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Winter’s fury. The slow moving mega storm slamming the northeast tonight. It’s big and it’s relentless가차없는. This is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams reporting tonight from the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Good evening and back east tonight everybody saying the same thing.
This is the kind of winter. It seems like we used to have. The kind of winter we now rarely see. Tonight in the northeast, it’s in the grips지배 of a huge swirling소용돌이치는 relentless가차없는 storm. Some incredible amounts of snowfall, traffic nightmares. And life has been disrupted dangerously so for a lot of people.
By one estimate, there are 1 million Americans without power over a several state area. Over 1,000 flights cancelled. And in the thick of it, hundreds of people were stranded on one stretch of New York highway overnight. Central Park in New York in all-time February record getting just under 21 inches of snow. We have it all covered tonight beginning with NBC’s Rehema Ellis. Rehema, good evening.
Good evening, Brian. This latest Nor’easter북동풍 which you’ve point out has had near hurricane force winds has resulted in record snowfalls. Here in New York Central Park, it’s 20.9 inches. And I’ve been here for a lot of it. It’s all very pretty. But tonight is causing a lot of trouble for a lot of people. It’s the 4th major snowstorm in a month. And one more storm the region didn’t need. Across the New York area, starting early in the morning people struggled to keep up with the falling snow. In the northern regions, heavy snowfall took out power lines across the northeast, leaving more than a million without electricity.
Travel was treacherous위험한. A 20 mile stretch of I-84 was at a standstill for hours stranding hundreds of motorists in their cars. Some since last night. The major airlines were in business, but more than 1,000 flights were cancelled at New York and New Jersey’s three airports. In Hampton, New Hampshire, firefighters continued at the scene of a blaze that broke out just after midnight fueled by winds gusting up to 60 miles per hour. The fire destroyed an entire block. No one was injured. All this weather comes at a huge cost for cash-strapped towns. Even cities with snow removal budgets in the millions.
Despite the pileup of winter woes, some still made the best of it. Back here in New York, more than a million New York City school kids got to head start on the weekend. For just to the 4th time in six years, New York City public schools were closed. While the storm is winding down, people flying in and out of this region tomorrow are advised to check ahead with their airlines. There could still be many delays. Brian?