Still in the crosshairs right now. Snowfall expected to get more than two feet in some areas. Coastal flooding becoming another major concern. Also expected to get hit hard maine and new hampshire. Both of those states still under a state of emergency. Officials still urging people to stay off the roads and to stay at home. Lets kick things off with our meteorologist who continues to follow the storms track. Who is getting hammered right now . Right now eastern massachusetts and rhode island. They are in the brunt of the storm. We have impressive snow totals. This is a new update. For mass 30 inches. Worcester 26 inches. Boston, 21 1 2 with an inch of snow coming down per hour. Still looking at heavy bands. We will see it lighten up. We can see it lighten up as we head through the afternoon so by tonight the storm system will start to die down. We will not see these heavy bands of snow. They will start to lighten up. What we will continue to get is that blowing and drifting know. This is going to continue to be a problem through the overnight. Heres a closer look at storm tracker. You can see where the blues are. Thats where we do have possibly one to maybe even two inches per hour coming down. Its still a pretty mod date to heavy snow coming down from boston down through providence and new bedford and off to the cape. Its still life threatening along the cape with strong winds and low visibility. So it is tough over there. We had our highest wind gusts in s in nantucket this morning. That came in at Hurricane Force winds. 78 Miles Per Hour. We have been seeing constant Hurricane Force winds along the coast. Of course, theyre getting the flooding with high tide and low tide with still bringing some flooding. The winds out of the east, boston 28mileperhour wind gust. 33 in newport. Those winds will continue to pick up which is why were seeing the blizzard warnings continue until 8 00 tonight for boston. It will go into early tomorrow morning up through maine. So still some time. Theyre still in the thick of it. A lot of the cities and towns are going to be digging out for the next few days. Whats behind the storm . What does that system look like thats going to be move in . Whats behind the storm is cold air. We could have a few more snow flurries but whats locked in here is the cold. Heres a look at the current windchill. In boston feels like minus one. Not so bad in hartford and new york. But still it is very cold. Everybody up and down the east coast is going to get to the cold. We will not see temperatures get above freezing in boston until friday. And then they drop again for the weekend. Well fall into the teens for daytime highs. Meteorologist, thank you so much. We will come back to you in 30 minutes. As i mentioned, massachusetts still getting hit pretty hard right now. As much as two feet of snow has fallen in certain parts of the state. Travel ban has been lifted in four western counties but it still a applies to the massachusetts turnpike specifically. You just heard, worcester, massachusetts, 26 inches of snow. Governor Charlie Baker says he was bladglad they were able to get in front of this thing. This is clearly a very big storm for most of massachusetts. And im glad we had a little bit of advance warning to plan for it. I think thats going to help us in terms of our ability to get out of it early and to make it possible for people to get back up and operating as soon as upon sometime tomorrow. Msnbcs chris continues to stand guard there for us from boston common. 18. 2 inches im told was the last calculation there in boston. How are things looking right now . It looks like snow continues to fall. You know, craig, just a couple minutes ago i was excited to tell you that the snow is actually slowing down. It was just kind of meandering to the ground. In the last ten minutes now its starting to fall harder again. Obviously were getting under one of those bands. I want to show you something. You mentioned governor Charlie Baker. He was talking today about why massachusetts is doing so well with this storm despite the fact that it snowed a heck of a lot in many cities and towns. I want to show you this snow. Its nice and light. Its very they were very, very small graen engranular flik flakes. Very dry. It was so cold aloft when the snow fell it was very very light and dusty and powdery. And so it did not weigh down trees and power lines like they expected it would. And so today we are seeing far fewer Power Outages than officials had anticipated. Of course, there are still homes. Last check about 20,000 homes. Most of those were on nantucket that saw Power Outages. It could have been must have much worse. Now what officials are dealing with are a little bit of coastal flooding but nothing too major. Just simply the cleanup from all of this snow. The plows have to hit all the roads. Theres a lot of snow to move. And thats whats going to be happening for us tonight into tomorrow. Let me interrupt you. We want to get back to the pentagon right now. That dod briefing with rear admiral john kish by talking about Bowe Bergdahl being charged. So our thoughts and prayers go out to them. We also as secretary hagel made clear, stand shoulder to shoulder with our japanese allies in this their struggle against isil now. And we also note that they have been a major contributor to humanitarian aid to the Iraqi Security forces and the iraqi governmentnd they continue to fight isil. Whatever decisions the japanese people make about how theyre going to move forward with respect to their this second hostage, is for them to make. And there will be no judgments cast from the pentagon about that. Now, we i want to bring in colonel jack jacobs medal of honor recipient recipient, military analyst. Admiral kirby there talking about sergeant Bowe Bergdahl facing charges. At that point he was talking about isis. Before that he was talking about Sergeant Bergdahl being charge with desertion. How common is Something Like this . How uncommon is it . Its very uncommon. Frequently you will have people charge with absence without leave. Theyll leave and then theyll come back. Sometimes they will leave for more than 30 days. Usually thats the break point after which you charge them with desertion. But when you come back youre charged with absence without leave. Instead of desertion because one of the elements of proof is that you have to prove intent. Not only do you go away but you have to prove you have to be proven to want to stay away. Your intention of staying away. Thats much more difficult to prove. The fact that hes charged with desertion indicates that they probably have plenty of evidence to indicate that. Whats the next step . Article 32 investigation is the military equivalent of a grand jury procedure. With this important difference the accused in a military proceeding can be represented by counsel and can crossexamine witnesses, as well. You dont have that in civilian grand jury procedure. The investigating officer then presents a report to the courtmartial convening authority. In this case it will be a general. And will recommend what is to be done. May recommend that all charges be dropped. May recommend that he be charged with one or more crimes. And the commanding general then makes a decision on whether or not he will be courtmartialed, what crimes he will be courtmartialed for, and convenes a courtmartial. Then the fun begins. Youll have a courtmartial thats convened. The accused will be represented by counsel, both military and, in his choice civilian. And the jury will be made up of officers and sometimes enlisted men, and will decide his fate. Colonel jack jacobs. Thank you so much for that ensight again. Briefing happening right now at the pentagon. Rear admiral john kirby talking about the charges facing Bowe Bergdahl expected to be charged with desertion a little bit later in the week. Colonel jack thank you. Lets get back to the blizzard here. Again, new york escaping the brunt of the storm. Long island, though long island smack in the middle of it. Eastern long island getting more than 20 feet of snow. Governor andrew cuomo says theyre now shifting resources to help dig out suffolk county. This is one of those bad news good news situations. The good news is the entire region was not hit as hard as we were expecting. The bad news is suffolk took it right on the chin. Msnbcs adam reiss is live in plainview. Whats it like where you are rights now . It looks like the snow and the wind have died down a bit. Craig, conditions have improved tremendously in the last hour since you and i last spoke. The sun is out. The wind has died down. The snow has stopped. The l. I. E. Behind me while many of the roads have been cleared but the public works together many long islanders have taken the governors advice to heed and they have stayed off the road. Were seeing a few cars here and there. Mostly plows. Mostly electric trucks. You see some of this snowdrifts here. Thats whats next. This is whats next. Handling the snow clearing it out. You can bet theres going to be some resourceful entrepreneurers in the next 24 hours going door to door, looking to clean up sidewalks, driveways, and the like here on long island. Craig . Adam reiss for us in long island. The storm just burying places all across new england. More than a foot of snow has been reported in parts of rhode island. They could get up to a foot more. Also having an affect on electricity. National grid says roughly 1,000 customers do not have power right now. Nbc driving along i95 headed from massachusetts into rhode island. Last time we spoke you were some 30 miles outside of prove derns. Are you looks like you may be in providence now. We have made our way into providence. And it looks a little bit like a ghost town here craig. Very little activity on the streets. Theres been a lot of snow thats swirling around. The temperature is only about 19 degrees or so. Its very cold out here. Theyve got a lot of snow. And people seem to be heeding the travel ban that remains in effect in this community. And they are staying off the roads. The roads are a bit of a mess. We just saw as im trying to turn this corner here. This car, you can see from our windshield camera. I saw him, had a difficult time as he was trying to make that turn. Still very slippery out here so youve got to go slow. Were seeing more snowplows than were seeing anything else. Thats exactly the way officials in this state want it to be. They dont want private vehicles out here on the road. Thats so that these snowplow drivers can do the job that is so critical right now for them to do. The snow is continuing to fall here. They say its going to continue into the evening. Take a look at whats ahead of us from our windshield cameras. Some folks are deciding to snowboard right down the middle of the street. But for the fact that were coming in their direction, they would probably be having a pretty good time. I would say so. Its an extraordinary thing to do down one of the main streets in the city of Providence Rhode island. Especially especially bizarre as you approach the Capital Building there. Not a soul on the streets except those blizzard tourists. Nbcs raheema ellis, appreciate it. Perhaps the biggest headache is going to be travel. Right now more than 5,000 frights have been canceled for today alone. Theres the misery map that we like to show you from time to time. The airports in new york city in this area completely snarled over the last two days. Some good news though that we can pass along to you right now. Amtrak announcing a little while ago it is going to be resuming limited operations in some areas in the northeast today. Nbcs luke russert live for us at laguardia airport. Luke, i know you spent some time or have been spending some time with folks who were stuck there overnight. At this point any hope they get to their destination later today . Probably not later today for the majority of people that theyve spoken to craig. Ive been here since 4 00 a. M. Literally two minutes ago before i came on your iriair, i heard my first airplane. Making some progress. I can also report weve had one flight so targeting out tonight. Its a spirit flight 180 going to ft. Lauderdale. I spoke to a passenger on that one. I said you must be happy to go to ft. Lauderdale. Yes, indeed so. There is a little bit of movement but i stress the word little. If you look at the big board almost every single flight with the exception of that one to ft. Lauderdale still has canceled next to it. The big question when will the airport be up and running . Probably about mid morning tomorrow and by tomorrow afternoon it should be up to full strength. The republican realason is because the officials here in new york said they wanted to close the road shut down the subway keep things safe. That prohibited a lot of personnel that is necessary to run the airport from getting here to laguardia. So not really any tsa agents here. Not a lot of airline counter individuals. The cafeterias are not up and running. Very bare bones operation going on right now. That will probably be the case throughout the day until things get back up to normal tomorrow morning. Luke russert for us in laguardia. Thanks. The blizzard still hitting the northeast pretty hard. Also buzzing on social media as you might imagine, these are the top trending terms that youre use right now to talk about it. Blizzardof2015, snow me bed don2010. 418,000 tweets use that top hashtag and it is still going strong. When the snow meand we continue to track whats happening in the real world as well. A lot more on the blizzard right after this. In canton. My little buddy here wanted to give us some idea how deep the snow is. He can barely move here. Lets see what weve got. Weve got the tape measure today. Its still about 19 inches. I dont think its down to the ground there. It is just been coming down. Quite a pretty big clip here. Can you get out of here andrew . Nbcs Kristen Dahlgren a short time ago riding tout storm in can top. More than two feet of snow has fallen there. I can tell you at last check kristen and andrew have gone inside to enjoy some hot chocolate. Back here in new york city though mayor bill de blasio defended the citys frantic preparations for a storm system that he previously had called historic but that ended up dufring less than ten inches on most of new york. God forbid this storm had not moved, you know what was ultimately 20, 30 miamiles to the east in our case. We would have then been hit by that incredible magnitude of storm and had people not been off the roads there would have been a lot of people in danger and probably not people would have lost their lives. We cant take that risk when making decisions about peoples lives we have to protect our people. Msnbcs trymaine lee is live near the Barclays Center in brooklyn, home of the brooklyn nets, the nets who did not play last night. Neither did the new york knicks. How are you doing, craig . Here we are in brooklyn. Its been amazing over the last few hours to actually see brooklyn coming alive. We behind me passengers are far and few between. Services running on sunday schedule reduced schedule. Folks are beginning to come alive. Behind me is the Atlantic Terminal center. The mall here folks have been shopping at target. I talked to one woman who said she was stuck in path mart where she works all night long. She said rather than brave the Winter Weather they decided to stay inside. So many people out here today are so thankful and said they dodged a bullet. They praised the governor and the mayor saying that the plan was effective, that it was better to stay off the roads rather than risk the streets. But again, this storm was not historic by any nature but folks are freeleeling good. You saw children and families hading to the park to go sledding. You had other folks running their errands today. Again, this was not historic storm but folks are glad that it wasnt just major impact. Yeah. Again, folks here are enjoying this weather. The sun is shining. Here we go in brooklyn. Beautiful day so far. Msnbcs germane lee for news his hood, in brooklyn. New york city, brooklyn as well. All parts of new york city we should know here. Blizzard still bearing down on beantown though in a big way. Bostonblizzard, full of tweets showing how residents are coping. Some are sharing some snowy scenes there from boston. Others passing the time tracking the movements of a social media phenomenon called the boston yeti of 2015. Thats right locals taking pictures of that retweeting him, or her, as surprise sightings of the snowman, those sitings seem to be spiking. Did your local officials over react or prepare adequately for the storm . You can take part in you online survey. You can also see the results of the survey at blizzardof2015. Msnbc. Com. Coming up, stranded. Talked to an Airline Passenger who said he endured a night of hell. His words. He is stuck at jfk overnight. Stuck on a plane for about six hours. Ill talk to him after this. And now for more of the blizzard hitting new england as well. Maine residents tweeting on the maineblizzard sharing some chilling foet toss of snowdrifts in maine. Theyre braving some tough weather conditions with humor. Tweets like this user who joked, first one to lose power wins. This woman tweeting about the whirlwind of snow. Expected to leave about two feet statewide in maine. And we have whiteout im dancing. We dont have a picture of her dancing. More on this storm coming up. Welcome back to our continuing coverage of the blizzard of 2015. Lets get you up to speed on what we know right now. The storm continuing to barrel down on the eastern portion of massachusetts. But it is letting up on the western parts of that state. Thats where governor Charlie Baker has lifted the travel ban. Travel bans have also been lifted in new Jersey New York and parts of connecticut as well. In fact, most of connecticut. Another big part of this storm, travel. Thousands of flights have been canceled all over the northeast with new york city area airports not expected to fully resume normal activity until thursday morning. Lets kick things off with meteorologist davis who has been following the latest on this storms track. Live from just outside rockefeller plaza. What do we know right now . We know right now that what were facing is this storm that is still going through new england, through eastern mass and rhode island heavy bands of snow one to two inches per hour. It goes through 8 00 tonight. It extends longer until tomorrow morning for parts of maine. This storm is