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CNNW New Day February 3, 2015

According to authorities. In boston it isnt just the snow but now authorities are concerned about the dangers of the dropping temperatures. Overnight a fatal deep freeze stunning the northeast. A dangerous trifecta of high winds, over a foot of snow in some parts and belowfreezing temperatures from new jersey to maine. Were asking people if you cant stay of the roads boston declared a snow emergency once again. Setting the record for the snowiest week in the citys history. The new fear ice as accidents litter the roadways. In new jersey its icy, rain which makes the roads like impossible. The new England Patriots parade postponed. And scores of schools closed. Many not for snow but its more of an ice day. Sidewalks, students getting on the bus. In maine, wind gusts produced bitterly cold wind chills up to 20 degrees below zero. Ive seen the buses slip back down the street. Other states dropped to the Single Digits. Cant see the road right now, everything is all blurry. West of boston oh treacherous conditions on the roads, causing these teens to lose control of their atv, sliding into a parked car. In rye, new york a minivan losing control, koreaning into a previous icerelated accident killing the other two drivers. Horrible horrible. People have to slow down. In vermont, several snowplows were hit trying to clear roads. One slammed by a passing 18wheeler. Another driver trapped for 40 minutes after hitting a plow truck and had to be removed with the jaws of life. Treat the roads with caution, if you have to go out, go slow. Theres still a lot of work to be done in boston. Even before the storm set in, the city was making efforts to clear the parade route, if they would be welcoming home the super bowl champions, which they plan to do tomorrow. For a long time they felt they were going to be able to have the parade but last night the mayor felt there would be dangerous conditions. So many examples of how treacherous the roads are, thank you for that reminder. The deep freeze being felt in more than just the northeast. You may remember martin savidges dramatic live shots from cleveland on new day, the city got walloped by strong winds and more than a foot of snow. That was martin trying to tell us about it yesterday. So lets check back in with martin now. Hes in cleveland where wind chills are well below zero this morning. Martin how you doing . Hey, alisyn so kind of you to check back on me. What a difference 24 hours has made. It is finally stopped snowing and the best news of all is the wind has finally stopped blowing. But as you point out, it is just absolutely bitter cold. Slight breeze which means with the temperature weve got right now, were about 6 degrees below zero. But it just feels downright balmy compared to what i was enduring yesterday. In the end the total of snow in cleveland came from anywhere 8 to 13 inches. And on top of that it appears that the weather is going to improve slightly today. But its only going to be a short respite. As youve heard, more snow is on the way. Cleveland is on the plus side no surprise when it comes to seasonal snowfall. Theyre up by about five inches. Today the schools are back open, the airport is going to be more normal. Except for flights coming from the east. It should be a typical winters day here in cleveland. Let me show you whats got people really excited. If you look to the top of the brilliantlylit terminal tower, those colors are wine and gold. The reason for that the cavs have now won 11 in a row. With lebron james help and thats got clevelanders this morning feeling toasty warm. On an otherwise bitter morning. And every time i touch this side of the face i remember yesterday very well. Wind burn. Well you look a whole lot better today, mike goodness i think its the cleveland wind though that warmed the eded the cyour heart. Right here right here my hat. Next time youll see me with this. So heres the question we saw this last week, we saw this this week. How long is this cold going to last . Were hearing talk there might be another snowstorm. Dont shoot the messenger, late they are week. Lets bring in cnn meteorologist chad myers in columbus circle. People are getting tired of this groundhog day storyline. Ive heard about the snowstorm other networks are talking about, i dont believe it. You dont . Not at all. I went to chris cuomos dry cleaner yesterday and i asked them for light starch and this is what i got. Chris . Ha do you do with these dry cleaners man . This is just a tshirt. It looks about right. You want a little bit of stiffness in you there, chad, especially when youre out there, feel a little upright. We put this on the hood of the car about an hour ago, poured some water on it and it looks like a frozen piece of cardboard. Temperatures are cold enough to freeze a shirt and cold enough to freeze you and cold enough to freeze your pets so please take care of them this morning. The temperatures in Single Digits to the teens, Plattsburgh New York was 10 below zero. Look at the snow cover. It goes from chicago through detroit, back into buffalo and through boston and the deepest stuff is about worcester. Ive seen reports in the past seven days Worcester County about 60 inches of snow. Heres the next storm, i believe a clipper coming by another computer model saying a lot more for boston. Right now im thinking two to three inches of snow it comes in about 4872 hours. Well have to look to see if something can combine. Some models are right, some are wrong. Two are saying nothing. The european is saying yes, it could be something. Well take a look at it as it gets closer. Right now still too many days away to make a definitive answer and the temperatures are very very cold. If we get any type of precipitation, with temperatures like this it will be frozen. Were not going to get rain any time soon and i dont see us warming up significantly. Here in the east for the next 30 days. So maybe Punxsutawney Phil was slightly correct. Warm in the west cold in the east. Chris, id have a talk with your dry cleaner. 30 days no rise in temperatures . Dont kill hope chad. Ways going to tell you to come in but now you stay out here. Im playing out here all week. Were talking about what is to come. Right now theres plenty to deal with lets get the latest from the frostfighting front. Peter judge is with the massachusetts Emergency Management agency. Its good to have you with us peter. How is it going right now where you are . Well right now were still got a lot of work to do. I know the governor has asked nonemergency state workers to come in at 11 00. A lot of work on the roads to get caught up and the temperatures arent helping. The wind chill factors are about minus 15 degrees. So its going to be a challenge. I have people who are hitting me on social media. And saying wow, its hard driving here the snow thats on road plus the temperatures has made this some of the most difficult driving theyve seen so far. What are you hearing . Thats correct. What happened late yesterday afternoon is the temperatures dropped about 20 degrees in about two hours. So we had a slash freeze. So the snowy surfaces or the wet surfaces instantly froze. So we have ice skating rinks out there for a period of time. And very difficult for the crews to crack and get things down to the pavement. Theres a lot of pressure among business to get back to work. How are you reaching out to them . And are they responsive about trying to keep their schedules light during this period . Absolutely. Efforts are made were encouraging foemtslks to take public transportation. Red line one of our commuter lines is having difficulty today, which is not helping. There are a few major areas, city of boston the city of worcester and other communities dont have schools open. But other schools are slowly opening up. As i said the communities are trying to get back on their feet and i think businesses are making an effort. And i think theres action out there. Is it true that you are running out of room for where to put snow . Thats probably the biggest problem, particularly with the cities, that have the congested small streets to start with literally theyre trucking snow out to snow farms at this point. Just to make room. Environmentally, you cant dump it into the river, you cant dump it into the harbor so youve got to move it somewhere. Theres been a lot of frontloaders coming in from youll across the state to assist those cities to make room for cars and have folks get the sidewalks cleaned up. Particularly planning for the patriots victory parade tomorrow. You figure downtown at least accessible to people. Snow farms, i guess can you find a way to make money in any situation, thats one of those unintended opportnities that come out of this one. You mentioned the parade tomorrow. How popular or unpopular was it to move the parade . And what are you looking forward to there . I think common sense kicked in. The streets werent quite ready. I think when the city announced it originally i think they were expecting six less inches of snow than what they got yesterday. Plus the fact is that the temperatures are going to be so bitterly cold today, i think it wouldnt have been a wise idea to get a lot of kids and folks you know standing out on the streets for hours on end, while negative 15 degrees wind chill factors were out there. The whole point is celebration, you want to do it the right way, one day wont make that big of a difference with everything shut down. Going forward, more snow is coming. Chad myers, our meteorologist said the worst thing ive heard in a long time is that its going to be cold for the next month. Do you have the resources and assets you need to keep going . So far, so good. Nice thing is though if we have problems weve got great relationships with surrounding states and also the canadian provinces, so if we have to reach out for equipment or reach out for assets we know that they can be available if necessary. But right now were still in pretty good shape relative to sand and salt and chemicals and machinery out there. The only thing right now is our people are running out of gas a little bit. We need a break to littlelet people recharge their batteries. And let suppliers get in as well. Peter judge, thank you very much for the latest. The Ripple Effect of the massive storm is still grounding air travelers. This morning hundreds of flights canceled. This on the heels of thousands of cancellations yesterday. Cnns jean casarez joins us live from new Yorks Laguardia airport. How is it looking . Well this airport is bustling with passengers today. I mean so unlike yesterday. But the big question the domino effect. Are they all going to be able to get on planes today . Now currently right now, across the country, theres 515 cancellations. Thats a far cry from yesterday. 2400 cancellations at this time. Lets look at the airports that have the major cancellations, number one on the list right here where i am laguardia with 84 cancellations, boston logan with 66 and chicagoohare at 26 im talking to people have the nightmare stories, they take it in their strides this morning. But one couple, dream vacation to st. Thomas they were canceled all day yesterday. Theyve got a hotel room in st. Thomas that is vacant and theyre having to pay for it night after night because theyre not there. Another student from florida missed a big exam yesterday. A lot of people going to florida, they tell me they want to get out of here. Its just too cold. Michaela . Yeah we dont blame them. All right, well keep watching it with you. Breaking overnight in egypt, cairo is on alert after police found a pair of bombs inside that cities airport. The devices were found in separate terminals, no arrests have yet been made. Were told Security Officials are reviewing footage. It came after a bomb detonated in a busy square in central cairo. Is cubas former leader fidel castro in declining health . The communityist Party Newspaper published a gallery of photos they say showing the 88yearold talking to a student alongside his life. The proost castro is seen holding a newspaper reporting the release of three cuban spice in december. Castro has rarely been seen in public since handing over power to his brother raul in 2006. Well the super bowl ratings are in a record 114 Million People watched the patriots and seahawks in super bowl xlix. It is the mostwatched televised event in u. S. History. Viewership peaked at 120 million during the games Fourth Quarter finish and it was the most tweeted super bowl with 28. 4 million tweets related to the game and halftime shows. Was it the weather . We couldnt go anywhere. Most of the northeast was snowed in. Second of all, was it the matchup . Hawks fans are rabid, Patriots Fans are rabid. Or was it the halftime show . I know that last years was the secondmost watched Television Event in history and this one exceeded it. Its impressive as we see the slicing of the pie of things you can watch and how, that something winds up creating a record alltime. When the nation comes together to do one thing. Watch football. Exactly. Well the debate over measles vaccinations is getting political. Well tell you the controversial things the potential president ial frontrunners are saying about vaccines. I hope youre listening. So much snow they dont know where to put it. That is the dilemma in boston. Another storm possibly coming . Were going to tell you where it could be headed. Is it coming near you . And how bad it might be. New Vidal Sassoon salonist. First, brush roots then, blend through lengths. Our most advanced system outside the salon. Its more than colour. Its a work of art. Hillary clinton wading into the debate about vaccines and measles, overnight she tweeted this the science is clear, the earth is round, the sky is blue and vaccineswork. Lets protect all our kids grandmothersknowbest. Her comments follow controversial statements top republicans, governors Chris Christie and senator rand paul. So lets bring in dr. Amesh adallasa adalja. Thank you so much for being here. Lets start with the science and developments that have happened overnight and well move onto the politics of the vaccine debate. A couple of interesting things have happened. The cdc has come out and said they dont know the origin of the latest outbreak of 102 cases. They dont know who started this. But they believe it might have been a tourist from overseas who visited disneyland in december. How account u. S. Protect itself from incoming tourists who may be carrying measles . The best way for the u. S. To protect itself from incoming measles from all over the world, because measles may be eliminated from the americas, but it still spreads in asia africa and europe is to have a high level of vaccination. So we have the hurt immunity built up. So when we get an infected tourist, the virus cant find a home in another host and it doesnt start off a chain of transmission. So its our vaccination rates that keep this disease from breaching our walls. Interestingly, the cdc on their website says of those 102 cases, known cases of measles, they believe somewhere between 12 and 31 of those newest cases were people who were vaccinated so what does that tell us . Well vaccination isnt 100 its the best way we have to prevent measles and it is a highly effective vaccine as opposed to for example the influenza vaccine. But we have nonresponders who wont mount the response to the vaccine and there are always going to be those nonresponders with any vaccine. So hurt immunity is so important that theyre all protected by the immune population as a whole. I want to play awe statement from rand paul considered to be a possible president ial candidate in 2016. And hes a practicing physician, heres what he just said about vaccines. Ive heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. Im not arguing vaccines are bad idea i think theyre a good thing. But i think the parents should have some input, the state doesnt own your children, parents own the children and it is an issue of freedom. Hes touching on exactly what parents fear rational or irrational but hes talking about it. Can parents ever have a choice when it comes to vaccines . Or is that a bad idea . It depends upon the context and what disease youre talking about. Surely every child in the United States doesnt need to be vaccinated against japanese encephalitis or typhoid fever. But for certain diseases like measles which are highly contagious and can be fatal. It kills 145,000 children every year there comes a point where your liberty to raise your child as you wish kind of doesnt include the liberty to willfully neglect the child. And that can happen in the child of a Communicable Disease outbreak and certain disease does fall in a that category. Dr. Adalja do you think pete trigss should ever say to parents, theres a small chance that your child may suffer a vaccine injury. It does happen its a very very small fraction of people. But there is a chance there could be a Measles Outbreak and you should have your child vaccinated. It seems as though right now you have to say you must get vaccinated. Pediatricians should have those kind of risk benefit discussions with their parents on almost every medical decision including vaccines. I wouldnt say its just for the public good that people get vaccines. There is a very selfinterested action, youre protecting yourself from a disease that kills 1 in 1,000, it puts 1 in 20 in the hospital with pneumonia. This isnt something that youre only doing for other people. Youre doing it for yourself and your own child to protect them against this deadly disease. Here is what another possible president ial candidate Chris Christie had to say about vaccines and he got himself into a little bit of trouble. Listen to the governor of new jersey. All right ill read to you what it says. All i can say is that we vaccinate our children. So thats the best i can give su my opinion. Here he is now, listen to this. Allky say is that we vaccinate ours. And so you know thats the best expression i can give you my opinion. Its much more important i think what you think as a parent than what you think as a public official. And thats what we do. But i also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well. So thats the balance that the government has to decide. Dr. Adalja what you heard Chris Christie say is its important for parents to have some measure of choice. But really parents cannot have choice when it comes to vaccines right .

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