Another Major Snowstorm Barrels Through New England
WHITFIELD: Hello, again, everyone. Thanks so much for joining me. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Boston, canceling school tomorrow and Tuesday as yet another major snowstorm barrels through New England. Here we go again. More than 6.5 million people the time are in its path and it comes as Boston is already dealing with record breaking amounts of snow. CNN's Sara Ganim joining us now from Boston, hopefully from a safer place. OK now, you you're off the street, maybe in a big mound that is supposed to be the sidewalk.</s>GANIM: That's supposed -- this is still the street side. And as we said earlier, this is the problem. Because these snow piles are making this street very narrow, very difficult to drive through, it decreases visibility for drivers, it also forces people to walk on the street where the sidewalks aren't plowed, and this has become a problem. The mayor just spoke a few minutes ago. He said that this amount of snow is unprecedented because it has fallen back to back to back in these snow storm in such a short amount of time. They are having trouble getting it out of the city, getting it off the street and plowed in time before people start to go back to work and get back out on to the street. The mayor mentioned something he said that private contractors are causing the problem. I want you to listen to why that's become an issue when it comes to snow removal. Take a listen to what he said.</s>MAYOR MARTY WALSH, BOSTON: We have had many case where is businesses have been cleaning their parking lots out and their parking lots look beautiful and they're pushing it out on toe the street or into a pile across the street.</s>GANIM: So, he was saying is that private contractors are taking snow off the properties where they contract is to remove it. But then they're dumping it into streets and into allies. He also said it's become a problem that people aren't honoring the parking bans in some places and they're not able to fully plow the streets and therefore remove all of the snow. Now, removal has become an issuing because their budget is completely block busted already, Fred, this year for snow removal. He said he's going to find a way to pay for it to get the snow off the streets. But they may have to loan these snow warmers from the state of New York. They have one here in Boston. They're thinking of loaning two more to try and melt some of this snow. It's only the second week of February, pretty early in February to wait for all of this to melt with just simply be too long. As I mentioned, up to two more feet could fall, between now and Tuesday, Fred. And that's a lot of snow and it's causing a lot of trouble for people in the city who are trying to get around.</s>WHITFIELD: It certainly is, as another vehicle now passes and creeps by you there, see, Sarah, I'm so glad now you're no longer in the street. All right, thank you so much, Sara, be safe. I appreciate it.</s>GANIM: We are further away, yes.</s>WHITFIELD: Yes. All right, then, more snow on the way, Tom Sater, I know it's one day at a time. But OK, now we're three weekends in a row.</s>TOM SATER, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Groundhog day, it is the movie.</s>WHITFIELD: I know. We're just in February, and a lot of times that's the biggest, you know, winter month in the northeast, so God.</s>SATER: You know, there could be up to two feet. Now, Boston so far to this day, has had about 58 inches, typically they should have half of that. I mean,</s>WHITFIELD: Please, that's right. This is enough. So let's take a look at Boston one more time, how about that?</s>SATER: All right.</s>WHITFIELD: All right, so right now, yes, just that. And you know, typically, Boston has a nice, thick fog, but now is this kind of like the prelude of the snow? Is the snow falling right now.</s>SATER: Just lightly right now, yes, but with two feet on the ground, it is very cold. And so, the coldest air of the seasoning moves on, after another batch of snow, Fred, Thursday into Friday. We will talk about that later.</s>WHITFIELD: So that will be the fourth weekend in a row, possibly, that we're going to talk about. All right, thanks so much. I'm sorry folks in Boston, but that is the way it is. Just be strong. All right, thanks Tom. All right, still ahead, we're answering your questions about measles. Tweet me @fwhitfield #measles. And coming up in the 4:00 eastern hour, we're going to actually put your questions to our medical expert in house here when we come right back.