tony guida, cbs news, new york. >>> and irene's first target was north carolina coast. the outer banks took a beating. governor beverly says the beaches will be reopened in time for the summer's final weekend. mark strassmann was there just as the storm passed. >> reporter: at daybreak, irene was gone. beauty was back. and mike kessler discovered his brother was still alive in kill devil hills. steve kessler's house took a hit, $50,000 in damages. >> and it just kept coming and it kept coming and it kept coming, and that wind -- >> reporter: irene lashed coastal carolina, hit hard, hit fast. its early hours sucked the life frl the outer banks. irene was a disaster with a small "d." yes, snapshots of damage in hatteras and despair in rodincy, but not wholesale destruction. >> here's the waterline right here. >> reporter: in ada andrew's house, the water is going down. so is her anxiety. >> i live through them because it's beautiful 364 days of the year. >> reporter: and steve kessler still has a roof over his head. >> inside i can handle. it's the outside that's -- that'

one in bruns vick and new port news from falling trees.have a unconfirmed point of third fatalities because of a downedistry. i mentioned that we have 300,000 evacuation and as much as tens of thousands of others who voluntarily evacuated and 49 localits declared local emergency declarations and all of eastern virginia and jurisdiction to the west. we have 14 localits that are ordered mandatory evacuations and most of the those were completed by noon today. let me give you the status report on the roads. all of the bridge tunnel in. hampton roads have been closed and commissioner warren will up date you on when they plan to reopen those. they have reponded to 152 track crashes and disabled vehicles. and a lot trouble in the state of virginia. two million virginia residents. he said 700,000 hook ups and two million virginiians without power and add that to north carolina and quick math indicates three million americans who are without power as fox reports tonight. >> at least six or more deaths that are contributed to this. if you thought t

it puts it 115 miles from new york city. we've been focusing on new york. there is a reason to are that. new york is say place that has 8 million, 9 million people in op population. you're talking about a lot of people being affected in a place that's not known for its hurricane preparedness. new york is ready for a lot of stuff. it ain't quite ready for this. you have the airports closed, the public transit closed down. they're telling us, can you imagine this, tomorrow morning, rush hour, the commute, no public transit tomorrow in new york. >> a lot of people don't have cars. they rely on the subway system and the buss to get where they have to go. people are basically stuck at their homes. it's unclear -- maybe that's what they need, people to stay home for a while and maybe that's what's going to happen here. >> the mayor is telling them to do that, asking everybody to evacuate. that was yesterday, the day before. that's over. don't even try to go anywhere now. you need to stay in your homes. jacqui jeras, do i have you over there? >> i think you got me

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up just ahead on the "cbs morning news," vice president biden heads to china for tough talk on the economy. >>> plus the tabloid phone hacking scandal in britain that could affect the murdoch family directly. >>> first scott pelley with a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> many families lost everything when a tornado devastated joplin, missouri, three months ago. now as school begins we will speak to a woman who has figured out how to get new clothes for all the kids in town who need them. that story tonight on the "cbs evening news." them. that story tonight on the "cbs evening news." finally, there's a choice for my patients with an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem. today we have pradaxa to reduce the risk of a stroke caused by a clot. in a clinical trial, pradaxa 150 mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there's no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradax

tuxedo park, new york, almost 1.5-inches. wayne, new jersey, 10.2.hat kind of rain falling in short time on saturated ground causes all kinds of flooding and we knew that would happen and that turned out to be the case. parts of pennsylvania, a lot of upstate or the northern part of jersey up towards the delaware water gap. and look at all of the counties. parts of maine. a lot of vermont, a lot of vermont. around massachusetts and the berkshires. the rain still falling at rapid rates and causing big problems for them still. >> shepard: rick reichmuth live in the fox extreme weather center. we are supposed to go a town break and we are going to. sea side heights new jersey is a place you might have heard of on that tv show and appears that they are coming back to sea side heights so the world is saved. we'll be right back in just a moment with continuing coverage of what is left of the storm. i'm shepard smith shepar. ohill nice to have you in. defends al constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with the strains of good bacteria to help balance your

no new jersey transit. to talk about the airplane coming in and out of the city, all cancelled flights, newark, new jersey and jfk international, la guardia, the three biggest, all of those airports are open for people to seek shelter. but no flights will be going out. as for public transportation, shut down until late monday. that will be a monday morning nightmare of a commute for a lot of new york residents. as we wait for the hurricane to come nwe are expecting 70-mile-per-hour winds, a category 1. certainly not strong for those of you who are sitting in florida, new york city, nevertheless, a very big deal and we are told by the new york city police commissioner, ray kelly, who spoke with me earlier, that in fact, new yorkers are complying. they are compliant for once. they have heeded the evacuation. we will be continuing to watch and see how new yorkers weather this storm as hurricane irene makes its way, close to new york city. >> thank you, julie. glad people are listening to those warnings. a lot

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that's the tube that goes from new york to new jersey. we still that have south tube which goes from new jersey to new york open. we're strongly advising anyone to go to the holland tunnel to die stroert the lincoln tunnel which is still fully opened. >> i was not aware it broke down that way. north tunnel is new york to new jersey which means that's all shut off. no way to incorporate two way traffic at all. i know sometimes you can do that. you can split up lanes with cones and the like but that's not plan right now with the port authority? >> that's not the plan. rather have people use the lincoln tunnel. lincoln tunnel is open and gives people safe passage from new york into new jersey. >> steve, can you tell me to what you can attribute this flooding. i'll tell you, when you go in these tunnels you know you have these weird sort of fascinating dreams about what would happen if the tunnels had water coming into them from the river. is this kind of flooding merely from the overflow coming in from either end? is that what is it or liter

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that's good news.ion right along the new york, connecticut state line and that's where we see the center of the storm. a close up view, you can see the flooding going to occur inland as it continues the trek towards new england. we have rain falling over new york and vermont and new hampshire and into maine. now a tropical storm excepted to remain a tropical storm through today before it drops off to a depression. it will continue to threaten the east coast and bring the potential for major flooding, 10-15". it's not over yet. let's come home and stalk about the fog and what to except. we are looking at the partly cloudy, mostly sunny skies. we have it gray over the bay and the coastline. north bay reporting dense fog. by 11:00, mostly clear skies around the region. by noontime, we're clearing back to the coastline. the dense fog burning off and looking at drizzle along the coastline. some may have used our windshield wipers this morning. the bay area 70s and 80s. inland from 2-5 degrees warmer today.

that includes new jersey, new york, and connecticut.evacuations, those will stay in effect and public transportation will not resume until monday. if you haven't gotten out by now, you better do so soon and the taxis are actually price gouging right now. one of my friends tried to get in a cab and they were charging $10 a person. they know they can because there is really no other way to get around here. martha? >> martha: that's shocking. i cannot believe that the taxicab drivers, knowing that there is absolutely no other form of transportation around the city, are actually price gouging. unbelievable. nobody would believe that happening in new york city. let me ask you about the surrounding areas -- only in new york, kids -- talk to me about the surrounding areas, new jersey, as they prepare for this as well. >> well, like we have here experienced in battery park, low lying areas have been evacuated. right across the river, hudson river to my left, you've got hoboken, they have evacuated low lying areas, also for newark, new jersey. b

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evacuate new york. thousands are ordered to leave the city and low-lying areas as hurricane irene races towards america's atlantic coast. >> i cannot stress this highly enough, if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. >> horrific and cowardly, the u.s. condemns the suicide bomb attack on a u.n. building in nigeria's capital. at least 18 people have been killed. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. coming up later -- three weeks after a record number of police take to the streets of london. hello and welcome. evidence is emerging from tripoli as hundreds of killings in the days before the fall of the capital. with the center of tripoli mainly quiet, human rights group have been able to gain access to areas previously too dangerous to enter. there are reports of hundreds of decomposing bodies, which some found handcuffed and shackled or riddled with bullets. our world news editor

new hope. ktvu consumer editor tom vacar there to tell us why bargain hunters and house hunters may soon find a deal. >> reporter: i have to tell you, i have not seen this much concentrated construction in one place since the boom before the bust. construction is fully under way on this 120 store factory outlet mall in livermore. almost a thousand construction projects are going on. >> the center means over 2,000 permanent jobs. >> reporter: the carpenters union protest that it is all done with labor that can't shop here. >> we don't have anything right now that is close by. no target which is coming around here. >> reporter: it's not just factory outlets and other retailers, it's housing as well. three developers will have another thousand workers building hundreds of new homes. >> a project of that size in california is enormous at this time particularly in the state of our industry and probably across the country as well. >> reporter: the livermore valley seems to be solidly coming out of re

jim avila, abc news, new york. >> funny news about ththe new zealand snow.o you remember happy feet, the penguin who got lost? >> yeah, yeah, of course. >> he was loving life with all that snow. he's like, oh, that's my hometown of antarctica. >> didn't he make it back? >> no, he's still hanging out there. >> he's still there? oh, man. what a journey that guy had. >>> here's your tuesday forecast. scattered showers in the new york city area. another day of heavy rain for much of new england. wet in south florida. severe storms and tornados around f fargo, minneapolis, de moines and omaha. thunderstorms in the southern and central rockies. >> 90 in albuquerque. 94 in colorado springs. mostly 80s across the midwest. 75 here in new york. 83 in baltimore. 91 in my hometown of miami. >> a miami girl. >>> president obama will unveil his new plan later today to jump start the economy and create jobs. mr. obama wants to spend more on small businesses in rural areas and also encourage investment. under his plan the usda will allow people to search for jobs at its fie

a brand new approach opening a new era in fighting cancer. >>> reality tv. a deeper look at one "housewives" show after a husband's suicide. >>> and welcome back. 87 days after this tornado, see how your generosity gave the kids of joplin the joy of a new school year just like other kids. >>> good evening tonight. relief and gratitude for the anonymous tipster who may have prevented a tragedy like columbine. just six days from now, 2,100 students were planning to start the new school year at freedom high in tampa, but also making plans, according to police, a troubled teen. a lone wolf with materials for a bomb. but as we said, this time, a tipster may have saved the day. and abc's yunji de nies is in tampa to tell us about it. yunji? >> reporter: good evening, diane. if jared cano's plot had gone the way he allegedly planned, the first day of class here at freedom high school would have seen the deadliest high school attack since columbine. police say jared cano detailed his murder plot down to the minute in a manifesto, mapping out where he would plant a s

violent, new jersey. five teenagers whose boat capsized in a raging creek, hanging on for their lives until firefighters launched a risky mission, paddling through trees and branches to pull them to safety. >> we didn't realize the current was as strong as it was. basically, as we were coming up, we realized, wow, it's getting really strong. >> reporter: white marsh township, pennsylvania, an elderly couple rescued after climbing into their attic to escape the rising waters. north philadelphia, a building containing a chinese restaurant and a family home collapsed due to heavy rains. nobody got hurt. many people in these parts assumed the coast would get the worst of irene. but while the beach communities did get hit, it was the suburbs, some 50 miles inland, that really got nailed. and while the winds were bad, knocking down this enormous tree, fofoexample, it was the water that did the real damage. the storm dumped 5.7 inches of rain in 18 hours, more than this area usually gets in a month. today, the s

up and down the east coast, we have a list, new hampshire, new jersey.et hit really hard. >> the models really are narrowing at this point. it is coming this way. no one's arguing that anymore. so it's just a matter of getting ready now with north carolina bracing for the worst. as you just saw, let's get an update on the storm's path. >> accuweather meteorologist jim dickey is tracking the storm. good morning, jim. >> good morning, rob and tanya. wewe, hurricane irene remains a very large and very powerful hurricane this morning. you can see on the ir satellite imagery, a bit of an eye popping up here in the satellite imagery, again, that shows this s storm, if anything, starting to strengthen. once again, we're expecting it to briefly reach category 4 strength. and roll towards the coast of f north carolina. make landfall as a category 3 hurricane, between moorehead city and capaphatteras. that brings wind gusts up to or over 115 miles per hour, 120 miles per hour. along with massive storm surge. you can see the winds will move northward, up into new e

what's it like in new jersey, new york and up dand down the eastern seaboard? -- up and downed the eastern seaboard? >> reporter: millions are out of power. the number was 5 million at peak but it kept going on and off in different areas. there were a lot of areas right on the coastline taking the brunt of the storm just last night that didn't lose power. one couple went to connecticut, they lost power there and their house here never lost power. so yeah, it's really no joke. there are still millions without power and some will be dealing with this for days. >> as for travel to the area for people maybe from the bay area who are trying to get become to new york or new jersey, what's the situation like there? will we have backups for days as far as air travel is concerned? >> reporter: good luck. the airlines are slowly ramping back up. the big problem here is local transit. we have new york city bus systems, subway systems, trains, it's a commuter nightmare as things ramp back up. same thing for flights. the airports will be a mob scene. it's going to be very d

the fbi has a new lead.an is quoted as saying, our most promising lead. at the fbi forensic lab in quantico, virginia, they're said to be looking at a piece of property belonging to an apparently new suspect which is all they're saying for now about a case that, because the bad guy was never found, has entered the annals of criminal legend. >> he was the 1970s versioioof bonnie and clyde. >> reporter: jeffrey gray's book "skyjack" comes out in a few weeks. >> he was somebody who through his daring and courage and romanticism was able to change the way people think about something and he developed a cult following that continues to this day. ♪ have you ever seen old d.b. cooper again ♪ >> reporter: indeed, cooper, the name on the ticket he used that day in 1971 has been a character for dozens of songs and tv shows. and one film "in pursuit of d.b. cooper," the story of a man in a suit who shows up with what looks like a bomb, demands money, lets most of the passengers go and then jumps, never to be seen again

abc news learns details of president obama's new plan to put americans back to work. what he'll announce next week. will it be enough to reverse the jobs crisis? >>> to the rescue. victims of irene still being saved from raging floods. and as rivers rise and roads crumble, the national guard rushes in to help. but what about the rescues that didn't need to happen? >>> targeting cancer. a new drug gets approved to treat deadly lung cancer, shrinking tumors, saving lives. it's a breakthrough for personalized medicine. >>> and help wanted. the queen is hiring. if you're a self-starting perfectionist that loves the outdoors, her majesty has the job of a lifetime for you. >>> good evening. abc news has new reporting tonight on the jobs front president obama will propose next week. we know that jobs are what matters most to you. the president knows his job is on the line, too. that's why this plan is so critical. the white house tells us it will be new, signififint and details. and even telling us what you want to hear from the president. here's what you sent on twitter. we

i'm at cbs news headquarters in new york. good morning. irene is making her new york debut.d here just before 9:00 this morning in coney island downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm but still packing winds of up to 65 miles per hour. irene first made landfall in north carolina yesterday as a category one hurricane and on her track up the east coast, she has brought heavy rain and flooding that left millions without power. at this hour the center of the tropical storm is centered growth of new york city, highest sustained winds are now 60 miles per hour. the storm is moving north northeast at about 26 miles per hour. the storm is blamed for at least 10 deaths in five states, including two children. more than 4 million homes and businesses up and down the east coast are without electricity and more than 11,000 flight had been canceled potentially affecting millions of travelers nationwide. this morning airports in new york, newark, new jersey, and philadelphia remain closed. we have a team of correspondents to play throughout the hurricane zone all along the east coa

you hear about new orleans, new york city. it's because of the way their coast lines irshaped., if it's moving due north towards new york city the winds will be such that all that water will be jammed up a very small river and the thing that scares me about this storm and remind me of hurricane ike is that circulation is really large and it seems to have expanded throughout the day. you're piling up all that water over such a larger area and as the storm moves north even if it is winds decreasing, it will take longer for that water to settle down. so as this is moving north, the storm surge could be more significant than how the winds are with the hurricane. >> reed, chris, thank you very much indeed. >>> what man who helped with recovery in katrina, what he expects from this storm. >>> joining me now is martin o'malley. what can you tell me what's is going on right now in your state? >> right now, piers, what's happening the window for preparation time is coming to a close as we anticipate the arrival of irene. we've done a lot of good work in the last 24, 48 hours. that's the

r t coming up a new president but old problem. as the people of in the caucuses make their choice at the ballot box we look at what lies ahead for the new leader and his republic struggles to rebuild after winning independence from georgia. the richest a sector of french society is pledging another three percent of its annual income this week to help the country battle its descent into debt as growth slumps france has also announced some twelve billion euro worth of cuts but as artie's daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fears social unrest could follow. france enjoys a triple a credit rating for now but with one of the choice dates ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bet on it to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on its debt this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend was just mr circles is presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water. or. france is going on the tolerance l

thanks for watching bay area news. nbc "nightly news" is next. see you back here at 6:00. >>> flooding not yet at its peak. major damage to report from this vast and unusual summer storm that stopped an entire region cold. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> from nbc news world quarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> it's been an eventful 24 hours on the east coast of the united states. let's get right to what is left of irene and where it is. surging up to canada, taking the rain with it but not the wind and certainly not the trouble like the flooding that is yet to crest. like the fact that millions of americans are going into this late summer sunday night with no power, and it may be that way for a while in some areas. irene is now technically a tropical storm and on its way out it's slamming new england. there's what looks like tornado damage in some places. some suburbs. and flooding like those pictures we sometimes see from overseas. this is vermont. more on that late

and hours ago, new york city mayor michael bloomberg addressed the people of new york city. >> the edge of the hurricane is finally come upon us and conditions are expected to deteriorate rapidly. according to the national weather service, tropical winds can be expected from this point forward. a tornado watch, just to make life more complex, is in effect until 5:00 a.m. in the five boroughs and in nassau, suffolk, westchester and rockland counties. hopefully, that won't happen. but there is the potential. combined, i think it's fair to say that these conditions make it unsafe to stay outside. let me repeat that. the time for evacuation is over. everyone should now go inside and be prepared to stay inside until weather conditions improve, which won't likely be until sunday afternoon. but we will get through this next 24 hours, i assure you. the city has taken exhaustive steps to prepare for whatever comes our way and the very best first responders are going to work nonstop through the night to make sure we get through this night as safely as possible. i am joined by our fire commissione

abc news, new york city. -- bbc news. >> still to come, 10 years after the attack sub 9/11. artists in edinburgh use the sensitive subject to inspire their performances. >> japan will get a new prime minister, the sixth in five years. there is a divided legislature, a fractured party, and a tough economic agenda. >> bound members of his party, this will be the sixth prime minister in five years. he was little known even in japan before he became the finance minister last summer. now he will be the leader of the third largest nation. mr. noda promises to bring japan back. >> i want people to feel the change of administration was worthwhile. >> mr. noda is a fiscal conservative. he wants to restart the reactor is idled after the fukushima disaster and phase them out slowly. his argument is that the wartime leaders tried and executed were not were criminals. he has expressed concerns about the growing chinese military might. >> in terms of foreign policy, he will emphasize a strong u.s. alliance, and he will probably also try to reach out to the chinese, too. noda does have a s

andrea canning, abc news, jones beach, new york. >> i applaud that man.ully. >> he's still got it. he looks pretty good for 61 years old. >> i don't understand the whole speedo look. what do you - anyn the old banana hammock? what do you think? >> what do you think? >> i don't know. i was in mexico a few days ago and there were old dudes by the kin u that's our facebook question on wnnfans.com. should 61-year-o n >>> this morning on "world news now" -- new leads in the case of a utah mother who disappeared nearly two years ago. >> police released new details about susan powell's disappearance as crews resume searching for her. it's friday, august 19th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> and good friday morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm diana alvear. >>> susan powell's husband claimed she disappeared when he went on a camping trip with the couple's two young children. this morning we'll hear from one of powell's closest friends who's relieved to hear about this potential new development. >>> also ahead in this half hour, desperation i

then in 1954, carol and edna, a pair of category threes, hit new york and new england just days apart. but the biggest hurricane, that same year, 1954, was hazel, which cut a path of destruction from south carolina to canada. so with all of us depending on cell phones these days, we wondered how the cell system would stand up to such a storm. we asked chip reid to look into whether we will all stay connected. >> reporter: when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the east coast earlier this week, so many people grabbed their cell phones to call family and friends that networks quickly became overloaded. the situation became so serious that the federal emergency management agency urged the public to use e-mail or text messages so that emergency officials can continue to receive and respond to urgent calls. nearly ten years after 9/11-- when overloaded cell phone systems crashed, possibly hindering the response of police and firefighters-- the federal government is still searching for a solution. now, with hurricane irene, there's the added threat of wind damage to signal towers. maggie re

that's all good news. the issue of course in the list there is the subway because that's how new yorkers get around and also the issue for people doing some of the cleanup from we've heard up to 3 feet of water that poured into some of these buildings that run pair legal to the west side highway running parallel to the hudson river which as we showed you earlier around 8:00 this morning overtopped its banks and poured into some of these apartments. all things considered, when people thought how bad it could potentially get, that is not much of a cleanup from what people in new york city were expecting. the high winds are nothing compareded to what we thought we would be dealing with. >> that's good news. how about a lot of people behind you. folks have been milling about. what have many been telling about their experience over the past 24 to 48 hours? >> look at this. that's the statue of liberty over my shoulder. this is tourist central. you have down here the mix of locals who live in lower manhattan who

very sweet. >> it's going to be like something to do with a new dance and a new video with her.'ll be doing something about the baby and probably the belly rub. >> you know, bump alert. this is big in hollywood. >> i'm lynn berry, and this is "first look" on msnbc, but stay tuned. way too early with willy geist starts right now. >>> hurricane irene, she has come and gone, but the question is how big and how costly will cleaning up after her be? >>> and on the eave of the release of his new tell-all memoir we're learning more about dick cheney's thoughts on his years in the west wing. the question is which of cheney's colleagues think his memory might be fuzz where i? >>. >>> the mtv moour music awards, and topping the list of the spectacle that you had to see,

public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called the low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york that are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to evacuate their homes and go to shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation for this hurricane hurricane irene it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum weak from their building this storm is expected to hit the city by nine pm with wind gusting anywhere between forty and eighty miles per hour u.s. president barack obama has issued a state of emergency for new york meaning that new york will receive federal funding oba

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it actually hit new york city? because it would run all the way over new jersey. now, we're talking 50 miles one way or the other. and that's 35, 40 hours away. if this is over new jersey the entire time, the storm will lose some power. if it's just offshore, anderson, it still could be that cat 2, 2 1/2. i don't think 3 because the water's colder up here. but it would not lose as much energy as it would if it would just run over new jersey the entire time. and the piney woods. i'm talking between atlantic city and trenton and princeton and kind of run on up the turnpike. that would lose a lot of energy. it could steal a lot of energy because the eye is not over water. so that's the potential there. >> there you go. this is what it looks like. this is the map. this is the map of inundation. all the way over to south street sea port. there are the tall ships. if you come around here on the other side as well you can actually see that part of the world trait tower complex, and i know you've been there, what did they

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>> heather: fox news alert. new developments out of afghanistan in the helicopter crash. u.s. officials are saying the chopper was leading a night mission. americans on board were providing back-up support for u.s. army rangers. it's the single deadliest loss to the u.s. military in the afghan war and taliban claiming it shot that chopper down. >> welcome to a brand-new hour. on board some of america's bravest. 30 u.s. troops were killed. among those heroes, 20 u.s. navy seals and elite seal team six. the one that carried out the deadly strike on osama bin laden but it's believed that none of the seals took part in that mission. cochb ner has the latest on the mission. >> reporter: u.s. military today launched an operation to recover that downed chinook and bodies of 30 american troops and eight afghans on board. this was the single deadliest attack since the start of the war. the operation to recover the helicopter and all the bodies could fake some time. we believe they will prove remove from the bodies from the area and try to get the chinook out of the way. for the militar

pennsylvania, northern parts of new jersey, upstate new york.tate of vermont towards maine as well. big flooding concerns will continue. heaviest moving in across parts of northern new england not dealing with southern new england as much. still windy conditions. then, if you hear anybody talking about another tropical storm out there right now, bill, there is another one that formed this morning it is jose. not to be worried about. you are going to hear people say it and it is going to make people get concerned. it is not a factor. it is around areas of bermuda. it is not going to impact. >> bill: it should be repeated. this storm is the exception, not the rule for something taking a straight turn north going up the east coast. it hasn't happened in decades. >> you are right it is not the rule. usually they deflected out to sea. that did not happen this time with this storm. unfortunate for so many people. now we have the last few hours to worry about. >> bill: rick, thank you. estimates in north carolina are high. 400 millions in damage. north

that is good news. i still think because of the size of this storm that that flooding po sensual in downtown new york in manhattan in even towards rockaway beach and long beach in new york still there as the waves will be pushing and the winds will be pushing water up against that shore for a very long time. here is what has happened to the storm as the turn happened. it was very low pressure. right now the pressure is low enough to make a category three hurricane. it's just not organized enough to get the category winds it is much harder than hurricane direction. we can wake up tomorrow morning and see something bigger than that. we will see. i don't think that is what is in the forecast and not what anybody else here will do as well. very close to ed who is right there. probably a little bit farther to the east now. just to the west of the cape light. and then back just to the west there. that's about over to the east of virginia beach. the problem is that we will have such a wind field. so just like

disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine p. am saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to a halt it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to evacuate from their building now up until this point new yorkers were really taking these warnings and these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to the stores to stock up on good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructure of ne

eastern on espn news.rodgers. >>> now to the play of the day at a minor league baseball game in mississippi. >> i love this story. military wife was chosen to throw out the ceremonial first pitch but when darla went to shake the catcher's hand she was shocked to discover it was actually her husband major michael harlow michael harlow had been serving afghanistan for the past nine months. he'll now get ten weeks with his family before heading back to the war zone. >> what a wonderful surprise. can you imagine what was going through her head at that moment? said he did this once before. the first time she actually fainted so she's a little better right there. >> he's a romantic guy. that's great. >>> up next the stories we'll be following later today. stay with us. i didn't understand it. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia -- thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica i