joining us now from burlington, vermont, is bernie sanders from vermont, thank you so much for your time tonight. >> my pleasure. >> some of the worst pictures, some that just really had my jaw dropping were taken just down the road from where you are right now in burlington from waterbury, vermont. can you give us an assessment of what's happening on the ground there in situations like the one you are currently in? >> actually, i was just in waterbury a few hours ago. what we are looking for, melissa, three people are known to be dead and we fear another life has been lost. hundreds of roads has been closed, amtrak has been shut down, tens of thousands of people are without electricity. we are seeing severe damage to many businesses and homes through the the state, mostly in the southern part of the state, so what we're seeing today is the state of vermont experiencing the worst natural disaster that we have experienced since 1927. at end of the day, we're going to be spending to rebuild the damage and go forward from here, it's hard to estimate, but certainly tens and tens and tens of

. >>> a caltrain locomotive hit a woman south of burlington, near the -- near the station and authorities stopped trains in both directions while they investigated. caltrain says this is the 12th fatality on its track the this year. the investigation -- on its tracks this year. the investigation continues. -- continues. fans going to the giants' game may want to keep that in line. >>> stanislaus police are looking for thieves equipment. they say this man is a former employer. he had access to the equipment while he was there. he then posted bail on august 1st and then disappeared with his wife and two children. >> hit mother-in-law says she was the eight tempted rain victim -- his mother-in-law says she was the attempted rape victim and is fearing for her life and grandkids. >>> the two southern california men accused of beating bryan stow in los angeles pleaded -- pleaded not guilty. they are being held in lieu of $500,000 bail n court documents, prosecutors say -- in court documents, prosecutors say they have made what are admissions. >>> dozens of people attended a fund riser last nigh

burlington to the north has gusts of 33.heavy rain, that's where the power outages will be coming in. those huge waves will continue into the afternoon. i have to show you, the wind gusts in atlantic city, new jersey, just went to 57 miles per hour. that's -- this storm has been long gone from atlantic city, new jersey. it's incredible it is that windy down. there i'm sure folks are surprised how stiff that breeze is. >> that's one of the places that the governor of the state was concerned about because you had the senior citizens in this high rise who didn't want to leave atlantic city, wanted to ride out the storm there. but this is the problem that persists. a lot of people assume this is over, it's past the new york area, that's the densely populated area, but still we have lingering effects here. >> 57-mile-per-hour gusts is enough to bring down a tree limb and kill someone. so, word of advice from new jersey northwards, just wait until tomorrow morning. >> thank you. >>> ocean city, maryland is reopening to visitors no

very, very heavy rain in burlington, vermont.utland, 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 how much rain has come down. there's been 10 to 20 inches of rainfall across parts of this area just from the storm alone. there was a dozen inches of rain before that in august. so there's no place for this rain to soak in. it's all running off. it's all causing flooding. and we will have great pictures tomorrow. right now we have words and talking about it. but i know we will have pictures from all of our affiliates across the upper parts of new york and new england tomorrow. let me tell you, they will be dramatic. >> it reminds me just looking at that wabc affiliate, the video they're running

the officials say they are looking if a burlington northern freight train may of sparked the fires. >> we have the condition of a irish football player. he was badly injured playing his first football match june 25th. his sister posted on-line that he came out of his coma a week ago, recognizes his family and is now in a rehab facility. investigators say it appears an opposing player hit him on purpose. >>> 36 million pounds of ground turkey are recalled and consumers are wonder figure their food is safe to eat. kent pritchett tells us there are a few simple things you can do to make sure you don't get sick. >> reporter: anthony from the anthony fish, meat and poultry says grinding up meat is routine. >> we go through 20 to 30 pounds of ground turkey every day. grinding fresh. >> before he grinds he washes. all of the equipment is clean. sanitation with any poultry is a must. >> you need to treat it properly when you pick it up from the store to the time you get it home. >> reporter: he says he is concerned some customers are treating ground turkey like ground beef and not cooking it

burlington police were checking drivers last night. that crack down is part of the national drive sober or get pulled over campaign. it runs through september 5th. police say they are trying to get the message out in hopes to save lives. >> the idea is to be very high profile. so for a combination of reasons including staffing as well as trying to meet that educational function, we started a little earlier than we would normally start. >> several other bay area counties including alameda and sonoma counties are running dui check points through the holiday weekend. >>> so far more people have been arrested this year that last. 77 arrests were made between august 19th and august 24th. 65 people were arrested during that same time last year. now police say they saw a spike in arrests on saturday following the 49er-raider game at candle stick park. >>> for the fourth day in a row people are under orders to boil their water. restaurants remain closed as the county mandated their closure until tests confirmed the water was safe. it has now b

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from burlington up through northern new hampshire, albany, new york, to syracuse, utica, rome, billingtonen new york city seeing showers early. boston, providence, hart ford, not as bad as yesterday, but a chance for afternoon showers. here's a look at the radar for you a little further west. we're dry in buffalo and pittsburgh, so it's starting to slowly push out. tomorrow will be a much better day. today we'll deal with showers, temperatures very cool, only highs in the 70s. buffalo and pittsburgh you're having a nice day today. and tomorrow is probably the best day we're going to see of the entire week. wednesday looks very nice, philly, 88. new york city, 85 and we're hot in texas. what else is new. 100-degree heat widespread today. >>> the end of a long-running reality tv show, and billy crystal wants another crack at hosting tv's biggest awards night. plus, we're going to tell you who the highest-earning teen in hollywood is. and who's been crowned the king of hip hop. your "first look" at entertainment is straight ahead. an electric motorcycle? what if we turned trash into surfboar

we have looked at the election results and you did really well in burlington and if you run in burlington which is the largest, you might actually win. so i did. and, we put together a wonderful coalition of unions and senior citizens and women's advocates, environmental habitats and police officers came on board. and on election night, we won by 14 votes competing with a five term incumbent which will probably go down in vermont history as a significant political upset of modern vermont history. then we went to the recount and i ended up winning by 10 votes. i took office in 1981 with two supporters on the city council and the rest were democrats or republicans who are not particularly supportive of -- in fact they fired my secretary on the first day i took office and i had to run the city for the first year with the previous mayor's administration. it is like obama running with bush's administration. was a little difficult but a year later we had rallied people and we won a number of seats and the city council. i developed be no power and we began to do some really exciting things in bu

but officials at burlington northern santa fe say there is still no official cause of the fire. >>> our former governor is back. >> i'll be back. thank you very much. >> his first public speech since the scandal that ended his marriage. >>> also how crews rescued 2 window washers dangling from a san francisco building. >> it appears there's much more to mars than we knew. then later tonight on "nightline". >> come up next on "nightline". wall street worst day in three years. what the market 500 point melt down means for you plus the other side of the unemployment crisis. we take you the only place in the country where company are practically begging to hire folks and right in your neighborhood. that's on >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. l. >> tonight former governor arnold schwarzenegger made first public speech since may when he said he fathered a son out of wedlock. he displayed his sense of humor. >> i want you to know this is also a fundraiser. because i'm going to run in 2012. [applause] i'm going to run for president of the

we have looked at the election results and you did really well in burlington and if you run in burlington which is the largest, you might actually win. so i did. and, we put together a wonderful coalition of unions and senior citizens and women's advocates, environmental habitats and police officers came on board. and on election night, we won by 14 votes competing with a five term incumbent which will probably go down in vermont history as a significant political upset of modern vermont history. then we went to the recount and i ended up winning by 10 votes. i took office in 1981 with two supporters on the city council and the rest were democrats or republicans who are not particularly supportive of -- in fact they fired my secretary on the first day i took office and i had to run the city for the first year with the previous mayor's administration. it is like obama running with bush's administration. was a little difficult but a year later we had rallied people and we won a number of seats and the city council. i developed be no power and we began to do some really exciting things in bu

biggest problems across albany, new york, hartford, connecticut, outside of boston, and also into burlingtonrmont, with flood watches and warnings in place. and the next area on the map today that we're concerned about when it comes to rainfall is right here across the central and also the southern rockies with some heavier rainfall developing. as for the temps right now, the big spot to be concerned about -- i'm not sure. can i walk over here? yeah. okay. 89 in dallas. 85 in san jose, and 75 in atlanta. this weather map is so large. all right. as far as today's map goes, we have 106 expected in dallas. 105 in san antonio. 92 in atlanta. for those of you in new york city, heading back to work today, 82 degrees expected for you, and a little bit better here at lynn in dallas from 106 today to 105 tomorrow. >> wow. big doings. >> we're getting -- giving you a cooldown, folks. >> baby steps. >> thank you so much. >> sure. >> well, who sits atop the box office this monday morning? plus, the year's highlights in music and show biz. the video music awards. your first look at entertainment is strai

. >> nice day in burlington tomorrow? >> nice day out there. >> it is expected to be another fun day as the city hosts art fest. the former arts and jazz festival expanded this year with something for everyone, from rides and games to the kids to food and art for the adults. music, though, is still a big part of the weekend with two musics stages this year one of which is set aside for burlinggame acts. >>> the giants try to get back on the winning track as they face the marlins. >> as a player you better be embarrassed, as a coach, staff, everybody. >> bob melvin sounds off. why he's so disappointed at his team. sports wrap is coming up next. . >>> good evening everyone and thanks for joining us or saturday night edition of sports wrap. the giants put outfielder torres on the disabled list with a leg contusion. beltran misses his fifth straight game with a sore wrist but the franchise is still healthy. the yo-yo season of bell continues as well. he was recalled to replace the injured torres. bell didn't play in florida t

we have looked at the election results and you did really well in burlington and if you run in burlington which is the largest, you might actually win. so i did. and, we put together a wonderful coalition of unions and senior citizens and women's advocates, environmental habitats and police officers came on board. and on election night, we won by 14 votes competing with a five term incumbent which will probably go down in vermont history as a significant political upset of modern vermont history. then we went to the recount and i ended up winning by 10 votes. i took office in 1981 with two supporters on the city council and the rest were democrats or republicans who are not particularly supportive of -- in fact they fired my secretary on the first day i took office and i had to run the city for the first year with the previous mayor's administration. it is like obama running with bush's administration. was a little difficult but a year later we had rallied people and we won a number of seats and the city council. i developed be no power and we began to do some really exciting things in bu

and burlington, vermont and on the pacifica radio network in berkeley, california.hat they've tried to do is shed their bad reputation. the bad reputation has been it ran all of the al-qaeda or many of the al-qaeda messages over the past few years. they were really criticized severely by the bush administration and by members of the bush administration as well as the president. now they are said to turn another corner. that they've changed. now what they really are is a number one resource in mideast with 70 bure reds worldwide, by the way which -- bureaued worldwide, by the way which is enormous. and a special knowledge knowing the language and the terrain. they said they've turned the page and into a new approach. i watched it this week. and i'll give you my view in a second. it came -- i want to mention, it came to new york with the help of very prominent people. let me give you an example. hillary clinton was one of the people that really boosted al-jazeera in the united states. told the senate forum relations committee last march: >> rather pointed reference to

, maine, that's heading up through southern in that new hampshire, and pretty soon will be near burlington, vermont. on the back side, we're still watching tropical storm force winds capable through the chesapeake, maryland and areas of new jersey. that's why they're telling people to still stay inside. the storm itself is moving northward. what we're watching for is the yellow and orange bands. that's the greatest potential for falling trees and damage. let me get a closer view of that. you can see this band right here head fog man chester, new hampshire, that's where you could see power outages. that's probably the worst of is it as far as the winds. here's the winds. you're on the back side of this storm. you just gusted to 54 on the back side. that's pretty incredible stuff. 43 in boston. out of any big city, far away from the center, far away from the ocean, albany, new york, i'm sure we're losing viewers in the albany, schenectady area, and they pictures continue to come in. these boats are facing into the wind and waves for a reason. hopefully they can just ride this out. we are loo

next, live in burlington to get an update from senator bernie sanders. katia is coming now.s it time to brace for another big one? we're centurylink...a new kind of broadband company committed to providing honest, personal service from real people... 5-year price-lock guarantees... consistently fast speeds... and more ways to customize your technology. >>> our primary mission right now is to protect lives. that's what we are doing. >> 30 truckloads of food to desperate people in vermont where 13 towns were cut off. i'm craig melvin. right now, emergency management officials are saying residents can't use the roads to those towns. 13 towns cut off with no power or running water. these are the 13 towns that were cut off. more than 250 roads and 30 bridges damaged across the state. ground crews reached all the towns except wardsboro. they hope to reach them today by building a makeshift road. crews will continue to air lift food and supplies to the town. eight blackhawk helicopters from illinois are on their way to help speed up the air lifts. a team of doctors and nurses are h

there's a burlington, connecticut, not sure if that's vermont or connecticut, 8.7 inches.allies, in new jersey, seeing 8.92, and tuxedo park almost a foot of rainfall there. other slices of video from upstate new york. this stuff is impressive. when you go north and west of where this thing made landfall that's where most of the rainfall was. on the west side of the storm. the east side of the storm saw less rain and more wind. west side saw more rainfall. little streams on quaint mountain towns like this, turn into torrential rapids. and then another slice of video you probably seen this morning as well, this is just heartbreaking stuff, between four and six of these historic covered bridges wiped out in vermont. that is just tough, tough to look at. winds were the other issue on the east side of the storm. sayville, new york, seeing 91 mile an hour wind gusts, and fire island seeing 64. closer to the coastline more in the way there. as far as our next storm is concerned, tropical storm jose back there, not so worry for us, tropical depression number 12 could be katia in

tigds to capitol hill arguing that a h is an ethical acrifice on thec decision, joining mess from burlington vermont, is one of the members. he's cofounder and vice chairman of ben & jerry's as well. thank you for joining us. >> how are you doing? >> i'm well, sir. >> tell me about this petition that you and dozens of other business leaders signed here? >> all we are saying is the burden of government hats to be paid for by something. it ought to be paid for by those most able to afford it. it doesn't make sense to raise taxes on people who are struggling financials when people have some of the lowest tax rates that we've ever had. at the don't, donald trump said it as well. why is this message not catching on? why has it not picked up traction just yet. >> you know, i think there must be other people that are making political contributions to their congress people who are asking to get their taxes lowered. let's not forget that, you know a large percentage of the people in congress are in those upper tax brackets themselves. >> howard shultz, ceo of starbucks, he actually had an idea that w

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>> anderson, we're in the northern part of vermont near the state's biggest city of burlington, and these are the waters from the wimuski river. but we're nowhere near the wimuski river. the river is behind me about a quarter mile. this is just beginning to crest an hour after the worst tropical storm came through. but the worst damage is in the southern part of the state where we spent much of the day, and that's where creeks and brooks became raging rapids, hundreds of places that were just ponds where children used to swim became rapid. and in three cases, fatalities, three people have been confirmed dead in vermont, another person was missing. it's incredible, the sights we saw. in one particular place, we saw rapids go through a building, a building that collapsed. old-timers we talked to had never seen anything like this. the state had never seen flooding like this for more than eight decades. fortunately, the waters have been receding in parts of vermont, and many flooding has receded, but the problems don't, because many homes, hundreds of homes in the state of vermont are floodin

like at burlington, vermont, wind gusts out of the north-northeast, that's pretty incredible for a storm this side. tamron will finish up this here, and montauk is actually located right out here, montauk point, and we've got winds at 52 miles per hour at block island coming from the south. that's a lot of wave action, too. thankfully it's low tie. since the rain is with, there's probably a lot of people checking out the huge shores. they're telling people not to, but sometimes human cure outity is hard. >>> governor bob mcdonnell last hour said the biggest problems are power outages in his state. luke russered is in alexandria, virginia yesterday you were out on that boat, and things look much better now. >> absolutely. tamron, here in -- folks are out here having brunch, walking their dogs, with strollers, with the kids. it's like nothing ever happened yesterday. it's quite amazing. it's a beautiful blue sky, radiant sunshine, so irene has definitely passed through. all that being said, there are hundreds of thousands of people still without power. that's to be expected. that's what of

. >> officials at burlington northern san jose who operate trains in that area say they are investigating. >> 6:05 now. almost 6:06. lisa argen is in with the weather this morning. as bad as that was, it could have been worse if the weather had been different yesterday. >> it's cooler than it should be really. lisa? >> yeah, the fire danger really benefitting from the summer of troughs where we have seen the cooler than normal temperatures. and we definitely really back up in the fire danger. but hey, we have september and october to get through. we're looking at the warmer weather in the seven-day outlook. today, it will be another cooler than average day. but little warmer than yesterday in some neighborhoods. 56 in oakland. 61 in fremont. 62 in san jose. the fog, it's wherever except by the carquinez strait, delta. we have a west wind all the way to the east bay valleys. the fog will sit here by 1:00 this afternoon. so we are looking at low 80s in the inland valleys. that means a quicker burnoff by 9:00, 10:00. you will notice in the north bay, we have fog poichlt reyes, 60s along the

officials from burlington northern santa fe say they are investigating. >>> frightening moment for 2 window washers outside a high-rise apartment building in san francisco when the scaffolding collapsed. sky 7 was above it shows the men hanging by the safety harness while men work to free them. more from lee ann l. >>reporter: sky 7 hk shows the scaffolding hanging on its side against the 17 story apartment building. one of the 2 tl arms meant to hold the scaffolding somehow became detached from the roof. the 2 window washers were left hanging by their harnesses. people witnessing the rescue effort took these pictures. >> i took a couple steps out i saw two gentlemen out on the scaffolding. one hanging from the platform. one about middle of the platform and you know obviously a little frightening to be so close jeans. >> hoping and praying. i was praying that the other end could collapse because the only thing holding that up was that l arm on the roof. if that esthen he goes. >>reporter: the fir department set up a ladder trying to reach one of the workers. but it wasn't long enough

>> reporter: we are in the northern part of vermont near the state's biggest city of burlington. these are waters from the winewski river but the river is behind me about a quarter mile. this is a street and the flooding in northern vermont is just starting to crest as we speak a day after the tropical storm came through. but the worst damage and worst devastation is not in the northern part of the state. it's in the south where we spent much of the day. that's where creeks and brooks became raging rapids. hundreds of places that in some cases were just ponds where children used to swim became rapids. in three cases, there were fatalities. three people dead in vermont, another missing. it was incredible the sights we saw. at one place we saw rapids going through a building that had collapsed and was hanging over the waters. old timers we talked to have never seen anything like this. the state hasn't seen flooding like this for more than eight decades. fortunately the waters receded but what we see during these catastrophes, the water recedes but problems don't. many of the homes,

>> anderson, we're in the northern part of vermont near the state's biggest city of burlington, and these are the waters from the wimuski river. but we're nowhere near the wimuski river. the river is behind me about a quarter mile. this is a street and flooding in northern vermont is just starting to crest an hour after the worst tropical storm came through. but the worst damage and the worst devastation is in the southern part of the state where we spent much of the day, and that's where creeks and brooks became raging rapids, hundreds of places that were in some cases just ponds where children used to swim became rapids. and in three cases, fatalities, three people have been confirmed dead in vermont, another person is missing but it was incredible, the sights we saw. in one particular place, we saw rapids going through a building, a building that collapsed. and was hanging precarious over the waters. old-timers we talked to had never seen anything like this. the state had never seen flooding like this for more than eight decades. fortunately, the waters have receded in southern part of

there's an awful lot of rainfall still coming in from syracuse into burlington and springfield. significant flooding going on. i'll change the map to our flood warnings and there are just flash flood warnings all the way from maine back into vermont, new hampshire and down into even pennsylvania. i saw this coming out of an area that my parents are from, wyoming county in pennsylvania, from dallas to dupont, he hadwards vil, harvey's lake, and all flooded now because the rain that fell about two hours ago. it's not that it's probably going to rain for the rest of the day in some spots but the rain that came down has to run off. and it goes into the creeks and streams and they go up very quickly. they go down quickly too. it's when it's hup you have to watch it and don't drive through it. >> a lot of city and state government leaders are still asking people to stay inside because even though it may not be raining anymore, maybe you don't have giant gale force winds, you have the potential of a lot of trees because of saturated ground coming down and that is a big problem we're se

market let's bring in congressman peter welch, a democrat from vermont, and joining mess live from burlingtonealize there's bad weather in the area, so we really appreciate you being there. could you work with the republicans? >> i want to. in fact, we have to. we're getting smacked by a 2 by 4. that's the market reaction to the brinksmanship and the budget plan that basically was all cuts, no revenues. if we're going to restore confidence, we have to have a balanced plan that requirements democrats to make some concessions, and for republicans to make some concessions. you know, you saw the beginning of that with a gang of six. we have to work together. it's the only way people get the sense we may be moving in the right direction. >> let me show you some stunning numbers. 82% of americans now disapproved of the way congress is doing its job. the highest numbers since the times started polls way back in the '70s. are they right? >> they are right. >> as opposed to a practical problem to be solved, people see us as being totally disconnected in their own lives. they know at work, when they wo

burlington at 7.45 earths of rainfall just from the storm alone. it is still moving away. there are still some very gusty winds, though. this is going to be the problem for tonight. knocking down some power lines probably and some trees. there are still west-northwest winds coming into the city. jfk just had a wind gust of 58 miles per hour and newark 61 miles per hour. all of these trees are sitting in saturated mud, and these roots, some of them, won't be able to handle it and the treeless fall over. if you are planning to go out tonight at all, i recommend do you one thing. you go to a website called traffic.com. because this is just new york city proper, and every little red dot here, every little red dot has something wrong. flooding, trees down, lanes blo blocked. whatever. if you don't have to go out tonight, the city is not ready for you to come back yet. maybe tomorrow. maybe the afternoon, whatever. right now especially with night falling and water still running over roadways, it is not time to go become to the city yet. >> thanks, chad very much. i've covered a

it will be out of your way up there in boston and other parts of new england, burlington, vermont, is getting rained on now and tle go past and on into canada but not before atlantic city and in a few minutes new york city getting another brushing of the rain. these pictures are ones we have not seen before and we expect we will be getting a lot more of them especially in the low-lying areas in and around queens, brooklyn and other parts of long island and then others down the new jersey shore. coming up at 3:00, at the top of the hour, a lot of the thoroughfares in new jersey will reopen and governor christie made it -- cristie made it clear he hopes they will be back up and running for the weekend. so important for business owners. it will be a long cold winter and that labor day break is a great one to get down the jersey shore. news conference from the pennsylvania duff. tom corbett is speaking now for an update on what happened in pennsylvania. let's listen. >> we will continue to do whatever is necessary as we move forward. i want to make a note that the vast majority of the peo

the burlington free press headline today an epic deluge. vermont senator patrick leahy is live with me. he toured the devastation yesterday. you took some photos your own pictures of thins you saw while flying over the devastation. tell me about it. >> well, you know, i was born in vermont, chuck. and i know this state like the back of my hand. i've never seen anything like this. never seen anything so capricious, too. as you fly over you'd see a small town and the house is fine, roads fine, you go just a few seconds further houses are tumbled into the river, the road has disappeared. businesses have been lost. when the governor and i helicoptered there there were a couple places we landed. the only way we could have gotten to these towns were by helicopter. the roads were all, all cut off. and yet you see people working hard trying to put their businesses, their houses back together. people volunteering to help each other. but we vermonters, none of us can remember anything like this. >> senator, walk me through this entire year, the gover

he joined me from burlington. senator leahy, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, thank you. >> ifill: you were able to tour your state today. what did you see? >> i've seen since the flooding i've seen a great deal of the state. yesterday i went with the governor by helicopter. i've been driving around parts. we had to use the helicopter because some of our towns are completely cut off. there's no way you can get in there which creates all kinds of concerns. i've lived here all my life. i've never seen anything quite like this in vermont. >> ifill: which areas of the state would you say were worst hit? >> i think the worst hit were down the southern part of the state. there were places like water bury which is the next town over from my own town of middle sex that was hit badly. some in montpelier and elsewhere. but the southern part of the state, as you fly over and you see bridges out, roads that have just been torn apart, it's awkward. also the capriciousness of it. you fly along and you see a sma

serious situations in some spots and flooding going on all the way from burlington, vermont, back into pars of stall massachusetts, including western new jersey, scranton, binghamton, and all the way back up here. that entire area of flooding going on. even though the rain has stopped in some spots the water is still running off. take you to one more spot here because we just had blue hill, massachusetts, report in with a 74-mile-per-hour gust. and milton, mass. just had an 81-mile-per-hour gust. trees are falling left and right with wind like that. here's what's going on here. we hadn't had that much wind across parts of new york and vermont now because we're on this side of the eye, but this is the bad side of the eye. plus too there's no friction many the ocean so the wind gets to come right off the ocean and plow right into new hampshire, maine, and boston. in boston, don't be walking around. let the weather settle down a little bit. let that wind die off because trees are falling left and right. we've had a very wet august and the tree roots are completely saturated and they're go

there was flooding up in burlington and champagne valley, big flood. now they are pouring more water on there. not just that. this is windy too. the winds just recently apartment providence were gusting to 64 miles per hour, 68 ps miles per hour. strong band of wind in here. you have the flood and mifrt in the soil already. you have these winds that are far more than enough to topple trees. we expect just like we've seen in virginia and on down south widespread power outages here, flooding of low-lying areas. it's all going on today. >> absolutely. >> we don't want to forget. >> there's no letting up. no. you have a very good point there from weather channel bryan norcross. many thanks for that. let's go over to coney island where things are peter for our colleague peter alexander who has been in the brunt of things. you moved off of the boardwalk. you're down on sand. what's is going on. you must be able to with stand the wind because you wouldn't go near the sand a short wild ago. >> reporter: we feel we're confident we're safe. the water is receding

epic flooding on the river is inundating part of a village forcing emergency management to move to burlington. some 50,000 people are in that state without power. president obama addressed a lingering threat at the rose garden. >> many americans are still at serious risk of power outages and flooding, which could get worse in the coming days as rivers swell past their banks. understand that this is not over. response and recovery efforts will be an ongoing operation and i urge americans in affected areas to continue to listen for the guidance and direction of their state and local officials. >> this is very different than a snowstorm. in a snowstorm you know you are risking for the most part being stuck somewhere, but you are not expecting projectiles. we are in a situation where we have gusts of over 50 miles. that is projectile speed and also a speed that brings limbs and trees down. >> the damage is not as severe as was initially expected. the fact we were successful in evacuating over 1 million people from the most affected areas was a preemptive measure that i am sure saved lives. the ti

on the peninsula, highway 101, burlington and san mateo stop and go down to hills dale and 92 is a mess if you're driving to the south bay we have a lot of slow traffic. 8:25. let's go to mark. >> i should be standing here talking about record setting heat and warm temperatures even for the coastline with a fog free forecast. i do not have that for today. you can see the south bay, we have mostly cloudy skies. that fog bank is expanding. it will be cooler than yesterday. we'll stick with that pattern as temperatures warm up a little bit. san francisco right now 58 degrees. hayward 61. mostly clear skies around fairfield at 61, one of the few locations. here's an update on hurricane irene moving into the bahamas producing very heavy rainfall and some powerful winds. the winds 115 miles an hour offing -- moving to the northwest. the hurricane center has backed off a little bit on the intensity. no long area category four but a category three approaching the north carolina coastline. it's on track to move to the north and east and weaken rapidly. we're talking about a minimal hurricane or

low 70s for burlington. more fog. >> all right. thank you, steve. it is 8:11.more tragic news from afghanistan. the overnight announcement from the pentagon. >>> also a surprise decision made about the war memorial. >> food for thought. why the power lunch is back. [ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >>> good morning. high clouds right on cue. mostly sunny, warmer inland. that fog by the coles keeps 50s -- coast keeps 50s, 60s around the bay. >>> the destination for many of the republican presidential candidates today is the iowa state fair. they're trying to win supporters ahead of tomorrow's key saw from poll. alison burns has more on how they fared. >> reporter: in the national headlines today it seems to be

lingering showers in the northeast with another day of downpours around albany, boston and burlington >> miami 91. baltimore 83. bean town 73. 80s from kansas city to detroit. a mild 73 in seattle. 85 in salt lake city. and 94 in colorado springs. >>> if you weren't hungry you're going to be hungry now. >> ready? it's our -- >> our favorite story of the day. >> there it is. >> how far would you go for your favorite pizza? >> this is a great story. a mississippi man will only eat pizza from his favorite place even though it's 1,400 miles away in masssshusetts. so david schuler drives 24 hours across 16 states to town sva pizza in massachusetts and picks them up himself. his last takeout order, a mere 150 pies. >> get this, schuler gets them half-baked, vacuum seals them in plastic, stacks them in coolers until he gets home and can put them in the deep freezer. last year he ordered 100. clearly he went through them. next year he -- oh, i just meant that because -- >> oh! >> because he had to bring back 200. i totally didn't mean it that way. >> what a cheap shot that wawaon that pizza-l

here's where you've got gorgeous numbers into the northeast. 82 in buffalo. 77 in burlington.oston at 80 degrees. new york city at 85. washington at 85 degrees today. gorgeous, gorgeous across most of the country. yeah, a little cooler in the northwest. >> what's that? what's this? george and elizabeth, that's snow in montana actually. 1 to 3 inches of snow already at about 6,500 feet. >> what? >> yeah. >> we are not ready for that. it's like the roman coliseum in here today. josh has brutalized a bee and everybody cheered. >> it's a fly. it's a fly. >>> we do want to bring you more on the story we brought you yesterday. take a look at this x-ray again. >> turn away. turn away if you're eating breakfast. >> no, but this is incredible because the man survived. josh, you have the story. the guy is speaking out for the first time. >> in fact, the guy who fell on those shears isn't just speaking out. he's actually y ughing about it all. take a look. >> i couldn't believe it. >> reporter: 86-year-old leroy luetscher is now the picture of health, a big improvement from this. >> this

martha: we're looking at scenes, aerial shots over burlington, ver, one of the most beautiful places country, and just huge pockets of flooded, flooded areas, and anybody who's been to vermont knows these beautiful long, rural roads. how are you doing it, knowing that, you know, the people that are out there have been able to make some contact? you know, how are you reaching out to folks in some of these areas? well, you know, obviously the stories are heartbreaking but i got to tell you, vermonters are tough, resilient, we stick together and get things done and at this point, we do have proper access and very remote -- what i call goat paths, road access to every community in vermont so we're no longer as isolated as we were 48 hours ago. we're making great progress. we have 250 -- we've gone from 250 roads being impassable to in the high opportunities -- hundreds, we've had tens of thousands without power, we're down to about 16,000, so our crews, our emergency management folks, national guard, red cross, they're doing an extraordinary job to get us back up and functioning as quick

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the saddest news here in the state of vermont, one woman fell into these brooks yesterday, up in burlington, vermont. her body was recovered today. least one person killed in the state of vermont from tropical storm irene. >> gary tuchman, we'll be checking in with you in the next couple of hours. flooding is also a huge problem in new jersey. some rivers are still on the rise. poppy harlow, cnnmoney.com, is in millburn for us. the problems reach far inland, right? >> reporter: absolutely, kyra. we're seeing some record inland flooding in new jersey. the mayor, chris christie, took an aerial view of the flooding. major, major problems even away from big rivers and away from the coast. the mayor is warning still of possible record flooding in the next two days. you had a lot of rain here before the storm. it soaked the ground. dams are still at risk here in knowledge. in millburn they certainly got the brunt of it. we're by this river in the middle of town, kyra. this crested, if you can believe it came all the way over, gushing into the streets and all the local businesses here on main stre