so what does noaa do? noaa is the agency that has been charged with that federal foundation responsibility. we are charged with operating satellites and polar orbits that deutsch scans are around the planet and the planet rotates underneath. we work in partnership with the defense department and the egg european meteorological. he mentioned the pass and the impleader satellite path. there was a european satellite and in the morning it was the noaa and in the afternoon that is the kind of international collaboration on the observations characterized in the enterprise if i may use that term for more than a century. the united states makes myriad measurements from satellites and other systems every day multiple times a day. characterizes the atmosphere and weather patterns over our country. satellites of course are indispensable for many reasons including the upstream areas over the pacific ocean that are going to become the united states three, four, five days on the road. they make vertical profiles of the

so what does noaa do? noaa is the agency that has been charged with that federal foundation responsibility. we are charged with operating satellites and polar orbits that deutsch scans are around the planet and the planet rotates underneath. we work in partnership with the defense department and the egg european meteorological. he mentioned the pass and the impleader satellite path. there was a european satellite and in the morning it was the noaa and in the afternoon that is the kind of international collaboration on the observations characterized in the enterprise if i may use that term for more than a century. the united states makes myriad measurements from satellites and other systems every day multiple times a day. characterizes the atmosphere and weather patterns over our country. satellites of course are indispensable for many reasons including the upstream areas over the pacific ocean that are going to become the united states three, four, five days on the road. they make vertical profiles of the

so what does noaa do? noaa is the agency that has been charged with that federal foundation responsibility. we are charged with operating satellites and polar orbits that deutsch scans are around the planet and the planet rotates underneath. we work in partnership with the defense department and the egg ropean meteorological. he mentioned the pass and the impleader sellite path. there was a european satellite and in the morning it was the noaa and in the afternoon that is the kind of international collaboration on the observations characterized in the enterprise if i may use that term for more than a century. the united states makes myriad measurements from satellites and other systems every day multiple times a day. characterizes the atmosphere and weather patterns over our country. satellites of course are indispensable for many reasons including the upstream areas over the pacific ocean that are going to become the united states three, four, five days on the road. they make vertical profiles of the key

the answer for noaa is no. we don't have the resources to respond to two spills, and over the last several years, the resources for the specific group that does most of our core response has had to be right-sized because of a lack of resources, and during the course of this event, everybody that still wasn't in a walker that had retired and was still somewhere around, we brought back to try and just have enough resources to respond to this one spill, so given the budgets that we're looking at, we're very concernedded about our ability -- concerned about our ability to respond. >> one is on the decision making process, the new mou with boemer, what resources you think you need to accomplish that, and the second part is more global on the oil spill capacity itself, what you think the response or resources' need is for that. can you do that, if possible, for the rod? >> yes. >> real numbers and expertise. >> we'd be happy to do that. >> great. let me ask the admiral quick questions and i'll have questions to submi

so what does noaa do? noaa is the agency that has been charged with that federal foundation responsibility. we are charged with operating satellites and polar orbits that deutsch scans are around the planet and the planet rotates underneath. we work in partnership with the defense department and the egg european meteorological. he mentioned the pass and the impleader satellite path. there was a european satellite and in the morning it was the noaa and in the afternoon that is the kind of international collaboration on the observations characterized in the enterprise if i may use that term for more than a century. the united states makes myriad measurements from satellites and other systems every day multiple times a day. characterizes the atmosphere and weather patterns over our country. satellites of course are indispensable for many reasons including the upstream areas over the pacific ocean that are going to become the united states three, four, five days on the road. they make vertical profiles of the

>>shepard: continuing coverage, eight minutes before the hour, and the storm trackers from noaa haveights to monitor this storm. the agency has been using a special float of planes equipped with sensors to track the movement. and fox news went along for a flight. and phil keating is live in the center in south florida. phil? hello. >> there is a lot of thrill seeking with the hurricane hunters. we covered irene wednesday and thursday from the bahamas. when we left our beloved hollywood photographer had to fly to newark. his plane flew all the way around hurricane irene because no commercial aircraft is going to flies into a storm like this but at the air force base outside of tampa that is what the hurricane hunters do, fly a butterfly pattern, crisscrossing flying in and out through the eye at least throw times, recording everything you can possibly record out there. and the aircraft, these are built to shake and rattle and roll and you are on board the planes you don't even fell it, it is bumpy, for sure, but unbelievable views out the window, a perspective like no other of a massi

right now let's bring in the deputy administrator for noaa, katherine suddenly have. h sullivan.gton, watching cnn on this plane. you told an amazing story when you were flying through this hurricane. tell us what that was all about. >> we're flying every two hours through this storm. >> chad myers gives us the new forecast, that's the work of noaa. >> that's right. >> the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. >> noaa pulls all that information together from around the globe, we run it through the supercomputer models and then we turn and rely on partners like you, wolf and chad myers to make sure that our citizens understand. we go the other way and work with core partners in the emergency management sectors so the mayors and governors that you've been featuring on your show today, our guys are tied zrektdly and embedded with their staff to see if they is the -- tough decisions they have to make with this danger baring down on their communities. >> i have been on bumpy flights where there's been turbulence, i can only imagine, it's a p-3, right? i can only imagine goi

from yes noaa you had, you know, the ships going overseas, and it was easy to reach this area. one other reason is in italy there was no allied military government anymore. ending in the december '45, the allies kind of, you know, stopped the military government, and the italians were in charge again. so once these perpetrators, nazis and fascists from all over europe made it to italy, made it over the border to italy they kind of were safe. they kind of were protected. the border area of south tirile, it's a little bit -- no? see it here? played a particular role. gunther mentioned it, talked about woodrow wilson, and this border area was and is still mostly german speaking. and the people there, of course, were very german-friendly. and so german-speaking refugees of people on the round there, german background, they were not handed over to the italian authorities. they were hidden by the people there. and south tirile really became the perfect hideout for these nazis on the run. italy was the lodge cay way. south tirile was the first stopover, and it was one of, basically, t

noaa has a squadron of pilots who sign up for the duty of flying planes into hurricanes? for the sake of our predictability? >> that's right. we have two airplanes that are crewed out of tampa in florida, and they fly more or less continuously during a hurricane in the u.s. >> now, brian, back to you. the science of the modeling. you know, i think a lot of folks are suspicious these days of claims of sophistication in models. just had a financial meltdown to sort of tank the economy. based on a lot of folks who thought the financial models they were doing were minimizing risks, ed set ra, et cetera? how would you explain that the modeling done for this kind of weather science isn't as full of phony baloney as the financial shenanigans and rocket science found in their models? >> the issue of going to this kind of better intensity forecast is really about getting models that are first of all, that have higher resolutions so you can actually see the structures that are important, which are not able to be done in the global models. and there are fundamental science questions

we a partnerships with a national motion that region -- we have partnerships with noaa. with storm surges, they predicted simulation i refer to the development of a computer models which can be used in real time to forecast forms sturgises -- storm surges. we to produce actual measurements taken during the storm and study future scenarios for regions which i will discuss below. the computer model that we have developed his advanced circulation model. it takes in put and computes water levels driven by hurricane-force winds and waves. it has been used to study hurricane's for over a decade. it was used in forensic studies during katrina. as i mentioned, predictive stimulation of storm surge can fall into three categories, forecast, and future some areas. in forecast mode, we use different computers to generate a high resolution forecast typically within an hour prefers, purchasing texas or louisiana -- typically within an hour. here we attempt to match the output with measured data as was done for hurricane katrina. they help validate the predicted its capabilities of the

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i'm the director of response or restoration for noaa. and as they are giving up my presentation on the screen, i would just be a little bit about my office. i've been there as jim points out, going on for years now. at our office is in charge of, we have an emergency response division that supports the coast guard and epa and other responders with scientific support during emergency response. and you'll see how that happened in deepwater horizon. whether natural resource damage assessment division, and under law we are the natural resource trustees for the maritime resources in assessing the damage, collecting the money that damage done to the public, and then putting that money back in to restoration projects. and that is ongoing and will continue. and again you hear about that later. i also have a marine debris division that looks out the pollution. but had you asked me maybe two years ago whether i would be talking at this conference i would probably say yeah, i would come year but i would be talking to some of the tools we provide to

this storm itself, our contributions to the hurricane modelling with noaa have allowed us to develop the tracks and follow them. this storm is following tracks like bill, edna and gloria has followed in the past. we're watching it very closely with noaa and keeping track and adjusting that track model the whole time. behind me is a graphic from our core map viewers that shows the current track as it is and infrared shot of the storm itself. right now, the centerline impact shows that it's going happen right around the nassau county suffolk county line on long island. yesterday that line was through, right at the direct hit of new york. if this storm moves west, it could be. moves east it will make people certainly in new york and long island breathe easier. but it leaves boston, rhode island, massachusetts that could bear the brunt. we're tracking it closely. our models contributed to something called the hurricane evacuation models that have helped inform state and local leaders and federal agencies as they made recommendations and then course those state leaders made decisions. >>

i'm on noaa's c-3 aircraft. we just passed through the center of tropical storm or hurricane irene.he south side of the storm was kind of benign but the south of the storm is quite bumpy. we got knocked around quite good. this is about par for the course especially with the storm at this stage, category 1, category 2 hurricane. parts of it can be rough, and parts of it are smooth. but right now, like i said, we're on the north side just out of morehead city and we're getting bounced around pretty good. >> getting knocked around pretty good. some people chase hurricanes from 30,000 feet. others do it on the ground up close. sometimes they get video like this. we showed a portion it to you at the top of the broadcast. this is what hurricane irene looked like at a category 3 storm when it hit the bahamas. then take a look, this is some of the damage that the storm did in new jersey's governor chris christie and everybody else in a leadership position has said you don't want to thereabout when stuff like this happens. jim edge was. it's his job. he joins us now. jim, you were on the isl

tomorrow, the role of noaa, and friday, the role of the national weather service. today, climatology. james kinter is a climate dynamics professor at george mason university. let's begin with what is climatology. guest: climatology is a study of the statistics of weather. a lot of people confuse weather and climate. they tended to think of climate is just the same thing as weather. what we do is study the long- term variability and statistics of weather. we look at temperature records, precipitation records, sunshine, cloudiness, pressure and so on in the atmosphere. we also look at how the variability in the world's oceans happen to transpire from year to year and decade to decade. host: what is done with the information? guest: there is a lot of data collected. we have an apparatus a classic mcculloh, both in the united states and -- and apparatus across the globe, both in the united states and other countries, to collect the information. we have a lot of resources deployed in the atmosphere and in the ocean to try to measure those quantities i was just talking a

this is one of noaa's finest missions i think. the satellites give us a lot of information about hurricanes and about the general atmosphere -- but -- it gives us forecast accuracy that we need. we really have to have measurements from -- that's what we're go doing on this flight. we are making transitions through the storm. we have several radar systems that are helping us scan the vertical structure through the course of our mission today. we will drop about 40 instruments called droplins. these are probes that drop from our 11,000 foot altitude dorn through the storm. making a profile for us all the way down. the moisture in the air. the wind speed. factors that real oly are the evidence that they tell us what the energy is, of the storm is. we have other instruments we will draw up smaller numbers, perhaps half a dozen, that plunge right down through the storm and hit the water thp they deploy temperature near urmt on a string through several hundred meters of water depth. the really critical question is how much thermal energ

that is what is going to probably prompt noaa to retire irene, that will never be another tropical storm name after we saw the devastation. good morning. 4:51, we are looking at few clouds around the bay area as we look down toward the financial district from our roof cam from vallejo street. we'll talk temperatures and fog. santa rosa, three-quarter visibility. san rafael, 48 degrees and then we have temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. as you head down to the monterey bay, clouds are thicker, 54 or 55 degrees where i are around the bay or inland. more sunshine but still cooler than average temperatures today. we'll have a quick warming trend tomorrow, friday and saturday, it will be sunny and seasonal for the back half of the holiday weekend. 24-hour temperature change, we're going up in oakland 3 degrees. fremont, santa rosa the same. concord and san jose are two-4 degrees cooler. here is a look at the cloud cover and how it is around the bay but not in the east bay valleys or south bay. by noon it's back to the coast and look at the clearing along the coast today. nice day to head t

i'm on noaa's c-3 aircraft. we just passed through the center of tropical storm or hurricane irene.he south side of the storm was kind of benign but the south of the storm is quite bumpy. we got knocked around quite good. this is about par for the course especially with the storm at this stage, category 1, category 2 hurricane. parts of it can be rough, and parts of it are smooth. but right now, like i said, we're on the north side just out of morehead city and we're getting bounced around pretty good. >> getting knocked around pretty good. some people chase hurricanes from 30,000 feet. others do it on the ground up close. sometimes they get video like this. we showed a portion it to you at the top of the broadcast. this is what hurricane irene looked like at a category 3 storm when it hit the bahamas. then take a look, this is some of the damage that the storm did in new jersey's governor chris christie and everybody else in a leadership position has said you don't want to thereabout when stuff like this happens. jim edge was. it's his job. he joins us now. jim, you were on the isl

according to noaa, we set nearly 9,000 heat related records in the month of july, including several all time records for any month. >> reporter: in dallas, an elderly woman died after her air conditioning unit was stolen. her son says he found her unconscious in her stifling home. dallas police say reports of similar thefts are coming in now every day and that thiefs are just ripping these units right out of people's windows. there was rain, but it came in the form of unwanted flash flooding in charlotte, where children had to be rescued from an apartment and drivers from their trapped cars, one person was killed. cell phone video shows rain water flooding into a hotel lobby near the airport. back in the frying pan, cooling centers have opened, but the problem is most close at sundown, when the temperature is often still in triple digits. janet shamlian, nbc news, houston. >>> overseas now, this has been one of the bloodiest, most violent weeks yet in syria, where despite international condemnation, the ruling regime has continued an intensified crackdown against anti-government protest

particles enter 9 -- the atmosphere as mentioned, it happens every eleven years is what the cycle is, noaang four extreme events. what do we mean by that as far as extreme events are concerned? well, they can knock out power and in some cases, in some of these extreme events they can knock them out for quite a long time. so that's one of the main issues that we're concerned about. and it could cause $2 trillion in damage across the globe. satellite interruption, communication interruption. again, power grid can -- can be crippled at times. this has happened in the past, back before we had an elaborate power grid, back when they had just telegraphs back in 1859. that knocked that out. the latest one back in 1989 where at one point 6 million people were without power in quebec, canada. so we'll be watching these over the next few years and it's not often that noaa comes out and says something like this. but they're predicting four extreme events. if you think it, put things in perspective, i mean this would be an event much like a major tsunami or a major hurricane or worse than that. so som

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did you see the interview we did with katherine sullivan of noaa.u a nice shout out. >> i did. i smiled at that. thank you. what a fabulous career there of a flying through a storm in a p-3. that would be quite a pinnacle to my career as well. >> something i'm not doing. chad, thanks very much. coming up next, we'll speak live to someone who tracks these storms for a living. stay with us. you're in the situation room. here at quicken loans, we're obsessed with giving our clients an amazing mortgage experience. [ joe ] we're the madonias from macomb township, michigan. we needed to upgrade. we needed a bigger house. i'm so glad we chose quicken loans for our mortgage. we did everything online. it was so easy. there were no hidden fees and no surprises! ♪ quicken loans really listened to us. and that's why quicken loans is engineered to amaze. ♪ and that's why quicken loans is engineered to amaze. [ female announcer ] everybody loves that cushiony feeling. uh oh. i gotta go. [ female announcer ] and with charmin ultra soft, you can get that same cushi

hazards, not just weather information on the noaa weather radio.e working either and cell phones might not be working. have an out-of-town contact like your mom in ohio, carol, where you can call your husband and say hey, you know, call mom so i know you're okay and you can call your mom. he's doing all right. >> my husband is in baltimore and they're going to get hit too. >> you both need to call mom because you both might not have power. >> thank you. >> thank you, jacqui. great advice. we're going to have to follow it. >>> take a look at the seas off north carolina now. jacqui finished saying the surge comes before the storm. this what is you're seeing, the seas are a lot before the storm. the seas are getting rougher. the atlantic ocean there off the coast of south carolina. was that south carolina or north carolina? that is florida. all right. still the same atlantic ocean. it's florida. we will be right back after the break. [ oswald ] there's a lot of discussion going on about the development of natural gas, whether it can be done safely and

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noaa says the average temperatures were near 90 for may, june and july. and that's for the whole day. dallas could set a record on saturday with 43 straight day of triple-digit heat. >> unbelievable. one texas town has turned off the water leaving boiling residents boiling mad. >> you tell them that this old woman's hot down here and not just because of the heat. 107 degrees in my blood because you people and those people down there will not get off their duff and fix this stuff. >> wow. >> she told them. >> they really tell them in texas. >> yep. city officials in kemp, texas, made an emergency decision to shut down the town's water supply on sunday. the city says the underground pipes are rupturing in the intense heat wasting what little water they have left. the "dallas morning news" says the water could be back on by 4:00 p.m. today. the city is giving out bottled water to residents at city hall. >> you have highways that were buckling. never been tested for that kind of heat for such a long sustained time. rob marciano is in the extreme weather cente

this is from noaa, the title gauges. this is for battery park here. line that we see here, this is where we are right now. that's at about 8 feet. this is where normal high tide is, around 5 feet. we're about 3 feet above where we normally would be. you can see the water is rising and continuing to rise. it's going to peek out, coinciding with high tide in the next hour or two and we'll start to see it make that churn farther on down. the worst of the storm certainly bearing down. we think the highest surge is going to be over here in this area over towards the bay. up here in the long island sound we're going to see higher surge as well. these numbers, this is the latest of what we call slosh model that noaa runs for us. we've been getting reports as high as four feet plus in that area. that's a little bit on the conservative side. things are bearing down. let's take a look at some of the wind gauges here and show you what we're getting. it looks like that's not working. it's definitely not 7 miles an hour right now. there you go. 39 offshore. we can

we just got this in from noaa. this shows you the progress of irene, and basically from birth.nto the atlantic ocean, and then you see it making landfall into the carolinas and then continues up the coast. we had three landfalls overall in the u.s. it's just amazing to see how this thing grew as it made its way through the bahamas and intensified and then ultimately weakened this morning and the last advisories were issued. and this is the satellite from noaa, and this is the position and what it looked like from space as it was making landfall on new york. this was 9:00 a.m. yesterday morning. can you see the center of circulation in the area right here. don't be fooled, because that's not an eye but shadowed from the stronger thunderstorms that were developing. irene is finally out of here but will feeling the impacts from days to come with so much rain and flooding, and that's going to be the big thing that people remember in the northeast. of course you will remember in the carolinas those pictures you just saw. we had anywhere between 6 and 16 inches of rain so far and maj

from noaa chris vacaro, thank you so much. >>> as we've said there's a lot more to go, this is new bedford, they're trying to make sure boats are secured, no doubt, but there you can see a boat tipping back and fort as a result of that storm surge, ron allen is jumping out of way. we'll talk with them shortly. ♪ [ country ] [ man ] ♪ gone, like my last paycheck ♪ gone, gone away ♪ gone, like my landlord's smile ♪ ♪ gone, gone away ♪ my baby's gone away with dedicated claims specialists... and around-the-clock service, travelers can help make things better quicker. will your auto and home insurer... be there when you need them most? for an agent or quote, call 800-my-coverage... or visit travelers.com. >>> that is al roker in the center of that shot. that's long beach, new york, where al has been brave enough to get down there on the sand. he's been feeling a bit of the surge, but certainly it's nothing like it was earlier. that does not mean that the danger has passed, though. let's go to bill karins. bill, i were to talk with you about new jersey, our neighbor just to the west, as we look

according to noaa, we set nearly 9,000 heat-related records in the month of july, including several all-timeords for any month. >> reporter: in dallas, an elderly woman died after her air conditioning unit was stolen. her son says he found her unconscious in her stifling home. dallas police say reports of similar thefts are coming in now every day, and that thieves are just ripping these units right out of people's windows. there was rain, but it came in the form of unwanted flash flooding in charlotte, where children had to be rescued from an apartment, and drivers from their trapped cars. one person was killed. cell phone video shows rain water flooding into a hotel lobby near the airport. back in the frying pan, cooling centers have opened. the problem is most close at sun jo sundown where the temperature is still in triple digits. janet shamlian, nbc news, houston. >>> it is a somber day of remembrance today in japan. clearly, this is not what we should be showing you right now. hiroshima is marking the 66th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack dropped on the city by the u

in case you missed it, noaa upgraded their forecast for the upcoming season and now they are expecting to see anywhere between 14 and 19 named storms. we've already had five of them. that means we could probably have 14 more. >> very busy season. that's not good news for people planning to go to the beach late. >> you know. that's why i got it in last week. >> good for you. >> thanks. yesterday's helicopter crash in afghanistan not only affects the mission there but an ee morm aus blow to a small but elite american warrior community. i'll talk to a former u.s. navy s.e.a.l. next. specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. announcer: when life's this hard, it's no wonder 7,000 students drop out every school day. visit

>> according to noaa, this is the tenth biggest, extreme weather event that has cost more than $2 3w8 economic losses. not the dead lirest by far. you talked about the tornados, those are the deadliest by far. this one ranks about second or third. we take a look at there. the course of the midwest storms were huge. the one that included the joplin, missouri, storm in may about $7 billion. tornados in april were about $9. that's the biggest so far this year. you cannot discount the combination of the very hot weather, the drought and the wildfires that we have seen in the southwest and the southeast. that's about $5 billion and counting because skiet the fact that we have gotten pummelled with rain here on the east coast, they really need it there. >> thank you so much. want to show folks again, we've been showing you this afternoon just some of the images, a lot of the flooding that we've been talking about here. this is vermont. again, you can see all the junk that's in the connecticut river there just a host of stuff floating by. again, that river has not crested just yet. there was

and a noaa weather radio. >> you all preach with b those radios all the time. >> it's all hazards.not just weather. if there's an evacuation, if there's an amber alert, all that stuff will happen. in this situation, this isn't just landfall. you don't have to just live on the coast. if you're in a flood prone area, we'll see a lot of inland flooding. so a lot of rivers and streams will be coming up. a kit. and something to think about after the storm. there's debris all over the place. there will be power lines down, nails, glass. first-aid kit. and all your medications for a good seven days you need that supply. >> jacqui, thank you. we'll let you know where hurricane irene is, where it's headed. reporters in north carolina now where it's expected to make landfall soon. stay with us.

my name is noaa and thank you for the wonderful talk. i wanted to touch on your expertise as a journalist in your experience at the center and ask you to comment on darrow's relationship with the leading journalists of that era a man named walter lippman so i'm probably -- knew very well. it describes a different view than the one you describe. kenya quote random from his work -- who should set aside democratic dogmatism's that men are the best judge of their own interest and instead you know realize it is up to men of letters and air additions do you know, to decide what the best interests of men are. i'm wondering if you can could engage with that expression of lippman's you. lippmann is a broad guy like there'll but that particular strength in liberal democratic bots in the 1920s and see how darrow would respond to your impression. >> i don't think he was an intimate of lippman. i do know the time of the scopes trial there were area died intellectual liberals in new york who thought the darrow was absolutely the worst person to be han

now noaa has come in with an upgraded forecast calling for a few more storms than they originally anticipatede expecting now between 14 and 19-named storms. 7 to 10 of those becoming hurricanes. 3 to 5 of those major hurricanes. the heart of the hurricane season, between mid-august and mid-october. so things will start getting busy, we think, in the upcoming weeks. >> good luck, diana but look out for emily. we appreciate it. >>> new york yankee alex rodriguez under fire for reportedly playing a game he's not supposed to how is he taking the heat and why? that discussion after the break. a layered with creamy peanut butter or rich dark chocolate flavor. lightly toasted for a delicate crunch. 90 calories. 100% natural. and nature...approves. ♪ granola thins. from nature valley. nature at its most delicious. your nutritional needs can go up when you're on the road to recovery. proper nutrition can help you get back on your feet. three out of four doctors recommend the ensure brand for extra nutrition. ensure clinical strength has revigor and thirteen grams of protein to protect, preserve, and p

this on a day when noaa has upped its forecast for tropical storms. of those could occur the rest of the season. the average would be 15. contes contessa? >> nick, thank you. >>> all across the country, cities are scrambling to balance their budgets as they deal with the aftermath of the recession. in central falls, rhode island, it's too late. the one square mile town is buried in debt and has filed for bankruptcy protection, hanging in the balance, city services, taxes and pension and benefits for city workers and retirees. i'm joined by rhode island governor lincoln chaffey. good to see you today. >> good afternoon. >> why did it get to this point for this particular town? to get to the point where they have to file for bankruptcy protection? >> well, at one time central falls, although it's only one square mile, was a very prosperous community. that economy has changed, as you said in your lead-in. the crash of '08 really just exacerbated the financial problems and the revenues are not meeting expenditures anymore so we have to file for bankruptcy

what's happening is that the government is throwing all its resources, noaa has got every plane they've got. the air force reserve is out there throwing all the resources there is at getting the best information on exactly what's going on in the atmosphere to make the best possible forecast. we get american generated forecasts generated every six hours. forecasts out of europe every 12 hours. unfortunately, the forecasts time after time have not gotten any better and they've been very similar. all bad. and that's why we have really unusual confidence of a very bad scenario here. not that they can't change. they have in the past changed, but the fact that all of these lee sources are being put into making the best possible forecast, the national hurricane center is concentrating on this as extreme level. that's what, unfortunately, makes us, maybe, more confident than normal in the forecast that's being distributed now. >> brian, this probably sounds crazy, but when there's a threat like this that we know is coming, days and days and days ahead, is there anyone working on the technologic

however, in case you missed it, earlier this week noaa has upgraded their forecast for the remainderhurricane season. and you might be saying to yourself, i've heard a lot of people say what happened to hurricane season? how come nothing is going on? we've already had five storms, by the way. well, we're just getting into that part of the height of the season. it really kind of takes place between mid-august and mid-october. so we're looking at a few more storms they think. this is the updated forecast here, 14 to 19 now. seven to ten of those becoming hurricanes. three to five of those becoming major hurricanes. so we've got a big chunk of the season. if you had to guess right now, joe, guess what the temperature is in oklahoma city. >> 104. >> you know, you would normally think that that would be a good guess, as close to where they have been for the last 60-plus days or so. well, believe it or not, they got a big, big break today. >> really? >> yeah. we were expecting a couple of thunderstorms. i'm going to say this is a little unexpected because we've had this little wave of show

>> well, noaa does this with every storm that makes landfall in the united states. we launched a plane at 4:00 a.m. and i came along with the 4:00 p.m. duty flight. a simple reason. to really understand what a hurricane is doing and have the data we freed to make the forecast as accurate as we want them to be for emergency managers. we actually need measurements from inside the storm itself, and for measurements out over the ocean area where we don't have land measurements. it gives us a lot of the data we need. these are very critical measurements that are key to understanding and being able to protect how the storm is going to behave, evolve, grow, move and what the track will be. >> this is one of the sets of data that gets plugged into these -- into these computer programs, and that's how we come up with some of this modeling? >> that's absolutely right. is it starts with the polar satellite, includes measurements from ships and aircraft as the storm develops and land measurements as it come ace shore, but these measurements in the storm, from the body of our ai

this spring in the midwest, combined, they have all cost about more than $20 billion according to the noaa estimates and not the mention the extreme loss of life we saw from those. and people are still dealing with those. >> yeah, and there was a worry at one point in time, bertha, that wall street would not be up and running for regular business today and fear of power outages in lower manhattan and that is not the case, but what are we seeing if any impact on the stock market? >> nonet at all. the stock market with a relief rally and good news with regard to a bank merger in greece, and greece is not a huge economy but, we have been worried about the debt situation there, and helped the folks feel better about the economy and other fact data and looks like the storm is not as big an economic impact as we had feared last thursday going into the weekend. so, you can see there that the dow is back above 11,500 and up around 200 points or so, but boy, it has been a big year for weather. >> it has certainly been a very expensive year for it, too. thank you, bertha, for the report and back to

a few minces ago i talked to the noaa hurricane hunter ian sears who's just been right in the middleene. i asked him what it was like. >> yes. i'm on a p 3 aircraft. we just passed through the center of tropical storm or excuse me hurricane irene. the south part of the storm is kind of benign but the north site of the storm here just south of morehood city is quite bumpy and quick hectic up here. we had to set the seat belt light for an extended period of time, we got knocked around pretty good. and i've been in a few other storms prior. this is about par for the course especially with a storm at this stage in a category 1, category 2 hurricane. hurricanes can be rough and parts of it are smooth. but right now we're on the north side just out of morehood city probably about 20 miles north or south of morehead city and getting knocked around pretty good. >> hurricane hunter ian sears. some people chase hurricanes from 30,000 feet. others do it on the ground up close. sometimes they get video like this. take a lock at this. we showed a portion of it to you at the top of the broadcast.

consider the simulation done by noaa, showing what a category 2 hurricane could do to a tunnel linkingrooklyn and manhattan. donald cresatelo with the army corps of engineers mapped out some scenarios. a category 1 hurricane could flood the subway station at the southern tip of manhattan with 3 1/2 feet of water. a category 2 storm, he says, could put jfk airport under 5 1/2 feet of water. >> if a storm were to occur it could be catastrophic given the population density in the northeast. >> reporter: high winds are also a big concern. and city officials have evacuation plans at the ready. despite all the preparations, koch says it's not the hurricane he's most worried about. >> what's your biggest concern? >> the new yorker. >> why? >> because they don't listen. you can always tell a new yorker, but you can't tell them very much. >> reporter: mary snow, cnn, new york. >> that's such a great line. >> ain't that the truth? >> ain't that the truth. all right. we're going to continue to of course watch hurricane irene. 36 journalists are free after five days in captivity at a libyan hotel.

this is a slosh model from noaa. it tells us how much water could possibly get into the harbor.'s in yellow. the yellow over there, five feet. five feet of extra water. this is also water coming in here from the sound. so all of a sudden you have water trying to come down the east river from the sound and water trying to push back up the east river from new york harbor. at that point in time, you're going to get some flooding. we certainly don't know yet how much flooding, but here's what the map of the evacuation area looks like. the evacuation area and that map and that color yellow and orange means, get out of there. if you're in this area, you need to be out. and this is what is expected to flood at five to seven feet. battery park, right through here, the picture we were just showing you, looking down the street, the entire area here of battery park city, this is all an evacuation area. and over roward the world trade are center, that is also an evacuation area and all the way along the west side. that's all part of the plan for water. now what about the plan for wind? wind

a few minces ago i talked to the noaa hurricane hunter ian sears who's just been right in the middlee. i asked him what it was like. >> yes. i'm on a p 3 aircraft. we just passed through the center of tropical storm or excuse me hurricane irene. the south part of the storm is kind of benign but the north site of the storm here just south of morehood city is quite bumpy and quick hectic up here. we had to set the seat belt light for an extended period of time, we got knocked around pretty good. and i've been in a few other storms prior. this is about par for the course especially with a storm at this stage in a category 1, category 2 hurricane. hurricanes can be rough and parts of it are smooth. but right now we're on the north side just out of morehood city probably about 20 miles north or south of morehead city and getting knocked around pretty good. >> hurricane hunter ian sears. some people chase hurricanes from 30,000 feet. others do it on the ground up close. sometimes they get video like this. take a lock at this. we showed a portion of it to you at the top of the broadcast. th

knew visionary at 11:00 east coast, a lot of that information comes from the hurricane hunters in noaarough the center of the storm. the big news out of this storm in the last 12 hours is that the center has weakened. it didn't strengthen as was expected. it weakened significantly. we are no longer calling for a category 3 landfall. a category 1 landfall late tonight into early tomorrow morning. a lot less wind damage from this storm. doesn't make much of a difference with the rainfall. that's going to be expensive. wind damage will not be as bad as expected for eastern north carolina and maybe up and down the eastern seaboard. lower winds, less tree downs and less power outages. other thing of interest this black line is where the storm has been. white line is projected path of the center. it's to the east by about 15 to 20 miles. instead of landfall near atlantic beach, any shift to the east will take the storm surge out of the coastal areas. that is a piece of good news. new computer models are coming in that predict where the center is going to go. they are good in unison over the

you've got the right person in charge, a great team at noaa doing the forecasts, and getting the country ready for what's coming. >> the president was expected back, he was going to be the big speaker at the martin luther king ceremonies, the dedication ceremonies. we don't even know if that's going to be delayed. so far this week in d.c., we've had the earthquake with significant damage to the washington monument, to the cathedral, the national building museum, and other buildings. plus libya. the president on his vacation has had to deal with libya, which has been a constant. >> yeah. so i think it's time to finally put a fork in the idea that august is a quiet month in washington. >> perhaps. >> between the debt ceiling and libya and the earthquake and now the hurricane, you know, all 12 months of the year are busy months, and august is now a busy month. i think august has been a month that has been a political problem for the president. during the campaign in 2008, during his first year in 2009. but, you know, he also have a strong finisher. i'm sure he's going to come out of it stro

noaa says solar flares from the sun could knock out satellite communication and take on the -- take downmportant power grids. the feds say there's been a few oar -- over the skies. >>> the winery owner named tom, is liening nasa a quarter of his vineyard to et set up cameras to track the meteor showers. >> yeah. i'm willing to help. do you want to put all of your fancy equipment here? >> those cameras are operating every night, the information is downroaded -- downloaded every few weeks. scientists also get similar information from the lick observatory in hamilton and they figure out if the comets are getting too close to earth. >>> we have a lot of other things to worry -- to worry about. let's check in with sal. we are seeing some slow traffic in contra costa county, we continue to have to go back there. 680 southbound. that crash at el sero has been replaced by a couple of crashes. just when we not things were getting better, the crash was gone. then we have another one southbound 680 as you headed down to the olympic boulevard and then southbound 680 near highway 2 had 2 there's nove

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