geraldo, hurricane irene tore up the eastehers sea board she dned omeacityy a foot of water. they had two major rivers the compton river and pose aiackriver. a lot of northern new jersey is draining down draining south and ends up piling up in fairea iel causing major flooding. i am with the mayor he will explain some of that why they are hfor.ing historic levels on the shore of the rivers going into the passaic. what's haheiening? >> whaneps happee ang is they a coming down and it comes close to the pose back. it is choking off the pose ba p. it left our community a long time itehere a the poms opin is stoheiing the passaic river turning it around and sending the water back into our community. the volnee is coming off -- the volume is rendering the pose aiacup itaat wsant c passing th to back up and homes that a or mile and a half of the river will be ia tndated with flo se waters. >> how many are affected? >> 300 homes. >> businesses. there are businesses commerct t investment that won't be able to come back to work monday and ts nsday. >> doesnred c take a hurricane flood

craig has a forecast of what he will be giving me. >> geraldo hurricane irene has passed. two major rivers continue to rise at a historic rate causing major flooding to homes and businesses offering the latest on the evacuation, geraldo. >> forecasters got the track and timing of irene's impact perfectly the only thing they missed was the hurricane's intensity which weakened from a category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm apparently just as hurricane irene was jumping the verrazano bridge and passing the statue of liberty early this sunday morning. this system is still massive and powerful as it continues to churn through new england winds whipping at more than 50 miles an hour still and it is affecting millions of people who are without power dealing with flooded homes counting their losses even looking for away to get to work an monday morning. as strong as irene is now where is irene now. maria molina in the fox news weather center where and how strong? >> how are you doing? the center is about 20 miles south of saint johnson in vermont. so that is where the center of th

craig has a forecast of what he will be giving me. >> geraldo hurricane irene has passed. two major rivers continue to rise at a historic rate causing major flooding to homes and businesses offering the latest on the evacuation, geraldo. >> forecasters got the track and timing of irene's impact perfectly the only thing they missed was the hurricane's intensity which weakened from a category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm apparently just as hurricane irene was jumping the verrazano bridge and passing the statue of liberty early this sunday morning. this system is still massive and powerful as it continues to churn through new england winds whipping at more than 50 miles an hour still and it is affecting millions of people who are without power dealing with flooded homes counting their losses even looking for away to get to work an monday morning. as strong as irene is now where is irene now. maria molina in the fox news weather center where and how strong? >> how are you doing? the center is about 20 miles south of saint johnson in vermont. so that is where the center of th

geraldo rivera has a look at the worst in history. >> hurricane irene is bad, but it can't compare with the monsters to tear across the eastern seaboard. >> a west indzian hurricane slashes the coast and a huge tidal wave rolled in with this hundred-mile-per-hour crash. the great new england hurricane, a category 5 slammed into long island with little warning. >> there have been five days of rain when the hurricane blew, accompanied by a tremendous downpour. and the riff in massachusetts, streams turned into torrents, flood damage everywhere. >> the first major storm to hit the area in 69 years. it then crossed into connecticut and massachusetts. crushing and drowning almost everything in its path. >> the hurricane hit towns never built to withstand the blast of a tropical trant tantrum n. southern lands, they build for hurricane, but whoever expected the wind demon of the west indies would strike so far north. >> as many as 800 were killed. more than 57,000 homes destroyed by the most powerful, costliest, deadliest storm in recorded new england history. 16 years later, hazel came close

most forecasts have irene hitting south florida by the end of the week. now back to "geraldos we keep one eye on libya this is a fox news alert. i can report with confidence casey anthony returned to the state of florida. ever since her stunning deeply unpopular acquittal she murdered caylee marie the 25-year-old mom has been outside of florida flying out of orange county in the early morning hours of july 6th on a private aircraft. we have also confirmed she was in fact for a time in the state of ohio. photographs were taken of her. we can confirm those pictures are legitimate. that is indeed casey anthony you are looking at. i know how millions and millions of people will be jose baez who pulled off the legal upset of the century. great to see you. thank you for being with me. she is back in florida true or false? >> we brought her back that the appellate court rules sometime this week. we are going to follow the law wherever the courts follow the law and i am certain she will do what's asked of her if necessary and hopefully it won't come to that. >> before we get to what

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