york, new jersey and new england.still rising. here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: the dramatic pictures coming in from upstate new york. in a town of windham, the fire chief there says the town center is, quote, wiped out. completely under water after 10 inches of rain. this school bus submerged. the waters there slamming up against this bridge. as irene barrelled toward so many major cities -- philadelphia, new york, boston -- no one quite knew what the hurricane would quite bring. but irene would provdeadly. more than a dozen deaths across eight states and power out for 4 million. we would all learn very quickly it was not the skyscrapers, not the subways. they survived it. at daybreak it was the cities and towns all around n new york deluged with water and wind. in queens power line crisscrossed the streets. cars under water, nearly vanishing. irene's rain came so quickly, it swept drivers off the road. in new jersey a 20-year-old woman desperately calling her boyfriend and 911 from her car. her body was found e

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york harbor we have a new hire to high because of the new moon laura manhattan has been not that concerned with all the utilities underground and all the water could be devastating to the infrastructure however line is watching the flood waters rise in lower manhattan who will concern is the upwind of the ways and the surf heaviest rain is now passing about by to the norris rainshowers are also felt in pittsburgh just tell you of the dimension of this storm. when we are going to keep the trapping of this out now tropical storm i rain and flooding dangers over the next 24 hours we will have more coming up on a hurricane at first were at have al look at our traffic outside >> another foggy more in san francisco and we are dealing with patchy drizzle as we head into the afternoon as sonny warm conditions it'll be hot in land this is a look of temperatures around the bay area right now mostly fifties and sixties is you conceivan see.. 95 degrees for morgan hill later on this afternoon we're going to see upper 80s for santa rosa 89 degrees expected in fairfield we will see temperatures start to

new york city. and it's heading up towards boston and new england. and interior sections are going to see flooding. we have river flood warnings for connecticut, massachusetts, new jersey, rhode island, new york state. the new york state thruway has flooding and mudslides. so, you know, even if you're not along the coast, this is really being felt. in fact in some ways more inland than along the coast, alex. >> i know. our crews will be standing out and bringing us pictures of things like the mud there on i 87, the new york state thruway. al, folks that are there on that boardwalk, are they all officials there or are there people coming out to check out what's happening? >> you know, look. there are bound to be some looky lous. for the most part people are heeding the warnings and are staying inside and that, you know, that's the best advice. nassau county police they pulled their cars off the road at least as of an hour. good news. paul got his hat. >> that's great. >> he got his hat. you're going home. he's got the hat. >> that's all good. you kept

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"nightly news" begins now. something captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> we really have seen an unbelievable turn of events following the storm here in the east named irene. long gone but it's continuing to unleash incredible damage and chaos. first, some numbers. 43 people are now dead. 3 million americans still without power going into tonight. 13 separate communities in the state of vermont alone are still cut off. there were 700 boat rescues today in just the state of new jersey. it goes on and on and connecticut, 1,000 roads, at least, still blocked. north carolina, this storm changed the map of the outer banks as they had feared. crippled infrastructure in new england. these power outages, 500,000 in connecticut. 300,000 in new jersey, have, as you might imagine, dramatically cut into the quality of life and people's ability to make a living. we begin with michelle franzen. she is in manville, new jersey, michelle, good evening. >> reporter: you mentioned the water rescues. it's not hard to

this is fox news channel coverage of hurricane irene. i am shepherd smith from new york. the national hurricane center with the latest update on the storm. they come out with updates every three hours. not a lot of change. maximum sustained winds at 85 miles per hour . gusts are higher around hundred have been logged. it is a strong category one at the moment. when the storm made landfall it snapped trees in half. these are live pictures coming to us from atlantic beach. power cuts in 400,000 homes. resort town in maryland, virginia and new jersey are turning into ghost towns. more than 42,000 people in southeast virginia have lost power. in new york city officials are shutting down the mass transit system one hour from now. it serves 15 million people over 5,000 square miles, the largest transportation network of its time. it will shut down for the first time in my lifetime here in an hour. city ordering 400,000 people in the five burroughs was new york city to evacuate. live look in dc, no politicians are left. they have a camera there and federal emergency management f

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that is great news. it was after hurricane katrina i thought the coastguard got way too little credit for saving thousands of high school is man the coastguard does incredible work sometimes with so few eyes, you are mighty proud of it. it's very impressive. thanks for all you do. >> thank you. thanks for getting the word out to help people understand the dianks that are there. it's not as well understood around the water. we continue to see people that get put at risk that may not understand the hazards. >> shep: right on. and actually let's look in on fox 5 in new york. they have been able to gather pictures through ureport. all those people were saying this storm is nothing. this northeasterners complaining we live with this and live with that. if you were in that house right there, this is a very, very bad storm. let's listen and greg kelly at the helm at the ship at fox 35. >>> my friend had another three-year-old. we worried about the kids. >> how are the children handling all this you? how are you

cynthia bowers, cbs news, joplin, missouri. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org the richmond bridge look like a parking lot. the armed man that has forced a 7 hour long freeway shutdown. >>> parts of 580 and the richmond/san rafael bridge look like a parking lot. an armed man that has forced a seven-hour-long freeway shutdown. >>> bay area agencies combining resources and sharing space. it seemed like a great idea at the time. why politics and politicians are now standing in the way. >>> and it's become the most well known name in leaked data. the latest attack on bart courtesy of "anonymous." >>> good evening, i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. >>> well, traffic is moving at a crawl. the root of the problem, police say, is an armed man holed up in a hotel in san rafael. the bridge was completely closed and now it's re-opened. westbound 580 is closed at sir francis drake. eastbound 580 is closed at the 101 off-ramp. the

forward. ♪ megyn: fox news alert, new york governor andrew cuomo announcing moments ago that the newit will halt around noon on saturday because of hurricane irene. the mta provides roughly 7 million rides a day. heather childress is live with more. >> reporter: megyn we actually have the official order that just came in from the governor's office, as you said among the state orders issued this the metropolitan transit authority, for mta will institute a system wide shut down when trains and buses begin their final runs starting at approximately noon on saturday. the shut down will include subways, buses, major computer train lines, including the long island railroad and metro north railroad. the problem hurricane irene's surge. it could simply overwhelm the subway's drainage system. the largest transit system in the nation halting transportation for five bureaus. on a dry day the bumps remove about 13 million-gallons of water with an expected 13 inches of rain the pumps simply will not be able to handle it. if a category one hurricane hits numerous subway tunnels are guaranteed to f

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

live in new york city abc 7 news. >> and are folks in new york city complaining about precautions taken for what turned out to be a small stand for the big apple? >> of course they are. they're new yorkers. the mayor was asked about it today and said some of the precautions the city took were the right precautions and some were not. and it was kind of a light day in terms of transit. many people simply stayed home. i have a feeling bad feelings will wash over in the next couple days or so. >> no doubt. any idea how long it will be before power is restored to millions still without it? >> the governor talked about that today. in new york state, power could come back as soon as thursday. up and down the seaboard, you have seven and a half million customers and residents without power and there is a wide range of when power is supposed to come back to those people from a week to, well, into next week. >> oh, boy. scott goldberg reporting for us live, thanks scott. >> bay area airports are struggling to recover from flight delays caused by irene. and there are flights cancelled on top of 80

public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in the history of 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 irene it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum wait from their. building we spent the whole day packing everything out so we're ready we hope it just goes right by as a cause anybody any damage we're just getting the supplies here we have some food back home getting some. little bit of extra things just bec

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that is bringing the new wind into new york city.or a long time, you were in this basically a black hole of no wind across most of new york. now that black hole is gone and this surge or this backside wind is coming through at 45, 50 miles per hour. even a couple of fwuss not out of the question at 60 miles per hour with this. you have to understand this may not be over when it comes to falling trees. may not be over when it comes to significant flooding up here in new york from syracuse back to schenectady. i know there are evacuations going on in utica. evacuations going on in rensselaer county. very, very heavy rain in burlington, vermont. rutland, we have our gary tuchman on the way to chase some of this flooding. the problem is it's flash flooding. it comes up very fast. it may come up 12 feet in an hour. then goes back down 12 feet the next hour. you have to be ready for it if you live near water. now that it's going to start getting dark, you don't want to be driving near creeks and streams if you don't know where they are and

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to philadelphia, new york and boston. scattered afternoon thunderstorms in florida. >>> and next on this wednesday morning, one economic bright spot, a stellar summer for american automakers. >> new details this morning in the nationwide salmonella scare involving tainted ground turkey. >>> and how is your morning brew? "consumer reports" weighs in on the best supermarket coffee. icic >>> as we mentioned at the top of the news cast, markets are down overseas and in the u.s. after president obama signed the law to raise the deb limits. moody's investors said the u.s. will keep its top level bond raying but they added a negative outlook saying the rating could be downgraded down the road. if that does happen interest rates would likely go up significantly across the board. >>> asian markets are reacting to the news from the u.s. tokyo's nikkei average losing more than 200 points today. hong kong's hang seng is down sharply in late trading and in london, the ftse opened lower. on wall street a number of poor economic reports

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and landfall come early sunday morning in new york city. it will not be a catastrophe like andrew or katrina, and probably a week without power will probably be the legacy. >> thank you so much for laying that out. >>> lester holt is in new york city. >> chris, there are 8 million of us living in new york city and we would like to think we have seen everything, but when the mayor announced mandatory evacuations for part of the city today, it got a lot of folks' attenti attention. come sunday this area might be under water. there's a urgent new reality taking grip here in the big apple. the naked city has never felt so exposed. tens of thousands now under orders to get out. >> i feel nervous. i feel like i don't know what is going on. i don't know what is going to happen and that's always a scary feeling. >> the city produced a map with the flood risks in the five boroug boroughs. today's seniors at this brooklyn hospital were among the first to be relocated. >> i cannot stress it enough. please, nature is a force more powerful than any of u

into new york were the high winds and heavy rain. just after nine pm here in the russian capital and you're watching our t.v. and we're bringing you the day's news at the week's top stories well we start in libya where rebels have given a resolutely no market office reported suggestion sit down for talks with the national transitional council says that all the colonel deserves is a rest and not dialogue but if it has spoken to the rebels and has more from tripoli. we have been able to speak to the rebels information minister here in tripoli and he's made his position quite clear the rebels will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killers they want to get our fee and they're running after him street after street district after district and as soon as they catch him they will throw him to jail this statement comes after the new solution for the period that. khadafi is information chief has apparently called a peace headquarters and has said that gadhafi is ready for talks with the rabble to form a tr

breaking news this hour again jani l. says north korea is ready to return to six party talks and bring back a moratorium on nuclear production and testing as follows his meeting with president medvedev in russia also. job the most of the. oh good good. good to libya's rebel forces celebrate storming colonel gadhafi compound in tripoli and once again claim to have control of the city but could often balance the fights to the death. mission of the. children and think that he rebels are these nice little folks who want democracy and freedom and donald. heard more of a new struggle for power that might emerge between the rebels when kadafi is regime is toppled. and a major breakthrough in the holocaust here case investigators say they know who ordered the russian journalist murder falls tuesday's arrest of a man suspected of organizing the killing. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program and we start with breaking news this hour a north korea's leader has confirmed she's he's ready

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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more news.ough, has gotten the trophy three different times, coming back to the ballroom for this season. we'll reveal live -- >> he's got the winning touch. >> all that coming up on "dancing with the stars" in just a little bit. >>> but we do begin with exclusive new reporting on robyn gardner's disappearance in aruba. hearing more about her lifestyle and some pretty shocking claims from her own friends and family. ashleigh banfield traveled to aruba and joins us with the latest. good morning, ashleigh. >> reporter: good morning, george. this could be a very big day for gary giordano. he could find out later if his month-long stay on this island paradise is going to come to an end. prosecutors, if they have have enough evidence, will keep him here for an additional 60 days. abc news have seen witness document, witness statements this time from robyn gardner's family. abc news has learned new details about the couple's relationship before their trip to aruba. a friend told investigators that rob

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,

has more from new york. more than eight million new yorkers are preparing for what's expected to be a dangerous and possibly disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine p. am saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called lone rise areas these are areas all throughout new york they were very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to all hall it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to evacuate from their building now up until this point new yorkers were really taking these warnings and these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturda

and it will pass over new york sunday, continuing into new england, still as a tropical system couldd damage, flooding and property damage. we'll keep watching the storm. it's showing signs of weakening and could be a devastating storm depending on writ hits. >> thank you, spencer. and the one-year anniversary of the san bruno pipeline explosion two weeks ago, pg&e released a plan designed to shore up thousands of miles of buried gas pipelines in california. and we're wlif a look inside of the report. heather? >> well this, is because in june, cpuc ordered all state and natural gas line operators to come up with plans to test or replace pipeline without records of pressure test. today, pg&e filed plans. this line that exploded here was install brd a 1970 law requiring regular strength tests. if any were done, records cannot be found now. and it turns out pg&e records about what kind of pipe it had underground here were inaccurate. it plans to verify up and grade all of the nearly 6,000 miles of gas lines to meet new state standards. including testing all pipes, replacing segments nec

new yorkers, get ready. >> the new yorker thinks they have been tested by everything, but very few newthe eye of a hurricane and know how uncontrollable the energy is. >> just a few minutes ago, president obama enter runted his vacation on martha's vineyard to urge americans to take the hurricane seriously. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. we all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. >>> we're talking about more than a dozen states that could get high winds or storm serges from hurricane irene. we have reporters to bring you the latest. chad meyers is tracking hurricane irene, and a lot of people, skeptics, are you hyping it or is it overblown here? this looks real and serious. >> it was overblown yesterday when it was considered to be possibly a cat 4, and that was never going to happen. i will show you exactly why. and we are down to 105, and now people are saying it's just a category 2, don't have to worry about it, and that's not true. it will