tuxedo park, new york, almost 1.5-inches. wayne, new jersey, 10.2.hat kind of rain falling in short time on saturated ground causes all kinds of flooding and we knew that would happen and that turned out to be the case. parts of pennsylvania, a lot of upstate or the northern part of jersey up towards the delaware water gap. and look at all of the counties. parts of maine. a lot of vermont, a lot of vermont. around massachusetts and the berkshires. the rain still falling at rapid rates and causing big problems for them still. >> shepard: rick reichmuth live in the fox extreme weather center. we are supposed to go a town break and we are going to. sea side heights new jersey is a place you might have heard of on that tv show and appears that they are coming back to sea side heights so the world is saved. we'll be right back in just a moment with continuing coverage of what is left of the storm. i'm shepard smith shepar. ohill nice to have you in. defends al constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with the strains of good bacteria to help balance your

that's the tube that goes from new york to new jersey. we still that have south tube which goes from new jersey to new york open. we're strongly advising anyone to go to the holland tunnel to die stroert the lincoln tunnel which is still fully opened. >> i was not aware it broke down that way. north tunnel is new york to new jersey which means that's all shut off. no way to incorporate two way traffic at all. i know sometimes you can do that. you can split up lanes with cones and the like but that's not plan right now with the port authority? >> that's not the plan. rather have people use the lincoln tunnel. lincoln tunnel is open and gives people safe passage from new york into new jersey. >> steve, can you tell me to what you can attribute this flooding. i'll tell you, when you go in these tunnels you know you have these weird sort of fascinating dreams about what would happen if the tunnels had water coming into them from the river. is this kind of flooding merely from the overflow coming in from either end? is that what is it or liter

jim avila, abc news, new york. >> funny news about ththe new zealand snow.o you remember happy feet, the penguin who got lost? >> yeah, yeah, of course. >> he was loving life with all that snow. he's like, oh, that's my hometown of antarctica. >> didn't he make it back? >> no, he's still hanging out there. >> he's still there? oh, man. what a journey that guy had. >>> here's your tuesday forecast. scattered showers in the new york city area. another day of heavy rain for much of new england. wet in south florida. severe storms and tornados around f fargo, minneapolis, de moines and omaha. thunderstorms in the southern and central rockies. >> 90 in albuquerque. 94 in colorado springs. mostly 80s across the midwest. 75 here in new york. 83 in baltimore. 91 in my hometown of miami. >> a miami girl. >>> president obama will unveil his new plan later today to jump start the economy and create jobs. mr. obama wants to spend more on small businesses in rural areas and also encourage investment. under his plan the usda will allow people to search for jobs at its fie

a news conference in new york was stopped.and ran outside. >> everybody was screaming, we all got dizzy and ran out. >> reporter: in the bay area you hear about the earthquake, boom, pick up your phone, call your friends back east and they say are you okay? you find out they are and then you probably thought, 5.8, no damage, no injuries, what are they making such a big deal out of this for? >> it's not much. a drop in the bucket. >> coming from a californian's perspective, the earthquake barely registered. >> reporter: we talked to veronica cummings at the university of california's d.c. program via skype. >> if you watch any type of national news you would think that the washington, d.c., is in a rubble of buildings. >> being an intern from california, we both automatically got unconcerned. >> reporter: being from contracosta, they knew what to do. others did the exact wrong thing. >> they were running outside trying to evacuate the building. >> californians from the second grade on learned to drop, cover and hold on. running

violent, new jersey. five teenagers whose boat capsized in a raging creek, hanging on for their lives until firefighters launched a risky mission, paddling through trees and branches to pull them to safety. >> we didn't realize the current was as strong as it was. basically, as we were coming up, we realized, wow, it's getting really strong. >> reporter: white marsh township, pennsylvania, an elderly couple rescued after climbing into their attic to escape the rising waters. north philadelphia, a building containing a chinese restaurant and a family home collapsed due to heavy rains. nobody got hurt. many people in these parts assumed the coast would get the worst of irene. but while the beach communities did get hit, it was the suburbs, some 50 miles inland, that really got nailed. and while the winds were bad, knocking down this enormous tree, fofoexample, it was the water that did the real damage. the storm dumped 5.7 inches of rain in 18 hours, more than this area usually gets in a month. today, the s

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abc news learns details of president obama's new plan to put americans back to work. what he'll announce next week. will it be enough to reverse the jobs crisis? >>> to the rescue. victims of irene still being saved from raging floods. and as rivers rise and roads crumble, the national guard rushes in to help. but what about the rescues that didn't need to happen? >>> targeting cancer. a new drug gets approved to treat deadly lung cancer, shrinking tumors, saving lives. it's a breakthrough for personalized medicine. >>> and help wanted. the queen is hiring. if you're a self-starting perfectionist that loves the outdoors, her majesty has the job of a lifetime for you. >>> good evening. abc news has new reporting tonight on the jobs front president obama will propose next week. we know that jobs are what matters most to you. the president knows his job is on the line, too. that's why this plan is so critical. the white house tells us it will be new, signififint and details. and even telling us what you want to hear from the president. here's what you sent on twitter. we

you hear about new orleans, new york city. it's because of the way their coast lines irshaped., if it's moving due north towards new york city the winds will be such that all that water will be jammed up a very small river and the thing that scares me about this storm and remind me of hurricane ike is that circulation is really large and it seems to have expanded throughout the day. you're piling up all that water over such a larger area and as the storm moves north even if it is winds decreasing, it will take longer for that water to settle down. so as this is moving north, the storm surge could be more significant than how the winds are with the hurricane. >> reed, chris, thank you very much indeed. >>> what man who helped with recovery in katrina, what he expects from this storm. >>> joining me now is martin o'malley. what can you tell me what's is going on right now in your state? >> right now, piers, what's happening the window for preparation time is coming to a close as we anticipate the arrival of irene. we've done a lot of good work in the last 24, 48 hours. that's the

out of right now, hurricane irene is leaving the new york/new jersey area.s going to continue to move up the cost in new england. our local state and federal partners and other mid-atlantic states remain focused on search and rescue. power out we're working with our partners to make sure they are getting the power up and running as soon as it can be. no matter where you are this morning from north carolina to main, we encourage you to stay off the roads as much as possible, so that we can keep them clear for first responders and vehicles who are working on power restoration. we urge you to visit ready.gov for tips on how to stay safe after the storm. by taking a few simple steps, you can improve your level of safety. i did want to take a minute. unfortunately we have seen some loss of life, but by and large, with you evacuation we have dramically decreased the risk to life, and we want to thank the public for helping us achieve that got, as you've been saying, this face is in three phases. we're now in the second phase. that is the initial part of the respon

and hours ago, new york city mayor michael bloomberg addressed the people of new york city. >> the edge of the hurricane is finally come upon us and conditions are expected to deteriorate rapidly. according to the national weather service, tropical winds can be expected from this point forward. a tornado watch, just to make life more complex, is in effect until 5:00 a.m. in the five boroughs and in nassau, suffolk, westchester and rockland counties. hopefully, that won't happen. but there is the potential. combined, i think it's fair to say that these conditions make it unsafe to stay outside. let me repeat that. the time for evacuation is over. everyone should now go inside and be prepared to stay inside until weather conditions improve, which won't likely be until sunday afternoon. but we will get through this next 24 hours, i assure you. the city has taken exhaustive steps to prepare for whatever comes our way and the very best first responders are going to work nonstop through the night to make sure we get through this night as safely as possible. i am joined by our fire commissione

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then in 1954, carol and edna, a pair of category threes, hit new york and new england just days apart. but the biggest hurricane, that same year, 1954, was hazel, which cut a path of destruction from south carolina to canada. so with all of us depending on cell phones these days, we wondered how the cell system would stand up to such a storm. we asked chip reid to look into whether we will all stay connected. >> reporter: when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the east coast earlier this week, so many people grabbed their cell phones to call family and friends that networks quickly became overloaded. the situation became so serious that the federal emergency management agency urged the public to use e-mail or text messages so that emergency officials can continue to receive and respond to urgent calls. nearly ten years after 9/11-- when overloaded cell phone systems crashed, possibly hindering the response of police and firefighters-- the federal government is still searching for a solution. now, with hurricane irene, there's the added threat of wind damage to signal towers. maggie re

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news corp is the parent company of fox news. >> franch rich works in new york magazine and then they that piers morgan now working strange enough to cnn might be the next to called to testify just like murdoch said yesterday. if it is a wideping issue. it is every newspaper in britain are under strutiny . this is the culture. it is piers morgan who listened in on a proist phone message that paul mccartney lined to it . played in the news room of the daily mirror. that is getting lost in all of this. they are talking about this and denying he had ordered or condoned it. we have an investigation of two issues and how fair did it spread in britain and whether at all it spread in the united states. >> there is no proof it has . i am glad frank rich made up his mind. i will wait and see what the investigation shows. >> i think it is an open question. he made an assumption and assume you know but we need more information. tabloid culture . we have tabloid said like the post in the united states. it does not stop at the water's edge. regardless of the tabloid. that statement from frank rich

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ron allen, nbc news, new york. >>> when nightly news continues on this saturday evening, after a week of flat-out depressing economic news, a bright spot in an unlikely place. >>> later, for some the single life can be kind of rough. but the dating game got a bit easier. >>> we're back now with a focus on economy after a roller coaster week on wall street and continued grim news about jobs and consumer confidence. any good news about the economy can be awfully hard to find. but tonight, our own reporter may have found just that in an unlikely place. >> reporter: wall street this week, unprecedented volatility. >> ugly day for stock prices today. >> the losses are severe. >> the market is holding on to a powerful rally. up 560 points. >> following a credit rating downgrade. >> they don't have a grip on what's going on. >> right now, i'm pretty scared. >> amidst the uncertainty, a glimmer of hope. this week, news that the pain at the pump is finally easing. >> gas prices coming down. >> very good news. >> in the past week, gas prices have dropped about ten cents to $3.60 a gallon down f

public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called the low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to evacuate their homes and go to shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation for this hurricane hurricane i read it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a week from. they're building we spent the whole day packing everything up so we're ready we hope it just goes right by and as of course anybody any damage to us because here we have some food back doing some. little bit of extra things just because us president barack obama has iss

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

new site. i'm interested in with the challenges will be, but i'm much more interested in what the opportunities will be. if we keep saying in our own spaces and not asking how we work together, there will be a problem. work together, there will be a problem.

>> we broadcast news on a seven- day basis. one hour of cantonese news and one hour of mandated -- one hour of mandarin is. challenges are daunting and hard to overcome here in the past, we were protected by our own language. we are the only game in town. but once you are online, that advantage will go away very quickly because those people will go on line -- everybody is your competitor. even if you have your language, there are hundreds of thousands of chinese websites. how do you overcome that? there is no silver bullet. for me, i think the right thing to do is really build up your community. you empower your community. the part of your community, and people -- it is not the you have a story that only i reported it, which is great, but it is not going to happen every day. so what do you give your audience for your readers to keep them coming back to your site or tv station to try to find the news they want? it is really up to how you feel your community -- how you connect and go into your community, make your voice known, ma

pennsylvania, northern parts of new jersey, upstate new york.tate of vermont towards maine as well. big flooding concerns will continue. heaviest moving in across parts of northern new england not dealing with southern new england as much. still windy conditions. then, if you hear anybody talking about another tropical storm out there right now, bill, there is another one that formed this morning it is jose. not to be worried about. you are going to hear people say it and it is going to make people get concerned. it is not a factor. it is around areas of bermuda. it is not going to impact. >> bill: it should be repeated. this storm is the exception, not the rule for something taking a straight turn north going up the east coast. it hasn't happened in decades. >> you are right it is not the rule. usually they deflected out to sea. that did not happen this time with this storm. unfortunate for so many people. now we have the last few hours to worry about. >> bill: rick, thank you. estimates in north carolina are high. 400 millions in damage. north

that is good news. i still think because of the size of this storm that that flooding po sensual in downtown new york in manhattan in even towards rockaway beach and long beach in new york still there as the waves will be pushing and the winds will be pushing water up against that shore for a very long time. here is what has happened to the storm as the turn happened. it was very low pressure. right now the pressure is low enough to make a category three hurricane. it's just not organized enough to get the category winds it is much harder than hurricane direction. we can wake up tomorrow morning and see something bigger than that. we will see. i don't think that is what is in the forecast and not what anybody else here will do as well. very close to ed who is right there. probably a little bit farther to the east now. just to the west of the cape light. and then back just to the west there. that's about over to the east of virginia beach. the problem is that we will have such a wind field. so just like

jim avila, abc news, new york. >> what a quagmire. really. thatathe important point from that piece, it was a deficit-reduction bill, not a job-creation bill. and all these cuts coming down the road are going to cost the country momo jobs at a time e en we're seeking to create more. it really is this catch-22. >> we don't know what's going to happen to our credit rating. moody's says we will hold on to the aaa credit rating. >> standard & poor's, the jury's still out on that one, we'll have to see. meanwhile, global markets are still falling. tokyo, hong kong, south korea, all having another rough day. >> each of those slid about 2% in early trading. >> not pretty. >> look out. >>> in other news, a homeless man is in custody this morning charged with climbing the fence around the white house. the secret service says the man is a repeat offender who had been ordered by a judge to stay away from the white house complex. they say such intrusions have been happening about once a week. >>> in other news this morning, prosecutors are expected to wr

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

this statement comes after the new solution of the period. news that. khadafi is information chief has apparently called a peace headquarters. headquarters in new york and has said that gadhafi is ready for talks with the rabble to form traditional government and his even appointed his third son sided to lead the negotiations and this news comes just a week after a successful assault by the rebels on the libyan capital tripoli which became kind of breakthrough in the libyan six month long. civil war and. dramatically changed the situation here in libya and just days after and one. himself claimed that he will fight till his diet and call people to come and fight and to resist and not to give up and to die with here well meanwhile the rebels are progress and quite well they're currently control in most of the country and including the capital tripoli and they are now claiming that they are preparing for what they call this final battle an assault on kid off his native town city which is six hundred kilometers east of the capital tripoli they say they are

it's no longer going over new jersey, it's just off the coast of new jersey. so that would keep some of the strongest storm surge off the new jersey coastline. the track is still wobbling here and. there it's supposed to make category three early saturday. wilmington, this forecast looks better for you. >> thank you very much. across the east coast, residents are bracing for irene, especially in north carolina, that's where president obama has already declared a state of emergency. nbc's kristen dahlgren has more from the outer banks of north carolina. >> reporter: good morning. this is likely to be one of the first areas on the u.s. mainland to feel the effects and the national weather service is already -- some of those increased waves from hurricane irene are hitting the north carolina coastline. they say six to nine-foot swells coming in now, that suspected to get much worse tlhrough today. we could feel tropical storm-force winds later tonight and conditions continuing to deteriorate as the storm moves closer and getting worse going into saturday. there h

maybe it's the new york city -- i grew up in new york.e new york city kind of sharp elbow politics, people tell you what they think. i actually do think that post-katrina, again, this is also part of the new normal. i think elected officials are not shy about saying to people look, you know, by acting irresponsibly, you're not only putting yourself in danger but others in danger who will have to come try to save you. we don't want to put up with that. it is, in fact, the storm was serious, though not as serious as it could have been and, you know, maybe in the media we trumpeted a bit too loud as well, but i do think that, you know, after what we saw in new orleans, that you are going to see aggressive responses because as i said, the fear of being seen as doing too little vastly outweighs the concern about being perceived as doing too much. >> i want to touch on something before you have to go. ron paul, the libertarian and presidential contender, attacked fema this weekend, calling it deeply flawed and wasteful. so, he's using fema as a

and that's good news. i still think because of the size of this storm that that flooding potential in downtown new york, in manhattan, in parts of hoboken and even toward rockaway beach and long beach in new york still there as those waves will be pushing, those winds will be pushing water up against that shore for a very long time. here's what's happened to the storm and what happened earlier today and also during the day yesterday is the turn happened. and during that turn, there was enough wind shear that was pushing the storm from a different direction that the storm didn't like it very much and the storm really disintegrated for awhile. it was very low pressure. it was extremely low pressure. in fact, right now the pressure is low enough to make a category 3 hurricane. it's just not organized enough to get those category 3 winds. we could wake up tomorrow morning -- one of the things the hurricane center will tell you is that the forecast for hurricane wind speed is harder, much harder than hurricane

and new jersey.were killed in the storm which produced 100-foot waves equivalent to a 10-story building. it later enspired the novel by author sebastian younger which became a movie. then there's the so-called storm of the century. hurricane gloria september 1985, recorded winds of up to 150 miles per hour. gloria made landfall as a powerful category 3 storm on the outer banks of north carolina before rapidly moving up the east coast making a second landfall on long island then another in connecticut, causing significant damage up and down the east coast and eight storm-related deaths. and now another tempest is threatening to strike the northeast. in a matter of days, hurricane irene may join this dubious list of killer storms. well, let's hope not. cnn's tracking hurricane irene all night. obviously all through the weekend. we'll have more on the storm i head. right now isha sesay joins us >>> in tripoli the hunt for muammar gadhafi continues with libyan opposition forces combing a network of secre

it and it is sad news.nother person has died, and we don't have details now, but it brings the total of the storm to ten people who have died along the east coast here because of this storm. and the trees that are falling and the various things happening out there. >> right. many of the people who are killed have been outside, and car crashes and someone was killed by a downed tree, and that is what we are hearing now, and we don't know the details of the latest death, but, yes, ten people dead, and 1 million without power so far up and down the east coast. we are going to go live now to poppy harlow in lower manhattan near ground zero, and poppy, what's the scene there? go ahead, poppy, can you hear us? >> right now, i'm at the southernmost tip of manhattan at a place called south street seaport and i can hear you, but there is a delay here. it is full of tourists, usually. i have not seen one person on the street. i just want to show you what the local businesses are doing here, guys. you can see how heav

create jobs through the private sector, give incentives to new companies that hire new workers. find ways to persuade and maybe even force some of these companies that are taking these jobs overseas. find issues that create county to county, you got to go to the grassroots. you know when the president talks about let's have more infrastructure. let's have more green jobs. i think what needs to happen is he's got plenty of people working for him. these new jobs are going to be in county x of sante fe, new mexico, go to the midwest, listen to factory workers, to union leaders, to private-sector leaders. what's it going to take to create new jobs? give me some new ideas. >> don't miss "hardball" with chris matthews, week nights at 5:00 and 7:00 eastern only on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> elsewhere this morning, the u.s. military says international forces have killed the taliban fighters responsible for last weekend's deadly u.s. helicopter crash in afghanistan. that left 30 american servicemen dead. during a pentagon news conference yesterday, marine corps general john allen

[giggling] >>> pleat bay area news coverage continues, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. . >>> interstatein san rafael, still no cars. closed down just as it has been for hours. developing news is our top story tonight. that situation has been going on all day, the result of a stand off at a hotel next to 580 in san rafael. i want to put up a live picture. this freeway here, that overcrossing that top of the vene, that is francisco boulevard. the lower part of the screen is san rafael. the hotel is to the left of five 80. as a result of 580 closed down, we can put up pictures from news chopper 2, some of the back up, this, i believe, is off of the richmond-san rafael bridge. those cars there are heading westbound and what they have to do is all funnel down on to francisco boulevard a two lane road and work their way down to highway 101. that is the detour. the bottom line, traffic is backed up all the way across the richmond-san rafael bridge and we are hearing there are delays up to an hour and some folks are taking alternate routes, including over 137 heading towards novato. there are b

there are many dams that are very close to failure across parts of new york, vermont, new hampshire and maine. if at any time tonight you live in an area where you hear sirens or hear the police saying get out, it's time to get out now, something very bad happened up river or upstream. these dams are being over topped with water going down. some being eroded. this is the real threat tonight, especially now that it's dark. don't drive around in it. you can't tell how deep the water is. don't try to get around until tomorrow when daylight comes up. it's very dangerous out there. >> thank you for the update. when we come back, we'll go to new jersey where intense flooding is now the major concern after hurricane irene and later, we visit the man convicted of the 1988 pan am 103 bombing. ustomers are getting five percent cashback bonus at the pump... and at many of the places their summer plans take them. it pays to switch, it pays to discover. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we

this is the new york state throughway, basically the gateway from new york city, new jersey, all the way to the upper reaches of new york state, the adirondacks, the whole section of it washed out with mud this morning. that is a tough situation for folks trying to get back and forth to the upstate new york region. we're keeping an eye on that, mud just covering a lot of very high cliff necessary that area, so you get mudslides coming down that cover that road as a result of this huge storms over the weekend. bill: for the folks that thought that was gone, think again. hurricane irene is out of here but the problems remain in significant parts of new york, pennsylvania, new jersey, the massive storm started widespread flooding and water levels are still rising. john huddy from fox new york is live in boundbrook, new jersey. what's the scene there john? >> reporter: well, bill, take a look. this is main street, behind me here, in boundbrook and the storm is over but the problems are beginning in terms of the flooding here in new jersey. a lot of issues with that, not only here in boun

that's not a new sign.a couple years but certainly is what they are hoping for tomorrow night. reporting from can stick, abc 7 news. >>> a lot of people are hoping for that. >> u.s. justice department today said that san jose is a national model for combatting gang violence. praise comes after 2 day conference with mayor chuck reed. san jose gang prevention task force and members of the federal task force on youth violence prevention. justice department also awarded santa clara county a 50,000 dollar grant. >> although it's not a large amount of money it dies put us in line for further implementation grants. hundreds of thousands of dollars. what it is for is a county wide collaborative on reentry. those that are coming back to the community to keep them from reoffending. >>reporter: on wednesday san jose ended the controversial deployment of homeland security officers that began in late june to help battle spike in gang violence. 14 people had been killed in the first 6 months of the year. police say that

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