we have now in our latest count just in the new york metro area, new york, the boroughs of new york and westchester county we have close to 07,000 people without power. that will change as it starts to flood and as it starts to get worse. as you mentioned, your apartment in some cases there are leaks. in some cases there are things flying around that people have to be concerned about. on higher levels when you get to 20 stories or 30 stories, the wind levels will be much higher. the wind is not terrifically strong around here right now. see the trees over here, anderson? you're in a part of manhattan which most people are in. you're in areas where there are lots of buildings. that will make the wind feel stronger. out here right by the east river, the wind is not the problem. as jacqui was saying just a little while ago, the issue will be high tide shows up in less than an hour and a half from now. if that storm surge brings anything in, a whole big area in southern manhattan is going to flood. they've evacuated most people from their areas. some people have decided to stay. it doesn't

york and new jersey. jacqui jeras will be here with us. i want to start with our meteorologist reynolds wolf out in north carolina where he has been the past few days in kill devil hills. reynolds, tell us how you have seen the conditions change and tell us how they are right now. we have to get a sense just from looking at your picture. >> well, i can tell you, t.j., the last couple hours we have seen things begin to deteriorate. right along this boardwalk things are, as you expect, getting worse. the atlantic ocean to our south. as this gets closer to us, we can expect more rainfall, stronger wind gusts with and with that the possibility of flooding. some places could get a full foot of rainfall. part of the beach down here to my right has really disappeared. yesterday we were to the water's edge. plenty of sand is now gone. on this side, a lot of sea oats, grasses, with extensive root systems that are made for these big piles of sands or the dunes together being thrashed a little bit. i would say winds

it's a day like no other in new york history. mandatory evacuations of 370,000 people, living in low-lying, iconic neighborhoods. from battery park, to coney island, and rockaway beaches. >> this is a storm, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, it can be fatal. >> reporter: patients in nursing homes moved to higher ground. grocery stores jammed. people scrambling for supplies and food to last three days. more than 8 million people who ride the new york mass transit system, from subways to buses to trains, could not this afternoon. greeted by bright pink tape. subways won't run again until at least monday. this woman evacuated her apartment on one the last trains. >> we need to go. >> reporter: the paralyzed city so frightening for this couple, they voluntarily evacuated their apartment today. >> it would be me and her giving birth in our apartment. that was not something we were ready to take on by our own. >> reporter: moving to a hotel two blocks from the hospital, because their baby could be born at any minute. >> t

upstate new york and also new england. the storm made landfall overnight as a hurricane in two stops, first on the landfall on little egg inlet in new jersey, and then it hit another landfall, coney island, new york. at that time irene had weakened to a tropical storm. >> on long island, irene's storm surge flooded downtown long beach. some streets in manhattan also flooding, but the water really has started to recede already. it is sweeping up the east coast. irene has killed at least 15 people at last count as it started, as it fist made landfall in north carolina, more than 4 million people as a whole without power. irene moving north now. its biggest threat is inland flo flooding. >> still the word is "caution," and we have cnn crews up and down the east coast for you to bring you up-to-the-minute coverage on tropical storm irene live on cnn. the storm pushed the hudson river over its banks and into lower manhattan. soledad o'brien has been there covering this for hours and hours. i saw the cars stuck behind you. now y

york's island, fire island and all low-lying areas of new york city. more than a quarter million people affected there. let's go to where it's all happening. mark potter in nags head, north carolina. how are things looking there? >> reporter: hi, chris. just now in the last hour and hour nast and a half feeling the first effects ever the storm. i think i see it on the horizon and i have my raincoat ready. my notebook, getting that kind of wind. the surf is kicking up now a lot more. much more angrier than this morning. the big concern here is, of course, it's going to get a lot worse into tonight and much worse tomorrow. and the biggest problem that emergency managers are fearing here involves the surf. if this storm comes as they fear, just to the west of the outer banks, there could be a special problem with the storm surge. first, the leading winds coming counterclockwise, could push water from the atlantic on to the eastern shore here of the outer banks, and then as the storm goes up to the pamlico and the sounds, push the water north and in the ba

new york may shut down the subways on saturday. millions of people preparing for the worst of a storm. today, wind gusts up to 115 miles an hour. threatens to dump 15 inches of rain as it charges up the east coast. cnn is covering this story from every angle. i want to bring in jim spellman, live in the bahamas. chad myers from the cnn hur can center. jim, they're describing this as the hurricane of a lifetime. you've been in the middle of this. describe for me the power of what you've been through. >> reporter: yeah, all day we got a preview of what the east coast is going to see, just pounding wind hour after hour, 15 straight hours of heavy wind, heavy rain, just lashing against this island here. fortunately, it was just far enough offshore that it didn't do any major damage to the tourist areas. a lot of viewers will be familiar with paradise island, all those survived just fine. some of the smaller islands, still waiting on confirmation, i understand there has been serious damage there. the they have to get better communicatio

what are you thinking about new york? >> new york, about eight inches, we've actually already seen about six inches at this point. we'll probably see another one to two inches over the next six hours. >> wow, that's unbelievable. >> that's it. >> they were absolutely right. i wonder what that is. it seems like a lightpost or something. >> a lookout tower. >> a lookout tower. >> this whole area, al should probably hopefully be moving here shortly. >> that was incredible. >> lae, nick in our booth, you can cue that back up again. we would love to see that again. that was extraordinary. >> that's the force of the surge, alex. >> exactly, that is a huge concrete structure and that has been taken off of its, obviously formidable footing there. i mean it's been there for quite some time and it's withstood a lot of things, but not irene. irene is going to move that thing and that's going to compromise the pier, then. >> when people think about a surge, sometimes, they think it's this wave that's coming and you're going to be abl

i'm brian williams in new york. we'll have a live update on all of us halftime during the football game tonight. we'll see you then. thank you for joining us now. of course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

the good news is the major airports across new york, jfk, laguardia, newark, all reopened. there are some delays on the ground at those airports. specifically newark. two reports we heard of minor damage near an airport in new jersey. across this region, unscathed. no substantial damage, no injuries to report and today the challenge now begins for many organizations including new york state as they go out to nuclear sites and other places to make sure there is no structure damage. while the earthquake has past, it concerns many across the region, it will be on their minds going into the evening hours. >> peter, mayor michael bloomberg was reassuring in his tress conference saying all the bridges, all the tunnels are well. there's been very minimal damage to buildings in the city itself and also was sympathetic to the fact that people 34 tin the cit they react as it were, with the very worse sense of what happened for obvious reasons, because of ten years ago? >> post-9/11, the blackout of 2003 changed the way people across this country and absolute lie here in new york city

new york city did better. con ed reporting a few problems and there's a big problem, though, with america's infrastructure in general. irene was not a catastrophic storm. but one of the largest utility companies in the country, lipa, could not handle it. if the u.s.a. is ever hit by a major natural disaster or a nuclear incident, this country will be in big trouble. t the truth is that our electrical services are fragile and antiquated and easily knocked out so my advice to you is this. buy a generator if you can afford to and stock up on nonperishable stuff you will need if you don't have electricity. in this high-tech aim, we're all way too dependent on machines and as we all know, machines can go down very fast. in my community, folks pulled together. the guys at the restaurant opened up feeding folks that didn't have power. when i asked my pal eli why he and his crew braved the storm to come in, he said "because albanians are crazy." the guys are half albanian and half italian. all and all, hurricane irene

coast and it's closing in on new york city. the russian government has ordered a major shake up of the country's space agency after the loss of yet another unmanned mission a progress resupply craft failed to reach the international space station and burnt up in the earth's atmosphere six crew members aboard the i s s will now have to ration out for food or water and they have left parties checking griefs reports. the moment it's crashing down. on way the story from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress. craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane a first but then i realized queens never fly there or quietly then it turned into some white object and then saw that it was sparkling and i heard a loud noise it was like three bangs one really loud and two quieter it was due to dock with the international space station on friday delivering essential supplies to the six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch as a craft

new york. almost two dozen people say they are trapped in a vacation home in prattsville, including pregnant women, children and infants. joining me on the phone is irina novik. what's going on? >> reporter: it's crazy out here with no lights, no water. we're trapped in a house up in the mountains. it's pitch black. there is a high pressure river coming down from the top and going down, blocking all the bridges. all the bridges are coming to the house when we just came to the house. there is no way in or out. no one can help us. we are stuck here and we have a lot of children and two pregnant women, three infants, toddlers, teenagers and practically nothing that could keep us going. we cannot use bathrooms, eat, drink, nothing. it's pitch black. we cannot have water because water comes from the well which works on electric power. >> let me slow you down. you are cut off, surrounded by water? explain why you can't -- >> there is a river next to the house. it's more of up state new york like a mo

public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly dish directive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in the history of the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to evacuate their homes and go to shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation for this hurricane hurricane i read it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a. i ask you wait from there building we spent the whole day packing everything up so we're ready we hope it just goes right by and doesn't cause anybody any damage we're just getting a lot of supplies here we have some food back home getting some. little bit of extra t

meyer has more from new york. public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw of fishel zx evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york that are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to evacuate their homes and go to shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation for this hurricane hurricane irene it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum wait from their building this storm is expected to hit the city by nine pm with winds gusting anywhere between forty and eighty miles per hour u.s. president barack obam

i'm at cbs news headquarters in new york. good morning. irene is making her new york debut. she hit land here just before 9:00 this morning in coney island downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm but still packing winds of up to 65 miles per hour. irene first made landfall in north carolina yesterday as a category one hurricane and on her track up the east coast, she has brought heavy rain and flooding that left millions without power. at this hour the center of the tropical storm is centered growth of new york city, highest sustained winds are now 60 miles per hour. the storm is moving north northeast at about 26 miles per hour. the storm is blamed for at least 10 deaths in five states, including two children. more than 4 million homes and businesses up and down the east coast are without electricity and more than 11,000 flight had been canceled potentially affecting millions of travelers nationwide. this morning airports in new york, newark, new jersey, and philadelphia remain closed. we have a team of correspondents to play throughout the hurricane zone all along

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jersey and new york. the rain there and that will last right on through tomorrow. look at our weather coming up. >>> mayor of washington, d.c. and the governors in ten states have declared states of emergencies. u.s. airlines says it will cancel 6,000 flights over the next three days. three major airports are closed. laguardia, j.f.k. and newark. bay area flights are being disrupted, as well. 40 flights have been cancelled today. >> reporter: vacationing tourists came up from sidney last week. they talked about the quake earlier in the week. >> it's very interesting out here. >> the flight to new york was cancelled. >> it was cancelled and we went on line, it's been called and we couldn't get in touch with american airlines. >> they have been in line for two and a half hours. it's all because of hurricane irene. she is responsible for more than 600 flight cancellations nationwide so far. east coast airports are experienced serious delays. irene is stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers. >> anyone pl

disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine pm saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to a halt it's also been recommended to anyone that lives of of that town more to evacuate from their building now up until this point new yorkers were really taking these warnings and these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to the stores to stock up on good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new yor

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evacuations have started in new york, as well. and the city's mass transit system and airport also, for the first time ever, all shut down at noon tomorrow. as irene pushes into places unfamiliar with the power of a hurricane. >> i feel nervous. i feel like i don't know what's going on. i don't know what's going to happen. >> reporter: a fear that stretches from the outer banks through new england. as irene closes in. but the first hit will come here along the outer banks. irene delivering hurricane conditions tonight. landfall early tomorrow morning. that's the latest from kill devil hills, north carolina. i'm jay gray. jessica, back to you. >> it looks bad out there already, given the hurricane is going to make landfall in the morning. is it too late for people who haven't evacuated to get out and what can they expect if they haven't left? >> it is too late. that window of opportunities that shut at this point and they will be on their own until the storm passes. what they can expect is much more intense winds, a lot more rain.

we have them in new jersey, new york. well support the ones opening in city of new york as well. so we have a huge concentration of shelters. we know there is a lot of people evacuating. that's the main priority for people to go and have a safe haven tore them as they evacuate and leave. >> do have you reports? are people showing up especially in north carolina? >> yes we did. we had a significant population lift overnight. i think by tomorrow morning you will see a pretty significant population in the shelters overnight. the other thing we are doing while we are doing sheltering at the same time,er with recruiting thousands of volunteers to move to the east coast so we have a big movement of people happening to the east coast as well as response vehicles. we are moving about two thirds of our fleet of feeding vehicles to the east coast so we can be toward get out there in the neighborhoods after the storm passes with hot meals, and clean up supplies and things of that nature, once it is safe to did as that. >> this is a start of a long process for you folks at red cross. thank y

bill cahill with the port authority in new york. thank you. now over to my colleague john harwood, and i understand that you are on a amtrak train and amtrak officials say that operations in several states have been affected and they have stopped trains to inspect bridges and tunnels in several states, and john, what are you seeing on that train you are on outside of baltimore? >> yes, tamron. i'm on an accella express, and they are saying that the trains arek bad up behind them while they inspect is the tracks. i did feel anything while we were riding but it is such an unusual situation, because everyone here is trying to call back to friends and relatives in either new york or washington, and sometimes you get through and sometimes you can't. i just reached my 18-year-old daughter and said i didn't feel anything, but i got to the mall and the mall was closed so now i'm going home. so, it's all of the e-mail reports that i am hearing from the colleagues in washington is that the building shook, but no visible damage, so we are sitting parked

is in new york. well right now the big apple looks extremely eerie the streets are and the businesses are either or either have boarded up their windows or put cheap along their windows and you can feel the wind increasing you feel the rain increasing the rain is coming down like sheets of water and new york city has also been put under a tornado watch in new york city is it is a city with shereen lee told buildings so it's a it's sort of like a graph of of of the buildings that can create green tunnels and knock anyone down con ed may be forced to shut down power in certain parts of new york city between now and sunday evening if those areas get to light it let's remind our viewers that on friday in new york city michael bloomberg for the first time in history issued a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city up to three hundred seventy thousand people live there all these evacuation zones and that those evacuations began on friday evening and continued on through saturday into sunday

york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the process is new york city officials are are now we see approach they're trying to monitor everything everything warn everybody but it is going to a tropical winds are moving in and everyone is just bracing themselves for this storm or he's more important in reporting for us that vary from new york now you are with are key and coming up a new president but all the problems. as the people of our cars here in the be caucuses make their choice of the ballot box we look at what lies ahead for the new leader as his republican struggles to rebuild after winning independence from georgia. and our close up team takes you to a russian city that knows how to party find out more about the spectacular festival held in cuba every year. the richest sector of french society is pledging another three percent of its annual income this week to help the country battle its descent into debt as growth slumps of france has also announced the some twelve billion euro worth of cuts but as our g.'s daniel bushell explains the move could be too littl

, all the way up to the new york metropolitan area, long island, new england. and the possibility of people actually being cut off, on their own camping for three to five days? >> well, that's again the evacuation zone is to get out. but we're going to get a lot of rain out of this, and we expect flash flooding and a lot of places get isolated so everybody from coast guard on down to local officials are getting ready to go out and do rescues of people that get cut off. but it's going to be a big storm. i think we need to be serious about this and let people know, we are going to have impacts and we're going have power outages, almost simultaneously from north carolina north experiencing and being impacted by this hurricane. >> i heard you say last night, one of the lessons learned since katrina, you're working with the private sector, like big box retailers to use their networks, their trucks, their systems, to get things that you need to the midwest to the east? >> exactly. if they can get their stores open, then we want to focus where there's heavier damages

coast was closing in the new york city. the russian government has ordered a major shake up of the country's space agency after the loss of yet another unmanned mission a progress resupply craft failed to reach the international space station and burnt up in the earth's atmosphere six crew members aboard the i r sas will now have to ration out the food and water they have last night he's taken greets reports. the moments it's who came crashing down. last on waves three from the baikonur cosmodrome three hundred twenty five seconds later the progress. craft atop a soyuz rocket plummeted back to earth i thought it was a plane at first but then i realized coins never fly there or quietly then it turned into some bright object and then so it was partly and i heard a loud noise it would like three bangs one really loud and seemed quiet or it was due to dock with the international space station on friday delivering essential supplies to the six crew members on board rocket malfunction has been blamed for the unsuccessful launch a

york city between now and sunday evening if those areas get to flooding friday new york city michael bloomberg the first time in history issued a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city three hundred seventy thousand people live there all these evacuation zones the lot of people chose to not move chose to stay in their homes but overall there is a feeling of anxiety taking over not just new york but all the surrounding states we did get to speak with some people were heading to the stores to buy up supplies odd saturday here's a little bit of what they have to say i will go. my whole day. this is the only real one it really had a major regularly for so there's no something or we don't know the whole thing arms around it like going out right in the in my tongue in the water like hurricane katrina like that maybe the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the process is at this point the trouble. when are moving and everyone is just bracing themselves for the storm parties marina port and i are reporting for us from

york city between now and sunday evening if those areas get to flooding friday new york city michael bloomberg for the first time in history issued a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city three hundred seventy thousand people live there all these evacuation zones a lot of people chose to not move chose to stay in their homes but overall there is a feeling of anxiety taking over not just new york but all the surrounding states we did get to speak with some people down we're heading to the stores to buy up supplies odd saturday here's a little bit of what they have to say i will go. my whole life and this is the only real one they really had a major evacuation for so here's to you know something though we don't know the whole thing i'm scared out of like going outside in the i'm lying. on the water like hurricane katrina like that me the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the processes at this point the trouble. are moving and everyone is just bracing themselves for this storm are reporting for us from new yor

at washington and new york city. when it passed over didn't destroy new york city and washington, i didn't even lose my power. biggest loss i couldn't get on the train to be up there in new york, and then it goes and has real destruction in vermont. the biggest rain and wind they've had in a short period of time in vermont. heck. we forgot about it. that's part of the reason why katrina was able to be forgotten. it was hitting down in new orleans it's not d.c. or new york. it's not when the political and media power brokers live and work and have to ride the transit. >> today, the sixth anniversary of katrina. while there are those who say, maybe the media hypes this stuff, there's a real case for saying, you just can't be too prepared for crisis of these magnitude when you saw the devastation that that city is still trying to dig out from. >> i agree, matt. but i'm more with tim on this one. i would give the politicians an a on hurricane irene, and i would give the media a b-minus. i think we were guilty of playing

public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to evacuate their homes and go to shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation for this hurricane hurricane irene it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum. from there building. this and we've pushed everything up when we grew. up when you have food or water we're prepared to receive. this we're. going this is the only real one that really had a. regulation or so. if you know something that we don't know now up until this po

when do they think the worse will be in long beach, in new york city, elsewhere in the greater new york area? >> well, they expect the rains to intensify over the next several hours and it will be overnight. we're expecting now until the early morning hours, 4:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m., 6:00 a.m. to get hit the hardest. that's 11 hours from now. the rain now is moderate rain. if you look at the side of the road, splashing through puddles already in these areas, and with the heavier rains behind us and moderate rain now assuming it intensifies as it has been and when we were coming through, obviously it was raining harder where you are now where we left. that's falling essentially. the heavier storm behind that. we're splashing our way through. in these low-lying areas and the expectation, i heard you talk to susan candiotti earlier, long beach could be in the direct path of the storm and then the question there is, if it makes landfall here what is the path towards more urban areas and what's the flooding issues and, again, already you see saturation on the roads and you have to assume with an

the new york city subway system? >> we don't know for sure if it's actually coming and if it's going to hit us that hard. so you know, you are putting the city in a panic. >> new york yellow cabs will still run, special rates for groups and passengers will be allowed to carry pets. the city is also closing its bridges in case of powerful winds. >>> there's also a mad rush for supplies. look at this photo. you can see it there is nothing left on those shelves. everything from mom and pop grocery stores to department stores, reporting selling out of hurricane supplies such as batteries, flashlights and water. residents grabbing anything they can find, preparing for the worst. >>> irene may be hitting the east coast but the hurricane is also making life tough for travelers here in the bay area. thousands of people hoping to fly back east are now stuck. ali rasmus is live with the flight cancellations. ali. >> reporter: john, all three new york area airports are shutting down operations at 9:00. we're talking about jfk,

to jacksonville and miami. >> 94 in atlanta and 84 in new york. kansas city up to 87. chicago, 81. minneapolis, 78. just 73 in seattle. 92 in albuquerque and 86 in salt lake city. oenix the hot spot at 102. >>> coming up after the break, the latest face transplant recipient reveals her new look. >>> post office pinkslips. slip. are 120,000 workers about to get the ax? >> "sesame street" producers forced to take a stand. are bert and ernie more than friends? >>> overseas markets got off to a quick start before losing some steam. tokyo's nikkei average lost 18 points today. hong kong's hang seng is barely up in late trading and in london the ftse is down early. now, on wall street the dow gained 423 points yesterday. the nasdaq index gained 111 points. and this was the fourth day in a row that the dow moved more than 400 point, something that's never happened before and one big reason for the upswing was the positive jobless claims report. positive corporate earnings reports also helped out. >>> americans looking for more welcome economic news shoul

public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called the low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york that are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to evacuate their homes and go to shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation for this hurricane hurricane irene it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum leak from their building this storm is expected to hit the city by nine pm with wind gusting anywhere between forty and eighty miles per hour u.s. president barack obama has issued a state of emergency for new york meaning that new york will receive federal funding oba

still ahead, bracing in new york city. the hurricane is already a historic event, the first ever mandatory evacuation order in effect for parts of all five burrows of new york city. we're going to take a look at the rare times the northeast has take an direct hit from a hurricane and what kind of impact that has had coming up. >>> hurricane irene is expected to make its first landfall along the east coast of the united states in north carolina. our state spokesman says he is concerned about the eastern half of state that it could affect 20 counties, 3 1/2 million people in north carolina alone john zarrella is with us from atlantic beach. >> reporter: 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, if the eye crosses us here that's the time the center of the storm is expected to get here. so just after first light. prpgss they're taken, not a lot of people have put up shutters or boarded up. we did see some. most of the people here at least a good percentage of them did decide to leave. others said they were going to go ahead and stay. mandat

new york. >> aaa in new york is giving us some tips this morning on storm safety. they say pack an emergency kit, fill your car with gas now. don't wait until the lines get long. don't drive through the high water. that's a big no-no. and stay tuned for forecast. and living in new orleans, you may not think about -- clean the fridge out. don't leave nasty food in there. when the power goes out, you don't want the salmon in there marinating for too long. >> but stock it with lots of water. plenty of canned food. >> the nonperishable stuff for sure. you'll need it when the power goes out. and it will go out. >>> stay with abc news all day long, as we follow hurricane irene. look for more live coverage on "america this morning" and extensive reporting on "good morning america." >>> and now, we turn to libya, where rebels are moving their interim government in to tripoli, where there's still heavy fighting this morning. >> in a new audio message, a defiant moammar gadhafi is urging supporters to not let tripoli fall into the hands of those he calls the rats. abc's john

good news for travelers trying to fly out of new york city or new york, they're coming back on line today. it is a gradual. not all at once. everything will be back to normal by tuesday. not >> ask we tracked the path of irene and now. the rain has fall adjust to the northeast moving towards areas of the north eastern canada. this half is actually going to take it as a tropical storm with trouble storm force winds all the way towards iceland days, north of great britain. the storm is still holding together as it moves out into the north atlantic. fee as we're watching flights trying to get back to normal with thousands of cancellations as we get into a very busy labor day weekend. will tran is live at sfo with an update. >> far we have learned that 24 rivals have been canceled into sfo and five departures. we are in terminal no. 2. on this, your good to go. five flights are taking off on time with the next flight at 7:00 p.m.. coming in from terminal to its from new york, there are for canceled flights. it might be another day or so before things get back to normal. that is why a lot of p

new york, the city that never sleeps, very much asleep. most people not adventuring out into the rains, a few brave cab drivers, that's about it. good morning, everyone, i'm alex witt at msnbc world headquarters. we have hurricane irene making landfall along the jersey shore where it crashed ashore near the little egg inlet. at least ten deaths are blamed on irene, four million remain without power this morning. let's look at new video we're getting in from wnbc, there have been a partial roof collapse at an apartment complex in long branch, new jersey. the only good news, no reported injuries thus far. though fire crews in the area have responded to a few fires in the area overnight. fortunately they were able to put them out. let's update the latest watches and warnings from nbc meteorologist jeff ranieri. what do you think people should be on the lookout for as the storm moves north? is it winds, is it rains, is it flooding or all three? a trifecta? >> it is all three, but it depends where you are. if you're in new england, massachusett

new york and puerto rico in the servir going islands. region three which is the mid-atlantic states. virginia through maryland, pennsylvania and new jersey. the preparations here are good. the capacity is actually very good. new york city as an emergency management planning organization and a city that has the capacity to act on its own is an amazing resource. i mean this is an incredible workforce in terms much police, fire, emergency responders. you have tremendously talented team here, commissioner bruno and mayor bloomberg. this is a city that can take a lot of actions on its own and they are already doing so. you can see the steps they have taken in advance of the storm, sort of i think are more aggressive, more well informed than we've seen in the past. >> i'll have to leave threw. thank you very much indeed. >> thank you for having me. >> when we come back i'll talk to the point man on hurricane irene. >>> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don'

in new york city are closed. washington, philadelphia, and boston are handling some flights but airports are expected to see cancellations tomorrow during the brunt of the storm. a big effect at sfo appears to be on international travelers who have to fly threw east coast hub. this couple has to be in barcelona on monday to get back to work on tuesday. >> we came here to the airport to change our flight, maybe flying to barcelona through another airport. >> jeanie of san jose and her daughters were going to spend a few days in new york after their european vacation but got a seat to the bay area in the nick of time. >> called her name. almost like winning the lottery ticket. >> joined greats are parked around the airport. it will be at least another day before their airborne. >> tomorrow we may see some depart tours, although we have seen 30 caps laces -- cancellations for tomorrow. >> oakland international cancelled two jet bliew flights -- jetblue flights, and an incoming flight from jfk has been cancelled, and

york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the process is a new york city officials are on a week and see approach they're trying to monitor everything everything warn everybody but at this point the trouble quins are moving and everyone is just bracing themselves for the storm. artie's marina reporting for us there from new york now you are with r.t. and coming up a new president but old problems. as the people of the caucuses make their choice at the ballot box we look at what lies ahead for the new leader as his republican struggles to rebuild after winning independence from georgia. and our close up team takes you to a russian city that knows how to party find out more about the spectacular festival held in kid off every year. the richest sector of french society is pledging another three percent of its annual income this week to help the country battle its descent into debt as growth slumps france has also announced some twelve billion euro worth of cuts but as daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fears social unrest could fall. fro

this is not new york city. the guardian, secrgadhafi's bid save his regime including trying to persuade dennis kucinich to come for a peace mission. it never took place. the oregonian a paramedic who treated gadhafi loyalists was struck by the determination of the rebels who refused food, water and fluids because of their religions. >>> the obama administration is allowing mexican police from cross border raids. the move is intended to invade the surveillance of criminal organizations inside mexico. before we get to the next newspaper, we seem to be, in this country, completely avoiding a huge story in mexico. 30 to 40 people killed in monterey. there were drug wars in mexico making the cities more dangerous than baghdad. incredible. >> it's been largely attributable to drug use in the u.s. >> with us now, the chief white house correspondent, mike allen here with the morning playbook. the phrase we are all waiting for, go ahead. >> happy friday! >> thank you very much. >> we have to say happy birthday to a frie

disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine p. am saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to a halt it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to evacuate from their building now up until this point new yorkers were really taking these warnings and these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to the stores to stock up on good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new

york of forty two when we are all just are saying this storm has now passed new york city is heading towards rhode island you forward island in new england and it could even become a little bit greater as it gains momentum heading that way but it did turn out to be a lot less than what was anticipated and what was hyped up and at this point it's just about cleanup here in new york. well we're closely following the developments of raveling on the east coast of america which has been hit by a wave of extreme weather. to our you tube channel to watch house results results and the most impressive videos from the hurricane site. now europe spreading debt crisis is threatening to grow in france as the government announced new a sturdy measures earlier this week amid concerns it could lose its aaa credit rating all the deficit reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of cuts as a tax hike for the rich. bushel explains the move could be too little too late with fears that social unrest is just around the corner. france enjoys a triple a credit rating for now put it one of th

public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called the low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to evacuate their homes and go to shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation for this hurricane hurricane i read it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum wait from their building this storm is expected to hit the city by nine pm with when gusting anywhere between forty and eighty miles per hour u.s. president barack obama has issued a state of emergency for new york meaning that new york will receive federal funding o

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jersey to new york. vermont to massachusetts. 20 or more are dead. millions still without power. billions in damages have been inflicted. tonight live and at large. how bad was she is this when will things be back to normal and who pays for the cleanup? >> many americans are still at serious risk of power outages and flooding which could be worse as rivers swell past the banks. i want people to understand this is not over. >> now comes the floods. hi everybody. i am geraldo rivera. as new york and many cities up and down the northeast coast breathe a collective sigh of relief that the winds and sea water storm surge of hurricane irene didn't end the world' we know it. the impact nevertheless from the hurricane is widespread and it is serious including several dead in new york state. three in new jersey. four in virginia. six in north carolina. and three more in pennsylvania. philadelphia is also being hard hit by record flooding. tonight as we mourn the dead and tally the damage our urgent focus is on th

by the time it actually hit new york city? >> correct. it would run all the way over new jersey. now, look, we're talking 50 miles one way or the other. that's 30, 35, 40 hours away. if this is over new jersey, the entire time, this storm will lose some power. if it's just offshore, anderson, it still could be that cat 2, 2 1/2, i don't think 3, because the water's colder up here. but it would not lose as much energy as it would if it would just run over new jersey the entire time. i'm talking between atlantic city and princeton of the and run on up the turnpike. that would lose a lot of energy. it would steal a lot of energy, because the eye is not over water. that's the potential there. there you go. this is the map. this is the map of inundays. there are the ships. there are the tall ships, all the way in here. if you come around here on the other side as well, you can actually see that part of the world trade tower complex, and i know you've been there, what did they do to the complex, they dug it out. that dig-out is righ

some of it has in suburban new york city. jonathan hunt is live outside in long beach, new york. we saw you whipped around earlier today. how is it looking now? >> reporter: pretty good. we talk about the calm before the storm. i have to say there's a sense of calm after the storm here in long beach, right now. this boardwalk the famous boardwalk busier than average summer sunday. people come back to this city now and take a look at the damage that was done. out on the beach, the waves have receded a gate deal. still churning but receded. there were 20 foot sand berms, the waters came over this morning, swept under this boardwalk there is a lot of flooding. while everybody is enjoying a sense of fun right now about in, a lot of people will have suffered a lot of damage. any ground floor, basement homes and apartments on broadway will have suffered very bad flood damage. >> shepard: jonathan hunt, thank you. bill hemmer and martha maccallum, after this. about fiber while you are eating a candy bar? you enjoy that. i am. [ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition. fiber one. how'd