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

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

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

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usually out in long island, east of long island.oing to 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. chri

we do expect another landfall then over long island. thing will be heading on up towards boston say by the middle of the afternoon. expect your conditions to start to calm down a little bit before sunset tonight. >> jacqui, in terms of long beach, we've seen flooding down there. what's the latest that you have on that? >> the rain's coming down heavy. that's one thing we're dealing with. we're expecting upwards of 6 to 12 inches of rainfall. we'll see that and then in terms of tide coming in on long beach, 3 to 6 feet will be a good possibility in that area. >> all right. now, when is the latest advisory going to be? i'm trying to get a sense of, is it still a category 1 at this point? >> it's still a category 1, 75 mile per hour maximum sustained winds. hurricane is at 74. that's very little difference between a strong tropical storm or a weak hurricane. something to keep in mind. expect this to be a weak category 1 as it moves into your area. in terms of the wind, i don't think that will be your biggest issue. i think it's the water a

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

it's been a long time.there is concern right now for the housing market and for the whole economy. >> consuelo: so how concerned are you about the economy right now? >> well, i think it's a big unknown where we're going. economists like to think of themselves as scientists, well, they are scientists social scientists. they do statistical analysis of historical periods the problem is the recent crisis is a rare event historically. to get a similar crisis we have to go all the way back to the great depression. >> consuelo: in terms of what? i talked to other people about that and they said if you look at the unemployment rate in the great depression far higher than it's now. >> it was higher but where else do you find something as high as it was now there was 1981 and 82 they called then the great recession and now we yo usurped that term and the unemployment number got higher but long term unemployment is much higher than it's been. it's looking more deep seeded also the '81-'82 recession was over with and t

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

she lived a long life. she -- she lit into her 80's. she lived a long life. she gave interviews. she learned to read. she had been influenced by the haitian revolution which have happened in the 79 days. people who were enslaved around the world knew about the haitian revolution and the american revolution. when you think about the individuals were the closest to those debates that happened at the constitutional convention, in private sectors, that happened all over were many individuals who were slaves who were serving tea, cleaning the rooms, were in and around. they, of course, heard these debates. they heard the arguments. they heard that people were willing to risk their lives for freedom. >> what were the rules of slavery? in your book, you talk about that they were not allowed to write and read. >> it. across the country. -- it varied across the country. but bottom line, they would be enslaved for rights. -- is laid for life. they had no human rights. -- enslaved for life. they had no human rights. the prohibited reading, learning to read or learning to write. other than w

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

we still have the tornado watch in effect for long island. also into central connecticut, rhode island and portions of massachusetts throughout the morning. we did have a tornado warning in brooklyn. that expired. no damage and no injuries that we have heard of that have been reported. some heavier rainfall still continuing across long island. we saw peter alexander, amy robach in lower manhattan and natalie morales in hoboken. the rain bands are going to continue to impact them with winds gusting on and off again. it's all about the interior northeast right now. getting pummeled with the rain. that is already totalled over seven to ten inches in some cases with the storm system for the northeast. let's move on to the winds, 20 to 45 miles per hour here in new york city. and down to atlantic city, 31-mile-per-hour wind gusts. still gusting to 41 miles per hour in baltimore, we've been focusing on the extreme northeast. but the mid-atlantic, still reeling from the storm system that's kind of getting the left side of the storm. >> yeah. okay. j

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my time has run out, long past. i will thank you all for your testimony and appreciate your perspectives. >> thank you very much. senator izaakson. >> i want to compliment crystal on her courage and bravery to be here, and i want to take the presumptive position of recommending to the chairman and the ranking member that her testimony be mailed to every member of the united states senate as required reading because i think it's a story that needs to be told over and over. sometimes we get so busy doing things like we're doing right now which is running around in circles, we don't really take into consideration those that are meeting tremendous challenges in life because of what they to do. you're a real hero to me, and i hope the chair will do that so that every member of the senate gets an opportunity to read -- >> i would hope that all of america hears. >> absolutely. and, paul, i appreciate you being a very articulate spokesman on behalf of our iraqi and afghanistan veterans. they're going to need it over the yea

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

georgia does not that long -- died not that long afterwards. she is pretty much left alone. >> what is the legal status of her at that time. >> she is an escaped slave, a fugitive. >> could she have been arrested by government and brought back? >> absolutely. this was really fascinating. in the original constitution, there was the fugitive slave clause which basically said that, if a slave escapes from many state into another state -- any state into another state, that state is obligated to arrest the person or capture them and send them back to the other state. in 1792, the fugitive slave act, which was a specific law, which essentially said the same thing, was originally signed by george washington. probably while some of this slaves were standing around -- his slaves were standing around. so there were very clear federal laws against people who escaped from slavery. however, many of the states in the north simply refused to enforce the law. they would not allow law enforcement personnel to arrest people. they would not arrest people who had

>>> 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

going to take a long time before consumers get back to normal and a long time before employment recoverslevels where it was before recession. we're going to be in this for some time still to come he fears the economy won't rebound to where it was five years ago until 2015 z says a realistic outlook takes recovery all the way out to 2018. stim, he says the bay area is a bright spot, especially in the silicon valley high-sek sector. >> checking healthy living news, food and drug administration is warning a massage machine could cause strangulation. and say shoulder flex massager caused one death and near strangulations saying clothing, jewelry and hair can get caught in rotating parts and the agency is urging people to dispose of the device in separate pieces so it cannot be reused. officials say the company plans to recall this device but as of this afternoon, it's still available online. pemplts now warning a current trends continue half of all adults in the united states will be obese by the year 2030. and this number expected to balloon from 99 million to 164 in 2030. researchers predi

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

>> 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

it's not been long since hungry handed. the presidency to poland and president minister all ban has been pushing ahead with his controversial new media law we're joined now by the vice chairman for the foreign affairs committee at the pollen here in hungary thank you very much for joining us now press freedom is a fundamental principle of the do you think the hungry some even further away from the. stand with this maybe a little more there has been a lot of talk especially in the last half year about you values and standards we never really know what this exactly means i mean. and i don't think maybe you has an almighty right to determine where lie be boundaries of such principles we never really heard clear definition of what exactly these values are what exactly are the fundamentals of these principles and what are the details where exactly are the boundaries of peace so it is always a contentious issue i mean every country every nation state which do you consists of has its own media law has its own institutions that saf

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

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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.

. >>> a long night for bart passengers.orst 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 anxious,

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.

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a long long time you know i mean during nine years more than two elections go past you know and. i think it's it's very unfortunate when some people are kind of stuck to their position you know for nine years the delegates are appointed by the prime minister which is very unusual. the minimum would be that the parliament appoints them and there is some kind of proportionality within this authority and some delegates. of the opposition can also be there because we think that is that would bring. the kind of balanced view supervision to this authority how much of a threat are these in those press feet and i don't think it is going to impact that much on press freedom press freedom in this country has been it has a long history to say the least in this country we used to have for fifty years. media that was completely centralised and run by the party the communist party of hungary following this we had a very very liberal media law the previous the pretty set of this media that was extremely liberal we had in hungary in journalism newspapers televisions radios the majority of people

no major reports of flooding on long island.re is enough work here that has some people working even at this late hour. one of the interesting questions we have as you indicated is the subways will be back in business. the long island railroad that happens here will be carrying people or will they? this is a bedroom community for new york and a hub for tourists. you have to wonder how much money the city has lost because of the storm. what kind of economic impact will there be because of the preparations? i put the question to governor cuomo who came to visit this afternoon. >> don't under estimate the damage here. it was prudent that we did what we did and it would have been worse. >> reporter: power outages are a problem here. more than 400,000 customers are still in the dark. about a million customers throughout the state. so as you indicated, marty, everything isn't completely back to normal yet. back to you. >> susan candiotti, thanks for your hard work. good luck to everyone there. it could be days before major cities like

that goes a long way.e have a long way to go and they know it and they will be here working. >> okay. that is a look inside of the fema headquarter in washington d.c.. first radio play back we have seen and president obama saying you guys are doing a great job, it is going to be a long 72 hours and so much . federal response is determined by the action of the local level. local governor and mayors to make sure they get the help if they needed. president obama at fema headquarters. we expect the next big advisory 15-20 minutes from now. and mayor of new york. michael bloomburg will hold a briefing at 3:00 eastern time. and we'll get an update in manhattan. >> and a lot of folks shocked that they might shut off power in new york city. we'll get an update on that. word is they will not do that. and wait for word from mayor bloomburg. if you wonder what it is like to be one of those hurricane hunters in the sky, flying over this kind of a storm, we have an amazing look at what that is like. they do it all of t

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

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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

it is a long march. the 24-year-old student is one of them. >> the son is quite hot just now and we are taking a break. we will set off again soon. >> this is the 14th stop on the march. they walk 30 kilometers a day. they are spending the night in a city park. water is available there and locals give them food. he dreams of a time when money does not rule the world. " the political system is a slave of the economic system. that is why we are so critical. democracy is subject dated to the markets. -- subjugated to the markets. >> they want an end to government bailout of the banks. not in our name, it is their chance. -- chant. outside a bank, they shout, we will not pay for your crisis. they have been making news in spain for months. >> they are not happy with the job situation. they're keeping the politicians on their toes. i like the fact that young people are rising up and protesting. they need to protest in a way that makes sense. >> to down the germans are marching with the indignants. they are sur

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

island and long island sound. wave action is very intense with this south wind. going northward. you can see that, that's bling right there. we'll be watching those winds. you can see the flags in the background to your left. if they are still gusting low and pretty hard that means the center is not quite there yet. we'll see those flags and all the wind go light as the center crosses within the next hour. so we'll bring that shot up, keep watching it to see if we get it where it freezes and the calm of the storm is right over the top of brooklyn. now, here's what we're dealing with the big picture. the threat isn't new york city for life and property. the threat is further north. highest wind have been up into connecticut and rhode island. that's where the worst of the storm surge is right now. heading over there towards providence. that's where the worst is. highest wind gust in connecticut now heading up into areas of rhode island and massachusetts. the orange is the tropical storm force wind field. this is a b

. >> 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

rob marciano is with us now from long beach, new york. long beach was evacuated as of last night.oking from your vantage point? >> we have seen a slow increase in winds, but obviously, fredricka, the big show is not coming until later on tonight and in through tomorrow. if there is anything we have learned from what we have seen across north carolina and parts of virginia today is that this category 1 storm now is nothing to be trifled with, that's for sure. the size of this thing is going to be the big story and we have already seen rain bands come through here over 400 miles from where this center is as it marches in our direction. behind me is the atlantic ocean, give you an idea where 40, 50 miles tops, southeast of new york city. these waves have been breaking big and hard all morning long. right now it is low tide. that may be one of the reasons the suffer surfers, they have s gone home. but the storm watchers are still here. this area is under a mandatory evacuation order as of 5:00 tonight. we have seen some people taking care of their belongings, boarding up around town,

certainly, they were there long before this building was purchased by mr. britton, and at the very least, one would have hoped that a letter would have gone out but said "i am not want to continue to allow you to have washing machines on the deck, and here are the reasons. there is a potential for the washing machine to leak, and that would damage the wood and increased opportunity for what," something like that. there are probably ways to solve that water problem. i do not know what is within our power to do here, but i am willing to accede our power -- exceed up power to do what is humanistic. commissioner peterson: i keep struggling if there is a way at least to protect the laundry facility on the first floor. i do not think we need to condition that for all 12 units, and there are some efficiencies in combining, maybe some safety concerns on some various other decks, but there is something about meeting on the first deck that is very compelling note. commissioner hwang: i particularly appreciate commissioner garcia's statements with the long-term tenant

if the ground is short period, you want the building to be long. that is what happens when you get into the financial district. quite often, they will go down through the bay mud, put the structure on dense sand that has a very short period, and building is at 40 stories high with a very long period. even though the ground is doing this, the building is slowly moving. so there is damage, but there is less risk of damage. alternatively would have done is layers and we've springs and all kinds of different -- and leaf springs and all kinds of different tools that can take the structure and put them on face. -- on phase. so when you look at a building like this, 10 stories, the period of that is about one second, 1.5 seconds. that is probably sitting on that sand or rock and that is about a quarter cent. so it is ideal. the ground is going like this, the building does not feel it. you feel it, but the building, it is not doing damage to the structure. >> the building next to it, let's say it is wood frame. what are thoseeperiods? >> there are less tha

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