Winterwary boston area facing another two feet of snow by the time its all over. Its only been 14 days folks and weve gotten 70 to 80 inches of snow around the commonwealth. I mean, this is pretty much unprecedented. And on the waterlogged west coast, the Pineapple Express is dumping more rain on the region with some areas getting up to a foot of rain since friday. We have coasttocoast coverage on the rundown. Amanda is in boston and bill tracking storms on both coasts. Amanda, start with you. We heard from the governor of massachusetts this morning. Where are they going put all of this snow thats coming down . Amanda . Can you here us this morning . Reporter yes. We dont have i. V. Well try to reestablish communication with amanda. You see a live shot of the treacherous weather. Look, theres bill karins. Hes got the forecast for us for the east and for the west. Bill, good morning. Yeah. Both coasts suffered this weekend, now the west coast slowly improves. That in a second. The east the beginning of a historic brutal stretch for this region. In boston we surpassed our snowiest 30day period officially on record. Most snow their records go back 150 years. Never seen this much snow in 30 days. Over 62 inches still snowing. Moderate steady snow. Already at 12 inching with this storm alone. Probably add another 6 inches by the time it ends early tomorrow morning. Can sue you can see, its not just boston but that area of massachusetts and cape cod and all the way up into maine, easily hit the hardest. About official statement out of the Weather Service from bangor maine, 53 inches of snow on the ground. Thats 4 1 2 feet of snow on the ground tying the most snow ever on the ground at one period and no signs of that melting. Over the next five days boston lucky to get into the upper 20s. Another snowstorm is possible for coastal portions of massachusetts, and maine on thursday. Thats the next thing we have to watch, and then behind that a well advertised we call this crosspolar flow. Cold bitterly cold air, coming down from the north pole. On this map, the white shows where the coldest air is. Right now where it should be. Northern canada and up to the north, but as we go through this week, huge High Pressure builds in the gulf of alaska and that cold air makes a run at the great lakes in the east. One shot comes down into the northeast on friday. Windchills as low as negative 30. Thats dangerous category and then maybe an even colder air mass comes down. It looks like chicago, green bay on saturday and that covers up much of the east coast with it peaking in the northeast on sunday. So, jose you get the idea here. We are going to go from historic snow amounts, no melting, to bitterly cold air. I mean dangerous cold over the next couple days. Man, youre saying at least probably until sunday . Oh at least through sunday into monday. And some of the extended stuff takes this cold and snowy pattern right through almost the end of february. Really no signs of relief for that area. Bill, see you shortly. Thanks for being with me. Amanda try this again. Msnbcs amanda sacuma in boston. Good morning. Reporter hi, jose. Yes, were here in front of the seaPort District, in front of a vacant lot here. One of two locations where city officials are dumping snow that theyre taking from the streets. Taking it here to temporarily store and then hopefully it will melt later on. Theres a grave amount of concern that theyre running out of locations to store this snow. Theyve rented out some industrial machines to melt the snow. Its in front of us here now and city officials told me this morning they have melted some 7,500 tons of snow already since yesterday morning. And so they will continue to do these efforts, but bostons mayor has already raised concerns that theyve blown through the 18 million budget for snow emergencies, and so right here is where you can see how high the snow is towering. Its practically a ski slope, and this is one of two locations, as i said and theyre really hoping that they will be able to melt the snow and cut through what they have already in time for the fresh layers to come down. What a difficult situation. Amanda, thank you so much. Out to the west coast. Its been a soggy 72 hours there. Bob redell with nbc station k ntv joins us from redwood city california. Very difficult for you . Reporter some of the busiest people here in the bay area pacific gas and electric workers works around the clock trying to restore power to thousands of customers who lost their electricity during this weekends storm, and as you can see by the lights overlooking Silicon Valley here it appears their work is paying off, instead of thousands without electricity, now those numbers are in the hundreds, and they hope to make progress in the next few hours to come. We had this Pineapple Express descend upon us a few days ago bringing in lots of rain saturated the roots of a lot of trees and with the wind a lot of those trees came down known on car, homes and also power linesout knocking out power. This as we enter another year of the drought. Here in redwood city california, back to you. Thank you. And today could be a make or break day in the yearlong fight thats killed more than 5,000 people in ukraine. German chancellor Angela Merkel will be at the white house in about an hour bring wig her a new peace plan to present to president obama. Its gotten support in europe almost none in russia. It may be up to the u. S. To determine where things go next. Chris jansing is nbcs senior White House Correspondent at the white house this morning. Chris what is the president going to have to be weighing in the future . Reporter several options he has, jose. One and the most pressing question is will he decide to arm the ukrainians . And he has a range of option a range of arguments that are on this desk right now as we waits for Angela Merkel to come. Theres always the option of tougher sanctions, but what hes going to hear from Angela Merkel is let his Peace Process play out. Let the draft of a Peace Agreement that has come together with france and germany see if it can take root even though the argument on the other side is that such agreements have not worked in the past. America is uniquely positioned for this. Shes from east germany. She speaks fluent russian, that taken the lead on this doing shuttle diplomacy over the weekend, by some counts talked to Vladimir Putin about 40 times over the last year, and the message will essentially be lets wait. See if this can work. Lets not act hastily. Whats going on on the other side well you heard ash carter, the president s nominee for defense secretary, when he was before Committee Last week. Suggesting that the ukrainians should be armed. We also heard it from a Bipartisan Group of u. S. Senators recently just there over the weekend in munich. So theres a very difficult decision for the president to make, and as we often hear in these case without Officials Say hes not going to be rushed into it. Hes going to consider it very carefully and there is a press conference with both the president and Angela Merkel late this morning, jose. This isnt the only thing the president and the german chancellor will be talking about today. Right . Reporter no. I mean obviously, this will be probably the focus of this discussion and i would think the focus of the News Conference, but isis is also very much on their minds. Obviously, germany a key part of this coalition and just as Angela Merkel is uniquely qualified to lead these negotiations with Vladimir Putin, theres a large Muslim Population in germany. 5 . Thats the largest in the European Union. They expect that to go up and obviously after what happened in paris, there is a lot of concern about the threat of isis. So that will probably be the other key topic. There are others including trade, but you can bet they will be very brief in their conversations that these are the top two conversations we expect them to have jose. Chris jansing at the white house. Thank you so very much. And steve clemons, washington editor at large forary the atlantic and an msnbc contributor. Good morning. Good morning, jose. What is your sense of how president obamas going to navigate the International Pressure from people like merkel to keep the conflict contained and the domestic pressure to get tougher on russia . Well i think hes going to listen carefully to Angela Merkel. If he breaks away from her he jumps in and arms the ukrainians and john mccain and others would like him to do that could well drive a wedge deep inside nato and for the president to really begin thinking about arming the ukrainians with lethal weapons requires him also to think about what happens if russia escalates not only there but elsewhere . What else is the United States prepared and willing to do . He has to have those questions answered before he would think about it. I think the president wants to buy time to think about it and not rush into action because hes got enough conflict in enough parts of his plate that it is overwhelming at the moment. This is another case where senator mccain, senator graham and others are calling for quick action and the president is saying, lets study. I want to read you part of what Angela Merkel said over the weekend about the possibility the u. S. Sends weapons to ukraine. She wrote, the problem is i cant see any situation in which an improved equipment of the Ukrainian Army leads to a situation where president putin is so impressed he will lose the military as far as militarily. Does she make a good point . A very good point. The costs that Vladimir Putin is paying for what hes doing in ukraine are very very small. You could say that his economy is imploding. As both with sanctions and the combined effect of cheap oil, but that hasnt deterred him from the rather low level of costs it can take to continue to keep ukraine destabilized and the world distracted by this. Hes negotiating with this and what needs to happen a large, strategic discussion. What does russia want what do we want from russia . Can we come to a deal . Hell keep doing this no matter how many arms we flood into ukraine. Unless were fully engaged, very disastrous for the world, but theres not a point he loses and ukrainians automatically win. Theres got to be a negotiated outcome. Thanks for being with me. Good to see you. Thank you. Also expecting to see president obama and chancellor merkel just before 10 30 eastern time. Holding a press conference at 11 40. See it right here on msnbc and weve just Getting Started on the monday edition of the rundown. Isis launched from jordan. Can they halt the advance of this terrorist group . The news we dont like to hear from as far at the gas pump. Why thats happening, ahead, on thethe rundown. Car insurance. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know words really can hurt you . What. . Jesse dont go jesse. No im sorry daisy, but im a loner. And a loner gotta be alone. Heee yawww geico. 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And just within the last couple of minutes the Supreme Court apparently by a vote of 72 declined to grant that stay. Now, theres a dissent here. Justices Clarence Thomas and antonin scalia. Thomas said this is a strange thing for the court to do. We ought to be more respectful for the states. Yes, he says i know the u. S. Supreme courts going to take up this whole issue of samesex marriage. Quote, this acquiescence may well be seen as the senate of the corporate intended resolution of that question. Thats an interesting little line from Clarence Thomas predicting that the Supreme Court might be prepared to say that samesex marriage has to take place nationwide. In any event things are very dicey down in alabama, because the state Supreme Court justice down there roy moore, has said that state judges cant issue samesex marriage licenses that the federal judges ruling striking down the ban on samesex marriage is an interesting legal precedent but doesnt directly affect what happens in alabama. Advocates of samesex marriage said any state official whose refuse to grant licenses now could be legally liable themselves. Pete williams in washington. Thank you. You bet. Of course, well get reaction to this decision in alabama from the president of g. L. A. D. Later in the hour. As friends and family of american hostage Kayla Mueller await word about her fate insisting air stooikrike did not kill her. Its unclear whether the 26yearold aid worker is alive or dead. Meantime, u. S. Led forces launched another nine air strikes over the past two days. Jordan says their planes have been responsible for nearly 60 strikes since last thursday. On nbcs meet the press, secretary of state john kerry said the strategy is working. We have taken out a significant proportion of the top leadership of isis. Their command and control facilities have been attacked interrupting their command and control. Everything including the governing process in iraq itself is moving in the right direction. But the man in charge of the fight, marine general john allen, would say only that this is a far tougher fight than the one we faced in years past. Isil is as an entirely different level than al qaeda was. Are they harder to find now . They have adapted . They have and we expected that would be the case. You dont see the long convoys with flags flying in broad daylight, but we have also adapted our targeting process. Nbcs keir simmons at an air base in jordan near the town of azaraq. How is jordan working with the United States as this battle intensified . Reporter jordan has been taking the lead over the last few days. This is one of the f16 fighters theyve been using to target isis. This is a 2000pound bomb the kind of bomb they have been dropping on those isis targets that the secretary of state was talking about there. Targeting fuel depots ammo depots targeting the isis fighters themselves. One military leader says here that he believes that these f16 f16s have managed to kill 7,000 isis fighters. So they do think here in jord than they arejordan they are having a real effect. Because of what happened to the campaign, theyve stepped up this campaign. He was flying one of these f 16 16s, captured by isis and killed in that horrible way, burned to death. What appears to have happened it had a real effect galvanizing effect. Uae planes have come in to support jordan on this very base, and that seems to have been a real misstep for isis if you can describe it that way, that has turned the tables on them. The question now of course is whether there will be some kind of a ground offensive, what forces might be involved in that. The u. S. John kerry clear it wont involve u. S. Boots on the ground, what are they though planning to back up this air power and try to push isis out of that territory that its been holding . And i just want to take advantage of the fact youre in a pretty unusual place. Has there been a lot of movement there throughout the day . Reporter there have been. To be honest weve been here two days and we have seen many many flights take off both jordanian and u. S. F16s, u. S. F22s coming in to land here. Uae fwlaens gathering. This appears to be increaseingly an aaron central for the air battle, if you like, while that said, as i mention, in the end it may come down to Ground Forces and that may well be down to the iraqis, and there are lots of questions about that, jose, because after all it was the iraqi army that withdrew when isis pushed into mosul and into that part of iraq. So were looking at potentially relying on that same army to try and take that territory back. Keir simmons, thank you so much. Good to see you. Appreciate it. Coming up here on the