Storms can speed up slow down. They can get smaller or bigger. Were preparing for at least what that forecast is suggesting, if not worse. We certainly know well have very high winds and low visibility and know well have lots of conditions that make travel unsafe. We will give you constant updates as we get information. But everything we know so far makes clear you cant underestimate this storm. This is not a typical storm. Its going to pack a real punch and we have to expect heavy accumulation in a short period of time. Its another crucial point. Some storms come in in a measured manner. This is going to come in in a sudden spurt of activity. We saw flurries this morning and that has largely dissipated. What youre going to see in a few hours is something that hits very hard and fast and people cannot be caught off guard. Best thing to do stay indoors, stay off the roads and sidewalks, this is something i want people to act on as quickly as possible. In the next hours, we want people who can get home to get home early, get home but as the evening progresses and snow intensifies it will not be an optional matter. As part of our Emergency Declaration, im ordering that 11 00 tonight our streets will only be available to emergency vehicles. All nonemergency vehicles need to be off the streets of new york city by 11 00 p. M. Tonight. Well continue that Emergency Declaration until the situation is safe. So from 11 00 p. M. On tonight, no nonemergency vehicles on the streets and that is going to be the policy until we state otherwise. We need to let Sanitation Police fire, due their jobs and this is the way well guarantee that. On the way home this evening, again, the earlier you can leave the better. If you can take mass transit that is a priority to do so. If youre driving expect tough conditions with each passing hour this evening. Go slow, take a lot of precautions precautions, even walking be careful as this storm will intensify, very quickly. If you have any evidence if you happen to take for example, for hire vehicles or have any evidence of people taking advantage of this emergency to unfairly and illegally raise the prices of their rides, it is important to call 311 and report it. Price gouging in the context of emergency is illegal. If you experience it please call 311 and the saxcy Limousine Commission will investigate right away. Amplifying what i said yesterday, i want all new yorkers at the end of this afternoon at 6 00 p. M. To stay out of our parks. We will close our parks at 6 00 p. M. There will be the potential danger falling tree branches that can be very dangerous. From 6 00 p. M. On all parks closed. As for our schools, were officially announcing school will be closed tomorrow tuesday. So please emphasize to your audience schools will be closed tomorrow. In addition, the regents exams scheduled for tomorrow will be canceled tomorrow and re rescheduled to a time shortly in the future. All afterschool programs this afternoon, school trips, evening Adult Education programs all canceled. Comes to parking alternate side parking canceled today and canceled tomorrow tuesday, canceled wednesday as well. Garbage and recycling pickups will be suspended throughout the snow clearing operation. Today, tomorrow very likely into wednesday as well if not beyond. Again, if new yorkers need information, need to get more information about help available to them 311 is the best bet or go online nyc. Gov. It is a real emergency, life threatening when you call 911. We have been listening to new york city mayor bill de blasio talking about preparations in the big apple. At 11 00 this evening the roads will be closed to all nonemergency vehicles, bostons mayor, martin walsh holding as in conference right now. Lets listen in to this one. Will be canceled. In addition, all community meetings, plan for the next two days with the city of boston have been canceled. Snow removal will be a major task. The snow will continue to fall at a high rate into tomorrow. Im very confident Public Works CommissionMichael Denny and his team, youll hear from him in a little it with help from contractors and other city departments, access to as many as 800 pieces of equipment. With Small Technology theyll be able to coordinate and target more efficiently than ever before. Im urging people to take the forecasts very seriously and take every precaution. Check on your neighbors, especially the elderly and disabled. Clear the sidewalks the best you can but be safe. Ive ordered them to write up violations for City Owned Properties not properly cleaned as well. If we cite homeowners and businesses well hold ourself to an even higher standard. Technology plays a vital role our department will be providing support in every department involved in this effort. For those with questions or concerns help is available through several channels. The mayors hot line 6176354500, will be running extra staff around the clock. Weve just heard from bostons mayor martin walsh talking about preparations under way there. Again before that we heard from bill de blasio announcing in new York City Schools will be closed tomorrow. Also encouraging folks to stay off roads and stay indoors. And also going on to say that if you see or suspect that someone is price gouging, this was a problem during the last major winter storm in new york city call 311. Lets get right to our team covering this massive storm. Domenica davis is in the studio and we have reporters fanned out all over the eastern sea board, looking at delays and cancellations at airports. Well get to all of that in just a moment. Lets start with domenica. Whats the latest on what we can expect and when . What we can expect is block buster snow. We havent lessened our snow totals, still looking at 2 to 3 feet in parts of boston and 1 to 2 feet in part of new york. Lesser amounts to the south. But philadelphia not out of the woods, up to a foot in philadelphia and parts of new jersey. That blizzard warning does extend from coastal new jersey all the way up to maine which basically means were going to be looking at persistent whiteout conditions for much of tonight and tomorrow. Heres a look at storm tracker. It hasnt started just yet. This is the appetizer if you will before the main course starts to arrive by early this evening. Just after the commute conditions will deteriorate here in new york city and then by about 9 00 10 00 in new england. I want to show you the future cast. As this system comes up the coast, it will rapidly intensify. With that it means the winds will pick up and snow will pick up and thats making for these blizzard conditions. By midnight and overnight, thats where well look at the heaviest snowfall. Where we have this swath of white from new haven up to boston overnight that will continue. Likely in this swath were looking at 2 to 4 inches per hour and thats why this snow totals are going to be so high over the next 48 hours. This storm does die down after lunchtime on tuesday. On the back edge of it we could see an additional one to two inches. Heres a look at the warnings we have. Blizzard warnings from coastal new jersey all the way up to bangor maine. We do have winter storm warnings now effect for parts of the northeast, philadelphia included in that all the way down to baltimore and d. C. A lot of people are affected by this and this will persist at least until tuesday afternoon. Talk to me about the wind here. Weve heard a lot being made of that being possibly the greatest threat from this. How intense are we talking here . We are looking at winds at the height of this storm that will be which will be overnight and first thing tomorrow. They could get as high as 60 to 70 Miles Per Hour along the coast. That means a lot of places especially southeastern new england, where were looking around the cape cod area plymouth massachusetts, you could have 20 foot waves. As this storm does move up the coast, it will sort of reach its culmination just south of cape cod. Thats where it will bomb out so to speak and intensifies and thats where well see the worst conditions. From providence to boston once you have that storm starts to intensify the winds pick up and that is going to create a lot of snowfall. We have a moisture with this storm. Waters are a bit warm. Its been not too bad of a winter. The temperatures are still warm a lot of moisture with this storm and we have the cold air that will be persisting. This is an all snow event and Long Duration which means very high snow totals along with the wind. Well be coming back to you quite often throughout the course of the afternoon and evening tonight. More than 5,000 flights have been canceled so far. Airports all up and down the eastern seaboard. Boston, one of those areas of course Logan Airport announcing it is going to be canceling all flights after 7 00 tonight. They are expecting somewhere between 2 and 3 feet of snow there and chris palone is there. New englanders no stranger to snow but this one causing folks to treat it a bit differently, no . Reporter thats absolutely right. Im a native and grew up not far from here. Sure, were hearty people used to weather like this. But not like this. Were used to a lot of snow but as the governor said just a short time ago, this could be a historic storm, a top five storm as he called it in terms of snowfall. But its not just the snow that people are concerned with here. They are also talking about 40 to 50mileperhour winds inland with 70mileperhour gusts out on the water front. So when you combine that with the snow thats expected to come here, theres going to be a lot of drifting and whiteout conditions. Theres going to be coastal flooding that might take place. People have already started boarding up homes along the coast lines in anticipation of what is almost Hurricane Force winds that will accompany this storm. Some evidence that people here are treating this a little differently than most other storms. On saturday we had 9 inches of snow in the mir amac valley not far north of here and it was a pretty relatively easy day. Weve seen people lining up at gas stations and clearing out Grocery Stores as they prepare to maybe be stuck inside for the next several days. Chris, well come back to you as well thousands of flights scheduled for today and tomorrow have already been canceled. Take a look at this. It is flight awares misery map. Shows the domino effect that is already starting to have on airports all over the country. Nbcs luke russert is at Reagan National in northern virginia. Luke have they started delays and cancellations there . Reporter yes, craig, your old stomping grounds of d. C. A over 120 cancellations so far and more expected as the day progresses. Dulles and bwi also facing cancellations. That number expecting to go up. If youre flying in the d. C. Area this afternoon, anywhere along the northeast corridor expect a cancellation or delay. A bit of good news though for those passengers who are international bound or coming into dulles those flights look to be okay. They are going to try to fly around this. Overalthough, craig, were seeing though you mentioned before, a lot of preventative cancellations in places like New York Laguardia jfk, newark philly. That will happen in d. C. As well. Amtrak is having the northeast corridor open ready for business but keep your eye on that as the day progresses. Bottom line if youre going to fly out of d. C. Later today, enjoy the airport bar and get a hotel room youre not going to get out if youre going up north. Luke russert, well come back to you shortly, my friend. Up next well continue to cover all angles of the approaching blizzard including how people are hunkering down for the long haul. We figured we want to be ready because were going to be bored, get cooking projects and bought egg whites for lemon meringue pie bubble bath. Well talk to the mayor of danbury connecticut right after this. They challenge us. They take us to worlds full of heroes and titans. For respawn, building the best Interactive Entertainment begins with the cloud. This is titanfall, the first multiplayer game built and run on microsoft azure. Empowering gamers around the world to interact in ways they never thought possible. This cloud turns data into excitement. This is the microsoft cloud. Imagine if razors could move up and down, and all around. Hugging tight, swirling left and turning right. 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As communities across the northeast get ready for up to 3 feet of snow and some Hurricane Force winds as well how are local officials preparing . Im joined now on the phone by the mayor of danbury, connecticut, Mark Boughton. I understand city hall closing at 2 30 what are you doing to prepare . We started preparation over the weekend and have all of the crews ready to go. All of the materials that spread out on the roads ready to go. Weve been interfacing with our Police Department and Fire Department as well as our Public School system to ensure that were all on the same page in terms of what our process will be as we roll into the storm. This is new england. Were used to this is kinds of a big storm and were used to storms and have a procedure in place and will deal with it. It should be a pretty wild night over next 24 to 46 hours. I live not far from you, in west port every time we have a big storm, the biggest problem is the Power Outages because of all of the trees and winds as well. Governor malloy warning 110,000 households could end up without power. What are you urging residents to do to prepare for that . Coupled with the cold temperatures and high winds, no question thats going to be a major problem if people do lose power. Were telling people to stock up on batteries and stock up on canned goods. Understand that you could be out for a while. The Power Companies wont repair those lines when theres high winds going on. That means they may not get out there until thursday or friday to reconnect people. People should take those precautions and weve already set up a Warming Center an area where people can charge cell phones and spends the night if they want as well as get a hot shower and be able to get out of the cold. Between all of those things were working real hard on that. I will say one thing we do worry about our the shutin seniors, our super seniors, over age 80 and live alone and dont have any other family around. We have a holt sheet of those people that the Fire Department will check on throughout the storm to make sure they will okay and go pick them up and bring them wherever they need to go. It looks like youre having fun with this thing, having some fun with the storm on twitter. Our team of researchers found this the snow tore yus wrecks with the statewide ban, encouraging residents to find some fun in being cooped up inside their houses. Were all going to have a good time. It is what it is but we want people to respect snowtoriuos wraekz its a great time to spend family time if you can and well get through this together and spring is just right around the corner i just know it. I hope youre right. Mayor Mark Boughton keep us posted. You betcha. Much more on the giant storm expected in the northeast. 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