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High a as 10 to 15 feet. we see freezing rain in new york city. new york city, the urban heat is saving you. you are up to 33 degrees and keeping you out of freezing rain and just rain for the rest of the afternoon. you are get freezing rain upstate. be aware of that if you think you are going to get out and driving around. newark is seeing a lot of freezing rain. about a half an inaccumulating there. heavy snow across new england. how much are we talking about? a good foot for some of you, especially into the northern tier, and this is where we expect the rest of the storm to have the greatest impact. about 24 hours from now, we should be done with this thing. boston logan, runways remain closed there and milwaukee, mitchell international is reporting closed runways as well. a lot of you, reporting delays. that s because pretty much all of the flights have been ....
Not going to school today. this city for the most part is shut down. oh, wow. continues to come down. not over just yet, is it? here s a look at the radar that shows you the wind conditions, what it is doing in chicago. did you notice on rob s hat he had snow on one side and not the other from the snow blowing side ways? he needs to work himself into a different position. turn him around in a circle a little bit. you say this is far from stopping as you re monitoring things around the country. same thing overseas. the protests continue there in tahrir square. pro and anti-government supports continuing to clash. we are now seeing more tear gas canisters being launched into the crowd there. clearly divided. you ve got pro-mubarak forces comes in from one side. anti-mubarak forces comes in from the other. they re going at each other with ....
Intense and is moving up to the north and east, and the best thing i can tell you is about 24 hours from now, we ll all be breathing a little bit easier, but it is going to take a long time to clean up from the storm particularly because the winds are so incredibly strong. we ve been getting drifts as much as ten-plus feet in wisconsin and illinois. here s the latest radar picture showing you where the heaviest banding has been. the worst today is coming off lake michigan because the winds are blowing in from the northeast and as it moves over the lake water, that enhances it, provides more moisture and lift and that s why you get incredible amounts of snow fall here and we are getting thunder. an ireporter woke up in the middle of the night with thunder and lightning. the winds have been gusting as much as 70 miles per hour. we see frequent gusts around 40 to 50 at times as the storm ....
But possible. it s pretty dry. we have this coating 2 to 4 inches of snow but on top icing in the trees. check it out here all of these branches encrusted with it. you got ice everywhere. we will show you the chairs and tables here. icicles over here and street signs and what not. check it out over here. it s ice over here and got it over the power lines. winds expected to pick up later on today. with the power lines coated with ice there is a possibility we could see power lines down and with that the potential for some power outages. we re concerned about that. one other concern we did have with the roadways and believe it or not in pretty good shape here. this one is definitely passable. if you re heading east/west, you can see plenty of snow here and there. but all things considered, not bad. they are very fortunate because just to our south and southeast we have had some areas got just ....
Getting around by foot is probably the best idea. folks who left their cars around town, they are got to get the shovel out and get to work in order to get to where they need to be. for the most part, this city shut down, kyra, and more snow coming in. we may approach a record right now top five in snowstorms but that s only part of this particular story as you ve been talking about and reynolds and the rest of the gang have the other part. back to you. let s move on to reynolds. rob, thank you so much. reynolds is just about 300 miles south in st. louis where a blizzard warning is in effect for about four more hours. is that right, reynolds? absolutely. we really did luck out here in st. louis. we certainly had our share of winter-like precipitation and yesterday was freezing rain and then sleet and snow. about 2 to 4 inches of snowfall in western st. louis. the snowfall we have is dry stuff. you try to make a snowball, all ....