it was actually henderson island. you know, you can't make the stuff up and so, you know just as they're on the verge of death, they cite this island sail up to it. and there's no water. they can't find any water until luckily. it's it's a spring high and low tide. and at dead low tide bubbling from a rock that's usually submerged is fresh water. you know, this is positively biblical right and and this saves for now and you know and and but they would realize that you know, and this is almost a metaphor or the human race on this planet because within just a couple of days a couple of weeks, they realize they're killing off all of the wildlife that they could sustain themselves the birds and if they stayed for any length of time they would ultimately star, you know, so they decide we got to push on and it's then where three men not nantucketers a couple of them from cape cod one was an englishman decide realized you know, this is an ingrown group of nantucketers. good luck to you boys. we're gonna stay on dry land and a

in henderson island has since become kind of a vortex for putting plastic and i think it has to do whyd up there anyway, the current sort of converge on this island so that's kind of why those three will boats ended up there at the beach where they landed, is now full of plastic garbage. this once virgin island, and it was a virgin island not a virgin island but it was absolutely pristine back when i was writing and i had this great fortune to run across the scientific study of a ecology of henderson island, group of scientists that had lived there for a certain amount of time. they all took for equipment and photographs and hugely expressive and helpful to me in the dc now, that in the last two decades what is happened to that place predict that is just heartbreaking. >> so i think that we have time for maybe one more prayed and are there any other examples of wells attacking ships. >> good question yes there are prayed in the question is what was happening here. where printed for the wells getting more aggressive, as a figure this out and there's also the possibility that there were

island. on the northeast and coast of the united states, they still packing strong wings until renshaw rain, millions of people are bracing for flooding, falling trees and power cars. let's bring in john henderson in montauk on long island. so john, what is the latest your getting there? on re walla drove the island with winds of 90 kilometers an hour. that is well below the $120.00 or so that is hurricane level. but it did send soaring waves, crashing on the still on the shore of the tiniest state in the us. now here on long island, which is the eastern most point, and where i am now is mon talk, the eastern most point on long island. the storm is largely passed by, but that doesn't mean that the damage is over in new jersey, the outer bands of that storm sent cars reeling off the new jersey turnpike. we witnessed that overnight as we drove through there. and then up here, there have been just hours and hours and hours of rains and that can cause flooding . there was concern, there would be flooding in new york city that seems to have largely been averted. the east river did not overflow its banks there. so for new york, although president biden did declare a state of emergency for this entire

or john henderson is life for us now in long island. what's the situation like why you are well on. we rolled into rhode island with 90 kilometers and our speed of when we had massive waves rolling into that small estate in the u. s. and that is an ongoing as so right now. but as for here in new york on long island where it was suspected that that storm would hit with a direct landfall that did not happen. and they have avoided the worst of it. as a matter of fact, the sun is now coming out after just hours after that storm passed by with its outer. ready bans battering this part of new york. there was also concerned that downtown new york city might be overrun to the east river might flow into the city that didn't happen is well, but the concern here is not so much the high winds, which as you say, have been downgraded from hurricane strength in 24 hours to currently the tropical storm level. it's the water that is the big concern. that storm is expected to continue to slow down as it goes over rhode island, up through massachusetts, and possibly through maine before it goes back o

john henderson is in montauk new york, on re rolled into rhode island on massive waves making a rare and raucous landfall, and new england downgraded from a hurricane on sunday, unrestricted new york before becoming the 1st tropical storm to land in this small estate in 30 years threatening the northeast coast of the us on re reserved the brent of its fury for rhode island, snapping trees like twigs in kent, exploding electrical transformers in newport and battering in beaching boats in jamestown. president biden declared a state of emergency in new york, connecticut, and rhode island. and while new englanders are used to dealing with some tough weather, the storm has potential for widespread consequences across the region with significant flooding power outages that could affect hundreds of thousands of people. and so we're doing everything we can now to help those states prepare, respond, and recover for a broad swath of the atlantic coast. that process has already begun. the storms spared the wars for a long island, which fear to direct hit, but it's still whipped up high winds an