stop taking cialis and call your doctor right away. [ male announcer ] ask your doctor if cialis for daily use is right for you. for a 30-tablet free trial offer, go to cialis.com. >> new york harbor was not buried under a tsunami of water and debris. it was not the day after tomorrow or a real life armageddon. still hurricane irene battered the east coast from north carolina to virginia, from maryland to delaware, new 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 the rising water in the streams and rivers of several states. parts of vermont for example are a wash tonight. what the state police call epic flooding. the governor there adding that they have a full-blown flooding catastrophe on our hands. new jersey already exasperateed by record rainfall is also dealing with terrible flooding. craig has a forecast of what he will be giving me. >> geraldo hurricane irene has passed. two major rivers continue to rise at a historic rate causing major flooding to homes and businesses offering the latest on the evacuation, geraldo.

>> forecasters got the track and timing of irene's impact perfectly the only thing they missed was the hurricane's intensity which weakened from a category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm apparently just as hurricane irene was jumping the verrazano bridge and passing the statue of liberty early this sunday morning. this system is still massive and powerful as it continues to churn through new england winds whipping at more than 50 miles an hour still and it is affecting millions of people who are without power dealing with flooded homes counting their losses even looking for away to get to work an monday morning. as strong as irene is now where is irene now. maria molina in the fox news weather center where and how strong? >> how are you doing? the center is about 20 miles

south of saint johnson in vermont. so that is where the center of the storm system is. it is very disorganized the center of it heading to canada moving quickly at 26 miles an hour north northeast. a lot of it has fizzled here. most of it off portions of canada fizzled off portions of new england light showers lingering across portions of new york. the damage has been done bev reports of a foot of rain it is going across upstate new york to vermont. it is not just the low level areas dealing with flooding but inland areas as far inland as the catskills. 50 miles an hour at 26 miles an hour. as we head into late tonight and also tomorrow we expect tropical storm irene to no longer be a tropical storm it will make a transition into something called a extra tropical cycle.

it will be cut off from warm water for too long that's how it makes the transition. by monday 45 miles per hour. the flooding is a big impact across portions along the east coast. 14 inches of rain across parts of north carolina, new york, record breaking in central park ever recorded because of irene. >> it is now a fresh water problem not a sea water problem it is coming on top of all of the record rain you very articulately tell us about. thank you very much. see you later on the program. >> long island and massachusetts share irene's pain which is widespread let's go to the sailing mecca of new port which is still being impacted by the storm. molly, are you there? can you hear me?

tell me what's going on. >> we are. we have been battered by the wind all day. this area rhode island massachusetts has been getting slammed. a result has been a ton of people without power. trees have come down snapped lines the polls are down and utility workers are trying to get the lights back on. there are 2707 thousand people here in the state of rhode island. about half of the state. so it's a big struggle they are expecting it to take several days to get the lights back on. one of the things that stopped the progress was the wind. because of the wind they couldn't get utility workers up in the air to address some of the higher problems and get the lights back on. a lot of people still without power. that should last for half of the week. we will be monitoring that progress tomorrow. high tied striking right about now. they are hoping that will be a flooding issue that will go back out to sea. they are not expecting the intense flooding that they were worried about that they suffered in the 1930s during the 1950s.

in that sense they feel lukey. they have a big power problem coming in the coming days. >> are the folks in new port feeling as urgent as we are about this storm or do they think they dodged the bullet? >> in a sense people are relieved but it depends on your given situation. we will see how they feel about dodging the bullet. 80 degree weather is right around the corner which is a good thing as far as cleanup is concerned. all of the tree lights are out at the intersection here at new port there are quite a few cars out. there's potential for serious accident here. >> thanks. proud to do search and rescue stories on 2020 coast guard station in new port. they are right at the end of the new port peninsula. captain david crews the

commanding officer of the coast guard in cape cod is on the cell phone with us now. i was honored to be with you guys see you up close and personally. are you working hard tonight and what's your biggest problem? >> geraldo, good evening. thanks for having us on tonight. we have 8 g 25 falcons out right now. they launched on a mayday that was over heard. they flew on that while they were out they were diverted for a vessel that was taking on water. they found the vessel and the folks were able to get rescued and then they had a third case they were diverted to where there were two people in a dingy that had drifted away and they did a shoreline search those folks were eventually found over on one of the islands by the local police department on best island. we have been busy this afternoon that has been since 5:30, geraldo. >> were they on the dingy for

fun? how in the world did they get out there where the sea could take them further into danger? >> i wish i knew geraldo. i don't know all of the specifics of it. we just got the call there were two people in the dingy. in the another walk connecticut area. that is when they diverted it to see if we could find them before sunset. >> do a great job. thanks for being with us. say hi to the other guards men. >> talk about who is going to pay for irene damage. he is the division commander of army corps of engineers. thank you for being with us. i call you guys the army's navy. you are always out there. what's your biggest problem? >> the biggest challenge is we move from the small homework phase of the event into the big physics more homework page. i think we are responding to temporary power assignments life sustaining commodities in some places like water and ice now we

are responding to debris clearance missions because there is a lot of debris throughout the region that is interfering with distribution. it is a in the northeast we have 53 miles of levees. it is up and down the shoreline from division to main we are examining those to see how they perform. weather you know doesn't end at the end of the event. jose is off the coast there are two more tropical depressions coming up. >> have y are you involved in a the dams in terrible condition or threatening condition in upstate new york? >> we do get requests from the states. new york city in this case is the owner of gilboa dam part of

the water supply systems. the cresting levels behind that dam based on models which has been accurate is 2 and a half feet less than it is designed. there is instrumentation on the dam that made it look like something may be happening with it. they have asked us to come out and in a prudent move the state and local officials ordered evacuations down stairs. >> i heard they had another mini earthquake there. you have philadelphia one of the most important baltimore all in your jurisdiction new york elizabeth new jersey. boston new haven. what is the condition of our force and are you involved in getting them back on-line? oo we work with the coast gu oo we work with the coast guard clearly but what happens if navigation exists in the form of floating debris. we are also doing surveys. we have under water surveys. >> bloating debris. you have big logs and timber and

other things floating. you can't see them. they could sink a ship. >> even in a regular storm it is astonishing all of the amount that comes down. >> believe me i live on the hudson river. are you going to stick around? why don't you stick around and help me as a company host deal. i like a rank and guy siteding next to me. a private and a general. >> we will be all over the story. it ain't over yet there is plenty going on in the joust the tropical storm as it churns it's way toward massachusetts and ma maine but the terrible aftermath. we will be right back after this. [ male announc ] life is full of missed opportunities. like the leap of faith you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event. see your lexus dealer.

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irene. as you know hurricane irene hit new york city. the good news is the worse is over and we will soon move to restore and return mode. >> this morning here is julie banderas at battory park. >> while hurricane irene do downgrade to do a tropical storm has left new york city left behind presety fierce winds her strongest winds we have gotten all day long. none the less the evacuation order lifted at 3:00 p.m. 250d. also staten island ferry will resume service today. as far as transportation is concerned the buttses will slowly start to resume and then come the trains of the the public transportation via subway metro-north railroad long island rail road. monday morning commute a

nightmare. city offices will reopen come tomorrow morning. they are saying new york city taxis are essentially going to be your mass transit system. also should mention flights going out of new york are going to be very slow and coming. thousands of damages planned on flying in the 12 airports that shut in the new york area are going to have problems getting out. all bridges are open and clear for traffic. as for the storm surge that was the main concern we were talking about. it was a rain event until we talked about now until the winds started kicking up. storm surge at battory park as high asd at feet high flood les part of battory park. manhattan the east river and hudson river. nonetheless we definitely dodged a bullet. most of us are dry. ocone my producers feet dry out

from walted kng around in flip flops for the last 24-hours i think everybody is presety m my reai the outlying areas are drying up and flooding. thank you here islie. new jersey called the garden state you think of it it is not particularwl protective river valleys there in lies the rub. you have the bound brook river the passaic river and the ram co river and now they are all over their banks. general peter saluka army corps of engineers. i know you were in the important commercial river there what's the situation down there what's the flooding. do you anticipate the work is still to -- worse is still to >> passaic is slower to crest. that will crest probably early on ation esday. we are watching these d cosely.

ng to ound brook on the rartan . we have people seeing whether it will leak to a breech. >> i don't know if you answer as tax payer but what do you think about people who build their homes in the flood zones of these rivers? >> to be fair in northern new jersey it was the cradle of the industrial revolution. these towns were established long before the knolowedge of floodplains the modeling we have today was available. ie whs hard to disinvest in an area that was highly developed. >> there are new homes that flood every 8 years or less. >> worted kng in conhere iscont the state of new jersey there have been measures taken. there is no cheap solution is the problem to the flooding in the northern part of new jersey whether you find another way to move water out whether it's

under ground or above ground when you put protection feaatios in it whether you buoy people out if you have structures to start at the second story only none of it is cheap. >> none of it is cheap. stand by. we are going to have more into that flooding aspect of this story. it will be the he heabe fine tow i guarantee it. mike talbin will be life on the scene right after this short scene right after this short commercial break.h constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with the strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. [ pneumatic wrench buzzing ] [ slap! slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fhting you? fight back fast with tums. ccium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums

>> welcome back to our sfe spec live coverage. fox has been all over this story of the historic extraordinary hurricane irene. tropical storm irene. new jersey the aforementioned

new jersey suffering a prooe have yous hurt from the hurricane. at least a half million are still without power iconal pdin the rivera todmiwl. the t threatens to disrupt and delay the region's return to normal normaak.y. mike tobin is at one of the sites. tell us what you are seeing and what's the big pication re ther? >> i tell you what, we are trying to get north and you couldn't do it. every where we drove we ended up going toward another obstacle here isst leabe this road las5 deep under water. delaware, all of them many others coming up and over their ng to acks. we just got word from the new jersey department of environmental protection the ground was aaileai before irene. now the screen streams and

tributaries have been inundated with water. right now they are predicting about 48-hours and some are going to peak at record levels. there was a guy up here valentino capone told us a story of watching the storm from his window. opened the basement door and saw everything was flooded. he had five minow ttes to gathep his dog and wife and get in the back of an emergenisr vehicle ad get out. he thinks he lost everything in his home and lost it just that to oasbout there areup of power don't have electricity in the same way. o outy one litity.e glimmer of ho as we look at the flood water from the mahwah. you can see the high p. >> nnt of the flood waters now. ic walk over here a good bid to the high water mark. it shows you geraldo and this

location anyway are going down at this p. >> nnt in time. >> thae whs the sitbe ttion the but you are saying other rivers and the general suggests other riverers won't peak for another day or so, is that what you said, mike? >> thae whs what we are getting out of new jersey out of the state department of enviro the nental protection. their sywgestion is just that the tributaries and the streams are so swollen right now it will take a litity.e while for all o that access water to flow in some of the bigger streams. >> meabe tat win in ma liiti. in general in terms of people being affected are they evacbe tted now or are they islands in their own home? >> i haven't tracked exactly all of the state anawlsis. we have p hiple in ten states in washington, d.c. in support of the state local municipalities recording the efforts in the region. each of them have different announcements they have been macing i haven't tracked them all. >> we will look up everything.

hopefulwl p hiple can start geseting their lives back to normal. public officials can talk to gou. north carolina probably sptrferd the worst of any state certainly in terms of fatalities all of the way up into new en whoand. continuing our special live coverage after this. stand by.,

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>> from america's news headquarters i am marianne rafferty. lne.yan gover the nenackent say they will not support the bomber. he was relieved in 2009 since it was believed he died of caconer. he was greeted as a hero in his native libya by moafe w mbe tfe

nd gaddafi. to oormer secretary of state co powell is accusing dick cheney of taking cheap shots at him and others in his new book entitled "in my time time" due out ation. he tried to undermine bush by administration policy outside of the government. no response from the former vice president. i am marianne rafferty now back to geraldo at la te. nd go to foxnews.com., >> into his basement as he shows us just how deep the water is there. ie whs really rs mething else. i mean he's got his handsful. it's not just his house. there are a number of homes and businesses where you can see the water is somed at feet deep th. n new jersey where sharon crowley whose voice you heard is holding

to oorth. she is a reporter in our station here in new york and in emergecone$ s jersey. sharon andre as it pretty miserably. is he a rare case or are there many more leabe it? >> i am on the west side of hoboken and a lot of hom hiwners with the first floor apartments have the same situation happening in their basement. as do a nneber of businesses on the main drag there and some of the side streets. we can hear the pneps trying to nnmp the water out of the basement so they could open again. gou can get a litity.e perspece ie whs dark. you can see water covering where we are on first street here. eiark avenow te you can see thes still water all of the way down to the larger roads here. we are in the west side. if you are not familiar with hoboken the homes on the hudson river there they are on higher

ground they are below sea level. this is a an area that usually they were u ting p hiple who own apartments to evacuate. n haveghborhood. they were trying to get people out just for this very rears n that you can see. it is going to take a couple days as you can see for this to recede. n where frank sinatra was born. she mentioned traditionalwl floor c. i was taltra ng about a general about that this is an area that traditionally floor c. a rep theylican from new jerseyo is very involved in these matters as chairman of the subcommisetee maritime transportation. what about the fact that it is traditionally floor c, at what point are we g.

>> nng to say if you buy a house in a traditional area you have to bear the burden of the flood yourself. >> that is a question that will be continually asked. if how often is oer ren enough. gour viewers and listeners wer talking about atlanta county atlantic county stone harbor new owersey. actually we fared pretty well under this. we had one life lost in saluts counfor where one woman was swet away in a flash flood at about the h haveght of the storm. we are very concehersed the casinos closed something that has only happened two or three times in the history of casino

gaming. new jersey has a separate probluts they are dealing with here. ie whs a lot the governor has t grapple where struggles how to nnt together a plan. >> as the stryw whoe proceed ho do you expect any sense of normalcy? >> we are g. >> nng to have a sense of normaak.y here in the lower part of the state starting come. the casinos will r hipen tomorrow or major roadways will be open -- reopened. businesses that boarded up and did the preparation work are going to be okay. we are looking for a big weekend next wehow last big economic weekend for us. we are going to be in good shape eiartialwl because of the great plane ang and how it came together. up in the northern part of this state as you have been showing this is going to be a whole different ball game. they are expecting some of these rivers not to reach the peaks for another day or two. this water is not g. >> nng to go down in a matter of a day or two. it will be a whole lot longer

they are dealing with a whole other separate set of problems. >> the congress congressional district. thanks very much. i want to stay on new jersey and talk about what happened today in rhode island and buzzard's bay in massachusetts and beyond as the storm heads through massachusesets heading toward maine and canada. i want to stay on new jersey because as the congressman just a bshe the casinos all of them they are 11 have never been ordered closed before. it protects many lives iconludig other states to the gambling reck kau in the east coast. rick leventhal has been stationed there throughout the storm on the boardwalk and the streets et of for streeect and e boardwaugh now. what is going on are they going to open business people excited they buy your chips yet?

>> i haven't bought any chips. the boardwalk as you can sees deserted which is toywh for thuts. this is one of the busiest weekend not just of the summer but of the beear. they typicalwl would have made $400 this month. that's 12-15 million a day that they have lost over the last three-days. this is a tough situation for these g are s to handle. they are eager to get back to work right now the city is virtually empty. the mandatory evaer.ation was at wserved by of th percent of people and the ones who stayed behind had few places to spend th haver sseney. the storm hit before dawn in little lake harbor with barely hurricane force winr c 757 mile per hour. the city itself fared very well. there were localized flo seing power lines down but no significant damage to speak of anywhere. the worst part of it was the economic loss not just for the casinos but all of the other businesses the restaurant and

aiars. there has abou also been widesp power outages. omearly a million homes across new jersey still without power. numbers have been going up geraldo instead of g. >> nng down because in part because of the flooding that continues to get worse as you heard mike tat win taugh worout. many of the rivers may not crest for another 48-hours. trouble ahead for new jersey atlantic city eager to get ready for business. the mandatory order has been ln the casinos will open at noon tomorrow. >> i guess they will be rune an the buses in new york ipfor. >> buses, trains, cars, anyway you can get here. >> trains, planes and automat wiles. thank you for being here. appreciate it. >> craig is in fairfield another eiart of new jersey in the northern part of the state. i would gs nssappfor from as antitatipfor north. what is your situation there and i understand you have som

hine watio3 can meet and greehe wa >> yes. geraldo, hurricane irene tore up the eastehers sea board she dned omeacityy a foot of water. they had two major rivers the compton river and pose aiackriver. a lot of northern new jersey is draining down draining south and ends up piling up in fairea iel causing major flooding. i am with the mayor he will explain some of that why they are hfor.ing historic levels on the shore of the rivers going into the passaic. what's haheiening? >> whaneps happee ang is they a coming down and it comes close to the pose back. it is choking off the pose ba p. it left our community a long time itehere a the poms opin is stoheiing the passaic river turning it around and sending the water back into

our community. the volnee is coming off -- the volume is rendering the pose aiacup itaat wsant c passing th to back up and homes that a or mile and a half of the river will be ia tndated with flo se waters. >> how many are affected? >> 300 homes. >> businesses. there are businesses commerct t investment that won't be able to come back to work monday and ts nsday. >> doesnred c take a hurricane flood the communities. >> this is our second storm this year in march 201nkwe also had the same thing happen we had it happen in 2010 we had it happen inat wsa bu7 alrs . >> how high are the levels supposed to get? >> the projection is historic. 23.5. the record in 1903. >> what is flood? >> flood is 19 major flo se is r 1. this is going to be a bad it oft

on the community. >> you can see here is the map. ineps not only new jersey ineps new york, ramapo, all of these rivers are coming down the cot of ton that is flo seing th area here. all of these communities are affected. ineps not just new jersey. can abasething beat about it? >> we had the army corps of engineers sugh dying this for 9 cuears. 7 solutions three out of the top five was to build a tunnel. >> actappenlly two tunne that wide from here to the north day. it would alleviate flooding forever. >> get the water past these areas in new york bay. >> i will hold my breath for that one. they are not gs rail tunnel from new jersey to new york to millions of conow uters i donred c thi ia w build this tunnel that has 300

citizens. >> there are there sewers or septic tanup i in that coma tne and what about that volushia? >> geraldo was asking are there sewers or cesspoo that whaneps happening with the wates? >> the sanitary system is fine. >> the pneping station gets flooded and they have to be taken off. >> drinking water? ld> they wilwillnot have are tc for absolutely not. >> what about the tunnel she ea? >> it was a tunnel back in the mid 80s. >> it was such a heavily he shall niezed area was snel cessfuink ld> ho? an that be contemplated in this day and age? >> nuclear weapons.

ld> finr c accomssedations to t to mitigate the situation. obviously that has to be loobou ahe wa ld> my 18-year-old wanect to be reporter when she is my age we will be debating how to solve the flo seing in new jersey. we will be right back after this. [ oswald ] there's a lot of discussion going on about the development of natural gas, whether it can be done safely and responsibly. at exxonmobil we know the answer is yes. when we design any well, the groundwater's protected by multiple layers of steel and cement.

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>> the state of maryland suffered at least one fatality a woman killed when a tree fell on to her home. the city of baltimore struggling

to get the transit system up and working for tomorrow morning. many of the roads are still closed there. hundreds of thousands still without power and having watched this all the beginning middle and end of the storm from the position on the beach in ocean city maryland elway is there. doug glad you are here. are they going to open for business? ocean city is a big resort like atlantic city without gambling. >> it is a big resort. they opened it as quickly as they could. you saw what it was like with the rain coming down and the winds howling. the eye of the hurricane passed virtually right over us about 2:00 a.m. we woke this morning to find the city virtually unscathed. the city fathers called essential personnel back at 9:00 a.m. and determined at that point there was virtually no damage. we can get this city open right away. they opened it to the public at 12 noon today. about the only people to return were the surfers.

take a look at this giant swell quite a ton tras -- con fras fr -- contrast from the life threatening seas yesterday. they worked so hard in convincing people that it was okay to come back our hotel room tonight, our hotel is virtually empty except for the remaining tv crews that are here. it is really, really hard to try to convince somebody who got their hotel refund and went back home 200 miles to washington or the 250 to baltimore or philadelphia say hey kids let's pack up the car again and go back to ocean city after we missed a wonderful weekend. it's not going to happen. the economic impact of what happened here will be very, very substantial even though the damage was not. they have the labor day weekend you know it will be a big hit to many businesses in ocean city, maryland. >> can i ask you a question, did you borrow that outfit from

jimmy buffet? >> no, but i would like to have. ♪ wasted away in margaritaville. >> i woke up this morning i saw the surfers out here i have to partake in this. i am not a surfer but i plan to pick up with them a little later after this live shot is over. >> okay dude. go have a margarita on me. thanks. >> i am going to. >> we were just talking on the topic they were discussing about the flooding the per renal flooding how much in 1980s was that project? >> the price tag for the variety of tunnel plans was over $2 billion at the time. >> two billion in the 1980s. what would that be in today's office? >> easily $4 billion. >> the challenge, too, is federal government will pay a lot of that but not all of that.

the state four other municipalities have tobacco sponsors. even in these times they have more demands on their resources than they have their resources. that is doubly true not just in new jersey. >> how much do they lose every year in property tax? >> usually it's 100 million or more. >> 100 million or more. >> outrageous and expensive. >> challenge is the life cycle time frame what is most urgent. >> what's most urgent it's commercial. >>

>> back live with the $64 million question. how much will hurricane irene cost cash strapped state.

>> geraldo irene's damage is measured not just in blash flooding. there is a financial fallout. the storm's legacy will be viewed soon in terms of dollars and scent. it can take months to know the exact cost of a hurricane andest matters are often widespread. especially if the storm continues to unleash all of the wind and rain. catastrophe modlers say i reason wrackd up more than a billion in insured losses. a broader preliminary forecast by kinetics analysis says insured damage may be less than fear ranging from between 2 and 3 billion with total losses around 7 billion. anothered one economist says the casualty losses could climb along with the flooding. 40 billion when you include the loss of two-days of economic activity. recent spending could help some

fragile regional economies. even at that level the cost falls short of katrina with the losses at more than 130 billion. at least the storms stress before labor day weekend when many states especially those depend on tourism and beaches and shores count on the holiday for significant revenue. the site of another storm lately of a different source. wall street should be open for business as usual monday morning. the new york stock exchange ready for the bulls and bears hope a bunch of buyers will be the next flood to take new york. geraldo, back to you. >> i hope that's right, brenda. thank you very much. what is your commute going to be tomorrow morning? travel expert jennifer sanchez joins us from allentown. what's it going to be a year subways may get started sometime late in the afternoon here in new york on monday. what about boston and other

communities baltimore, what's going on? >> ill don't think we have to worry too much bo the road and subway as much as the airline traveler have to worry about in their flight is going to be operating tomorrow, tuesday and even wednesday. there is this ripple effect with 11,000 flights canceled. there are not enough seetsz to go around to get the passengers stranded back on flights. people that were set to travel they are going to get bumped. the bumping rule was actually changed last week which is quite prophetic. used to be you get your ticket maybe twice the amount. last week the airlines went in prior to these hurricanes you can get four times the amount of your ticket if you are involuntarily bumped. >> you get more money now? >> you get more money but the

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i want to thank all who have been involved very much. >> as the president praises our fighting spirit and neighborly compassion we are counting the death tole from hurricane irene which killed 121 people in 8 states. some drowned when vehicles were submerged after they drove over overpasses that flooded out. some had heart attacks as they struggled from aspects of the storm. most were killed by falling trees that were made weak by the record rainfalls this northeastern region of the nation has engured ev -- enduren before hurricane irene hit. as it leighs the new england regions they are leaving hine the saturated states. here is craig in fairfield new jersey. >> the streets of fairfield new

jersey are already flooded this is just the beginning of the flood stage. all a result of hurricane irene. i am with deputy chief anthony mannah the fairfield police. have you ever seen anything like this? >> 1984 we had a very, very bad flood. but the levels are expected to be worse th worse now than they were in 84. >> we are in the back of a truck using these trucks to evacuate many of the residents. you have a job here. >> the resources normally allocated to fairfield are being deployed throughout the state. we are on our own for the first 24-48-hours of this event. >> normally this event we would see with the nor' easter but what's different here? >> basically the rapid rise of the water over the last 234 hour

period a lot of wasserer was dropped as well as upstate new york. >> m how many residents do you have in this community? >> 9,000 residents. what happens during the day during the monday through friday workweek we elevate anywhere from if 60,000 people. the work we are trying to get out is just because of where you live and maybe you have not been impacted by the hurricane. fairfield will be impacted all week long. it will be very limited. >> we see a fire truck behind us. what are they doing? >> we have a wire and water they are conducting evacuations. the area we are going in even the truck we are in cannot access that area right now. >> not only do you have the damage of the water but you have to remember there is still power going to these houses. a lot of them have natural gas flowing inside which makes a fire hazard.

you have the weakening of the ground which could cause trees to fall. >> that is exactly what is happening now. we thought we escaped the brunt of the hurricane but we are getting winds and it is causing trees to get down. fairfield is starting to get that right now. >> what do you do with the poor people sitting on the porch not ready to leave? >> we are not going to take them out of their houses and arrest them. if they don't leave there may be a time when we cannot provide medical services. if you have a medical emergency or fire you cannot access the conditions. we are trying to plead with people to leave while they can hopefully they will heed our warnings. >> this is just the beginning? >> it will get worse and it will get worst quickly. >> craig joins us live.

>> people have to heed the warnings. they are putting the first responders at risk. we were talking about long-term solutions for the flooding here in the passaic river but there are also short term solutions. tell me about that. >> the federal dollars are beyond our ability to build on a local level. we believe a short term solution is a serious problem of the talking off the state river and it's ability to blow it would be the construction of a jety like we are for instance that would channel both rivers and allow both to function appropriately. right now we have two rivers and only one is functioning. >> you are saying a highway divider to separate so one would

not block the other there are people living on the passaic river basement. that is a lot of people. >> thank you very much. general we have been talking about emergen new jersey but wee vermont situation. it was expected to go further east went right up the vermont new york state boundary. vermonters are saying they have never seen flooding like this before. is there a second wave happening now? that has happened now more or less the river in philadelphia that started to recede the rivers further south at least they have trusted. what is happening further north? >> they clear in 24-hours a lot

of water that moves quickly. nothing was absoabsorbed. we took steps we have 31 sdams in the new england region. they are not guilt built. we have protection every where. that is a double-wham double-wh 247 hours after it started. we have concerns with lower basin. so many people have lost power including my family. it varies from state to state region to region county to county.

half a million people paul rose sin grin of pseng a big utility in new jersey when does half a million go back on-line? thank you for being with us. >> i can only talk about 3757 thousand that are part of the bed. we are trying to get as many of them up and running as quickly as possible. cruz in from far away. people should expect the outages caused by wind and the flooding. to be honest it's the flooding that is going to take longer to restore. it is the flooding of our equipment. need to ride it out before we can restart some of that and flooding in homes as well. >> so what about electrocution? i mean aside from -- these wires

have you cleaned up all of those kind of perilous situations own as you were and does that cause even more outages you have to shut the power to get the hot wire out of the water. >> we do turn off power in the same situation. other customers safety is a number one priority. you want to reiterate people should not buy a downed wire even though it is not the electrical wire we always urge caution. there have been some of the fataliti fatalities. we want everyone to be careful especially when there is water involved to not go into their electrical box. >> how come psg doesn't have more under groundwaters. i lose power at least twice a year. >> sorry to hear that but we have one of the most reliable systems.

under ground is more expensive and traditionally they have fought and fought about putting them under ground. if you have a problem with the wire it is much more difficult to find where the problem is. >> they are still ugly. you do your best. paul, thanks. congressman chris smith are you there? >> doing good. how are you? >> republican 4th district. member of the transportation and infrastructure committee. man, doesn't new jersey need the infrastructu infrastructure? you visited the residence of your district who has been affected by this. you want to comment about how they are faring? >> i am in a pleasant beach and there are people walking the boardwalk not many. the damage is in far left than what we anticipated.

loss of business has been significant and that is part of the problem. there are many places where the flooding has been the problem huge amounts of flooding. rivers and streams completely overflowed their banks and ready to come home. >> i just thought of something. half of the people in new jersey in massachusetts, in new york state in maryland, it seems to me you are in pennsylvania some of these in our community are trying to sell their houses. if their houses have been damaged the storm or they have peesh i don't doic problems due to these events doesn't that put a damper on an already troubled real estate law? >> if a prospective buyer knows there has been previous

flooding, it makes it all that much harder. we work closely with the army corps and local municipalities are trying to ensure flood al f doesn't occur. there are ways of mitigating that threat. it doesn't necessarily mean because your place than flooded you will not be able to sell it. >> an extra burden on homeowners desperate to get out. congressman chrisman thank you very much. we will take a quick break. we will be back with much more happening from maryland to the canadian border. [ male announcer ] life is full of missed opportunities. like the exotic vacation you nev took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event. see your lexus dealer.

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>> back live the president is asking and praising the compassion of the american people. neighbors helping neighbors particularly here in new york where you had 300 thousand people evacuated.

there were only some i don't remember the exact number but tens of thousands went to shelters. the vast majority were taken by family and friends and by compassionate americans and the institution that really epitomizes our country american red cross bill lengther is the national spokesman. thank you for being with us. what have you been doing and what do you need? >> we have 27,000 people last night in shelters about 500 shelters up and down the coast. we have thousands of volunteers who have deployed out here. they are working hard. once the water is clear and it is safe we will be doing assessments finding out people's needs and helping those needs. >> 27,000? >> do you know where most of them are concentrated? >> that is all down the coast. i know there were about 8,000

just here in the new york area. that doesn't account for the shelters the city ran. the 27,000 people was in addition to the new yorkers. >> i noted how the vast majority were with friends and family. can we assume most of the people you were caring for were at leastable. if is personal and society responsibility that you should be prepared and also look out for your neighbors. it is a volunteer led organization. most of the thousands of people localized are from volunteers. we are supported by generosity of americans. >> i don't know what it is but it seems to me maybe the economy

or as government tightens it's belt i have not seen more requests for donations. are you feeling strapped by the economic downturn taking the edge off of the generosity of some of the higher ones? >> the red cross spends 450 million a year. we need those donations to keep pouring in and we are continuing to ask people viewers are watching they can give you can call click or text right now. >> we are a great partner. they are part of the team. >> you really do a fantastic job. i have been with you since 80 to every other place on earth here in this country.

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>> as the hurricane left the new york metropolitan area and left up the hudson now earlier today and through this evening has been pounding new england i have been worrying general peter daluka army corps of engineers division commander of the whole

north atlantic region they are another and dear to me new bedford, massachusetts, providence, rhode island, fair haven in massachusetts. we had a feature i got this tip from whitney in cincinnati who asked about the moveable areas in providence and new bedford. did they work? >> we have hurricane barrier in providence rhode island. those features all worked to get the surge from the hurricane. they often engage them during storms. >> so they are closed tonight? >> i know that i have gone behind the new bedford wall during hurricanes and road it out pretty well. you do that for the whole nation

that would be terrific. >> and expensive. on that note meet congressman michael grimm a rising star in congress. you represent staten island among other places. before i answer how much it will cost, how did the low lying areas in staten island one of the boroughs or counties in new york city that was evacuated partially how did it go and was it necessary? >> toward the evening they hunkered down. i think it was necessary. you don't want to take any chances. i got to tell you the administration and i would be the first to say when the mayor's office doesn't do their job the outreach was incredible. they were in contact with us constantly. harry was tremendous. we gave them a laundry list of needs and concerns. they were working with us. across the board by partisan

effort it was a very good effort. a couple people those who live on the other half of the country asked what the media hype is this wasn't the apocalypse it wasn't the end of the world. we had 21 fatalities at least. was there media hype? was there official hype? really we took our lead from the mayor from the governors of several states. >> i don't think it's a matter of type it's a matter of improvements. no one can appreciate a storm like this. it's a hurricane. if it turned bad you didn't make the precautions there's a massive device a massive casualties and tremendous rescue effort now you are putting your first responders at risk. everyone whob planning the mayor and governor saying look at hurricane katrina. >> we learned from this we will do things better moving forward. i would err on the side of

caution you are talking about human life. >> where did you spend last night? >> i was out until 3 in the morning going shelter to shelter throughout staten island and brooklyn. we had to make sure we got a backup generator. in staten island we only had one hospital open. it had to be evacuated we had only one hospital for the entire island. >> there was some talk the bridges would have to be closed the verrazano one of the largest bridges in the world. the turn passed right over that big bridge. if that had closed -- >> we were prepared for that. we knew it would close before the other bridges. 40 to 50 miles an hour.

it is the tallest in the country. so all things considered what kinds of grade would you give the response in this area? >> well, overall i would have to give them an a. i have to tell you the -- i was blown away by those that were volunteering and staffing the shelters. i give them an a triple plus. >> congressman grimm a rising star in congress. our special coverage continues after this. boy, i'm glad we got aflac huh.

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>> i am ma marianne rafferty. emotions running high three-days after a gunman attacked a casino killing 52. huge crowds turning out for a funeral on saturday. protest breaking out in mexico city today. demonstrators demanding the state governor and mayor of monterey quit. meanwhile there are reports two people have been arrested in connection with the attack.

hugo chavez staying in cuba where he has previous treatments. he checked into a military hospital saturday. thanking venezuelians for praying for his help and saying his treatment is going well. he under went surge grow to remove cancer cells from his abdomen region. oo you are watching the most powerful name in news fox news channel. >> the real issue we are going to have to deal with now is flooding. this storm is transitioning flooding event. some rivers haven't pressed it yet it is still remaining. we are prepared for what that means for shelter transportation infrastructure and positions with urban search and rescrescu

michael grimm republican staten island on the spot. governor chris christie another star in the republican party had some moments when he was tough as nails some suggest he was over aggressive, other times more compassionate and one bufrs the ground trying to save he was choked up about it. you think he came on to too strong you think getting off of asbury park or we are going to rip our throat out. what do you think? >> i understand why. people are frustrating. they have faced challenges they have never seen before. that is unacceptable. he is letting that frustration out for the good of all people saying enough is enough. sometimes he gets caught up in the moment but he's a human being just like everybody else.

>> i love the guy. i heard on the local radio station on the local news station saying that he was only giving interviews the national shows national correspondents he made a joke about a a reporter from iowa and another from new hampshire. you think he helped our hurt his presidential problems? >> my understanding he's got money so he said that clearly many times. i think he's really concerned about getting his fiscal house in order. he is doing it well. >> one of the great things about the modern era with digital technology some of the most important reporting during this extraordinary event has come from you the viewers. the hudson river beautiful valley starts in new york city and trafrls north for more than

1 munn miles. there was torrential rain turning small streams into river. 11-year-old they show is in his backyard. it became a raging rapid. the latest on irene's location was the hurricane and where is it? maria joins us from the fox news weather center. >> still a tropical storm. 50 miles per hour. very soon an update as of 11:00 p.m. see if it is considered a tropical cyclone. it may be an extra tropical system regular area of low pressure losing those characteristics. one of the major systems is the

flooding. wayne fall eastern carolina 147 inches of rain apositi a-acrosss of the catskills. it does not experience direct land fall has to deal with major impact. irene coming along blinging in the additional rainfall. didn't take very much wind to knock down the trees power lines pouter outages new jersey being reported delaware portions of long islands. it has been more widespread. 115 miles an hour. not too significant. we are not talking a major hurricane. they were enough to cause rain to go down. generally dry conditions a few

sprinkles lingering across southern maine but holding onto the tropical storm strength 50 miles an hour moving to the north northeast by light tonight or tomorrow that will becomen area of low pressure. >> luck of the draw it is staying a tropical storm even into canada. >> i think it is so big it takes a longer time to change in sxreen. that's why when we held on the a hurrica hurricane>> maria thank you very much. you mentioned long island. i want to go to the report laura angle filed. here's the latest from long beach. >> geraldo the governor certainly got an eye full as he was zig bagging through the long beach area today. driving down street that have

trees all over. power was out in some places. some of the rain crowds for a current can be virtually rivers. some people could not get through. a lot of the area local businesses have boarded up and sandbags in front of their businesses literally have waves lapping at their front doorsteps. i want to show you what's happening on the beach. the waves are crashing when wefrm here at 8:00 a.m. when the tied was high water was up to the board would you being pounding across these poured into the panels into the parking lot. some of the cars had water all of the way up to the wheel wells. man pee people coming back today to find their car in different

places. the fatality also sustained major flooding lots of trees down there as well. all of this means it will be a busy day for crews trying to get the branchs limbs and bigotry trunks up and out of the areas affected so we can get power restored on long islands. >> general where do you stand on beach punishment. ocean patients faces detours the others in california. >> with the economic activity you can add name because it is protection for rich people. if you go one or two homes in that's all middle and lower blue collar americans that are working and making a living from

those communities. those features protect a lot of people. i think a life cycle analysis of those people for economic. when you get rod that's a it is a cost benefit anal ysianalysis general. the rich guys off the beach. and the federally subsidized flood insurance also at risk. i think there are some harsh analysis that have to go on. do you agree congressman michael grimm? >> i think everything should be done by xos anal blah what bo all those homes direct -- stated

tan island you hope ner the etyest i think it should be done with all of that in mind and we should certainly put all of the different classes within there the economic classes and look at it from an economic benefit for the entire community not just isolated. >> why are we showing the tree? no beaches? >> this is something that irks me personally. i always wanted to live on the beach when i finally could afford to live on the beach and now it is ironic. i buy the argument there are plenty of other nonrich people who benefit from beach replenishment. something happened in your life last night. you were riding around i mentioned you were a 911 respondser. tell them what happened? >> i was going from one shelter

to the next shelter. the rain was coming down pretty hard. i was driving with nick from brooklyn. we were in staten island a gentlemen with a walker is standing at the bus stop in the pouring rain when it is hours after they are no longer current. >> i asked my son did you see that guy at the bus stop? i came around said sir what are you -- he said bus, bus, bus. he had a speech impediment. i said sir where are you going? >> my brother, my brother. i got the phone number to the brother i called the brother. he was at a home himself and got the foot animated. there is mary on my left and that's his brother in the bay. >> i thought the buzz was coming he had probably been there

himself. >> he was out there god knows how long how many people passed him. i caught him out of the corner of my eye. we asked him bus bus bus. >> when you see something do something. >> that's what i hope to bring to the political arena. as a former united states marine they text you on the daily basis. they loo implement and execute. >> we have gotten jaded in some ways. there really is a role for that kind of activist volunte volunt we saw a lot of that in these shelters. >> there is a heroism there. it is not macho. >> the red cross a always so

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>> they came to a number of like $7 billion it's a huge amount of money but little compared to hurricane katrina over $100 billion. you know the insurance industry had a lot of problems in terms of their ability or at least the reserves that they kept bash in f financial economic cries success we have. are the insurersable to pay for some of the damage. will the companies take a hit when they open tomorrow. loretta is vyings president communications. >> we are joined also by russ rl

roughville. russell -- >> i screwed up the first name. robert. president and ceo of independent ijts agent of the brokers>> loretta before we talk about the solvency of the insurance industry can you add vise the people who have suffered damage on what they should do right now? >> i want to say a few things about the total losses from katrina it was 45 billion. >> the air worldwide is putting it anywhere from 1.5 million to $6 billion. in terms of the insurance industry, it has taken a very serious approach to the storm much like katrina. wref mounted a serious offense for losses and have already gone in and we have -- we already

started making phone calls about the storms to let people know what the potential losses would be what they needed to do. >> preparation is great. i am glad you did all that. now it happened what should people do? >> right now in terms of filing -- >> if they have flood insurance through the flood insurance program they will be covered. if they don't have flood insurance then they won't have coverage. that is something that is a big concern for the insurance industry. only 17 percent of people in this country carry flood insurance>> do you advise people to have flood insurance? >> all of the time. >> they try to educate them on getting the coverage. >> is it on your house or your vehicle? >> do you have enough money to pay them all? >> we have the financial

wherewithal from the storms not going to be significant loss for the insurance industry. >> will not be. >> when you talked about the 1.65 billion you are looking at insured losses. >> that is not the economic. perhaps you are referring to the economic loss. >> bob stand by. i am going to come to you after this short break. i will continue with congressman grimm. we will be back after this. [ barks ] [ cat meows ] [ woman ] ♪ i just want to be okay ♪ be okay, be okay ♪ i just want to be okay today - ♪ i just want to knowoday - [ whistles ] ♪ know today,now today - [ cat ows ] - ♪ know th maybe i will be okay ♪ [ chimes ] travelers can lp you protect the things you care about... and save money wi multi-policy discounts. are you getting the coverage you need... and the discounts you deserve? for an agent or quote, call 800-my-coverage... or visit travelers.com.

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>> we have a general. we have a congressman. we have two insurance industry executives. i am going to go to one of those to begin. would be russville perhaps i should have put had a question

to you if i have something damaged something broke because of this storm give us your advice what do you tell the folks? let's say you have a freezer packed with $10,000 worth of steaks and they have gone bad what do you do? >> in washington we sell freezers with cash. no offense to congressman. but i will tell you that that is something called business interruption insurance. we don't know what the exposure is. in your business is interrupted you lose electricity our yies is independent on that the claims will come in and the insurance industries will pay. i have talked to insurance agents up and down the east coast today. they are coming in for free damage to houses in cars and flooding. flood be will be devastating.

only 17 percent of americans have flood insurance and there going to be a lot of consumers tomorrow. they are going to wake up with a major headache when they find out they didn't purchase flood insurance. >> do you advocate it or do you say if you live in the flood zone you are on your own. >> by law it's required to get a mortgage that is federally backed. you have to have flood insurance. people don't know if they are in a floodplain or not a floodplain. there are people that need flood insurance but say they don't need it. if you are in a disaster zone by the government you may qualify for low interest loans you have to pay them back unlike flood insurance where you get the money if the house is damaged a

flood. >> i hear you mentd take pictures if you have damage. loretta thank you bob. thank you. want to go back to the general. it's not in your zone but how is the new orleans area the huge core of engineer project. is new orleans' safe now? >> the system was completed this month in august of 2011. it is 100 percent fuvended it was funded up front you c unlik other system that was only 40 percent done. it will protect against category 3 storms. old levy and system designed. >> i didn't get to missouri or mississippi river. 15 seconds final thoughts congressman? >> just very, very impressed again by the volunteers and

staffers at the shelters. very impressed with the administration reaching out. >> katrina was an f you would still give this an a. >> i would give it an a or effort for sure. >> in terms of the aspect of compassion people standing up to the plate helping neighbors. >> never been stronger. >> i hope to see you in our 9-11 special. we are doing our special the counter attack thank you for watching. gas and bloating. with the strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. you had me at "probiotic." you feel it working, so you know it's working. unlike ordinary toothpaste, you feel a deeper clean. you're also protected. with new crest complete, you know you're covered.

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