Transcripts For CNNW The Lead With Jake Tapper 20150127 : vi

Transcripts For CNNW The Lead With Jake Tapper 20150127

As many as 32 1 2 inches of snow so far, almost three feet. And snow drifts completely cover covering dront doors and windows. And it is not only snow and ice. Its also fires and floods adding to this misery. Right now rescue teams are plucking people out of homes philadelphia filling with water in the coastal town of scituate massachusetts. Officials cut power to prevent more fires there and a nearby seawall crumbled. Our reporters to spanned out from massachusetts to mannontauk, long island. Lets go straight to boston and cnns brooke baldwin. Shes been outside in that brutal weather all day long. What is it like there now . Reporter it is really kicking up jake right in my face. We are in the Boston Harbor area. Fan well wall is this way. The water is this way. Walking through this stuff, its incredibly thick and continuing to come down. We just heard from the mayor of boston just minutes ago saying this could continue until 1 00 in the morning t. Is possible this could be a record setting snowfall. This blizzard is keeping much of the northeast shut down at this hour. Heavy snow continues to fall here in boston there is well over a foot of snow and forecasters predict the state capital could get close to another foot. Nantucket massachusetts, is definitely among the hardest hit areas, the police chief tells cnn the entire island is without power after the storm brought heavy snow flooding and wind gusts close to 80 miles an hour. Nantucket, by the way, has been hit particularly hard with respect to Power Outages. Reporter the storm continues to blanket the reason. By midday worcester, massachusetts already had at least 5525 inches of snow and that number is quickly rising. Earlier firefighters there battled intense flames in blizzard conditions after this multifamily home went up in flames. Right now officials arent only worried about the piling snow but a potentially more devastating aftereffect, coastal flooding. Officials said areas of plum island, massachusetts, that flooded this morning. Could still flood again. Further south, this seawall crumbled in tuesday mornings high tide. Theres a concern that more to collapse during this afternoons high tide possibly flooding homes right in that area. Officials are learning about snow drifts learning about the high winds and light powdery snow. Amtrak canceled trips on several of its busiest lines between new york and boston. Thousands of flights have been canceled. And many roads remain closed. It is very bad. These roads are not safe. The snow is still coming down, several inches an hour. Reporter in rhode island where the windchill could dip as low as minus 3 degrees, the snow is expected to continue through wednesday morning. You know, the good news jake i just had the fire commissioner here on my show moments ago. He was saying to me people really have heeded the warnings. This is boston. They know snow. Theyve stayed off the roads. Ive asked him about Power Outages. I want to show you something. This is the snow here. It is incredibly light, powdery snow, and that is the great part. Its so so cold here so its not heavy snow. Were not having the snow sitting on the power lines or sitting on those tree limbs, which would then be many many more Power Outages than theyre reporting so far here in boston. But well be up riding this out another night to see if they could eclipse 2003. Brooke thank you so much. As you can see, the storm is not close to being over in many areas. Im joined now by cnns chad myers to tell us how much more we can expect. Chad, thanks for being here. Certainly. It looks like its over here in new york. But whats going on in new england . And how much longer will it last . The storm is doing a rotation in the ocean. The reason we didnt get anything here, well we got 6 to 10 inches, whatever. The storm is 100 miles too far to the east compared to where the model thought it would be. If its 100 miles away what is 100 miles away, 30 inches near islip. Thats what new york was supposed to get. Islip, the airport on the north part of long island. Right. Youre talking an hour and a half drive from here or even less youre at 30 inches of snow. Thats what should have been here, but it moved to the east. So were not seeing the winds either. This is quite pleasant right enough. We should have winds of 50. Its not happening. Comparatively. Everything has shifted to of the east and its in boston where the snow continues. And 32. 5 im going to see numbers probably 36 inches even more than they predicted there. We got significantly less. They got our share. Well go to some of the coastal areas in a minute. I want to ask you what exactly is going on there. Why is there such concern . Whats different about the fact theres high tide today than say, two days ago . It already breached a brake wall. Theres a brake wall thats been breached the first high tide in scituate. Now were coming back up again. Without the break water the wall, the water will poor into the streams. The storm killed it one time. It already broke it and it will smash it now because the waves are 15 to 25 neat. Chad myers, stick around. I want to go to one of the coastal areas. Millions of people are under a flood warning, the town of scituate massachusetts, on the south shore may be in the biggest danger zone as you heard chad say, high tide roaring in. Alexander field is there. Alexander alexander, how bad is the flooding right now . Reporter high tide is about an hour away. Were hoping what they see next isnt as bad as they saw this morning. Let me show you this backyard just filled with water. If we pan down this street, you can see this is filled with water. This is more important and significant when we put this into perspective, jake if you follow me, youll see that the beach is all the way down that road. So the seawall was breached, it flood these neighborhoods, four or five feet high in some basements. The water rushed around the back of their houses and even went across streets here. There are a couple of people in scituate who were stir crazy enough to get out for a walk. This is the time to do it because the high tide comes in the next hour. We went up to see the seawall, to see where the water had come in from this morning. Already even before high tide were seeing the waum being breached, waves are flashing over the wall. We actually determined for our crew its too dangerous to be up there with the wind and the water. We dont want to be driving around or put ourselves in the kind of instance where wed be driving through floodwaters. We cleared out, came back here. These power lines are a big issue of concern at this point. Scituate took a precautionary step and shut down power to part of the town last night because they did not want to compound problems with the possibility of having an electrical fire and having roads cut off for First Responders. This is again the water people are dealing with right now. In the next hour well see if the water breaches that seawall again and if it comes as far back as this street and into these neighborhoods where weve seen it sitting stagnant all day jake. Alexandra, are the people in scituate, massachusetts, used to this kind of thing happen willing . How many of them are still around if any . We just saw a few of them. Reporter yeah jake. This is actually pretty interesting. This is an area where i have come before to cover storms because weather is not so unusual here given the fact we have the seawall and youve got the harbor over here. The seawall really is the issue. When you talk to people you see that their houses are built on these stilts. They know that at some point when youve got that high tide and youve got that surge coming that theyre going to see flooding. But a couple of people i spoke to who live up the road say theyve been in this community all of their lives, have never seen this amount of water come this quickly into their homes and travel this kind of distance. Not so unusual to see some kind of breach, some kind of water on the roads, but this volume in this neighborhood sitting under water here basically flooded, this is a lot more than theyre used to seeing. Alexandra field, stay safe. Cnn of course will continue to check in as high tide hits in roughly an hour. Were going to turn to neighboring marshfield. Police tweeted this picture of the seawall. This could be very bad news of course, when that high tide approaches this evening. Brian todd from cnn just arrived in marshfield, massachusetts, just minutes ago. Brian, what can you tell us about the damaged seawall. What are you seeing . Reporter jake we can tell you that the seawall was breach breached early this morning. Several peoplee evacuated from their homes. Alexandra just mentioned high tide. It will be back in less than ran hour, and theyre worried that the rushing seawater could actually short out some things, if power is on in some of these homes and start fires. Thats an issue. Im going to show you also out the front window of our vehicle, as were trying to get to that scene in marshfield check this out this is a complete whiteout situation. This is what the crews are working against as well as they try to help the people who are stranded in their homes in that section of marshfield that was flooded. Look at this. This is complete whiteout in front of youreour vehicle. We had to stop for a second to meet someone who is going to take us to the scene, and this is what the rescue crews and others are going to be facing later on if theyve got to go back to the scenes of flooding jake. Brian todd in marshfield thank you so much. Its not letting up in boston of course. The city bracing for up to another foot of snow and that snow combined with the high winds, its all making it very difficult and extremely dangerous for First Responders to do their jobs. All of this of course as high tide approaches on the coast where flooding could be the biggest problem as you just heard from brian and alexandra. So how are Emergency Management officials dealing . How are they preparing . Well talk to them when we come back. She inspires you. No question about that. But your erectile dysfunction that could be a question of blood flow. Cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be Ready Anytime the moments right. You can be more confident in your ability to be ready. And the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. 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That is the most pressing concern. Were coming right into the afternoon high tide. Youve shown some of the pictures of what it looks like along the coast. We expect it to be maybe a little bit more impactful than what we saw at 4 00 a. M. Today. In that regard were kind of geared up for the potential of some major impacts from this high tide all along the coast from north of boston to cape cod and the islands. We know that a foot section about 80 to 100 foot section, of a seawall collapsed in marshfield that brian todd was visiting a few minutes ago. Has that caused significant flooding in the marshfield area . No really, no. Its really very localized. It really impacted one house, and it was a vacant home. So no lives were kind of put in harms way there. A lot of those areas that you see the flooding this is not an incredibly nieshl thingunusual thing for them. These people have sort of been down this road before so to speak. Its just raised up to a different level. Thats what were concerned about. We have those people out of there. Theyve all pretty much selfevacuated because they know whats coming and earlier this morning some local officials with some help from National Guard actually helped a handful of folks in Marshfield Scituate and hull leave their homes. It wasnt an emergency evacuation. They had just changed their lives about leaving and realized the water was too deep for their automobile. I know youre not done with this storm yet. Its still affecting massachusetts. But how does it compare historically with other storms youve had that were officials, governor included, were saying this was going to be like a top five storm for massachusetts. Is it . Oh definitely going to be a top five storm. There are areas that will get over three feet of snow before all is said and done. The snow has not stopped in most of the state, and its going to be impactful. We were just very very lucky that this turned out to be light and fluffy snow and not the wet, heavy snow that we were anticipating. We were expecting lit alleyerally hundreds of thousands of outages. Our top number today was like 36,000 total and the number is going down as we speak. So thats the giant bullet we dodged today, the lack of Power Outages only because Mother Nature decided to give us a break on that. Thank god for that although of course the poor people in nantucket are facing an islandwide Power Outages. Peter judge thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Of course its not just officials in massachusetts keeping an eye on the coastal flooding. Krn we are live in montauk, long island, new york state, where what are the conditions where you are, ana . Reporter still snowing, still gusty conditions, and waves up to 16 feet high are battering the sea shore here in montauk. Of course this is the very eastern tip of long island one of the areas hardest hit when it comes to the state of new york. Its not just the water that were concerned about here of course. The snow is still continuing to pile up on top of feet of snow that have already fallen, and you can see looks are very deceiving because you dont know exactly how deep the snow is in some locations, given all of the drifting thats been happening because of the very high wind gusts. In fact 60mileperhour wind gusts were recorded at the west hampton airport, just down the road in where we are. Across the bay theyre seeing up to 30 inches of snow earlier this morning. And so that snow continues to pile up, still making a very dangerous situation for drivers. And the winds also scaring a lot of residents here overnight. While no major damage was recorded we talked to the woman who lives at the hillis torque montauk lighthouse, the caretaker there. She says it rivals what she saw during Superstorm Sandy and even scarier because the height of the storm hit at night. Listen to her. Being by yourself, what was going through your mind . Well i was just praying i didnt get sick or the roof didnt blow off whaxt. What was i going to do. You know no one is coming to get you. Youre at the end of the line here. No ones coming to save you. Reporter shes breathing a sigh of relief today, and much like a lot of the folks here in this community. Grateful that no major Power Outages, no major damage is reported. Sadly, jake, i do need to mention that two people have died in the storm in Suffolk County a 17yearold boy was out tube being trying to enjoy the weather and got into kind of a tubing accident suffered injuries and couldnt be saved. There was also an elderly man with dementia who we were told who was found by his wife outside and frozen this morning. So its still dangerous weather conditions were experiencing here in new york. Back to you. Very sad, ana cabrera, thank you. Bostonians are being told not to let their guard down. Blizzard warnings in effect and First Responders are pleading with people in boston to stay off the roads. Im joined by Boston Police commissioner william evans. Commissioner, thank you for joining us. Tell us what the Road Conditions are like right now. The snow is still coming down pretty good. I just met with the mayor and we expect probably another six inches so were still hoping people stay in their homes, off the roads so we can get our plows in and get the city back so we can open for business tomorrow. So if boston gets another half a foot of snow, as predicted, are you worried about the fact that the Power Outages might be much worse in not just massachusetts but more specifically in boston than has happened so far . No. I mean for the most part we havent been hit too bad with the Power Outages. I think this is the lighter snow. Our main concern honestly is getting the streets plowed the secondary roads so people can get back to work tomorrow. Weve been pretty lucky. Weve gotten a tremendous amount of snow but we really havent been, at least in the city hit too much with the Power Outages. Are you worried that because of this kind of lull in the storm, people might get lax . They obviously responded and adhered all the warnings emergenc

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