we've seen quite a bit of that here in alexandria. lots of people, i don't know why, at 4:00 in the morning, driving around, checking out the situation. not something you want to do. the winds are coming down, blowing very strong, and the rain is still coming down. wait for this storm to pass through before you leave, unless it is absolutely necessary. and give emergency crews the space that they need to get out and respond to what they need to do tonight. we'll go investigate those reports of trees down here in alexandria and we'll be back with you hopefully very shortly. >> all right, go see what you can find, interesting stuff. on a similar note, the virginia national guard reports that it freed ten, ten motorists trapped between downed trees for more than seven hours. the guards says the vehicle were trapped on route 5 near the richmond national battlefield park. soldiers from the bowling green based 189th engineer company and the westpoint based 237th company were on duty helping the virginia state police clear fallen trees along

he's in alexandria, virginia. a very good morning to you.ow it's not going to stay calm for long. >> reporter: good morning, alex. really expected to feel the real effects of hurricane irene some time about saturday afternoon today. the real threat in alexandria, virginia, just across the river from washington, d.c., is the river behind me. it's elt vated right now. there has been flooding in the pags. -- past. folks are take it all in stride. there's a bar about two blocks away having a hurricane watch party saying i survived irene o2011. you want to see the hostess. people here are in the light mood early on in the day. the state of virginia there's 15,000 resident who is have lost power further down south in the state. that number's expected to rise. the three things that people are worried about, power, floods and trees. 2003 hurricane isabel hit washington, d.c. it caused over $1 billion worth of damage. a lot of that came from dpauling frees on power lines and into houses. there's a lot of homes here that are built around large, beauti

no flooding of alexandria, virginia. which is rare.s part sometimes floods in the springtime when you get those april monsoons. overall folks in the d.c. area you might be without power, have a few downed trees, slowly coming out today on the alexandria boardwalk. folks walking their dogs. folks getting coffee. taking their kids out in strollers. people breathing a sigh of relief that they dodged a big bullet. >> it's a tragedy to report those three deaths across the state of virginia. due to not only the high winds but the saturated ground that brought down trees and that inluds the death of one 11-year-old boy. that's horrific news. in terms of the cleanup are officials giving any estimations as to how long it will take to get things picked up off the ground? >> let's talk about virginia. the southern part of the state didn't escape this. norfolk, you saw the images from norfolk. folks up to their waist in water. the state of virginia definitely did get hit hard. the northern part of the state, the d.c. metro area was the one able to

the dock down here in old town alexandria means it's a stationary dock. because it's stationary, the big worry is if the tide is high enough, we expect 6 to 12 inches down here. the boat could go on top of the dock. these folks feel confident in their ability to secure the vessels, and we'll see whether or not they remain stationary. now, as to what's happening in old town alexandria, it's an area used to flooding and a low-lying area. if the amount of rain that eryan is supposed to put forth on this area comines to fruition. the mayor expecting some flooding. there is sandbags now in the first block away from this harbor that i'm stand inning right now. businesses essentially stay open as long as they feel they're safe to do so and as long as they're -- there's patrons. right now there's folks having brunch on the street in front of me. earlier today there was a lot of families walking around with their kids and dog to see the storm before it came. once the rain started, though, those folks went home and hunkered down. we told them it would be a good ide

just outside washington is alexandria, virginia.ow-lying ground and a lot of docks with a lot of vessels. and luke russert tonight. how are they faring there? >> reporter: good evening, brian. the rain has been falling steadily since about 10:00 a.m. today. that is the main concern because as you mentioned, this area is prone to flooding. in 2003, during hurricane isabel up to three plox were submerged underwater. power was out for days and boats moved. there's a fear, i spoke to the mayor specifically today that that could happen again. so here's what we have to look at. tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m., it's high tide. we've heard about this storm surge that's coming off the atlantic ocean going through the chesapeake bay. it's going to feed the potomac river mind me. at possibly 8:00 a.m., the water could break this dock where i'm standing and go into the city. now, the city of washington, d.c., there's a state of emergency as there is in the commonwealth of virginia. folks over there are holding tough. there is a worry about losing

>> estamos hablando de la ciudad de alexandria, donde siempre tremendas inundaciones.or, cuando la tormenta azota esta noche, son las 5 pulgadas de agua y y los cientos que tal vez interfieran con las comunicaciones. >> gracias. repetir las palabras que pronunciÓ el alcalde de nueva york: esperamos lo mejor pero hay que prepararse para lo peor. >> eso es lo mÁs importante, la preparaciÓn. vamos a continuar con mucha mÁs de esta ediciÓn especial del huracÁn irene. que no era normal para mí. ella insistió en que viera a mi médico y con mucha razón. tenía cáncer de útero... un tipo deáncer ginecolóco. recibí tratamiento. ahora tenemos confianza de q estaré bien. si le parece que algo no está bien podosemanas o más, consulte a su médico. infórmese... conozca su cuerpo. >> nueva york estÁ en guardia para recibir el impacto de irene, sus autoridades ordenaron evacuar y le pidieron a sus mÁs de 9 millones de residentes que espera en lo mejor aunque deben prepararse para lo peor. >> estamos con blanca rosa, esa es la frase ¿esta nueva york preparada para lo peor? ¿cÓmo sientes

there is a possibility of flooding where i'm standing here at alexandria, that did not happen, even at high tide at 8:00 a.m. that storm surge was supposed to go through the chesapeake bay, but did not come, but a lot of folks enjoying it is day, a beautiful casual day after irene. >> very fortunate set of circumstances. we know it could have been something different this hour. >> instead. >>> the chesapeake bay bridge is also back own. queens ann county had one storm-related death. a woman was killed after a chimney collapsed. here is the governor of maryland giving an update this morning. >> there are a lot of fallen trees, a lot of people without electricity, and crews going out there as we speak to try to get people restored as soon as possible. >> tom costello is in ocean city, maryland, where the worst of the storm is behind the folks there. we heard him talk about, over 800,000 people at one point in time, but it looks great, at least from your vantage point. >> well, this is -- this is the day after. what a difference 24 hours makes, even 12 hours makes, because today this has

that is kind of what we've been saying all morning, the nature of alexandria here, they've been there, done that, they know the routine and they're going through it right now. >> all right. >> hang loose. >> they're just chilling out. all right. britney reporting live from alexandria where they're cool. >> taking it easy. >> won't soon forget rowing down the streets the last time -- >> they know how to do it. they're fine. >> it is scary when you're not used to having that kind of flooding. >> monica joins us to talk about travel issues. there's plenty. we talked to the airport's authority recently. flights are starting to kans zblel we're continuing to monitor our affiliates. you were looking at washington, d.c. where they're waiting for the brunt of the storm. right now, i want to take you to our north carolina affiliate where a good part of north carolina is already feeling the effects of the outer bands of hurricane irene. let's listen in. >> reporter: why would we be in a horse stable during hurricane coverage? there's more than 80 horses from the coast here in raleigh riding out

you can see here in alexandria, we've been seeing wind and rain, we're told by d.c.ross the potomac they've seen downed trees and power outages. we spoke with virginia emergency operations and got this update, about 960,000 customers statewide without power. three fatalities reported so far, all from fallen trees. they'll have to wait to assess more of the damage. they say they haven't received a lot of requests for assistance. once the sun comes up they'll be able to get out and see what's going on. they'll do surveying by helicopter. we know some of the hard-hit areas, norfolk, hampton road, we may expect to see more damage, john. we're encouraging customers to be safe, use generators safely and they'll wait and see what happens when the sun rises. >> athena, as you know, one of the big concerns all along the east coast, it's been a soggy summer already, where would the water go? i used to live in the old town area. you're along the potomac river there. in the sense of flooding and how much water has the storm left behind, the sense of how long it would take to dry

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back to troitsky fall at the hands of alexandria that match was a five set elsewhere gale north three richie cascade and thomas goodrich will not win. now let's switch the world athletics championships where russian heptathlete tatiana china is spiting for gold she threw a personal best in the javelin to take the overall lead from britain's jenison jessica ennis with just the eight hundred metres left leg. proved to be a good day for russia with double olympic champion and it isn't going to have a competing in the pole vault final a little later on she is aiming to regain the title she lost two years ago although the favorite is american gens which jump the world's best be she for mate is ninety one that's half a centimeter better than his imbiber and defending champion. component. we maul the winner of monday's one hundred ten metre hurdles has been denied his world championship gold payroll novelas disqualified after a protest from luzhin who came third the pair were in adjoining lanes in the final they are both imbedded in the center of the screens then jahnke says rubble is elohim

and colonel ellsworth took a group of soldiers and went over to alexandria to take that flag down.h, and that was the first casualty of the civil war. he stood out there nine months later, you could see hundreds if not thousands of troop ships leave the ports of georgetown and the banks of the potomac as troops sailed down the potomac river to the battle of the peninsula. three years later you could stand on the shores and, again, watch as abraham lincoln himself, president lincoln went down on a cruiser to richmond to watch the cappal of the -- capital of the confederacy fall. and from april 15th you could see literally hundreds of warships sailing up and down the potomac trying to stop john wilkes booth from crossing from be one side to the other. so while we can't trace our history to 1867, we can't trace it back to 1987. and we've sponsored conferences, about 20 of them, since that particular time. how many of you have been to ten or more conferences sponsored by the office of safe and drug-free schools? the raise your hand. okay. how many of you have been to five or more spons

to home, the military guardian in brooklyn, somewhat farther afield in philadelphia, saratoga in alexandria, virginia and even across the seas in london and south america. hulett aspire to be a pure shakespearian terror. he played the lead role in richard the third and also gave solo performance is a scenes from a fellow. much like other budding actors of the day, he honed his craft by imitating famous shakespearean performers like admin team. some of hewitt's other roles were more explicitly subversive however. , indirectly hinting at subordination resistance to black americans. .. or even his politics that his family found so offensive. they might well, because of that, there's a note in the papers saying he was a play actor in his day and was drummed out of the family. so it's not necessary his acting s or even his politics that hislyo family found so offensive. they might well have enjoyedd t watching him and rolls of richard iii 14 shot away.m made but racism made theatergoing a dangerous activity. white new yorkers were hostile to brown enterprise. the complaint about malaise from tha

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actually did not precisely this tactic but we caught the company koch industries hiring a firm in alexandria virginia called new media strategies and what new media strategies would do was have their staffers create numerous comment section. identities. identities and handles on wikipedia to basically set the frame of the debate write comments to news stories scrub. stories they didn't write off we could p.t.o. that sort of thing that's absolutely extraordinary and you know we've been saying this for so long here and i've been yelling about it for some time it's it's great to see. you guys at the center for american progress and others finally nailing it down leave thanks so much for joining us tonight. thanks for covering this issue it's very hard to to find people that are really ok i get attention so i appreciate it i think it's i think it's one of those important things going on late thanks again thanks again it's time to slam shut the revolving door on capitol hill bolted closed and call out corrupt congressman right there allies and the call of the right wing organizations that are usi

stockpiling sandbags and preparing for localized flooding, especially along the potomac river and in alexandria, virginia, right across the potomac from washington, d.c., old town always floods so they're watching that and stockpiling sandbags. but right now we have a vacant beach and the calm before the storm. >> the ocean behind you getting a little sporty there. tom costello, ocean city, maryland. >>> now we want to move past us here to the north and the city that has seen it all, except for this. new york city is under a hurricane warning tonight, extremely rare. so are the fact that mandatory evacuations are underway. lester holt is inside the evacuation zone, in lower manhattan. lester, we have had minor flooding over the years where they have taken some folks out of nursing homes, perhaps a hospital or two, but this kind of thing has never happened in new york city. >> reporter: you know, brian, it's interesting you said seen at all. there are 8 million of us living in new york city, we do feel at times we have seen it all. heck we had an earthquake this week. but when the mayor announce

been for the rest of the country's modern history so this is good or bad to find out i'm joined by alexandria if you're from the to be capital thank you so much for joining us now can you tell us duping roughest finally exercise the demon out of inflation. at least the central bank is doing the right the right job and the shift in mind three both of that happened in the past year is indeed helping to curb inflation but not do you think we'll go back to a time when inflation was so it's seen or fifteen percent. well i think they're flexible rubel policy and. flexible about policy and central banks interventions at the minimum i think there has been a regime shift in inflation and probably we are looking at the highest the highest level of around ten percent so we're not going back to thinking well the central bank is actually targeting seven percent of inflation this year do think that's achievable. and certainly about inflation for this year is huge because this slowdown that we've seen has been driven by vegetables braces and this component is very volatile so it's possible that inflation wi