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CNNW Weekend Early Start February 9, 2013

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Meanwhile, the boston area slammed with hurricaneforce winds and looks like connecticut is taking the brunt of the snow. More than 2 feet in some places and there is more to come. Elsewhere, it is falling at a clip of 3 inches an hour. Hundreds of cars are stuck in the snow in the long island expressway and sunrise highway. The roads are closed on about everybody but emergency vehicles. Police say that most people are resc rescued, but some are still stranded. Well have an update in a few minutes. And the blizzard has knocked out power to more than 650,000 homes and businesses across eight states. You can see that in a breakdown weve got for you here. Winds gusting up to 70 miles an hour and thats tearing down tree limbs and when the limbs go down, they tend to drag the power lines with them. Massachusetts is hardest hit at this point. In rhode island, though, more than 180,000 customers dont have electricity. And that is almost a fifth of that tiny states population. And cnns poppy harlow in providence. At least the lights are on where you are. Reporter yeah. You know, marty, i want to set the scene for our viewers here. Good morning, everyone, welcome. We are standing in the middle of providence, rhode island. This is right in front of city hall. And i havent seen more than two people here in, i guess since about 5 00 eastern last night. I want to show you whats happening at the end of the block because an hour ago we couldnt see the end of the block and now we can. Were seeing its getting clearer here, were not seeing those massive wind gusts, things seem to have turned the corner here, but now the big concern is what do you do about all the homes without power . 187,000 and counting. Thats the number as of 6 00 a. M. Eastern of homes in rhode island without power and the Power Company National Grid facing a very big uphill battle here. That is a very big portion of the population of rhode island. If you look relatively speaking, its the hardest hit in terms of how many people without power relatively speaking here. Why did that happen . All last night it was relatively warm. So the snow was wet and heavy and fell on those power lines, trees knocked them out. I spent last night talking to the governor, the state, the mayor of providence, rhode island. The emergency manager here and all of them had that same concern. How many Power Outages will there be . Because when your power goes out, your heat goes out. Were going to talk to the governor live in the next hour. Thats one question. How long will it take to get the power up and running. We saw especially in new york how long it took to get power back up. Thats going to be your biggest concern here, also the roads completely closed right now. Illegal to drive here according to the governor of rhode island. Not supposed to be on the roads. The whole 95 corridor. The entire interstate through massachusetts, connecticut, rhode island, completely shut down until further notice. Thats the situation here boston got hit even harder. Live to Susan Candiotti in boston. I know you got over 400,000 homes there without power. Whats the latest . Fortunately we have not lost power in the area of Downtown Boston, poppy where we are now. Good morning to you. So these people are lucky for now. The question is, what will it be like as the day goes on . And there is a concern now with the temperature. Yesterday throughout the day on friday, it was about 30 or so degrees, but the temperatures have plunged at least ten degrees now now you have the wind picking up. The snow will begin to drift. Much lighter now. If you look over my shoulder here. All of this, we had made traction not more than two hours ago. Our footsteps are completely covered. If you take a walk over here, im on sort of high ground now and you dip past a there into a street from the curve. Its measuring that says, lets see, 16, 17 feet inches, excuse me right now. So very good chance that they will reach that at least 2 feet. Well see how that goes as the day goes on. No traffic as you can see over my shoulder, thats Quincy Market, for those of you familiar with Downtown Boston. Who doesnt know that site . A lot of shops there, but of course, businesses closed since yesterday. People are, indeed, staying off the streets, they are following instructions. Back to you down in providence. Up to your knees in snow, susan. I dont know who got the shorter end of the stick here. Its freezing here, but we dont have as much snow as you do and its still certainly coming down, doing a great job there, susan. Thank you. I want to take our viewers live to staten island. We heard from gary tuchman saying, look, the snow was stopping, its Getting Better there. Do you think weve turned the corner in terms of this storm hitting new york . Reporter yeah, the conditions, poppy, here are so much different from where you are, from where susan is. The snow has stopped. And take a look behind me. You know, these roads are plowed. Theres been about a 12 inches of snow here in staten island. But certainly, a sense of relief that this wasnt worse. And there was so much concern heading into this storm, particularly about storm surges and flooding and as you can imagine, anxieties are high. Let me give you a little bit of sense of where we are. You see behind me, this is a house reduced to rubble. And not many people here are living here fulltime. And this is certainly a setback. Because people come here every day to work on their homes, they are so frustrated that things are not moving along quicker. And three months after the storm, people are still relying on volunteers here for meals. So this is definitely a setback but certainly not as worse as people feared. Reporter yeah, absolutely, mary. I mean, people there struggled for so long just to get their power back. And i was thinking about some of the families weve been talking to in the wake of sandy just trying to rebuild their homes, whether its in the shore areas of queens or out there on staten island. This is definitely, at least, a setback for them, but could have been much worse. And i want to take you into the heart of manhattan. Zane, what are you seeing in new york city this morning . Reporter it is absolutely freezing here. 28 degrees, in between my shots, i have to go to that car there to warm up. I did see a couple of people. I saw two guys who werent really wearing anything warm and i stopped them and said, guys, you know, what are you doing out and about middle of manhattan at this time of the morning 5 30 a. M. . And they were like, well, were college kids. Its, you know, we decided to stroll outside and go to dunkin donuts. I also spotted another gentleman who basically said to me that he was on his way to work. He said the most challenging thing about this whole thing is really digging himself out of that snow. Thats what he found most difficult. But said other than that, it is pretty much a normal saturday. And i was like, yeah, i guess it is a normal saturday. For a lot of people, it is really not. 1700 people 17,000, people, excuse me, without power in new york alone, the governor issuing a state of emergency. Hes making sure these streets stay plowed. Hoping every street in manhattan can be plowed once if not twice by the middle of the afternoon, using 1700 snowplows, also 250,000 tons of salt to keep these streets as clear as possible. I want to talk to you about travel. Hundreds of people stuck on the long island expressway also in addition to that, we did get a fatality. A 74yearold man who was struck and killed unfortunately when a car couldnt stop. That tells you how dangerous it can be in these conditions. I did say earlier on that it is, you know, its not as bad as the blizzard earlier three years ago. If people could stay indoors, it would be much better. For everyone watching who think, hey, im going to get in the car and drive out of the city for the weekend, dont do it, the roads are extremely bad, very dangerous, treacherous. People stuck on the expressway that made a bad decision to go out in the storm. Certainly here in providence, rhode island, we certainly do. Back to you. Poppy, one of the brighter sides to this is the fact it struck on a weekend. So we dont have as many people trying to get to work. Meanwhile, live flight were tracking reports nearly 1700 flights have been canceled today. The majority of those are to and from, yes, the northeast, and thats in addition to the almost 3,300 canceled yesterday. No flights out of bostons logan until at least sunday. And the story is pretty much the same for new yorks airports. Remember to check your airline to verify the status of your flight before you head out yourself. Already more than 30 inches of snow in some places, and it is going to keep falling through at least midday. Alexandra steele following that for us. Good morning, martin. Well, whats happening so far, 34 inches in hamden, connecticut, big snow, big winds, hurricaneforce winds, but well also see big time improvements. Boston, the snow will end this afternoon and maine will see it tonight. Heres what weve seen thus far, 32 inches in madison, connecticut, right along the shoreline of 95. Worcester, mass, 10 inches, logan, 10 inches, certainly between 10 and 20 in the suburbs. Peak wind gusts, 83mileperhour wind gusts. In connecticut, 81. You can see Logan Airport even, 76. Buzzards bay, on the cape and islands, weve seen the strongest wind gusts, 70mileperhour even sustained winds in the 40s and 50s. So substantial winds and, you know, even when the snow ends those winds will continue. Well still see blizzardlike conditions. Heres the radar you can see. All the snow. New york will see that snow come to an end this morning. Where weve seen this bright banding, this brighter white color, thats where the snows been falling at about 2 to 3 inches an hour thus getting that 30 inches of snow in areas of connecticut. It will all come to an end. By 8 00 this morning, new york, long island, western, mass, western connecticut. You can see the cape and the islands, still in, boston winding down and then by tonight, well see it wind down in maine. But even, martin, when the snow winds down, look at the strong winds, winds will still be a player gusting to 40 Miles Per Hour. Does not help those travel bans. Thank you very much for that. Besides the blizzard, we are also following another big story, and this ones coming from the west coast. 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Im outside the lapd headquarters in los angeles. But the search and manhunt is concentrated about 100 miles away from here in the big bear area. The search was scaled back overnight because of those heavy snow conditions. Last night by friday night, those teams there were expected to complete their search of some abandoned cabins in the area. And at first daylight today, those teams were set to renew their search for chris dorner. But this investigation, martin, has spread far beyond southern california. Dorner wrote a chilling manifesto. Hes accused, of course, as we say of killing three people including a cop. Im wondering, where the police worried for their own safety and the safety of their families . Yeah, thats a great question. As you mention the manifesto, dorner, threatened families of lapd officers and lapd officers themselves for what he calls retaliation for what he calls was unjustly fired from what he said was his dream job yesterday. And we spoke about the safety concerns for Police Officers as well as the resources being used to protect them. Take a listen. I live outside of town, so my local agencys been good enough to provide extra patrol to my house. My wife and children arent home now, which is kind of a comfort to me knowing theyre not home. Theres been an incredible drain on resources here for Los Angeles Police departments. Smith later told us that 911 calls are being responded to slower and Police Officers here in the los angeles are responding a little slower to where they need to be. More than 40 officers are receiving that detailed protection, martin, like commander smith. Thank you very much. Well stay in touch with you. Former fbi special agent and private investigator harold copus joins us now. We talked about the snow conditions. But i really want to ask you, do you think that dorner is up there in the mountains . Well, theres obviously 50 50 and thats easy to say. Dorner knows tactics, and he knows what the police will be doing to look for him. If i were dorner, i probably wouldve left that car up there and left, let them spend the time up in the cold. Id be down at the beach. So it could be the axle on the vehicle was supposedly broken, it does sound like a legitimate breakdown, but he also knows that everybody would focus on that area. He would try to get out of there . I think he would try getting out of there, unless he has a place hes already purchased or has a friend thats giving him a key. So they have to do that search. But thats a massive area. And if you look back at when we have the situation here in georgia and we were looking for the bomber, this guy was a survivalist. He lived up in those mountains up there. And, you know, took forever to find that guy. So if this guys up there, you miss him, he could double back on you, move into a house and youd never know it. Where do you think he is more at home and better at hiding . Would it be in a metropolitan area . Or up in a rural area where there arent too many people to see . I think a rural area. And let me tell you why, he was a Police Officer. Hes not like a street guy that would go to his buddies in jail and say hide me. He claims hes a survivalist and has training from the military. He could be some place isolated, setting up traps, waiting for the police to come. You think he is continuing on the hunt . Oh, definitely hes on the hunt. If you read his manifesto and look at what he thinks. He will say his name was taken away when he was terminated from the pd and the only way hes going to get it back is hes going to eliminate officers whether they were involved or not. You think this is going to end in a bad way. Theres no way this could be a good way. Youre right. So far it has been a terrible way. Certainly. Thank you very much for joining us and giving insights. 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