On the righthand side thats new york citys times square. Youre not used to seeing it that empty at this time of day on a weekend. This storm is really pounding the mid atlantic right now. Good morning to you. And thanks for joining us. Im antoinette antonio. Doug im doug meehan. Its saturday, january 23. From the deep south up into new jersey, its a mess out there this morning and the storm is headed our way. Antoinette we have Team Coverage this morning. Both cindy and danielle are here tracking the storm. And our Frank Holland is live at logan where hundreds of flights are cancelled. But we begin with cindy. And the track on this storm. Cindy good morning to you both. Yes, this torm is inching north ward before it heads out to sea. We are going to catch the Northern Edge of this storm system. Spinning to our south right now. Heavy snow and near zero visibility. Parts of the new york city area all the way down to d. C. Where they have more than a foot of snow already. You look at our local radar. It looks like it is snowing here across connecticut and parts of the islands but really nothing more than a few flurries as the the snow will get in here. Wech winter storm warning up for the coastal sections of southeastern massachusetts. And on Marthas Vineyard, it is a blizzard warning that goes into effect here this afternoon. Its with us into the night. You can see that snow trying to get into connecticut now. But really once you get down torts the bridgeport area it is reaching the ground. New haven as well. You can see to the north 10 mile visibility. The air is extremely dry. Its taking a while for this band of heavy snow right here to press north ward. Within this band the snowfall rates are 13 inches her hour. To the south theyve had thunder snow as well. Its slowly moving in with this dry air in place. Will take a while to get on in here. The winds are starting to pick up in southeastern massachusetts so the winds pick up and that snow creeps north ward. By noontime its still down along the south coast. It will get closer to boston by 3 00 this afternoon. Its really this evening from 6 00 this evening through midnight that well see the heaviest snow. Then it shifts eastward pretty quickly leaving behind very the farther south you go the amounts ramp you. We could see about 10 inches of snow on the far south coast, the cape and Marthas Vineyard. The winds are another aspect of this storm. Well be talking more about that with danielle in just a couple of minutes. Doug and antoinette. Antoinette cindy, thank you. The massive storm has turned deadly. Its being blamed for nine deaths on the roads around the midatlantic. Doug thousands of flights cancelled. In chicago one plane skidding off the runway. No one hurt there. The eyeopeners Frank Holland is live at logan. Frank, the blizzard having a domino effect as travelers are forced to rebook. Frank the first major storm of 2016 is creating a real nightmare for people with travel plans on land or in the air. Here at logan you would have probably seen dozens if not hundreds of Patriots Fans gear. But instead its very quiet here. This storm is having a ripple the country. Here at logan we have updated numbers. Pats fans, mark thomas and his daughter sarah, making the fliers equivalent of a hail mary with a quick reroute. Mark thomas all the flights were booked. We were lucky to get on, and me and my daughter here are going to the patriots game on sunday. We are going to watch tom brady and the patriots hopefully beat manning and the broncos. Frank train travel also affected. Amtrak is operating on modified schedules in the north east corridor. Amtrak sent out an alert late last night saying there will be no service south of washington, d. C. , this weekend in virginia and the southeast. Massport is crediting the airlines with dramatically improved their communiation with passengers. Many passengers were proactivly rebooked meaning the number of people stuck at airports around the country is way down. This year at logan at other airports were seeing less people stuck here at the airport waiting for flights or waiting to find out if their flight is actually going to take o live here at logan Frank Holland, wcvb, newscenter 5. Antoinette frank, thank you. Coastal concerns. Jersey shore towns say it hasnt been this bad since hurricane sandy. Doug stormteam 5 meteorologist Danielle Vollmar is tracking the tides. A lot to watch here. Danielle thats correct. Look at this already. Wind gusting at 39 Miles Per Hour on block island. 36mileperhour wind gusts on nantucket. The winds are starting to increase even in boston now up to about 36 miles an hour. We have a high wind warning that is going into effect at 10 00 today and goes into effect until 10 00 tomorrow morning for the cape as well as nantucket. Obviously a blizzard warning still for the vineyard. And then we have a wind advisory for you folks in eastern essex county. Be aware of that. The winds are really going to increase especially in the boston area through the afternoon. Thats when that snow really starts flying too. And wind gusts on cape cod could be in excess of 50 Miles Per Hour or greater. Now that wind gust is also going to pile up the water. Thats why were watching the high tide carefully. Also have astronomically high flood watch in effect from the south shore down to cape cod to nantucket. Were watching the high tide at 11 00 p. M. Tonight as well as 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Antoinette and doug. Antoinette danielle, thank you. The washington d. C. Baltimore Area is bearing the brunt of this storm. Doug they are getting whacked. Sally kidd is live in washington. What is it like there this morning, sally . Sally good morning, doug and antoinette. The sun is up here in washington. This is what people are waking up to, about 1214 inches of snow on the ground. Weve been keeping a measurement here on the side of the sidewalk. Weve got, yeah, about a foot here, right here. Through. Theyre trying to get ahead of sidewalks. Something. Follow me over here. Weve got a guy with the associated press. Ready to head out and shoot some video. Hes got a gopro mounted to that thing. Getting ready to go out and shoot some video. Thats the way to do it. National Weather Service says we can expect the storm to really intensify. Right now we have moderate to heavy bands of snow. Were going to get 2030 inches on the ground before its all over with. Back to you guys. Doug is that thing street legal . Sally laughing i guess in this kind of weather it is. Doug no streets. Antoinette sally kidd live for us in washington d. C. This morning. Thanks so much for giving us that report. Doug speaking of getting out on the roads, dangerous driving conditions throughout the region. Virginia state police say theyve responded to nearly a thousand crashes and almost 800 disabled vehicles by last night. And the high winds occuring today could cause trees and powerlines to come down. Thousands of drivers stranded on a kentucky highway for hours. A 14mile stretch of interstate 75 was frozen over forcing Officials Say there were so many crashes they had to shut the roadway down. One woman claims she was stuck for eight hours. Antoinette closer to home, preparing for whatever the storm brings. The Community Maintenance director of fall river says the city is ready. Last weekends snowfall prompting a test run. Load up on salt. We have 2,000 tons available. The equipment has been all checked out. Everything is ready to go on the citys side. In the winter we depend on the snow. If we dont have no snow, we dont make no money. Antoinette local residents also know the drill. Theyre already stocked up on rocksalt and other stormrelated supplies. Get the latest storm team 5 forecasts, live radar, and realtime closings and delays with our wcvb mobile app. Download it for free in your app store. Doug right now the topsfield babysitter accused of kidnapping a child and then abandoning her along a roadway is back under observation at a Mental Health facility. Hanna back to the Worcester Recovery Center where she has remained since her arraignment in november. A defense expert claims hanna is not competent to stand trial. The herald reports essex county prosecutors are frustrated by yet another delay. The former babysitter is charged with kidnapping a toddler from her home in hamilton in the middle of the night, in hawaii a solemn ceremony honoring the 12 marines lost in twin helicopter crashes last week. A small marine unit placed rucksacks on 12 empty crosses, one for each man lost at sea. One of them was Corporal Christopher orlando. The hingham native disappeared with 11 fellow marines when their two helicopters crashed into the pacific. Governor Charlie Baker ordered flags across massachusetts lowered yesterday in corporal orlandos honor. Antoinette a deadly listeria outbreak has been linked to dole packaged salads. The c. D. C. Says one person has died; several others have gotten sick including here in massachusetts. The salads are sold under selections, simple truth, marketside, the little salad bar, and president s choice. The manufacturing code on the package starts with the letter a. If you have this in your fridge, you should throw it away. Youll find more information on our website wcvb. Com. Change is coming to the oscars. Doug ahead this morning, how the academy plans to make hollywoods biggest night more inclusive. Antoinette also this morning, a happy ending where these stolen dogs from somerville were found and the owners breathing a sigh of relief this morning. Doug look at those tails wag. Defending the business. The c. E. O. Of plainridge park sticking up for his slot parlor. The new accusations as the revenues continue to drop. Danielle im tracking a major winter storm that is headed our way. The timeline on the snow and the impact to our coastline. Frank live at Logan Airport this morning, were covering all the travel problems due to that we have updated numbers. 187 cancellations so far today, but take a look behind me. There is good news. Fewer stranded. Massport is crediting airlines with doing a better job at proactively rebooking people and also letting them know if their flights are canceled. Much more on the Severe Weather and the travel difficulties coming up after the p find your sweet spot today with dunkins chicken apple sausage sandwich. 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Were well aware of whats going on and well prepared lookality folks oust there at times square going somebody give me a shovel. Theyre doing i. Theyre going to be doing it for a while. Antoinette a grateful somerville couple reunited with their stolen dogs. They were taken when the couples apartment was broken into. As newscenter 5s john atwater explains, they were found pretty far from home. John it is a long overdue game of fetch for cleopatra. Olga spivak its just unbelievable. John shes back in her somerville home with caesar after both of the pomeranians were snatched during a burglary. The happy reunion friday night at somerville animal control after the dogs were spotted outside on the sidewalk in dorchester. Chris spivak a couple just saw them on the street and recognized them oh, those are the dogs on facebook. John Surveillance Video captured who the couple believes is the burglar carrying the dogs from their home on tuesday. Olga and chris spivak immediately turned to social for help. Olga when somebody stole the dogs, Everyone Wants to support so i really want to thank everyone. Our friends, our family, and everyone. John police are still looking for that man who took the dogs, and this reunited family is anxious to thank the couple who made it possible. Olga were looking for the people to thank them personally and send them pictures of the happy family back together. John those dogs are doing well. They were not hurt. And now that family will be installing a security system. In somerville, john atwater, wcvb, newscenter 5. Now your storm team 5 forecast. Antoinette 8 16. 26 degrees outside right now. All week long you guys have been talking about the storm and how its going to inch closer, but today for the most part if youre in the boston area, not a bad day. Cindy not until 3 00 this afternoon. Then that snow is going to start. Its just creeping north ward. Cindy thats a different story to our south. The highest report weve seen of virginia. Over 20 inches of snow on the ground and its still snowing by the way. Were going to be measuring this in feet down the coastline. We are being looking at the potential for, you know, for one to two feet of snow down toward the d. C. Area, places like baltimore and also back toward philly and new york city. That is where we will be talking about seeing, yeah, upwards of a foot of snow. Theyve had quite a bit already. Danielle will go over more of those amounts coming up. The snow extends as far south as South Carolina and georgia. Thats the southern end. The heart of the storm right now is from new york city back to d. C. Especially west of d. C. Right now. Theres rain creeping in along the coast. Were on the northern fringe of this storm so weve got still many, many states under a weather alert here. That blizzard warning from d. C. , new york, and yes now it does extend up towards Marthas Vineyard. Not just snow with this. Its wind. That combination reduces the visibility. Quarter of a mile for three hours. Thats when you get a blizzard. That criteria will met on marths vineyard. Winter storm warnings and Winter Weather advisories are up for later today through tonight and they end first thing tomorrow morning. It looks like its snowing right now through a lot of connecticut. Only some of connecticut is seeing the snow. You can tell by looking at the visibilities here its still around 10 miles. Hare forward south. Around the coastline it drops to a mile. Down near zero on long island that is a heavy intense band of snow working north ward. See this blue band right here. Its very, very slow and pivoting north ward. Just about a threehour loop. Show it very slowly shifts north ward. Running into a lot of dry air. The dew points are in the Single Digits to around 12 in hartford. Until we can moisten up that air it will be tough for this to move north ward. Winds are coming in off the water. Tass wind increases and the storm inches closer eventually well push more of that snow in. It takes a good long while. By noontime it is still down southern rhode island finally snowing across most of connecticut. It will be about 3 00 before it inches close er to the boston area. And then notice by 6 00 this evening, if you have plans this evening, boston out to worcester up through the north shore, this is where there will be some snow. That may continue through about midnight qualify this whole area starts to pivot eastward. Its gone first thing tomorrow morning but it will be snowing hard for a lot of southeastern massachusetts during that time. Thats where were going to see the most amounts. I can take you in just a little bit tighter here. Boston out to framingham and worcester. I think youre going to be about two inches. North of there the a. M. S drop off. You go south of there, we ramp up to about five inches by the time you get to brockton and marshfield. 510 for a lot of southeastern massachusetts. One thing i want to caution you about. That wind is going to be coming off the very warm water here at the outer cape in nan tujt. There will likely be mixing but either way it will be a heavy wet snow. When you couple that with the winds that may cause problems. Well talk more about the winds with danielle. Danielle thats right, cindy, we were talking about that heavy that can take down tree limbs and power lines. That can cause Power Outages. We are concerned especially for you folks that live on cape cod or the islands. They are going to be seeing it. Lets talk about the wind gusts if we can. Those wind gusts are going to be in excess of 50 miles an hour. If you live in that area, you see in red. You go a little farther north, were at 40mileanhour wind gusts plus that. That also includes essex county because you folks up there are actually under a wind advisory. So we are concerned with these strong winds. Now its not only the winds watching. Weral watching those winds combining and creating storm surge and potentially in coastal flooding as well as beach erosion because the tides right now are astronomically high as it is. You couple that with those strong winds and pushing and piling up the water. We have that coastal flood watch from the south shore to cape cod to nantucket in effect until 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow. What were looking for is the high tide coming at 11 00 p. M. Tonight as well as 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Is the greatest concern especially in plymouth, chatham and nantucket. So please be awaiver of that. Two hours before, two hours after. Now we do get rid of the snow pretty quickly tomorrow morning. Then well see some sunshine but how about the patriots . Theyre taking on the broncos in denver. Theyre actually going to be warmer in the 40s at kickoff. Lets go patsing. How about that . As we head towards monday and tuesday were going to turn milder. Were back into the mid 40s, maybe even near 50 degrees on tuesday so of course when you see showers on the forecast, they are going to be in the form of r