york model, the new york city model working? do you think it's working effectively? >> well, it's completely changing the way that candidates run for election. it's opened up the opportunity for different sorts of folks to run for election. and it means that those who are running and succeeding in the system are getting their -- are getting funded in their campaigns from small -- principally from small contributors rather than big contributors. i think that means that you have the opportunity to have a degree of trust in your government in new york city that you don't have elsewhere in the country. >> i think it's been profoundly successful, right. there are always some problems with thiges and no system -- this is not some, you know, magic feather that is going to make democracy work, in all, you know, we still need good candidates with good ideas. you need organizations keeping them honest. but if you can reduce this particular problem which you led off with, the enormous power that private money has you'll get better outcomes

in mumbai. >> reporter: i'm kim lawton in new york. tony carnes expects to visit 1100 n york city religious site >>> on our calendar, this weekend, jews celebrate purim when children join in the re-telling of the story of queen esther and the jews' deliverance from a plot to destroy them. the long tale is called the megillah, from which any other long, complicated story has come to be called the whole megillah. >>> and finally, in fredricksburg, virginia, members of the episcopal church joined other religious and community leaders in a civil war era church to mark the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. episcopal presiding bishop katharine jefferts schori led a service asking for forgiveness for the church's role in promoting and justifying slavery. she spoke of the need to continue combatting all forms of prejudice. >> we will never be set completely free until all of us are freely and fully able to enjoy all the blessings of this life -- until there is justice for all. >> the service included a march through historic

was reading on the new york state website today, anyone can open a redemption center in new york and at no cost and people can read more about that online. but are there enough redemption centers in new york city? >> many of them were destroyed by hurricane sandy. it's forced many of the canners to become homeless. they're really suffering right now. it's tough, and there are many people who are an inch away from homelessness who depend on canning. >> matthew and john, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >>> up next, drones were all the talk of brennan's confirmation hearings. krystal's thoughts on the matter straight ahead. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. woman: what do you mean, homeowners insurance doesn't cover floods? [ heart rate increases ] man: a few inches of water caused all this? [ heart rate increases ] woman #2: but i don't even live near the water. what you don't know about flood insurance may shock you -- including the fact that a preferred risk p

new york city may get another 4 inches of snow. what new york city got today was the presip that should have been or could have been snow. was a rain-snow mix. so it's mucky out there. shears slush in the streets. butt tonight after 9:00, 10:00, it's going to get below 32 and that's going to flash freeze. then it's going to snow, 3 to 4 inches, not much more, we're not seeing 20 inches. then 4 inches of snow on top of ice that you can't see. trying to walk around, big ruts, big things. there's going to be so much ice under that snow. that's the danger of new york city, i believe, right now. now, there is thunder snow happening in parts of connecticut and long island. that's how hard it is snowing. ali velshi is right there, in case you didn't understand where he was, on the bottom of the hook. here's boston. look at this blue area of snow right there. that's the heaviest snow about to approach boston. it's through providence, about to get to hartford, all the way down to all of the big cities right along the coast there of connecti

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rehema ellis is at new york laguardia. she was ordered outside the airport when the inside was shut down late today. rehema, looks pretty quiet there. >> reporter: indeed, brian. this is how the storm is impacting travel. look here at one of the nation's busiest airports. new york's laguardia airport is virtually empty on a friday evening. the monitors inside the terminal tell the story. more than 1,800 cancellations at new york's area airports. connecticut's bradley international airport shut down earlier today. 4,700 flights were cancelled nationwide yesterday, today and tomorrow. good news for passengers. airlines waived the cancellation fees, hoping passengers would make other plans. overnight, 200 pieces of snow removal equipment will be used to clean the planes and runways, hoping to get operations back on track sometime sunday. and speaking of tracks, amtrak has shut down service between new york and boston earlier this afternoon with limited service tomorrow. and as ron mott mentioned, a travel ban is in place in c

. >> sandy broke records for the biggest waves in new york harbor, for the biggest surge in new york city, and for the lowest pressure ever north of north carolina. what was the impactful part of sandy was the surge at 12, 15 feet. that surge had never been seen in new york city before. >> when we were here, the water was just below this mezzanine level. first interview -- >> you can see the rusts on these stair treads. >> -- jesky, this time dressed in a suit and tie, took us back down underground. >> it wasn't a rebuild as some of our stations, this was a brand new tunnel station that was built. they've been taken back to the shops and labs -- >> just rebuilding south ferry station alone can take up to a year or more at a cost he's not even willing to guess about. >> we'll start taking components or pieces of the station down, the finished surfaces, the finished ceiling, the acoustic pieces of it. the signal systems will have to be rebuilt. all the conduits and piping will have to be opened up and drained. >> not to mention a sophisticated and intricate control room. >> this is the

york city all the way up into coastal new england, back to the west through new york state, upstate, on into interior new england, we are going to be looking at winter storm warnings. blizzard criteria, visibilities a quarter mile, strong winds and heavy snow. look at these snowfall amounts. new york city up to a foot of snow. but along the coast, from rhode island all the way up into new england, we are looking at anywhere from 18" to 24" of snow and a bullseye of two feet or more right around boston. >> good morning.ing on we are getting the rain right now. new england gets most of the snow. mostly >> and that's your latest weather. matt? >> al, thank you so much. >>> when we come back, where does your relationship fall on the scale of the new normal, from trust to money to sex? we'll reveal the surprising secrets of happy couples. >>> and we'll have your favorite videos of the week. first, these messages. hey, there's a photo booth. come on! okay, we gotta time this just right. okay. ready... mm-hmm. happy valentine's day. [ female announcer ] the charmed memories collection at ka

new york will get it as well. probably not as bad, but significant because it's a different ball game when you're talking about new york and dealing with a lot of snow and a lot of ice. >> see what's over here? those are kids. they're already aware that the cameras are here. let me tell you something about kids, coup san. the there are school closures all over the place. connecticut has a number of school closures. manhattan is likely dealing with school closures or early dismissals. there are going to be thousands and thousands of kids up and down the eastern seaboard like these kids looking for something to do today. tree limbs fall. trees fall. plenty of deaths are reported in the storms because of it. maybe these kids are headed to the mall nearby to find something to do while school is out. in fact, the mayor of connecticut already declared a state of emergency. when we come back after the break, how bad it's going to get as you move up the coast. >>> as we continue to watch this huge nor'easter colliding ove

let me tell you about new york now. new york, the worst of the storm is hitting right now. earlier this morning a man was actually hit and killed by an out-of-control car in poughkeepsie. a state of emergency is in place all across new york state. rail service has been suspended from manhattan to upstate and in boston. we've been talking a lot about the wind here, logan airport measured one wind gust at 76 miles per hour. that is about hurricane force here. let's go straight to susan candiotti. i can tell out of the corner of my eye that snow is really coming down. >> reporter: it is. it's picked up again. you know, it ebbs, and it flows. now it's running sideways. sometimes it comes straight down, and you're getting some of that wind gust right now. columbus park, there's a gust coming through right now. boy, you can see that really through the lights but off there in the distance, brooke, is a little section of boston harbor. now, the water is actually quite calm, of course, we're protected in here. and so you don't see any of the boats rocking away but as you look at the

james, new york, almost 30 inches of snow. boston right now -- remember, this is a blowing, blowing, driving snow. it's been very difficult to measure. in the entire overnight event of this storm, with 50-mile-per-hour, 60-mile-per-hour winds. we have boston at a preliminary number of about 18 inches. ginger's been out measuring that this morning. and new york city, because it's almost impossible, everything's in drifts and everything was blowing around. eight to ten inches of snow there. quick look at the radar. we'll show you what's happening right now. you can see the heavier line of snow is pulling away from the new york city area. you have the snow from long island, connecticut, rhode island, on into boston area and into maine, as well. we believe there will be acc accumulations there. at one time, we were getting five to six inches per hour in connecticut. with a blinding, driving wind of almost hurricane-force. you have five inches of snow coming in the boston area. we believe you would have five to eight, depending on

let's go live to tony tull on new york avenue. he arrived to breaking news. >> i want to show you the scene right now. you can see the mercedes involved in the accident with extensive damage to the windshield and extensive damage to the body as well. the driver did stay on the scene. he's actually talking to police right now. i just talked to him a few short moments ago. allegedly the person that he hit stepped out into new york avenue before the crosswalk. about 100 feet up. we haven't confirmed that from the police. they're doing their investigation. there's a shoe and there is some clothing about 100 feet from the crosswalk. we're at 1300 new york avenue and kendall street. one thing we should notice. there's a d.c. public school bus lot here. we haven't confirmed with the police if the person who was trying to cross the street was going over to this bus lot. there are a lot of people getting ready for their shift for d.c. public schools. guys, we'll continue to stay on story and bring you all the details as they're available.

only established news organization that responsibly covered the case was the new york times and when judge forrest issued a ruling the new york times ran an editorial supporting their decision because the times still i mean it's an elitist organizations and i have my critiques of the times but nevertheless it still understands what is news and what is not. but that for me was a kind of frightening moment because i realized how deteriorated our systems of information become absolutely yeah i love how people say oh there is there's no bipartisan support well look at things like the end and the erosion of civil liberties it seems like it's all uniform across the board but speaking in store glee you mention this is the way it's kind of been of except in these illegalities in terms of. looking at when civil liberties have been repealed and. in the historical narrative of america in this short brief history of our nation lincoln f.d.r. you know when he authorized the brief interminable happens you go i mean all these things were very brief periods and they were reinstated it seems like to

the worst is in massachusetts and rhode island and not so bad, in new york, new jersey and connecticut and we do have four confirmed deaths in canada and also, one in connecticut and then in upstate new york as well. uma, back to you. >> anna, thank you very much and thanks for keeping us posted what's been happening in new york city. you've seen the damage, so what happens next? our team coverage continues, meteorologist maria molina joining us now live from the fox weather center with a look at what's in store. maria? >> good to see you. although the storm is over with for places like new york city, western areas in massachusetts i want to point out that the storm is not over just yet across areas in eastern maine and we still do have reports of blizzard conditions ongoing out there and very heavy snow falling at the hour and behind the storm we're going to get very cold temperatures that will not help out people who do not have power right now. it's going to be frigid with single digit wind chill temperatures and another storm system we're going to be tracking with blizzard conditio

so, made in new york. this is a brand new campaign for film and television, produced in new york. this week, the city announced expanding it to technology and digital companies. what's the strategy? >> well, we've seen over the past several years the tech community in new york city has grown and our tech sector has arrived. what's amazing is we have over 900 tech companies here in new york city that are 75% or more developed in the five boroughs. over 120,000 people with working in the sector. we thought it's important the world is aware of this. we launched we are made in new york. it's a one-stop shop for all the programs and resources that you need to participate in the new tech ecosystem and crucially, find a job. >> talk about this boom in the technology sector. what does it mean in terms of economic impact? certainly, the local impact has to be very strong. >> absolutely. one of the hallmark ps of the bloomberg administration has been to diversify the economy. we have so many industries here that are so powerful. media, fashion, finance and real estate. a lot of these are dr

he brought his style of newspaper to new york city, but the bankrupt new york world and within months is making millions of dollars in revolutionized journalism in new york, new york indie media center at that time he revolutionized journalism. one-sided and does this analogy for the important typos here. pulitzer created this newspaper in new york and i look down to the lower east side with the masses in the crisper the 1880s and 1890s. millions of people from overseas. new york was supportive entry and the upper class sell these folks is a dangerous group. they saw them as poor, dirty, all these things. pulitzer didn't see them that way. he saw them as potential readers. as we admonished reporters to write about their lives. some today's paper would say tiny tot falls to his death from a tenement building. the upper-class drinking tea with their little fingers since such sensationalist title. the people of the lower east side and the overcrowded tenements was thereby hamper trade. kids are taught their deaths. there was so in this domains. this is the most densely populated peace in

and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built u

about 7 inches in new york. but these numbers that you see here right around the boston area, 21 up in handover. 23 in worcester and 23 in taunton. they have already seen between 6 and 8 inches of snow. that will be right on top of that. that puts us in 30-inch plus range. those are a few of the towns that i picked up. definitely towards worcester. you get those winds coming. you get that little bit of elevation that gives it that little extra lift. that's why they see likely the highest snowfall totals around there. >> shepard: you don't think of a storm surge woofn issue with the storm. there is a real possibility of low lying flooding? >> yeah. actually, a very real possibility. we could see major flooding. especially along these shores right here. because we have a very long period of winds that are coming either out of the northwest or northeast or the east and all of that water funnels up right here. we are going to see 3 to 5-foot storm surge. maybe up to 20 feet. all of that crashes in here and so many b

if new york new york state you o to a registered ammunition dealer and you need a check to buy ammunition. >> jon: has there been any talk to enforce the laws and to stem the flow of illegal guns, any talk that once you get that list you'll be able to go house to house and take all law abiding citizens weapons, their guns, knives you think are too large, in kind of mallet and take that so people will live under tyranny. has that been a discussion? >> no. >> jon: would you tell me. >> you'd be the first to know. >> jon: you feel there are efficient measures to take that wouldn't necessarily overstep. >> there are 300 million guns in this country and they are going to be there. the supreme court decision columbia versus heller makes certain that the second amendment is going be alive and well. >> jon: as well it should be but we have to be reasonable about the illegalality. can you stick around -- is there a crime going on right now? >> i hope not. >> jon: hopefully spiderman or batman is there.

first of course a major blizzard closing in on new york and new england. could be a record breaking event. we could see more than 2 feet of snow in some areas. we're talking about huge drifts, high winds, flooding along the east coast, as well. live coverage just moments away. we're also following this big story. this is out of california. first of all, a faullse alert i the massive manhunt for chris forever dorner. police say a tip about a possible sighting of the accused killer was likely just a hoax before hundrhoax. hundred wills of officers are shooting for this guy who is now seeking revenge on the lapd for firing him.wills of officers ar shooting for this guy who is now seeking revenge on the lapd for firing him. dorner is accused of killing three people already, including a police officer and retired officer's caught. he declared war on the police officers and we'll have a press conference regarding that just moments away. and of course also covering the major storm from all angles. we'll begin with the city that will get hit first, that is new yor

only established news organization that responsibly covered the case was the new york times and when judge forrest issued a ruling the new york times ran an editorial supporting our decision because the times still i mean it's an elitist organizations and i have my critiques of the times but nevertheless it still understands what is news and what is not. but that for me was a kind of frightening moment because i realized how deteriorated our systems of information become absolutely yeah i love how people say oh there is there's no bipartisan support well look at things like the end of the erosion of civil liberties it seems like it's all the uniform across the board but speaking historically you mentioned this is the way it's kind of been of except in these illegalities in terms of. looking at when civil liberties have been repealed and in the historical narrative of america in this short brief history of our nation lincoln f.d.r. you know when he authorized. brief internment of japanese people i mean all these things were very brief periods and they were reinstated it seems like to

new york city. the wind has turn to northeast in new york and now it's changed back to snow. so it's all snow the rest of the way in. the tricky part, as rick was talking about, the heaviest precipitation may be just east and north of the city. so from bridgeport to boston is this going to shut everything down. >> joe, we threw the live shot of boston in the background while you were talking as a no-drive warning alert for the stiff of boston. people are still driving. joe, punxsutawney phil called and said he's been doing it longer than you have, my friends got to go. >>> this is such a big storm, it's pushing back the best business block on tv, so if you see a lot of these pictures tomorrow morning instead of the cost of freedom, don't worry, you can catch it as a special time, 2 to 4:00 p.m. eastern and set your dvrs and make sure you don't miss it. >>> from whiteouts to red tape to sandy victims. so mad at the government red tape she wrapped her house in it. >>> and now that he is on his way out, did we just hear the transportation secretary call all that stimulus a waste

the lone exception was new york city, where prices dipped a half a percent. there was more data today reaffirming the housing market recovery. new home sales surged almost 16% in january, a lot more than expected and the biggest jump in nearly two decades. so what's behind the turnaround in the housing market? >> the biggest factor is just the fact that prices have fallen to such a level that there are enough willing buyers that see value in this market to come in and basically provide a floor. >> reporter: in fact, investors continue to purchase about nearly one out of every five homes. many real estate experts predict home prices will continue to rise this year, fueled by a dwindling number of properties on the market. in january, the supply of homes for sale fell to its lowest level in nearly eight years. for most people, the biggest impediment to buying a home is not credit score or income. >> it's down payment. most people don't have enough spare cash laying around that they are able to qualify, given today's higher down payment requirements. >> reporter

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i thought showing the career of ed koch, that could tell the story of new york and new york's full-on rise if you will and hopefully understand how we got to be the city we are today. >> and you obviously spoke with him. you conducted interviews with him for this. what were your impressions of him? anything surprise you about him? >> yeah. what surprised me was when we shot the -- from 2010, to 2011, what surprised me was there was so much richness to get on camera from contemporary koch as an 86-year-old, he had a very dynamic life. he led us into his home, let us follow him around while he was politicking for candidates in the boroughs. what we thought would start off as a historical film, also became much more personal, personal about him, not me. so there's sort of two stories now, the story of new york, but also, what was surprising is just how dynamic his life was. so we have sort of the story of koch then and the story of koch over the last several years. >> and as he said, he had this deep love, a fierce love as he called it of new york city. and arguably, brought it back from

what is new york doing to prepare? >> reporter: right now we certainly are feeling a nice steady flow of snow coming down and not really sticking except for one or two snowballs we're making on the side here. you look out here, everybody's going to work as usual just like a normal bad weather day. everybody knows what's coming later and that's the tricky point. new york city mayor michael bloomberg is concerned about the cleanup because the storm is expected to really hit around rush hour when everybody's trying to get home, that could make it difficult for those salt spreaders and those plows to get through the streets but also extra trains are coming out for those who live on long island, the lirr is adding extra trains to get people home as fast as they can before the big part of the snowstorm hits. carol? >> do you have your flashlight and your toilet paper and your bread? >> reporter: oh, yeah, you know, speaking of long island, i live there and the gas lines are already there. it's reminiscent of hurricane sandy

new york city. is it still snowing there? are you still getting people stranded even as we speak? >> yes, yes. every time we pass, somebody new is sideways across the road blocking the one path of the lane. and san mateo still coming down out here. >> are you having trouble getting to any of these folks? >> it's20-mile-an-hour with four-wheel drive truck to check these miles and miles of roadway. >> and i would assume folks are calling in on cell phones. do they always know exactly where they are? are they able to direct them, the help? >> no. they usually don't know where they are. sometimes they just tried to dig themselves out. but they cause a line of four-wheel drive cars that might be trying to get by. that type of situation. >> all right. well, let's hope that this conversation serves as a warning to anyone else before they head out in their cars. sergeant, we appreciate your time this morning. thank you very much, sir. >> all right, sir. >>> connecticut is another area directly in the storm'

"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening. here's one example of how bad it's getting tonight across the east coast tonight. in massachusetts, all vehicles were ordered off the roads at 4:00 p.m. this afternoon. that's across the entire state of massachusetts. genuine blizzard warnings are posted across a big area. this is the northern shore of massachusetts, just outside of boston, revere beach, where the winds have already picked up. we could see some history-making snowfall out of this storm. we've already seen a colossal stoppage of transportation, affecting 50 million americans before it's all over. while all this has been going on, on the other coast, we have a huge story, of course, that we've been following. more on that in a moment. but first, what could be a 30-inch snow event here on the east coast. our team is out in it, and in place tonight, we want to begin with nbc's ron mott. he's in providence, rhode island. ron, good evening. >> reporter: hey, brian, good evening to you.

it's in number state new york, western new york. all moving eastwards about awe show closer, that white banding is where we're seeing the heaviest snowfall. maybe two to three inches an hour for some how we're getting incredible snow totals. so here's a look at what we'll see in terms of wind. we know how much we've seen. at 5:00 this morning, watch it from west to east but notice these isobars where the winds will be strong. by 7:00, long island getting out of it. western connecticut and western mass, as well. by the afternoon, 1:00, everyone but the islands and all pushing north and continuing to move eastward. the snowwise but what we'll see is the wins continuing to blow around what we've seen already, which is two and three feet. >> that brings me to the question which is a lot of travel bans we know in effect. would could they be lifted. >> in boston and massachusetts, first time at 4:00 they have done this travel ban and everyone certainly in agreement that this was such a good idea keeping everyone off the road. hard to know

that wouldn't be new york. new york, maybe 1 to tworx what you see is what you get if you're in the poconos and as you slide off into the east, into maine, nova scotia, halifax, newfoundland, you'll see more as the night goes on because the storm is getting closer to you. >> we have been reporting on this one fatality, and we're now getting other information. i'll tell you what we have learned, how the death happened. new details on that, the fatal storm killing one person in poughkeepsie, new york. manhattan, cnn's special coverage of the northeast blizzard is back right after this. stay with me. back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did something for your pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a pain reliever fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. anti-depressants can increase t

and philadelphia and new york. cloudy skies and 40 degrees today, we will see some rain in the metro at 5:00. we will have a snowy mix to the north and west but that will change over late tonight. we will have more coming up in a few minutes. >> the commute from the west is okay on the greenway and the toll road and rte. 7. we are overhead on 66 and is busy. we are checking out the ride with newschopper7. we're not doing so well in the district at new york ave. only one lane guesde's by inbound with a terrible incident involving a pedestrian that was stuck. the incident is right near kendall street after a blaze ginsburg wrote. you might want to take rhode island avenue into town. you could take benning road to get past that >> >> the time is 6:12 and 35 degrees and coming up, brianne carter will wrap up the president's state of the union address. >> a bit of a royal boz overseas with reaction after shutterbug's catch prince william [ whirring ] [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophi and awards lift you up. but the

new york was in a state of despair and decay. for the first time in our long history, the whole city seemed to be in terminal decline. new york has always been a magnet for people, for growth and progress. in the 1970s, that had ceased to be true. then came koch. he held up his hands as that, enough. we will not accept this. our best days are still ahead. he convinced us we could still be great again. he understood how tough our problems were. he had the confidence to believe that our problems could be cured. he not only arrested the decline and showed that the unruly city was governable, he not only restore the fiscal health and made us that nation's economic engine, not only building affordable housing, not only made new york city once again a national leader in equal rights, arts, and culture, but he did something even more important. he restored the ark of our nation's city. before, we had lost our way. thanks to him, we became great again. that was not inevitable. ed made it so. the city we know today would not exist without

zane, what are you seeing in new york city this morning? >> reporter: it is absolutely freezing here. 28 degrees, in between my shots, i have to go to that car there to warm up. i did see a couple of people. i saw two guys who weren't really wearing anything warm and i stopped them and said, guys, you know, what are you doing out and about middle of manhattan at this time of the morning 5:30 a.m.? and they were like, well, we're college kids. it's, you know, we decided to stroll outside and go to dunkin donuts. i also spotted another gentleman who basically said to me that he was on his way to work. he said the most challenging thing about this whole thing is really digging himself out of that snow. that's what he found most difficult. but said other than that, it is pretty much a normal saturday. and i was like, yeah, i guess it is a normal saturday. for a lot of people, it is really not. 1700 people -- 17,000, people, excuse me, without power in new york alone, the governor issuing a state of emergency. he's making sure these streets stay

the audience for it wasn't new york. it was people out there in the hinterlands who don't know new york but could be made to fear it and then do what he wants, which is buy more guns. buy more products. >> congressman, final question to you. isn't the reason that mr. lapierre attacked new york simply this, that we have very strict gun laws and they work? isn't that the fundamental problem for mr. lapierre. >> i do believe he was taking aim at mayor bloomberg who has been very outspoken on this issue. that will we are the safest big city in america. that things are not, as he described them, and they're certainly not the way which he described them post-sandy either. he's living in a different world. he's not on the same planet as we are. and he's just -- he's flailing out against anyone he thinks is an enemy and i think he certainly believes mayor bloomberg is an enemy. >> thank you for your service to the constituents of this great city. next, north korea's testing nukes. we're still at war in afghanistan. sequestration

we're seeing that in new york. i think it wasn't as bad as people thought in new york. they got in their cars, headed out, now they're stranded. any idea how many people you have stranded at this point. you're calling in the national guard to help them. it's serious, if they run out of gas, they run out of heat in their car. >> many, many onramps. also pushing the wall of snow up against those ramps, people getting turned around, stranded trying to keep their engines running. common sense, stay off the roads. you l might look like the road's good here, but further down the road, you're in deep, deep snow. and that just snarls all of our efforts to get power back on to clear the streets. so common sense, please stay in your homes. >> thank you, appreciate it. a lot of work, thanks for joining us this saturday morning. good to see you, good luck. i want to now take tour viewers to susan candiotti who is in boston. they got hit even harder with snow, 400,000 power outages. how is it looking there this morning? >> reporter: yeah, they really got hammered, that's for sure an

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