across the way is the hudson river, and the hudson river has overflowed its banks. the same issue as you turn this way, and we look at some of the apartment buildings, and their water is just pouring into them. you can see two feet of water there probably, anderson, so lots and lots of water. >> how far does the water come in? i don't have a return so i can't see your shot. how extensive is it? i think we lost soledad. let's check in with jacqui jarvis. >> we have been tracking the storm on doppler radar, and it appears the center is almost right over you, and very central to your location, over new york harbor and potentially making landfall over the coney island area. and we're monitoring the progress of the storm and we're seeing great heights with the surge as well. we're seeing a jump here at battery park. up to 9.4 feet in battery park. that's a significant rise that has taken place in the last hour as it continues to jump up. there you can

, and the entire river -- ohio river, some rivers are divided down the middle, some are not. the ohio is entirely part of kentucky up to the indiana shore. so there's an island very near indiana that has filled in between indiana and the island, and it's kentucky. and it's enough land that they're thinking maybe a race track, maybe a casino, what can we do here? [laughter] and indiana's not too wild about that. but, you know, conflict but not much i think they can do. >> great. well, i want to thank mark stein for sharing your extraordinarily meticulous details. [applause] i thank all of you for coming again, and we'll see you outside. don't forget your takeaway on the way out. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this event was hosted by the smithsonian institution here in washington d.c. the to

and up the green river all the way to the barren river to bowling green and bowling green, they try to pick up rail connections. they had multiple avenues that the union army could be out of louisville. morgan directed one command of some 900 troopers under lloyd l kluke to destroy all the rail connections of the kentucky central railroad that ran from covington to lexington. he destroyed elements of that railroad and huge government stores as far north as melt sterling. he directed small elements to move into kentucky to do the same thing. porter in two chapters of his memoir discusses tom hines with 15 men going back into kentucky in february. when will it took those troopers who were kids who had grown up around mount sterling and winchester so they knew the people. this small unit of 15 men were from butler county. some from warren county. all from where they grew up down the river from where john m. porter and john heinz came from. these fellows went into kentucky. they felt they were betrayed by someone who claimed to them after crossing the border that he wanted to join them

at the greenup river all the way to the river and bowling green and then at bowling green they would try to pick up the connections. so they had multiple avenues that the union army could be supplied. morgan directed one command of 900 troopers to go back into kentucky and destroy all the connections of the kentucky central railroad from covington kentucky to lexington, and he destroyed elements of that railroad as well as a huge government stores as far north as kentucky. and he directed them small elements to move into kentucky to do the same thing. and porter in the two chapters of his memoir discusses he and tom hines with 15 men going back into kentucky and february when back to the part of kentucky where they all came from. when he took those 900 troopers, most of them were kids who had grown up around mt. sterling and winchester kentucky so they knew the people and the territory. this small unit of 15 men were all from butler county, some from hawarden county all from where they grew up where john porter and tom hines came from and these fellows went into kentucky and they fel

of the other rivers and communities that sit on the river. here in bound brook, a couple hundred people had to be evacuated, had to get doubt of the downtown area at the rareton river, it started overflowing and throughout the state governor christie said he's expecting record flooding levels because of irene, and not only the rain that it dropped, but now the river is starting to crest here. some of the other rivers thattor of concern, the pompton river, the passaic in particular, which is a little knot of us. by the way, bound brook is in somerset county, the river thrupbs but little falls, just outside of manhattan, the two towns earlier this spring were hit hard, because of all the winter storms, it was a busy winter and spring rain showers and the mayor in little falls says he's expecting things to get bad over the next few days, to get ugly. here in bound brook, it's quite a contrast, you have beautiful clear blue skyings, but then you have the flooding on the street. bill: just two weeks ago, john, they had 7 inches of rain. like they

up the green river all the way to the barren river. they had multiple avenue that is the union army could be supplied out of louisville. morgan directed one command of some 900 troopers under roy kluke to go back into kentucky and destroy all of the rain connections of the kentucky central railroad that man from covington, kentucky to electionston. and he destroyed elements of that railroad as well as huge government stores as far north as mount sterling, kentucky. and he directed then small elements to move into kentucky. to do the same thing. and porter in two chapters in his memoir discusses he and tom hines with 15 men going back into kentucky in february. and they went back though into the part of kentucky where they all came from. when roy kluke took the 900 troopers, most of those troopers were kids who had grown up around mount sterling and winchester, kentucky. they knew the people, they knew the territory. this small unit of 15 men were all from butler county, some from warren county, all from where they grew up right down wh

you have the bound brook river the passaic river and the ram co river and now they are all over their banks. general peter saluka army corps of engineers. i know you were in the important commercial river there what's the situation down there what's the flooding. do you anticipate the work is still to -- worse is still to >> passaic is slower to crest. that will crest probably early on ation esday. we are watching these d cosely. ng to ound brook on the rartan . we have people seeing whether it will leak to a breech. >> i don't know if you answer as tax payer but what do you think about people who build their homes in the flood zones of these rivers? >> to be fair in northern new jersey it was the cradle of the industrial revolution. these towns were established long before the knolowedge of floodplains the modeling we have today was available. ie whs hard to disinvest in an area that was highly developed. >> there are new homes that flood every 8 years or less. >> worted kng in conhere iscont the state of new jersey there have been measures taken. there is no cheap solution is the pr

my main take away from the incident is that the river is fundamentally changed. >> rene is with the river exchange. he has been studying the river and there is evidence that some species are still struggling. >> based on the research that was done it seems like a.m. fill fibian populations haven't recovered. >> the fish and game department says there is no money for more studying. >> we have a lot of need for research assessment. >> it wasn't just wildlife that died when the river was poisoned. the town of dunsmir suffered, too. businesses struggled to stay open. >> most of them were impacted on the number of visitors that they had for several years. >> reporter: chamber of commerce president says economic recovery took years but things are largely back to normal now. resort owner louie was one of the lucky ones. >> a quick fix isn't going to help us. >> the resort business was in big trouble? >> what worried us was the perception was going to persist. perception is what kills the economy. >> but he says tourists came back within a year. today in this community there is a sense that they

you have the bound brook river the passaic river and the ram co river and now they are all over theirneral peter saluka army corps of engineers. i know you were in the important commercial river there what's the situation down there what's the flooding. do you anticipate the work is still to -- worse is still to >> passaic is slower to crest. that will crest probably early on ation esday. we are watching these d cosely. ng to ound brook on the rartan . we have people seeing whether it will leak to a breech. >> i don't know if you answer as tax payer but what do you think about people who build their homes in the flood zones of these rivers? >> to be fair in northern new jersey it was the cradle of the industrial revolution. these towns were established long before the knolowedge of floodplains the modeling we have today was available. ie whs hard to disinvest in an area that was highly developed. >> there are new homes that flood every 8 years or less. >> worted kng in conhere iscont the state of new jersey there have been measures taken. there is no cheap solution is the problem to t

that river has not crested yet.all too familiar in many communities up and down the eastern seaboard. earlier this morning president obama he's on top of the response from the aftermath of hurricane irene. let's hear what he said. >> as i said yesterday we're going to make sure that folks have all the support they need as they assess and repair the damage left by the storm. that's going to continue in the days ahead. >> kristen welker live at the white house for us. kristen, the president cut his vacation short a few hours to come back to washington. some saying there was an overresponse to the storm. what's the white house saying about that? >> reporter: white house officials believe that the reaction was appropriate. look, this white house federal officials are very aware of what happened during hurricane katrina as we all remember president bush was widely criticized for his handling of hurricane katrina. we remember him flying over some of the disaster zone in air force one. craig, fugate, by the way, the fema a

kharaghani: the los angeles river is approximately 51 miles. concrete reduces the size of the river that you need to carry the water because it speeds up the flow of water. if you'd like to remove all the concrete and to have natural system to carry the water to protect you from flooding, you need to have almost one mile on each side of the river set aside for transport of rain. so in order for the city to have use of those lands around the river, concrete made it possible to have minimum land so the water can be carried to the ocean in the fastest possible way. but, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeeping, people are putting a lot of pollutants on the street and the streets are the openings to our stormwater sewer system. in an average year, 4,000 to 5,000 tons of trash ends up in long beach. man: we've created a system to deal with flooding but inadvertently created a pathway for pollution to get into our waterways. narrator: los angeles county is beginning to develop ways to reduce the infrastructure's impact upon t

we'll have what we call major rivers and minor rivers, then streams and creeks. those are the problems, the smaller rivers and creeks. >> bill karins, thank you so much for that. we're going to stay on top of the story about the flooding in the state of new jersey as well as the state of new york. we have crews fanning out. >> alex, let me point out, if there's people on the delaware river, send us your imaging, so we can tell the stories. >> you can send us tweets, also against i-87 got a mudsideline on the new york stay freeway, but in the meantime let's go to massachusetts, where ron allen is standing by. he's in new bedford. oh what a difference a day make for us, rowan. you had people leaving the mar that martha's vineyard area. >> we can send bill karins this image. can you say perfect storm, the movie? look at the fishes ships in the harbor. that's all that comes to minds. as you know it's moving up the coast in slow motion, in a way. it just started to rain here in the past couple hours. now, this is new bedford harbor, one of the safest on the east coast

but that's not the best way to get snow this river i can't think of one that said. it was trying to head back to dry land and for me to really start discovering the bars . you also point out about a bar of history there's one place that you have to visit this is the museum of regional law and it's the biggest and the most visited museum in the whole of the country's far east. one hundred nation's founders and people step into this building every year and they get to enjoy a huge collection of exhibits from live local river residents to jennie's passions . one of the things that sets this place apart from most russian museums is that you can interact with the exhibits and today we've got some guests who come from even further east to see what life used to be like here in the far east of russia these schoolchildren a visiting from japan and the museum staff immediately have been taking part in some nineteenth century village chores and once they've checked out all the old tunes it's time to really get into the swing of things you know this this is a way to learn about

river flooding which we have warnings before on the delaware and schuylkill, river flooding takes longerlot longer for the rivers to rece recede. that's the cliff note version. we have seen flooding in long island. let me take -- you were talking about those mandatory evacuations and those who didn't leave. take a look at this. it is video from a backyard in oceanside new york. south side of long island and also south of the sunrise highway. mandatory evacuations were in place here. obviously this person did not go. 20 shelters open in this area it is a coastal flood plain and look at the water. it is certainly very scary. this is her backyard in oceanside and that white is a big fence connecting her toe at the time neighbor. you can see farther left it's broken up. the note is saying, look what happened to my fence. kind of looks like a low garage but it's a fence. 6 inches of flowing water drown a person 2 feet can float a car. we're talking about incredible power here. mandatory evacuations and some didn't do that. >> i know a lot of people in lower manhattan, you go to battery park,

notice that many areas have warnings, but the biggest river of them all isle delaware river.igger water basin. that's where we're seeing the problems now. the evacuations are taking place right now, and we've already heard of some spots that water has been in downtown areas of the small town upstream. >> bill karins, thank you for falling up this morning. joining me on the phone is strain palone, on the phone for us in long branch from our w nbc's pat battle is standing by. how are things looking where you are? i'm down by pier village. it seems like the damage is less than expected, you know, to the buildings, but we still have a lot of flooding, power out, and also some of the homes in the west end. there's damage -- we also had a tornado in long branch last night that ripped off one of the complexes in the west end area, but overall, the damage along the oceanfront seems to be less than was expected. i'm still telling people not to come out, because there's still curfews in effect. people shouldn't be walking around or driving at this point. >> absolutely. we are somewhat

so we'll be hearing about river flooding. he said they are expecting record flooding here in new jersey. more flooding than what they've seen in 100 years. >> nbc's michele franzen keeping an eye on things. let's go back out to long island and that is where long beach city we have al roker by that boardwalk where al it's pretty incredible what we saw. right center of screen for people who are just joining us. that is a guard post that was literally lifted up and moved in this last hour. just incredible. >> that's right. you know what? i found out that they built this in 1983, alex. this gentleman who is walking up -- paul gillespie? he's the head of the lifeguards. you can see this woman is getting blown by the within. >> was that a life guard stand? >> can you come over a second? it was the life guard headquarters. this is paul gillespie. >> that's the life guard station? >> hopefully it's maintaining its balance. we can put it back on the foundation there. >> this happened once before with hurricane gloria? >> back in '85,

they will find the right spot in the river so they can begin. the phones only been operating since two thousand and eight but they plan to breed up to three million fish a year which should give the kaluga and the animal sturgeon a good chance of swimming in these waters in the decades to come. it's amazing to think that just a few years this little guy could be a few metres wide a few hundred kilos in weight and hopefully we've given him the best chance of making it because of this size hopefully he'll survive for amazing good luck. he really did feel that we were helping to regenerate a river that's been supporting the people of this region since time immemorial. before i left the forest i was going to meet some people whose ancestors had lived this way for millennia. but. syria has been home to the indigenous nano which in their language means people for thousands of years and by the sounds of it. i think there is some kind of festival . there around twelve thousand and nine living in russia and the largest of the indigenous tribes it's a wid

the rock away river has breached a floodwall along the river wall. these are pictures from our new york station wnbc, morris county new jersey in the central part of the state. we'll keep you posted. >>> now to politics, former vice president dick cheney's book. it doesn't hit store shelves until tomorrow. some of the tales he's telling on old colleagues at the white house including president bush are already making waves. cheney seems to relish that prospect in an exclusive interview with nbc. >> this book is going to make a lot of people angry. >> there are going to be heads exploding all over washington. >> you know that? >> yes. >> and jamie joins us now. is it just me or is the vice president enjoying this event? >> look at that smile. what can i tell you? this is really dick cheney unapologetic, unvarnished, the book is filled with revelations, criticism. it really does give a glimpse behind the curtain of private conversations and critical moments with president bush. you hear about what it was like being in the white house bunker on 9/11. and

we also had several people rescued from the river who have fallen or jumped into the river or fallenof a bridge. rescues also from the passaic river. it's over 500 and the amount is climbing. we are still getting calls for people that are trapped and need to be rescued so we are dealing with that as we speak. >> i don't like asking this question. but as you know, we have been covering the number of people that have died due to these conditions. are you coming across folks that didn't make it? >> luckily, to this point, we have not had any fatalities and hoping it stays that way. as far as the other municipalities along the river. i don't know. in patterson no fatalities as of yet. >> good. i was just having a conversation. i thought i had said little falls, new jersey. no. those were picktures from patterson, new jersey. we are following the live pictures from search and rescue operations taking place all night. >>> forecasters and many people cleaning up this morning say irene's impact justified those government warnings to get out of the way. our john zarrella takes a look at how e

river continues to rise rapidly.g in special rescue equipment and vehicles to help had assist the situation. the delaware river at the state capital and new hope lambertville is expected to approach major flood stage tomorrow morning and gradually subside though remain at above-normal levels probably through tuesday. we're prepare for what this means for shelter and transportation and infrastructure and our positions with our urban search and rescue teams are coordinating with local oems to deal with their areas of concern. there is also some areas of evacuation now. i'll give you a list of towns with area evacuations. this does not mean that the entire town has been evacuated -- just areas. patterson, pmt omton lakes, manville, bound broom, fairfield, belleville, maple wood, old bridge, monroe, stockton, lambertville, lincoln park, and cliff side park. if you're in one of these areas i want to encourage you to listen and abide by what your emergency managers are telling you. this is serious and severe flooding can n

the best way to get to know this river by car. it was trying to head back to dry land and for me to really start discovering. if you want to find out about history there's one place that you have to visit this is the museum of regional law and it's the biggest and the most visited museum in the whole of the country's far east. step into this building every year and they get to enjoy a huge collection of exhibits from local river residents to. one of the things that sets this place apart from most russians. is that you can interact with the exhibits today we've got some guests who come from even further east to see what life used to be like here in the far east of russia these schoolchildren a visiting from japan and the museum store immediately have been taking. sentry village chores and. it's time to really get into the swing of things you know this this is a way to learn about the prospect of the dusty museum display just the right. to carry on and headed down to meet me the museum's director to give me a personal. and he has hi

this is the connecticut river. bear in mind, this is a river, not quite an ocean yet. this is close to where it spills into the long island sound. this looks like ocean the way the waves are lapping up against the sea wall. one of the things we're concerned about in connecticut is the storm surge, we're anticipating near or perhaps above-record storm surge and that can create some serious flooding issues, not only along the shoreline here in connecticut, but also for many of connecticut's rivers that feed into the ocean. right now we have a serious power outage issue here in connecticut, a quarter of a million people are without power and the storm surge obviously continues to rise, because my photographer and i continue to get battered at saet wall. we've moved our position once and we're probably going to have to move it again. because as irene gets closer we're getting a little too close to these waves. and right now, we're not esseei the worst of it. we're not expecting to see the worst of it in connecticut for another two or three hours and not expecting to see hi

so their search led them to the nearby schuylkill river.a developed technologies to pump water from the river into the city. these technologies established engineering concepts that are still the basis for our water systems today. europeans flocked here. it was a destination point to see the new world technology. when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson

there's flooding along the schuylkill river, along by the delaware river as well.alled darby and darby township. i want to show you the problem. we're in the middle of center city. that's the iconic city hall right here. we're on 12th street and market. there are very few cars out here. they told people to hunker down. this is the issue. we've been watching these people coming through, trying to use their umbrellas. they've been projectiles going up and down the street. limbs here that have been breaking and flying down the street. that's what they're worried about and that's why the mayor has asked people to stay home. it's safe for me to walk across the street here. i'm not really jay walking because there's nobody out here. there's a little bit of flooding that happened earlier, although not that much. everybody has sandbags along the glass doors like in our hotel here. they put plastic up just in case it would have gotten worse. they believe they were spared the brunt of it. still, the backside of that storm has to come through. the winds will probably pick up