night and into the morning. >> let me ask you. people rely on amtrak, of course. tomorrow is monday. how early will you start services again tomorrow? >> the first trains out in the morning, i m not exactly sure when the first one would be out. the customer service people would know better than i would because we re trying to formulate what equipment would be available, but the best way and the best advice i gave everyone is to call 1-800-usa to find out specific train information. we are running a limited schedule, were running a limited schedule even before the storm came up the coast because of the christmas holiday, but, again, we are very hopeful that we ll be able to get folks between boston and new york starting tomorrow morning. >> cliff cole, an amtrak spokesperson joining us live there. thanks very much for the update and, of course, telling passengers out there who are booked on train journeys between either of those major points on amtrak to call ahead and make sure that their train, that
and at least at this point and we anticipate that to be-to-remain the case throughout night and into the morning. >> let me ask you. people rely on amtrak, of course. tomorrow is monday. how early will you start services again tomorrow? >> the first trains out in the morning, i m not exactly sure when the first one would be out. the customer service people would know better than i would because we re trying to formulate what equipment would be available, but the best way and the best advice i gave everyone is to call 1-800-usa to find out specific train information. we are running a limited schedule, were running a limited schedule even before the storm came up the coast because of the christmas holiday, but, again, we are very hopeful that we ll be able to get folks between boston and new york starting tomorrow morning. >> cliff cole, an amtrak spokesperson joining us live there. thanks very much for the update and, of course, telling passengers out there who are booked on train journeys between either of those major points on amtrak to call ahead and make sure that their train, that their train journeys haven t been cancelled. talking about trains here. so many people whose flights were cancelled might have wanted to rely on train service. well, flights are cancelled tonight stranding thousands of travelers. newark international airport is, in fact, completely shut down. deborah alfaran from apill ate wpix is standing by live outside one of the terminals. what s going on where you are? no flights taking off.
>> the first trains out in the morning, i m not exactly sure when the first one would be out. the customer service people would know better than i would because we re trying to formulate what equipment would be available, but the best way and the best advice i gave everyone is to call 1-800-usa to find out specific train information. we are running a limited schedule, we were running a limited schedule even before the storm came up the coast because of the christmas holiday, but, again, we are very hopeful that we ll be able to get folks between boston and new york starting tomorrow morning. >> cliff cole, an amtrak spokesperson joining us live there. thanks very much for the update and, of course, telling passengers out there who are booked on train journeys between either of those major points on amtrak to call ahead and make sure that their train, that their train journeys haven t been cancelled. well, we re talking about trains here. so many people whose flights were cancelled might have wanted to rely on train service.
trains, regional and express service, between new york and boston. joining us by phone is cliff cole, a spokesman for amtrak. all right. thanks for taking the time, cliff cole, to talk to us. what does that mean in terms of how many passengers are affected tonight, cliff? >> well, from boston to new york we cancelled a total of eight trains between those two end points, and most of them, if not all of them, i m not exactly sure were sold out or close to sold out. that s close to 1,200 people on each train who were impacted by the cancellation. >> and are some people stranded, or has everyone been sort of able to leave the terminal or leave the train station and find someplace else to spend the night? >> well, what we did was we -- you know, as soon as we figured out that we were not going to run the trains, we have a system whereby we contact the passengers through our reservations department by phone or by other means electronically
resuming limited service between boston and new york. but cancellations affected close to 10,000 train passengers on one of the busiest travel days of the year. joining me on the phone is cliff cole. good morning, cliff, thanks for joining us and giving us the latest on this. we understand that service is resuming between boston and new york. tell us what the situation is right now. how are folks doing? >> well, we did resume service between boston and new york. and good morning to both of you. about 6:15 this morning with a train out of boston. and we are going to be running limited service between boston and new york today. so that is better news than yesterday when we had to cancel eight trains between those two points because of the blizzard condition. >> and cliff, if i could just relate my own personal story. i was trying to get up to new york yesterday. and all of the trains were sold out getting from d.c. up to new york pretty much through the middle of the afternoon and i remember going to the kiosk and just swiping my credit card every couple of minutes until a
especially for philadelphia residents. the blizzard you just heard about is also pummeling amtrak s northeast corridor. tonight amtrak has cancelled all trains, regional and express service, between new york and boston. joining us by phone is cliff cole, a spokesman for amtrak. all right. thanks for taking the time, cliff cole, to talk to us. what does that mean in terms of how many passengers are affect the tonight, cliff? >> well, from boston to new york we cancelled a total of eight trains between those two end points, and most of them, if not all of them, i m not exactly sure were sold out or close to sold out. that s close to 1,200 people on each train who were impacted by the cancellation. >> and are some people stranded, or has everyone been sort of able to leave the terminal or leave the train station and find some place else to spend the night? >> well, what we did is we, you know, as soon as we figured out that we were not going to run the trains, we have a system whereby we contact the passengers through our
closed down, there s no other option to give them other than to wait out the storm like we are. at this point the trains we canceled are for the remainder of the evening and the options are to find a different way to get to where you are to go and the roads are obviously not in real prime condition right now. i don t know if that s a great option, but mabz to wait out the storm and get on another train perhaps tomorrow. >> are you expecting any other delays that involve amtrak south of new york? >> at this point it doesn t appear that way. things can change with the weather. it appears once we go south of new york, we re in much better shape. >> cliff cole of amtrak. thanks so much. all the best during the blizzard conditions. more of our top stories now. documentary filmmaker bud greenspan died from complications of par kkinson s
three states, virginia, maryland, and massachusetts have already declared states of emergency. hundreds of flights have been canceled. up to 20 inches of snow could squall creating dangerous white-out conditions in some areas. the storm is affects amtrak train service in the northeast. with me on the phone is cliff cole. how bad is it? how much of a disruption? >> it s affecting our service greatly between new york city and boston. we canceled our service for the the remainder of this evening because of the weather conditions and we re in the process of evaluating how much service we can hope to run tomorrow morning. >> do you end up give passengers any options, or do you just inform them that training are either coming and going and that s it it, the rest is up to them? >> in certain cases where there are options, we give them options to take other trains. when it s an entire corridor
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