so the first few blocks of long beach, long island, is seeing serious flooding and a flow rate of what looks to be rapids across the river that's flowing down national boulevard and into the streets of long beach. that's the situation behind me. the surf here is so intense, we will see this surge continue not only for the next half hour and high tide will be within the hour but because the winds will continue to be onshore, as the storm itself moves north of us, we're not going to see -- >> i think we lost rob marciano. he was talking about how the winds and rain will be with us for a long time, the rain will be with us for as long as 12 hours, that will have a lot of affect, not just high tide now but over the next 12 hours. let's listen to our affiliate, wabc, seeing what they're seeing in the city. >> it's not bad. it's passable. but on any of the streets off of the main road, they go down very quickly and a lot of water really covering those waterways. you can't tell, people are driving right up to that water thinking he h ining they can ma through. they may have made it through a

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>>> you are looking at long beach, long island. watch this, eye lifeguard tower comes unhinged. gets hit right there. come office its mooring and crashes right into the boardwalk. that's long beach, long island. go down to point pleasant, new jersey. the suffer is kicking up. we heard from governor chris christie, everyone is told to stay inside and hurricane irene heading right now for america's biggest city. breaking right now, the monster storm. wow! crushing its way up the east coast overnight. hurricane irene, howling wind, ferocious waves. several of america's bigigge cities hunkered down to face the furry. now the rapidly rising sea water with swamp the streets and subways. >> its path of destructionon fr north carolina to delaware. we have the dramatic rescue, terrifying tornado now will irene's epic rainfall rewrite the record books this morning? sam and our entire abc news team is in the eye of the storm. >>> ourontinuing life coverage of hurricane irene, you see montauk irene. look how huge the waves are. we have john berman out there. thankfully he come up a bit. he

look at fox 5, long branch, new jersey, the skies are opening over long branch. let's get to the police in elmsford. i don't know who you are, sir, thanks for coming on. how are those folks and tell me about the rescue. tv is fun sometimes, isn't it 1234 they will not let me have it. maybe we broke the rules about checking people in. long branch, new jersey, fox 5 new york. listen: >> reporter:... how the water is coming up to the piers and even under the pier. it took out the railing. just to my left, camera left there. and it was really rocking the pier and the boardwalk as well. and, again that is why i was holding on along with the wind. and, the swell, you know, the storm surge, we have talked all about that, has been the biggest concern and we're hearing of flooding, just talking to a gentleman a while ago who mentioned the side streets over here and we haven't had a chance to head over there. but, some of the side streets are dealing with a little too terrible now. there was damage, i don't know if we have the video from earlier, though, of the apartment c

out in long island and east long island usually. so this will be a new experience for virtually everybody that's alive in the new york city area. >> chris, you talked about the structural integrity of sky scrapers and high rises. people who live above the 10th floor, is it okay for them to stay in their apartments or do they go to a lobby, the stairwell? >> it's definitely okay to stay in your apartment. don't be near the glass. i think everybody needs to help out their neighbors. because basically what you have, if you have balcony furniture or anything that you have on a patio, that could be the projectile into your neighbor's building. so everybody needs to help out each other. i know people could be away on vacation. it's a little bit of a hazard that they wouldn't be back to secure their furniture. stay inside. stay away from glass. don't let the projectile be an issue. >> stephen flynn, appreciate you being on. chris, you as well. thank you for your advice. >>> up next, a few rare times the hurricane has hit the northeast. wha

he's in long beach on long island in new york. and john, what are you facing there? what are you seeing so far? >> suzanne, you heard mayor bloomberg talking about the worries, the storm surge. we're in tropical storm winds, probably somewhere in the 30s. you're starting to feel the winds picking up, some of the gusts you mentioned, the storm down a little bit south of here near atlantic city. the big fear here in these low-lying communities, this community has been evacuated, a mandatory evacuation. you can see the sign behind me for the route out. there's water in the streets. you think not so bad. if you look out on to the water, the waters are very high, high tide about 2 1/2, 3 hours from now. the storm is making its way here, 2, 2 1/2 hours away, high tide, 2, 2 1/2 hours away. that is the big fear here. you head out of the town as you'd go to go into new york city, some of the streets are flooded. most of it is about ankle deep. in the middle of the street, it's still dry. the big fear is as the high tides come in here over the next couple of hours, the storm

>> long. >> 22-year-old cory blagg is walking into our undercover house in long beach, california. a house with 15 hidden cameras. they're recording every move he makes. blagg, an ex-marine, works for a computer company in san diego and just drove 100 miles to get here. why? he chatted online with someone he thinks is a 13-year-old and says he wants her to be his girlfriend. >> all i'm missing is a sweetheart to share my love with. >> but he is really chatting with a decoy working for perverted justice, an organization that exposes men who sexually target minors online. perverted justice works as a consultant for "dateline," setting up computer profiles and pretending to be underage teens interested in sex. remember, he is 22. and the decoy says she is a 13-year-old female. >> we can do anything you want. i don't know how shy you are, honey. >> the decoy asks -- >> you want to make love to me? >> yes. i'm really attracted to you. >> the decoy tells him she's a virgin and that she has a hot tub in her house. then blagg wants to know if she's willing to lose her virginity in that hot

they've had hurricanes a long, long time ago. and this one is different. this is not going to be like the long island express in 1938. that hurricane was moving very, very rapidly and maintained the core of that hurricane. this is probably not going to do that. this is moving slower, so the maximum winds may weaken in that inner core, but the large circulation is going to remain intact. and it will do a lot of damage. and i would expect a lot of power outages. let's just hope we don't have loss of life. >> let's hope not that. hurricane of '38 was just deadly, killed a couple hundred people out in long island. max mayfield, appreciate you joining us. more with irene all night as new updates come in let us know what you think. we're on facebook. follow me on twitter @ anderson cooper >>> next the very latest on the hunt for muammar gadhafi plus never been seen video from the battle to take gadhafi's compound. nic robertson has the latest. also on the manhunt going on now. we'll talk to john burns of the "new york times" with us in just a few minutes >>> als

a long road for recovery. we'll work with our business community to ensure their prosperity in the future. >> reporter: we'll be live from here all night assessing the situation. david mattingly, what are you seeing? >> reporter: what we're seeing is still a lot of cleaning up to do after this hurricane went through the outer banks. some amazing pictures to show you from the air. highway 12 going into hatteras island broken into pieces by the waves that crashed through the dunes. and then out over the highway, cracking the highway up, apparently covering it with sand. it's going to be a long time, probably, before they're able to figure out exactly what they're going to have to do to repair that road. in the meantime, 2,500 people are on that island. they rode out the storm at their homes. and now they have no way to get off the island. so authorities here are in the process of putting together an emergency ferry that should be operating tonight, possibly tomorrow, to be able to ferry people in and out of that

right now in long beach, new york. we saw some of that footage, rick, of the lifeguard stand and we knew it came ashore around there. what are you seeing even though it's dark? >> rick: yeah, you know, long beach is one the harvardest hit areas there is a lot of damage come out of here. i want to show you that in a second. first, i want to go and take a look at wyndham, new york. so many areas inland dealing with devastating flooding right now and communities have a very, very scary night. wyndham, new york, a beautiful town in the scat -- cat skills. it took on a lot of rain in a short amount of time. 8 to 10 hours. get so much rain in a mountainous terrain and it causing massive flooding. community inundated. roads ripped out and bridges knocked out by other buildings that hit the bridges and then knocked those out. people there dealing with all of the flooding and then the winds came. the winds came after the rains stopped. so power then done gone. residents doing with a rough night, very scary night for people. sti

and among them were the residents of long beach, new york, on the south shore of long island. despite the danger, some chose to ride out the storm at home. byron pitts is among those who rode out the storm purpose tell us what's happening in the long beach this morning, byron. >> reporter: scott, we just got an update, thousands of homes and businesses have lost the electricity on long island. that appears to be the worst of it. on long beach there was a mandatory evacuation order but many people decided to stay behind. they waited until the 11th hour, but by early this morning, the lasitter family in long beach. seen enough. >> we're expecting this place to be pretty washed out when we get back. >> reporter: long beach got its first taste of irene at 6:00 this morning. this time yesterday, 100 yards of pristine beach separated the board walk from the ocean. not now. with the ground long saturated by a month of record rainful, trees fell easily, pov lines and street signs bearing the signs of high winds. in these conditions, ordinary objects can cause damage and create danger.

these will not be on the ground very long.he type of tornadoes we saw this spring, but they can still be very devastating. that's why we're asking people that are outside the evacuation zones during the storm to stay inside, stay away from extier major walls and windows, interior areas, just like you would prepare for tornadoes, but you'll be there for a much longer period of time during the storm. so make sure you bring your supplies with you. the other key issue here is an immediate aftermath of the storm, as the secretary says, we're going to start the response phase in north carolina as irene moves north. the best thing people can do is stay home, stay inside. a lot of people like to get out and travel about. it's very hazardous with downed power lines, trees down, plus the responders and the utility crews don't need to get behind you when they're trying to go help. >> all right, we're at 15 minutes past the hour, listening to the update from the officials, federal officials, fema, as well as the homeland security secretar

long term has to be fixed. his proposal is essentially take leaches on the bleeding, suck it up in the form of higher taxes and more spending obviously it's not working in terms of the economy and also not working politically right now. >> what's the biggest threat here? >> short-term and long term. byron york did a piece "the weekly standard." "the washington examiner." talked about saying the real issue. can't worry about the long-term problem. we have got to focus on spending. is he right but you really have to do both. you have got to focus on right now the most immediate problem is debt spending. there is no question. washington doesn't have a revenue problem. it has a spending problem. that's the issue. >> i have to also say it's probably a good political judgment in there because, when you focus on long-term entitlement, when you make that your pill issue, you -- your principle issue, a long term problem with medicare and medicaid and social security. addressing it politically is challenging. deal with t

this is a very long awaited project. i would like to thank dan, the in, and all of the staff that work along with michael, karan, and all of the committee advisory groups that have been involved. we cannot wait until we have groundbreaking and construction. thank you all very much. let's all in favor? >> 1154 has been approved -- >> all in favor? >> 1154 has been approved. >> is there any public comment on new business? i would like to acknowledge the port delegates to the annual association of the annual meeting. >> ok. item #eight. public comment. >> is there any public comment? >> item #9, executive session. >> so moved. >> all in favor? executive session. >> conference with real council and real property negotiated. >> i can keep that? we are reconvening be open section. with that we not disclose any of the items discussed in closed session. >> second. >> can i have a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> we are adjourned at 11:22 p.m.? >> a.m. [laughter] >> i was nodding, as to why i

so surf in parts of the town here in long beach. over a quarter of the power lost in long island. irene makes its way towards the beaches on the south shore of long island. >> reporter: rob, how big were the berms they made on the beach that you said are now completely gone? we're having a problem with rob. let's check in with jacqui jarvis. >> we just got the advisory, and it's still a hurricane. 75 miles per hour. i will say i am surprised to see that. perhaps they are getting some of the winds that strong offshore. it's still a threat and we're expecting to see bad conditions in the next couple hours. 40 miles away from new york city, that's where the center of the storm is right now, and the big burst of rain that i was talking about, anderson, this shifted a little further off to the west. this has gone over towards the hudson and over into new jersey, and heading up towards the ft. lee area. and the winds are strong near that center, and where rob is, here is long beach. you're not seeing much rain right now, but we have the strong east wind that continued to come in here, a

they will be biting their nails for a long, long time. the city has to figure out whether or not the city infrastructure works. electricity is down right now, we have fears was waste water management situation still being off line and so you can't have 200,000 people wanting to get back and flushing toilets cannot happen if the system is down. and electricity is down. and there may be big issues with the roads. the roads being washed away . things of that source. and get the trucks here and grocery stores and things of that sort. and find out the water damage and wet vac their houses before the mildew sets in. and can't come back. the tough, tough wait for all of those people. we are expect being the eye of the storm to come our way within the next hour or two and we'll be here waiting for it. >> what are you hearing about the second impact of the storm, too. a lot of places report when the eye pass says over you are hit by the back side. >> there is i wind shift for the better part of the day northeast. and now, in the past two hours or

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there's still a long way to go., washington, d.c., alexandria, virginia, a lot of homes built around a lot of trees. people holding their breath that it passes through by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. >>> luke, thanks for your reporting all night. while there is a long beach, famous one in california, we also have a long beach here in the new york tristate area. it's on long island and specifically forecasters believe that what passes for the center of irene is going to make landfall on or near long beach, new york. al roker has been stationed there all evening long. al, good evening. >> reporter: brian, this is a barrier island. long beach is situated on a barrier island like the outer banks of the carolinas. this is really going to take the brunt of that -- of hurricane irene as it comes on shore. and make no mistake, it is going to be a big problem because right about the time irene comes on shore, it will be the time of high tide. so you take a high tide of about six feet, you add four to eight feet on top of that, in thi

but a long, long time ago. this one is going to be different. not like the long island express of 1938. that hurricane was moving very rapidly, and maintained the core of that hurricane. this is probably not going to do that. this is moving slower. so the maximum winds may weaken, in that inner core, but the large circulation is going to remain intact, and it will do a lot of damage. and i would expect a lot of power outages. let's hope we don't have loss of life. >> let's hope not. hurricane of '38, it was deadly, killed a couple of hundred people out on long island. new updates will come in. let us know what you think. i'll try to be tweeting some tonight. up next, the very latest on the hunt for moammar gadhafi. never-before-seen video, the battle to take gadhafi's compound. the manhunt going on now. we'll talk to john burns in a few moments. also tonight, exclusive interview with one of the journalists held captive by gadhafi's henchmen. she's been credited for persuading the captors to let everyone go. she's an arab speaker. she talked to t

took his own sweet time, took a long time to get to texas, and he was not there very long. in fact, a lot of people thought he had been killed. there were newspaper stories, where is the great crockett? what happened to him? was he killed? well, he was chasing bison along the red river, hunting honey trees, talking with friends, telling stories. he loved to tell stories. he was having some whisk ky, but finally, he got down there, and this is from a chapter called "time of the comet." finally in early 1836, crockett and his original three companions rained up their three horses to the oldest town in texas. he was reluctant to leave the good hunting grounds, you he heard stories about the successings of sam houston, his old tennessee friend, steven austin, another land agent who would establish land agencies and were on their way to becoming wealthy mep. crockett believed that at last he could gain his own fortune in a place where he could hunt almost every day of the year. as one author noted, crockett was in a state of euphoria. throughout crockett's long ride from tenness

what's flood insurance cost somebody in long beach? >> i'm going to say if you're lucky, if you're lucky, it's costing you about $1,700 a year. >> reporter: and what's your deductible? >> your deductible is probably at least $5,000, at least. at least. >> reporter: so how does that sit with people? >> not well. >> reporter: after hurricane katrina inflicted $80 billion in damage, insurance companies dropped hundreds of thousands of policy holders along the east coast. many were forced to buy more expensive policies or look to the federal government for coverage. >> virtually no private insurers are writing the policies any more. they're only through fema. they're at fema's rates, at fema's terms, and it's pretty much take it or leave it. >> reporter: population and property values here are among the highest in the nation. according to fema, policy holders along the northeast coast are insured for more than $124 billion in flood protection. >> you don't look at market value. you look at what it is going to cost to rebuild these homes? a

. >> it's going to be a long 72 hours. obviously a lot of families are going to be affected. >> right now on nbc bay area news, at least six people have died as a result of hurricane irene in north carolina and virginia. now the storm is headed towards new york city. the other threat with this hurricane is that it is so large some 500 miles wide. good evening. i'm diane dwyer. sustained winds of 80 miles an hour. authorities on the coast are saying it will likely cause severe flooding as well as spur more tornadoes. we have complete coverage of hurricane irene including information on bay area airports. let's begin with jay gray. >> reporter: irene made landfall earlier this evening but still delivering strong winds and a severe sea. this is quite a system. as irene ripped across the outer banks, the mass i haviive storm massive wind. but not what was feared. >> reports are standing strong. >> reporter: trees were snapped, power lines pulled down, sand pushed across the dunes. the storm is being blamed for at least five de

the room swayed from side to sides and back and forth in long waves. the maximum amplitude was 60 centimete centimeters. the movement called long period ground motion is characteristic of huge tremblers. each lasting two seconds or longer. >> translator: the march 11th quake was definitely the strongest ever for superhigh-rise buildings in and near tokyo. >> reporter: the long period ground motion made the skyscrapers top floors sway violently. but another type of motion added to the damage. takuma heads the resident association of a high-rise condominium in tokyo. the association conducted a survey and was surprised to find that the worst damage was concentrated midway up the 37 story building. around the 20th floor. >> translator: the damage was most serious one or two flights above and below the 20th floor. >> reporter: the long period motion alone would have made the top floors sway the hardest. why then was much of the damage on the middle floors? the university in tokyo has a 28 story skyscraper. the 14th floor, about halfway up the building was

to dry and they say that if we don't see a credible long term plan for. great deal with a really great speech about it i'm not quite sure that we can. really. that's why i said it is a fifty fifty chance that's the that's the most important thing for us. let's have a look at the markets now european stock markets a lower with banks leading the declines. two percent after reporting a one percent rise in second quarter profits banks are also lower with. four and a half percent in london shares of xstrata tumbled over two percent after the mining. profits more than double a similar picture in moscow where both in the cities are negative territory the r.t.s. is down over one percent while the why six is down point seven percent let's have a look at some individual. energy and banking stocks that had gas from is losing almost a percent while the t.v. is a quarter of a percent down. is supported by positive results the company has almost doubled its profit in the first half of the year reaching two hundred forty three million dollars. but you can always find mo

haul as we'll be following this story for a long time pleasure to be with you. now coming up on a member of wiki leaks decides to make a very memorable exit going to tell you what one man did that could set back the organization's next massive leak of information out of the horrible economy and falling poll numbers that many people are asking if barack obama is the president and progress as alex cites while joins me in just a moment to discuss. the latest. from. the future. well the massive whistle blowing organization wiki leaks it quite a possible when they learn that some of their most prized information had been shredded the one of the former insiders for a songes organization defected and when he parted ways it turns out he took the entire wiki leaks encrypted submission system with him it's daniel dong burke who was once the voice for ricky leaks however is not a gradual falling out with a sonnet at the end of two thousand and ten he finally left but he's remained vigilant to the whistleblowing cause and has formed his own organization known as open leaks

nuclear power plant which has been in development for a long time obviously is a country must be very much looking forward to the coming on stream to give you nuclear power you know when the launch date will be no the operational date when it feeds the grid they really it will be operational they say before the end of the year there is no problem of course it's part of the relationship between us and russia but of course that can be seen by the world community and the entire international community watches how russians are building on nuclear power plants a. lot of focus on china a fast developing country actively promoting itself here in iran at the moment how do you see iranian development both ways do you think you'll be selling more of your energy to china in the future what with all the talk we have a two way relationship. and they enjoy a centuries old civilizations and consciousness we've always maintained friendly ties and today we have identical views on international development for the common denominator in our relationship based on justice for all. but also his relationshi

long beach, long island. >> the news that new york's airports are reopening is music to the ears of stranded bay area travelers. another 41 flights at s.f.o. were canceled today as irene's ripple effect continued to be felt. so far no flights at s.f.o. have been canceled for tomorrow. all those grounded flights could be good news for drivers. analysts say the diminished demand for gas and couped up storm victims could bring prices down. it is not clear how much prices could drop. we have posted the latest on the storm along with pictures and videos. damage left behind at cbssf.com. checking other bay area headlines, a san francisco battalion chief is recovering after her rescue vehicle was broadsided while responding to a call. the chief was on bryant street about to get on the bay bridge when the truck was hit by a pickup truck causing the truck to overturn. the two drivers went to the hospital. both expected to recover. >>> two people were injured when their small plane skidded off a runway at napa county airport and collided with a car on highway 29. investigation say the single engine be

long it's. going to the markets now create prices slightly there are no the seeing some of my games in the u.s. light sweet is dropping sixty one cents brant forty nine cents for precious metals are flat so negative the sell gold is just just why not silvers down one third of a percent asian stocks are flat and next up a strong gains in previous sessions technology firms are among the main performance on the make a was solely up around one percent meanwhile energy producers see stronger gains in hong kong with c. and below see over six and a moscow bosses will start trading in one hour's time they close strongly on monday with energy mining stocks among the best performance the obvious pain on the street percent my sixty two point seven percent. markets are heading for new gains as concerns over two thousand a rerun haven't been realized at least for the time being and i think any sense from a nation's capital explains the difference between recent market volatility and the latest financial cris

washington takes a first step to approving the long awaited deal to increase the you was dead letter just a day before the potential devastating default. the destiny of the bill is now in the hands of the u.s. senate after months of political bickering will it be enough to avert the financial crisis. highly publicized partisan struggle with young american legislators perseveringly down its confidence in the u.s. economy's reputation as the world's creditor. and russia says you action could help bring an end to violence in syria but more suggest excessive pressures that could lead to a libya style introduction as some experts suspect damascus is being targeted for regime change by the west. and the voices of tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in israel calling for the prime minister to stand down are going on the supported by the international media. eight am here in the russian capital you're watching our teeth thanks for being with us now to our top story the lower chamber of the u.s. congress has passed a last minute deal to revert a devastating full scale default afte

we think that is a test that we will be able to meet by a long shot. the preliminary calculations put together by kathleen showed $300 million in benefits to the trust at pier 70 out of the master plan. so i am going to segue here. seawall lot 330. the city entered the host agreement with the america's cup, to host the 34th america's cup in 2013. there is a court agreement between the parties that if the event authority invests in the waterfront to make it race- ready, that we will provide a long-term development rights at a number of locations as a means of repaying that investment. the core of those development rights are piers 30, 32, and seawall lot 330. a host of a new agreement is pretty explicit about a requirement for the city to use best efforts to remove the trust from seawall lot 330. we are lucky that in 2007 we had gone and laid the groundwork for this with sb 815. it found seawall lot 330 and a number of other lots useless and lifted the restriction and allow the leases for non-trust uses. so we have been in discussions with state planned

certainly long island. both on long island sound.h this. and the wind knocking down trees. which will knock out power lines. this is a graphic we're going by as far as a category 1 storm getting into this highly populated area. we expect to see anywhere from a quarter to 500,000 people without power from 3 to 6 days. keep that in mind. we heard from one of the officials saying you can tell new yorkers, but they don't always listen. >> right. >> i can pound the desk here and tell you to buy at least some batteries. they don't go bad. >> batteries, food, medicine. >> jets and giants are supposed to play tomorrow at 7:00 and they have moved it up in anticipation of the storm. big deal last night at yankees stadium. the yanks -- >> unbelievable. >> did you see that? >> yeah. >> not just one grand slam, not two, but three grand slams! rob robinson cano gets thinged started. looked like yankees were out of this. >> oakland! >> carol costello with some perspective there. >> clearly we don't have a lot of viewers in oakland now. >> oakland i

it changes how long it hits you and how long it hits with the back side winds.s is new voo from nasa is my understanding. this is from the nasa noaagoe project and look at the state of florida and look at the this hurricane, you tell me which is bigger. it's my understanding the rains stretched for a thousand miles. hurricane-force winds coming 90 miles from the center. 180 miles across. tropical storm force winds more than double that. no matter where this hits esiond rain are coming. look at that! it's raining from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen. it's raining in new york and raining in wilmington. this thing is big. doug mckelway, hello? >> reporter: can you hear me talking to you right now. >> shep: i can hear you speaking >> shep: he can't hear me. go doug! he can't hear me, speak to me. >> i just lost audio. since you last came to us about an hour ago. let me give you an update. when you last came, winds were 45 miles per hour. i think we're hovering about 50, i'm getting that stinging sand and rain sensation which we did not have before.

there's residual flooding in long beach. there's some power outages, and may i also say, i love pat battle. nobody is better than pat battle. >> she's great, right? >> we love her. and it was my great honor to work with her when i worked at wnbc. that said, here along the shoreline there's less damage and consequences than there are inland. we're talking about a lot of flooding. the higher amounts of rain, anyway from 5 to 11 to 12 inches of rain, actually those were inland parts of new jersey and new york and connecticut. so the good news is we are -- we've kind of dodged a bullet. this could have been a lot worse, but the good news also is that people heeded the warnings, and the evacuations got done without a hitch, and i think for the most part, as pat said, i don't think you're hearing a lot of people complaining about the precautions, but the potential was there to have a category 2 or 3 storm come into the northeast. as it was, you know, look at least ten people have lost their lives, there's a lot of phones without p

which is on long island sound. and like the north-facing beaches of long island. as the system pulls away, you're going to get the return flow. so that's going to push water up against the north-facing bays. and beaches. so the south may be out of the woods in a couple of hours. but the north is not yet. so this is going to be an all-day event, alex. >> okay. how about the winds there, al? it sounds a little better from your microphone. last time we came to you, we couldn't hear anything. >> it depends, it really depends on where you're standing. right here, i'm protected a little bit about the hotel and the apartment building where our crew is shooting from. but if i walk across this way, and you'll see my colleague, stephanie abrams from the weather channel, the winds are a little stronger over here. so again, there, a little bit of a break, here we're out in the open and the winds are, there goes the hat. the winds are a little stronger. >> al, thank you for speaking with us, i'm glad you and stephanie are there with us together, the dynamic duo. and we'll chec

took him a long time to get to texas and he was not there very long. a lot of people thought he had been killed. where is the great crockett? he was chasing bison on the red river and hunting sunni trees and talking to friends and he loved to tell stories. he was having some whiskey. this spoonful is from a chapter called time of the, at. in 1836 crockett and his original three companions ran their horses to the oldest town in texas. he was reluctant to leave the good hunting grounds but he heard stories about successes of sam houston, his old friend. other impresarios established land agencies on their way to becoming wealthy men. crockett believe that last he could gain his own fortune in a place where he could hunt almost every day of the year. crockett was in a state of euphoria. for what his long ride from tennessee to texas the most famous of all the celestial nomads was clearly visible just as it is every 76 years or so. across the land people were in all when they spied the optic making its way through the night sky. for centuries people believ

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perhaps a long time. the minutes show the fed staff thinks the recession has lowered the long-term growth rate of the economy. >> unfortunately we suffered a lot of damage, a lot of dislocations, a lot of people out of job. many of them may be out of job for a long time. and this will reflect in somewhat disappointing growth going ahead. >> reporter: one example of that? housing. it's been at least four years since home prices topped out, and the market hasn't yet hit a convincing bottom. >> housing, which was clearly a drain on the economy in the first couple of years of this recovery, is now about neutral. the hope is that in another year, we can say that it's a net positive. but we don't know yet. >> reporter: nationwide home prices are now about where they were eight years ago, while prices in much of california, dallas, minneapolis and washington, d.c., are up from their lows of 2009, there is widespread weakness across the sunbelt. las vegas, phoenix, tampa and miami have all set new lows in recent

. >>> a long night for bart passengers. the worst computer shutdown in five years brings trains to a standstill. >>> he's in the race for mayor but not everyone is happy. the spirited response to ed lee's decision to run for mayor. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> and i'm dana king. after another nose-dive on wall street today, markets across asia are taking a big hit in tuesday trading. >> steep declines prompted trading to stop briefly in south korea, and the benchmark lost nearly 5%. hong kong saw a 6% drop. japan's is down 2.3% overnight,. >> the dow sank more than 600 points falling 5.5%. for the first time since november, it is below 11,000. sharon chin shows us what investors can do now after seeing their portfolios plummet. >> reporter: many investors tell us their worries soared as the stock markets sank. >> i don't know if it's a collection or a deep bare market. >> ultimately, it will come back. we just have to have patience and faith. >> my sister told me long-term investments, just wait. >> are you a little an

you may need to be saving money for the long term. but it is your obligation to plan for the long term as well as the short term. the ada has a set of priorities that guide you on how you will be serving your property. the ada says a certain party of getting in the front door, but you are logical, you want your customers to access your services. be that steps, be that ramps, if the door is not wide enough, if the landing is not level enough. priority two is actually travel. once you get into your business and start speculating the wits of your files. access to all of your services. [inaudible] rearranging furniture. that is something we would call readily achievable, if you move your table out of the way to allow a person with a wheelchair access to your space. restroom facilities only come into play after you have already made the entrance accessible and you have trouble accessible. restaurants only have to be accessible if they are available to your customers and clients. and actually does not cover employee access to the restrooms.

now this process has been messy, it's taken far too long.ss confidence and consumer confidence and the economy as a whole over the last month. nevertheless, ultimately the leaders of both parties have found their way toward compromise and i want to thank them for that. most of all i want to thank the american people. it's been your voices, your letters, your e-mails, your tweets, your phone calls, that have compelled washington to act in the final days and the american people's voice is a very powerful thing. we're not done yet. i want to urge members of both parties to do the right thing and support this deal with your votes over the next few days. it will allow us to allow default, it will allow us to pay our bills, it will allow us to start reducing our deficit in a responsible way, and it will allow us to turn to the very important business of doing everything we can to create jobs, boost wages and grow this economy faster than it's currently growing. that's what the american people sent us here to do, and that's what we should be devoti

usually out in long island, east of long island. be a bit of a new experience for virtually everyone who's alive in the metro new york city area. >> chris, you talked about the structural integrity of high-rise buildings and sky skrarps. so for people who do live in high-rises above the 10th floor, is it okay for them to stay in their apartments? do you suggest they go to the lobby, go to a stairwell? what would you recommend? >> it's definitely okay to stay in your apartment. don't be near the glass. i think everybody needs to help out their neighbors. because basically what you have if you have balcony furniture or anything that you have on a patio, that can be the projectile into your neighbor's building. so everybody really needs to help out each other. i know people could be away on vacation, which is a little bit of a hazard in that they wouldn't be back to secure their furniture. but stay inside. stay away from glass. and don't let the projectile be an issue for you. >> yeah. steven flynn, appreciate you being on. chris ceren

way. >> will go a long way.ve to worry about the water. water treatment facilities will be going down because there will be no power and the water will be contaminated. what people can have are trail filters. hikers use these in the woods when they go out. you can't drink the water out in the streams and everything. having a water filter on hand is something you might want to have besides storing water. let's go back to the other stuff, the regular stuff, like these lights. these are all crank lights. people talk about batteries. batteries in a disaster are just no good. this is a crank lantern. what it does is it uses leds, i didn't fully charge it here, obviously. you have bright light you can use and it doesn't use batteries and you can use it for a long time. >> i like this compass too. >> a compass. that's a good little compass there. the hand crank radio, this is a solar and it is also hand crank. you can't find batteries in an emergency. i have batteries up here, but the thing is that these batteries are

we do try to stay open as long as we can. we just boarded up this afternoon. >> reporter: and officials are telling us, diane, that the window to evacuate thihiarea is closing now. there are already reports of body bags being sent to hatteras as a precaution. thousands already without power. by this time tomorrow, the sea out there will have gobbled up this entire beach and i will not be able to stand here. diane? >> our thanks to matt gutman in north carolina. so, we just saw what was happening there at this moment. sam champion, our weather editor is here. give me the estimated time of arrival at cities up the coast. >> reporter: the eta on this storm follows the hurricane center's path. you can see it's still a saturday afternoon movement over eastern end of north carolina. then, continues up the coast. this is a sunday, all-day sunday event for new york city to boston. and the big deal here is the winds stretch so far from the center of this storm. the hurricane force winds, 90 miles from either point, right in the center