ever. In nine years ive been here. So what were people mostly buying . Meat, bread, milk, eggs generally the basics. Batteries. Water. What were checkout lines like . Like i said im not sure how many feet deep it is but we had every register open and we were maxed out. The lines were literally to the back of the store. We move our lines very quickly. It was still mayhem. I cant even imagine. How are you restocking . Well sunday morning we did a Conference Call with all of our managers and we just got them on the phones placing orders ahead of time. We had a little bit of warning so we had special orders coming in last night and today. So well be good. We all know how many people live in the city of new york. A massive amount of people. Most of them were out shopping. I cant even imagine how much produce you would have to order. A few tractortrailers worth just at this location at 110th street. Thats crazy. Does this kind of thing help your business, hurt it in the long run . In the long run it usually evens out. What extra business we do today well lose tomorrow. Understand. Thank you so much for being with me. I appreciate it. Thank you. Take care. You too. Still to come in the newsroom, a Security Breach at the white house. A drone found on the lawn. Secret service trying to find out how it got there. Well take you to washington next. Nineteen years ago, we thought wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad . So we gave people the power of the review. And now angies list is revolutionizing local service again. You can easily buy and Schedule Services from toprated providers. Conveniently stay up to date on progress. And effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our angies list app. Visit angieslist. Com today. Youre only young once. Unless you have a subaru. announcer the subaru xv crosstrek. Symmetrical allwheel drive plus 34 mpg. Love. Its what makes a subaru a subaru. Checking other top stories sfou for you at 22 minutes past the hour. The sons of mubarak have been released from prison. Mubaraks along with their father are accused of embezzling 17. 9 million to renovate president ial palaces. Isis is issuing a new ultimatum to spare the life of a japanese hostage. Isis demands the release of a wouldbe suicide bomber from a jail in jordan. A chilling video indicating isis killed the other japanese hostage, haruna yukawa. The secret service examined and cleared a drone found on the white house grounds. In a statement the agency says the officer observed and heard the drone earlier this morning and crashed on the Southeast Side of the complex. An investigation is currently under way but lets talk about this. Its yet another Security Breach at the white house. Cnn Law Enforcement analyst is on the phone. Tom, the airspace over the white house is restricted. Flying drones is illegal in the district of columbia. Surely agents have a plan to stop a drone from getting onto the grounds. I dont know if anybody has a plan for this type of operation. Specifically to prevent it. It is illegal. Obviously if somebody does it there will be an investigation to figure out who did it. Weve had these various plots and as the drones become more plentiful and more models economically available to the public i mean you can buy one of these for anywhere from about 50 to 4,000 to 5,000. You may recall the fbi plot thwarted in 2011 when an individual purchased a model jet fighter drone that would carry explosives and fly that into the dome. He was going to open fire on everybody that came pouring out of the Capitol Building once that drone had struck the capitol dome. The plan fell apart fortunately because when he recruited fellow shooters the fbi was able to penetrate him and get that uncovered and thwarted. This is something theres been several other drone plots that have been contemplated or thwarted and not got a lot of attention. This one because it flew onto the lawn obviously its getting attention. I dont know how they can stop it. I dont know what kind of antiaircraft radar mechanism theyll be able to put at the white house, at the capitol and other federal buildings to prevent somebody other than its against the law and we hope to catch them and prosecute them after the attack. Its described as twofoot wide quad copter. It was spotted flying over the lawn of the white house by a secret Service Agent shortly after 3 00 a. M. Eastern time. Just the timing of it is disturbing. True. But the timing could be in daylight and it could be just about any time and i think that it still is disturbing that someone can launch one of these pretty easily and they are readily available. Go on the internet and you can buy one of these and have it at your house in two days and be ready to go. This is something thats readily acquirable by anybody. There have been isis plots where there has been intelligence and they discussed ironically you fire drones at us and well fire drones back at you on your home soil. And at this point, i really dont know the discussions that the secret service will have. The Capitol Police the capitol dome the federal protect service that guards other federal buildings crosscountry. You have several different agencies responsible for protecting federal facilities. What solution they can come up with beyond the fact that its illegal. I dont know what preventive measure they can come up with to actually stop it once somebody launches one of these things. As you know tom, the secret service is in the midst of the leadership change so its easy to criticize them. Other Security Breaches at the white house so we shouldnt be too hard on them in this instance . I agree. I wouldnt be too hard on them in this instance. I dont think anybody just across the spectrum of federal buildings or even private security for commercial buildings has come up with an adequate solution. I mean do you want a small army of secret Service Agents on the lawn firing at one of these things trying to shoot it down and have the bullets landing all over washington, d. C. The ones that miss . Are they going to use some kind of surface to air missiles on the ground. If it misses the drone, its going to land somewhere