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 folks to keep us safe will be offering a briefing. we'll hear the latest from fema. first the fox extreme weather center and chief meteorologist rick wright, it is charting a course and appears to follow it. >> it makes it easier when the models are in good agreement for a number of days, you can feel good about it it is on within 20 miles one direction or the other and you don't see that often. we feel good about what is happening to it. by tonightble care and maryland and virginia getting pounded . surge in the bay and rapid water going into delaware bay. hugging the jersey coast and underneath that icon right there is new york city. tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m.. look at the models. it gives you a good idea of what is happening. this is a pretty good model. you like to look at it. when it is so far opposite of what it is doing, you don't count it. >> where is west hampton right there

evacuation order for all new yorkers who live in the low- lying zone, a coastal areas in all five burroughs. >> those from the orange b will be asked to move. >> even in new york city has doesn't have a direct hit it will have massive flooding. the arm corps of engineers say a storm could flood jfk airport. it would leave lower manhattan under a foot of water including the financial district. try becka and the east village. most of the power plants could be crippled. total damage in the 10s of billions. >> what's the biggest concern. the new yorkers. >> why? they don't listen. >> you can tell a new yorker but you can't tell them much. many "many are stocking up. >> i'm not going to freak out. it is what it so. >> what are we going to do. >> a look on storm tracker four radar the hurricane spreading heavy rain through north carolina. see the yellow and orange indicating the heavier downpours, thunderstorm. there's the eye of the storm moving slowly north. let's look at the warnings in place, hurricane warn eggs up and down -- warnings up and down the east coast. the blue high-wind warnings,

across the east river in the burrough of queens, this guy decided it would be a good time to take his dog out for a walk or is that a swim. craig reports from new port rhode island where the storm is still whipping up quite a problem. >> reporter: certainly the low-lying areas are the problem and going to get flooding as we've had been all day. high tide should be around 8:00 this evening. they are still looking forward is the high tide. they have to be prepared for a storm surge three to six feet. it's going to be a little bit larger of a storm surge at 8:00 this morning. sustained winds, been checking on my wind meter, 20-30 sustained. i was over to the cliff walk about an hour and a half and gusts upward to 45-47. so we have a pretty good bit of irene to go through this evening. one thing they did do, they removed 55 of boats from the marina here at the yacht club. there is still one more boat that was left behind. it was about to go. it's a race against time. i can't get around there but it's a situation for one boat that is remaining. the ones are pretty good shape, they are ridi

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the storm surge flooding areas along the burroughs southern coast.h more for us on that story. there comes mike right about now. hey, mike. >> reporter: what a difference a couple of hours makes. looks like i'm doing a traffic report right now only there is not that much traffic. this is the cross bay boulevard that you saw flooded awhile ago. the causeway is now open. people coming and going from the area called the rockaways. the only thing that makes that remarkable is the contrast from a couple of hours ago. roll the videotape. standing where i am right now you would be knee he deep in water. the storm surge, the high tide, the high winds all came together to drive all of the seawater up and over the seawall on to the main drag in the center of town. flooded as far as as the guy could see. the wind was gusting up to around 50 miles an hour when the storm was at its peak. then the winds calmed down. in fact, the winds changed direction and started driving that seawater back out to sea. the water, you are not going to believe this, by my estimation

a lot of people are evacuating a small island as hurricane irene burroughs to the north coast. they're loading up on supplies and home improvement chores while some communities are unfazed by the approaching storm. >> we had no idea whether it would hit here or not, so we came on. we're going to enjoy our vacation as planned. >> nbc's kerry sanders is live from emerald isle, north carolina. what are the preps people are doing there as i know they're vacationing and watching what's taking place? >> exactly, and they are moving very slowly, but that is to be anticipated because of the distance of the storm, because there is about a 48-hour window. i think later this afternoon, people will start hunkering down on some plans, at least, of what they're doing. i just got off the phone with the administrator for fema, craig fugate, and he has been in touch with the white house not only to tell president obama about the -- well, advising him about the evacuation on okracoke island km started in morning about 5:00 with the tourists and tomorrow with the 800 remaining residents on board

pretty boy floyd was a gangster, and you can see this in public enemies burroughs book about john dillinger that's me into the movie about dillinger a while back, apparently pretty boy floyd mother was a fan of j. frank norris on the radio and took her other son to be baptized i norris. and norris eventually for brief time played intermediary between the floyd fan and j. edgar hoover, trying to get the surrender of pretty boy floyd. i thought that was a good interesting little postscript about norris, he was always find a way to get involved in public events. he had a series of health issues in the late '40s, a couple of strokes, and a lot of the stuff he had built, he sort of splintered off, he did a lot of people around him. by the time he died in 1952, several various splinter groups. he is the first one of that particular group and the splintered into a lot of different ways. he died at a youth can't. he was speaking at a youth camp in florida in august of 1952. and his body was flown back to fort worth, texas, and is buried in greed would cemetery not far from where d. e. chipps is bur

. >> bill: golds burrough, north carolina the eastern half of the state. police reporting a child has been killed in a car wreck out of north carolina intersection after the lights, traffic lights were knocked out by hurricane irene. that goes to what the governor was just saying about everybody be cautious right now, even after the worst of the storm moves through your state. as it moves through there, virginia is next. already feeling the force of hurricane irene. that storm killing two people there, including an 11-year-old boy who died when a tree crashed into his apartment building. virginia will not get the worst of this storm until about 2:00 o'clock in the morning. they got a long way to go. the mayor of virginia beach, good day to you. what are your conditions like, sir? >> i'm traveling through low lying neighborhoods. fortunately, we had them evacuated. i'm seeing water go into the houses and into businesses as we speak. right now is about the time for the tidal surgery for the sex two hours. so the tidal surge is the biggest problem. >> bill: w

statement from mayor michael bloomberg, like people up and down the east coast the people in the five burroughs have felt the tremor, and we have activated the department of buildings and thankfully no reports of significant damages or injuries at this time. as always, urge the new yorkers to call 911 only in the case of actual e energy smergency and t of the statement from the mayor of new york city michael bloomberg. we know that, pete to, your point, a lot of the information getting out at this point is about the inconveniences and the issues of checking out the soundness of the bridges, tunnels and making sure that the airports and buildings and structures are okay, but so far, we are not hearing of the major reports of damages and debris here and there, but thankfully, nothing more than that, pete. >> well, i think, tamron, the business of checking out the monumental buildings in washington, and i mean two ways, literally monuments like the lincoln memorial, and like the jefferson memorial and instructive thing happened here a couple of years ago when a little piece about the size of a --

. >> out lying burroughs, queens and brooklyn there will be more trees down and the police department, we had almost 50 trees down and that will increase and people are going back, as they go into those areas, that have been evacuated, we expect the work orders to pick up. but the wind has been high, but, certainly not as high as, you know, we anticipated. so... >> reporter: and no injuries to report. >> we have had the ordinary cases you get in a city of this size but we haven't had any really significant -- anything really significant as far as the storm is concerned. >> reporter: commissioner kelly, thank you again, see you later. we fared pretty well in the storm, however like you said, the outer areas are really going to be suffering more, rockaways and queens, low-lying areas, severe flooding there and as you have been seeing long island as well, and if you could swing the camera here i'll show you the flooding we are talking about, shep and this is pretty much a minor example, because there is actually more flooding as you go into the financial district, the district to give pe

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that was 10 megaton, and it's big enough if it's dropped on manhattan, it would wipe out five burroughings silling 75% of the population down to washington, d.c. over a period of time. in my book, i think, one of the more interesting analogies i came across was that in area 51, here we were trying to prevent war so to speak. that's what the cia was doing with the espionage plat norms, and on the other side at the test site, the atomic energy commission and the department of defense were practicing how to have a nuclear war. this spy plane that ken collins was flying was called the a-12 oxcart and people have not heard of it because it was only declassified by the cia in 2007, 50 years after its drawings and one of characters in my book is the physicist who did the draws and helped build it for the cia, but this idea that you could have these two notions working at once is a limit complicated, preventing a war but preparing to have one. the point bout the oxcart, you have probably never seen or heard of it maybe, but it's cousin is famous, and that is -- i don't know if this is a military c

was that we are burrough-based policing that had public order assets to respond and report if it degenerated to confrontation. that is what we did throughout. based policing. where there was resistance, we dealt with the disorder. crime and disorder are often the same thing. so i'm not sure it's a helpful definition saying criminality versus public order. >> on strategy. >> sir hugh, as far as continuing on the strategy a team is concerned, do we know, can you tell us how many officers were deployed from other force areas? but also can you tell us specifically were they trained officers and public order incidents? were they specialist, riot officers? >> yes. the mobilization is to mobilize those that are trained and operate in the exact same way in london as they operate in west midlands. that is why sometimes there is a need for standards. yes, the officers are trained. i will not give you the full detail, we had 390 psu's deployed. looking forward, we are still planning to provide substantial numbers . the public support -- >> police support is 25 people. give us those figures again? >> 39