he take as licking but keeps on ticking. >> here now the aforementioned, the wet one, geraldo rivera. >> where is the towel. [ laughter ] >> juan: geraldo, you spent the whole day preparing your house for a storm. >> today. you know, the interesting thing about -- hurricanes are kind of exciting. all the middle age and old timers love to go out there because it's like war with all the high drama, the peril, the adventure no one is shooting at you. it's predictable you know where the storm is going to hit and can you get over there it's very different when your family is the target of the storm. when we lie in the path as we do here in new york right now. you are torn. i'm torn now. should i go to atlantic city where i can be in place saturday night for the storm hitting or should i be here? you know, i have got four of my five children are here. i worry about, you know, my dock. i have moved the old sailboat up 7 a miles up the hudson river. i'm worried about the storm surge. i'm worried about a catastrophe here. lower manhattan being flooded. subways being flooded. they have already

geraldo rivera joins us live right now. good morning to you, geraldo. >> good morning, everybody. it is a joyous scene here as the fourth brigade combat team, of the elite 101st airborne comes home. their families are embracing them. some of the g.i.'s haven't seen their children at all. these little infants, you know, they marched off 24,000, our most elite military unit. we were here when they deployed -- >> steve: hmm. we were having trouble with the satellite a little earlier and it looks as if we have lost contact with geraldo rivera. what's going on there right now, it's called week of eagles with the screaming eagles there and we're going to try to -- do we have the shot back? we're having a problem with the shot out of fort campbell, kentucky. what we're going to do is step aside, take a quick time out, have geraldo on the other side. if we can't get the satellite back up, at least we'll have him on the telephone. stand by for that. >>> straight ahead, newt gingrich dragging our own chris wallace into last night's de

i am geraldo rivera. as new york and many cities up and down the northeast coast breathe a collective sigh of relief that the winds and sea water storm surge of hurricane irene didn't end the world' we know it. the impact nevertheless from the hurricane is widespread and it is serious including several dead in new york state. three in new jersey. four in virginia. six in north carolina. and three more in pennsylvania. philadelphia is also being hard hit by record flooding. tonight as we mourn the dead and tally the damage our urgent focus is on the rising water in the streams and rivers of several states. parts of vermont for example are a wash tonight. what the state police call epic flooding. the governor there adding that they have a full-blown flooding catastrophe on our hands. new jersey already exasperateed by record rainfall is also dealing with terrible flooding. craig has a forecast of what he will be giving me. >> geraldo hurricane irene has passed. two major rivers continue to rise at a histori

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geraldo rivera breaks down fact versus fiction. >> a single storm and a single event up and down the east coast. >> this is a huge, huge rain maker. >> the concern about the fact that this is a very low-lying area, it's a barrier island that could be cut off. >> it is going to be a true test of the infrastructure, whether the roadways hold and you want electricity holds up, plumbing, water system, all of those things. >> fact or fiction? hurricane names are used just once. fiction. as long as a storm does not produce catastrophic damage, its name is recycled six years later. the last irene made landfall in 2005. a modest storm. she still claimed a life. fact or fiction -- duct tape will prevent your windows from shattering. fiction. covering your window with an "x" does little to prevent glass shards from flying. >> put sheets of plywood up and make sure your shutters are well attached to the house. >> fact or fiction -- keep the windows closed and locked during a hurricane. >> fact. despite the wives' tale that says an open window helps equalize air pressure, tell let wind and water

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

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i am geraldo rivera. as new york and many cities up and down the northeast coast breathe a collective sigh of relief that the winds and sea water storm surge of hurricane irene didn't end the world' we know it. the impact nevertheless from the hurricane is widespread and it is serious including several dead in new york state. three in new jersey. four in virginia. six in north carolina. and three more in pennsylvania. philadelphia is also being hard hit by record flooding. tonight as we mourn the dead and tally the damage our urgent focus is on the rising water in the streams and rivers of several states. parts of vermont for example are a wash tonight. what the state police call epic flooding. the governor there adding that they have a full-blown flooding catastrophe on our hands. new jersey already exasperateed by record rainfall is also dealing with terrible flooding. craig has a forecast of what he will be giving me. >> geraldo hurricane irene has passed. two major rivers continue to rise at a histori

we know through our own geraldo rivera's reporting and talking with her attorney that she may do some sort of educational program rather than employment but for right now, the breaking element of this is that the florida department of corrections is saying she has done what she was supposed to do, she's reported for probation. we don't know yet what she'll be doing. she has to check into the office in person within the first five days of each month. so she may petition, she may petition to move out of state, but then she'd have to do a heck of a lot of traveling to keep up with the probation qualifications. rick, i'm still on it as that news conference brings more information of this breaking news, we'll bring it to everybody. but the headline is she's done what she's supposed to do. jenna: some new information out of libya now, we're getting reports that a key rebel commander, a former umir of an al-qaeda link group is active in the area, this adds to the growing fears that a terror group could get its hands on qaddafi's most dangerous weapons, stockpiles of deadly chemicals, schulz

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