Travel Ban Lifted in Connecticut
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Of money, you could pay me to do that. But I'll take his word for it. And you can share some of those pictures if he does brave it.</s>ANA CABRERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's what I'm saying.</s>BALDWIN: But Ana Cabrera --</s>CABRERA: Yes.</s>BALDWIN: Thank you so much. So from Ana in Montauk to Rosa Flores in New London, Connecticut. Rosa, how much snow are you seeing where you are?</s>ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, Brooke, Connecticut has a lot of work ahead of it. Take a look around. You'll see that there's a lot of snow. Some communities here, officials telling me that they received up to 24 inches plus of snow. So you can see that the roads are being plowed. Now this is a main artery in this town in New London, Connecticut. Some of the smaller streets. They haven't gotten to those because they need to make sure that they get these main arteries first. As a matter of fact, you see some plows working right now. These are two of them working in this particular street because of that. Now the mayor tells us that two things worked in their favor. First of all the winds were low enough to allow these plows to work overnight, which was key, because he told me, look, Rosa, if these roads are not passable, then we're in big trouble because of emergencies, Brooke. Because people wouldn't be able to get to the hospital, for example. And then the other thing that worked in their favor was that, yes, the snow kept coming down, but they were able to continue to plow all afternoon. I'm going to get out of the way here because we've got some vehicles coming through. But Brooke, the other thing I wanted to mention was I just got off the phone with state police, Lieutenant Vance, telling me that the other good news was that people actually heeded the warning. They stayed home. And they had about 15 accidents that they responded throughout the state. But he told me, you know what, Rosa, these were actually doctors, EMS -- EMS personnel that were actually supposed to be out on the roads, even with a travel ban because they get an excuse. They're actually going to a hospital so that they can make sure that those emergency rooms are staffed. And so that's the good news. The other good news, Brooke, is I want you to take a look at this. This is powder. Powder snow. That is the other good news because people here were expecting that thick snow that's heavy, that pulls power lines, that pulls and breaks branches. That didn't happen. That's the good news. We count our blessings in situations like this -- Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Yes, we have the exact same kind of snow here in Boston. And that is a wonderful thing when it comes to potential power outages and all those lines and the tree limbs. Rosa, thank you so much. Bundle up, bundle up in New London, Connecticut.</s>FLORES: You're welcome. Thank you.</s>BALDWIN: When we come back, one of the huge, huge stories we've been watching -- of course thank you -- is the coastal flooding along coastal Massachusetts, the south shore. And in Scituate, we have had a crew en route for the last couple of hours. And coming up, we should be able to see live for the very first time the seawall has collapsed. We are just a couple hours away from high tide, which will only make the flooding worse. We will take you there live. Also, watching for Mayor Marty Walsh here to speak any minute now in Boston. It is coming down. Twenty inches here and counting. I'm Brooke Baldwin. We'll be right back.