Justin Timberlake show postponed due to weather

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on a spring nor’easter hitting the mid-Atlantic and Northeast (all times local):

2:15 p.m.

Justin Timberlake’s Wednesday night concert in New York City is being postponed due to the spring nor’easter.

The pop star posted a video of himself in the snow on Instagram.

Timberlake says his Thursday night show at Madison Square Garden will still go on. Wednesday’s concert will be rescheduled.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency for New York City and its suburbs.

The declaration issued Wednesday by the Democratic governor allows the state to cut red tape and make decisions that affect local governments uniformly.

Police say slick roads were a factor in a fatal crash on Long Island.

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1:05 p.m.

New York police say slick roads were a factor in a fatal crash on Long Island.

According to Newsday, a woman was killed and five other people were injured when a van overturned on the Wantagh (WAHN’-tah) State Parkway in Nassau County.

It happened around 10 a.m. Wednesday, just as snow accumulation started to pick up.

A spring nor’easter is targeting the Northeast with strong winds and a foot or more of snow expected in some parts of the region.

12:45 p.m.

For some areas that have mostly dodged snowfall this winter, the latest nor’easter was their first major storm.

Sarah Schottler, who runs Blakeley Street Bakery in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle community of Charles Town, said a vendor show in Maryland where she was supposed to promote her products was canceled by the storm. But that freed her up to get some Easter cookie orders filled at her shop.

Her two children got a day off from school Wednesday after about 8 inches of snow fell. More was coming down.

Schottler said she feels a lot of people were OK with the storm after they spent all winter wondering if any snow would fall. She says, “You know it’s the last one. So it’s like the light at the end of the tunnel.”

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11:40 a.m.

A New Jersey law enforcement agency has rescinded its tongue-in-cheek prohibition against schoolchildren doing numerous activities that kids believe will make it snow more (and thus cancel school).

The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office issued the “ban” on Tuesday in a social media post. But office spokesman Al Della Fave rescinded it Wednesday following an online backlash from children — including his own).

Della Fave also posed for a photo on his Facebook page wearing a pair of his undershorts on his head (which he noted is the “most effective snow-making ritual”) as penance for the “misguided mandate.”

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11:15 a.m.

The executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says air travel in the New York City area will be “severely, severely affected by this storm.”

Rick Cotton said at midmorning Wednesday that LaGuardia Airport had about 75 percent of its flights cancelled. Newark Liberty and Kennedy were severely hampered as well and the situation is expected to worsen throughout the day.

 

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