paterson in jersey. many rivers are overflowing their banks. they have had record- setting rains for the month of august before the storm came. on the right-hand side video out of delaware. high winds ripped roofs off of homes. 50 homes damaged in that one area. 50 million homes and businesses still without " electricity. it could be a week or more before many people get their power back. >> live pictures into the kron 4 news room. in paterson in jersey pictures of live rescue's happening from people who have tried to weather out the storm inside their house. the street looks like water. history has a lot of water. ha ha sure cities are trying to get people out of their homes and into dry land. heck in paterson new jersey that are dealing with warning people to not go through salivhawks a flood wates in a vehicle or on foot. >> here is a look at whether. there is a big difference out there. it is a lot cooler. >> the fall this this this morning. a blanket of out covers over the bay. we will enjoy sunshine this afternoon but it will take longer

en diÉndo un dÍa despuÉs de que irene pasara por new jersey, vecindarios como isa este en paterson todavÍahan podido salir de su casas. josÉ de jesÚs lo viviÓ, y aunque cediÓ, muestra como su sotano quedÓ completamente ahÍ. >>> las vÍas cerradas han provocado embotellamiento,s empleados siguen trabajando a toda marcha para establecer el servicio, Árboles caÍdos y vecindarios bajo el agua sigue siendo parte de una escena de un huracÁn irene que marcÓ la costa este de los estados unidos. >>> jorge, marÍa elena los habitantes de, paterson les dijeron que las autoridades les advirtieron objeto mÁs inundaciones, ellos deben abrir las compuestas de una represa, de otro lado, tambiÉn tendrÁn estas personas que entrfrentar duro reto, por lo menos su bolsillo, muchas aseguradoras y seguros estÁndares cubren en este caso los daÑos provocados, daÑos estructurales y daÑos provocados por el agua, pero cuando es a travÉs de las ventanas o techos, muy pocos son los seguros que cubren los daÑos cuasados por la subida diel nivl de las aguas es todo lo que tengo desde nueva york, un dÍa casi perfecto >>> gr

live for us in paterson, new jersey, how about good news out of paterson. >> the good news, chuck, is the river is starting to recede, but the flood that won't quit won't quit soon enough. take a look, still showing, you get a bit of a perspective with that vacant building there of just how high the water went right here, just about a block away from main street here in paterson, it's also covered roads and bridges cutting off neighborhoods. we've had evacuations in the area in the last 24 hours, just a little bit of what janet napolitano as well as craig fugate will see. earlier they were in new york surveying the damage there along with the governor, and this afternoon, when they come to new jersey, we're expected to hear exactly what they saw in these devastated areas, chuck, town after town and counties and states here that have been dealing with the flood waters that have been on the move, and we are four days here in new jersey after irene made landfall. >> all right, michelle franzen in paterson for us, thank you very much. >>> the congressional black caucus is wrapping up thei

along the posaic river here in downtown paterson. >> officials ordered the evacuation of 1,000 people. >> you're seeing boats being put into the water as we speak. >> crews floated along flooded streets saving one family after another. governor chris christie again toured areas where residents told them they are flooding. >> don't tell me i'm in a flood zone. >> that might be easier said than done. the disaster relief agency's budget is stretched to the limited. right now, less than $800 million is left. >> i'm worried about the people that work in the help right now, we're going to keep working and supporting the governors and citizens that have survived this disaster, so we're doing my job. >> in upstate new york, this woman's job is helping her family. >> she lost everything. she has a 2-year-old baby, and she's having a baby any time now. that's all i can get for her. >> and right now in vermont, fema is getting emergency supplies to a dozen completely cut-off communities. >> three miles to our west is a major washout. three miles to our east is a major washout. there's no way out

the murky water as the passaic river is rablging through parts of paterson, new jersey, the state's third largest river. the river crested yesterday at 13 feet above flood stage catching people off guard and forcing crews to scramble in boats to rescue 600 people. the waters have been receding but could crest again tonight forcing 4,000 more people to evacuate. homeland security secretary janet napolitano and craig fugate, fema director, are set to meet this afternoon. michelle franzen joins us. i was told your shot is unbelievable. and it is. lack at that raging water behind you. >> reporter: it is, and the water has receded here along the passaic in paterson all morning since it crested, but let me get out of the way so can you see this dramatic video still. got a vacant building, of course, behind us, but it demonstrates and gives you some perspective of just how high the water has come to this area. we're about a block away from main street. there's a high rise beyond that, one of them that has been evacuated. some of the evacuations you were talking about earlier, and as you mentione

irv levin in paterson in jersey, we have seen in the river's overflow it. they have a record rainfall for the month before. the hurricane brought for their 6 in. of rain. of the right suffix county delaware high winds ripped roofs off of false. nearly 5 million homes and businesses have been without power. they are working feverishly to restore electricity. it could be at least a week, is not a month before everyone has power back in the area. >> let's get to our own local weather. we are in a cool down. >> here is the 7 day forecast. we have a live look out of walnut creek. conditions are actually pretty good. all in all, not bad. we have some clouds out there but it is starting to pull back. whether headlines, coastal fog and widespread clouds this morning. clark tom rogers dissected it compared to yesterday. along the coast, but mid-60s. inland we are seeing a dramatic cool down. we have widespread cloud cover to the north. visibility is now less than 5 mi.. been that is the only problem that we see there. temperatures again, made 50s through san francis

pictures coming to us here from paterson, new jersey.o-door, already plucking 500 people from their homes. the floodwaters are overflowing from the passaic river. do we have that live shot by the way of the passaic river? are we able to get that? it is frozen, but wait until we bring the pictures, because you will see it is intermittent, but it is incredible. it did freeze, but we will bring it to you when it fires up. that is the passaic river that is supposed to crest today at the highest level in more than a century. now, we talked about all of the search and rescue missions going on last hour, and now we are joined -- that was with with the police department, and now we are joined by edward o'connell who is joining us by phone to tell us about the river, and he is the liaison of the passaic river county office there with the emergency management system, and it is a fluid situation where we are getting live pictures of the search and rescue that the fire and the police department are carrying out and then the live picture of the passa

and we will give you live pictures of paterson new jersey and some of the extensive of flooding in the wake of irene streets are running like rivers right now. ]s >> >> in the federal tories are coteries lisa report on the pipeline explosion this is the center of the investigation >> will we have here over a 28 ft. section of pipe >> 24 hours before the release of the record chairman of the national transportation safety board met with reporters to show off the ruptured pipe and accused of accompanying for shoddy record-keeping >> this pipe was installed in 1956 but we do not have records from p g and e and where these pipes came from >> they will never know the real history of the pipeline a complement's preventing this hot fireball from happening somewhere else >> we do not wear all these types came from if there are any defects or problems identified here we want to get to that throughout the system >> still they say the 40 investigators looking into the explosion have found more problems with the pipe n.y. >> quality of the welds was not consistent with what we expect today or at t

we were in paterson, new jersey. what looked like a few inches of water quickly turned to a few feet of water and then add the river currents to it. we saw one man and his son having to be evacuated. basically what happened, they went back to their home to inspect the damage and rescue workers say they were just swept away by the current and they wound up clinging to a log until rescue workers can come in a boat to get them out of there. >> we had a beautiful wedding day. it was our dream wedding. we wanted a rustic wedding. we love vermont. we came here and had such a great wedding. but sunday we were having brunch with our friends and family and all of a sudden, the storm hit. everyone that came to my wedding thought they were getting out of new york and avoiding the storms, and they were thanking me for it. they were like, this is awesome. and then the storm barely touched new york and came to us. >> there are only a couple hundred people who live in pittsfield. their homes are gone, their businesses are gone. do

we were in paterson, new jersey. what looked like a few inches of water quickly turned to a few feet of water and then add the river currents to it. we saw one man and his son having to be evacuated. basically what happened, they went back to their home to inspect the damage and rescue workers say they were just swept away by the current and they wound up clinging to a log until rescue workers can come in a boat to get them out of there. >> mandatory evacuations in some areas, tonight and the last couple hours. mary, thanks very much for the reporting. let's take to you vermont. one of our producers is talking about taking her family to be out of irene's way. it didn't work out that way. she stayed in new york and it's a good thing she did. parts of vermont were literally cut off from the rest of the world when roads and bridges were swept away. they were in pittsfield, vermont. they were getting married. they got married over the weekend. they are still in pittsfield, by the way. i spoke with mark a short time ago.

sÓlo para lo lo los residentes, ambos senadores estatales pidieron ayuda al gobierno federal en paterson a un bebÉ. >>> un incendio causado por la explosiÓn de una casa rodante en el condado de mariposa en california, se ha extendido por casi una semana obligando la a evacuaciÓn de miles. los bomberos usan al menos una docenas de helicÓpteros para tratar de apagar el fuego. >>> seguimos con este tema, porque bomberos de oregon estÁn tratando de sofocar. (inaudibl unresidentes de la ciudad debido a un enorme fuego, los bomberos no tienen claro cÓmo se inicio el fuego. >>> tiempo de una pausa, veremos por quÉ miles de inmigrantes de indocumentado en alabama tienen un respiro temporal >>> ( ♪ mÚsica ♪ ) a pesar que la ley antimigrante ademÁs rÍo zo de arizona es la mÁs conocida, la h b 56 es la mÁs dura para los indocumentados, pero la decisiÓn de no hacerla cumplir. la temible ley h b 56 habÍa hecho a miles vivir despierto una pesadilla. >>> es la mÁs fuerte que cualquier legislatura hasta d d esta hora >>> hace mÁs de 50 snaÑos no er necesario >>> pero hoy se pelea ahÍ por otros derechos,

jenna: these pictures from paterson, new jersey. the rising wars of passaic river prompting flooding waters in many communities. governor chris christie said his tour quote, revealed despair. he will mean with the homeland security. gregg: he is busy man. not getting much sleep. neither are the people that are inundated. irene blamed for 7 deaths in new jersey. the latest victim sucked into a drain pipe while clearing debris in a drainage basin. david lee miller has more. how bad is it there? >> reporter: it is pretty bad. a picture is worth a thousand words this picture is worth a million. the pa say quick river done to the bridge in patterson new jersey, completely impasseable. the water moving at very swift pace this morning. we're told that the river crested 13 feet above flood stage. further down river you can see what is the left of this pride chicken restaurant that apparently was closed. it is for sale. what is happening today, certainly not good for the real estate market in paterson. just off in the distance behind the fri

abc's dan harris is in paterson, new jersey, with the very latest. dan, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, elizabeth. good morning. let's start with the good news. the good news, most of the major rivers and creeks have now crested, which means the worst is probably over. but there's bad news, which as you can see from this live aerial shot from wabc, our powerhouse local station. the bad news is there's still a huge mess out here. you're looking live at flooding in downtown paterson, new jersey, from the passaic river. the water has steadily gone down. it's still an open question as to when all the evacuees from here can finally go home. overnight, in the town of wallington, new jersey, a mandatory evacuation in some neighborhoods, as the passaic river crested at a record high. with people forced into shelters with their children and their pets. have any of you here ever seen the flooding get this bad? >> no. >> no. >> not in my lifetime. >> not in any part of the county. >> it's in the water. >> reporter: upriver in the city of paterson, firefig

i really begun but they after mass is still not overly this 80 reveal of paterson new jersey it as the water is overflowing its banks rescue workers are still trying to find the people that may be stranded out there millions of people still remain without power that death toll has now risen to 43 people.. and now you see someone standing on that bridge as the river has overflowed its banks and the latest on irene and her after month >> they rode out the storm and now days after irene had many have been forced to abandon their homes >> it came up more today than it did on sunday after the storm >> rescue workers in new jersey took more than two dozen people to safety when note river became too >> much ... i saw the water elevating and new was time to get out >> washed out roads and bridges have cut parts of they can get there by but of what or a tv >> no matter where we go there is to a bridge check out our no place to go do >> power closer working day and night to restore electricity >> we know some the shock for many is hard for people to take >> i've literally sell my home flow by me

the passaic river has been overrunning parts of paterson, new jersey, all morning long. emergency workers pulled some 1,500 people to safety after the passaic flooded homes. governor chris christie says that nine new jersey rivers have surged to record flood levels, but thankfully, they are receding now. he says only one, the passaic has not crested. the number of people killed now by irene and the aftermath rose to 38 today across 11 states. i want to get the latest on the emergency rescues in paterson, new jersey, where we are taking a look, a dramatic look of pictures throughout the morning and on the phone is sergeant alex popoff of the paterson police department, and we understand that somebody was just rescued off of a top of a ridge, and what can you tell us about the rescue mission, and how many phone calls you are getting? >> we are still receiving phone calls and the person on the top of the bridge actually fell into the river, and the fire department picked them up by boat, and sfashs i nas far as iy are okay. >> what are you facing today? are there a lot of p

i am representing arthur and the les paterson -- eleaslouise patterson. several components are embedded in a revised set of architectural drawings on august 16. we adhered -- we are here to request the board take jurisdiction of the permit and require dbi to approve those drawings as a permit of conditions. specific changes from the permit under appeal include the following. as shown on the overhead. the skylight has been reduced considerably in height. the skylight that covers a stair penthouse, a skylight 5 has been trumped in its footprint and reduced in height. there is an agreement that as a result of the infill of the allied court on the respondents property, they will paint the walls abutting the light court in a reflective color. there are restrictions that would cast clear offside. in terms of elevation, they have a black line shows to the heights of the skylights that were approved and under appeal. the yellow highlights show what the parties have agreed to in terms of height. if the board has any questions, we would be happy to discuss it. >> a

dan harr reports now from paterson, new jersey. >> reporter: one by one they came.their children, and their pets. basically in the upper level of your house you see the water coming. >> it's rising more. >> reporter: you realize you have no choice. >> no choice at all. >> reporter: what did you bring with you? >> what we could grab. food. clothes. >> reporter: the fire department says they brought in roughly 1,000 people. some of the rescues captured live. on local station wabc's chopper cam. have you ever seen it this bad? >> never, not even close. >> reporter: we gave a small camera to the rescue crews who gave us a close-up view to how high the waters are. floodwaters are still wreaking havoc throughout the northeast. snarling railroad lines. washing out highways. cutting off entire communities. there are still 3.3 million people from maine to north carolina who don't have their power back. back here in paterson, we did see frustration, sadness and anger, we saw also the better angels of our nature on full display. a grandson's kindness. and a little boy's resili

he also planned to visit paterson, new jersey on sunday, to view the damage there. >> ifill: still toe on the "newshour": topping the merger of two wireless giants; celebrating in libya at the end of ramadan; feeling the heat in texas; growing illegal marijuana in california and assessing national security after 9/11. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: president obama now plans to lay out his jobs plan next wednesday night in a prime-time speech. an announcement today said he is asking to address a joint session of congress at 8:00 p.m. it would overlap a republican presidential candidates' debate the same evening. but white house spokesman jay carney said today that is not why the president chose the time slot. >> once you decide you want to do a speech to congress and you have to deal with congressional schedules and other... there are other... there are many other factors here and obviously one debate of many that's on one channel of many was not enough not to have the speech at the time that we decided to have it. >> sreenivasan: wa

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dozen people to safety on sunday and nearly 2,000 people have been evacuated in towns like wayne, patersonwashed out roads have cut off air to development and new york. >> every time you go some place, it's just like a bridge is out. there's -- nothing. >> reporter: nearly 3 million people are still without power and the death toll continues to rise. after surveying some of the damage yesterday, new jersey governor chris christie told reporters he saw extraordinary despair. >> for members of these communities who have lost everything, relief cannot come soon enough for them. >> reporter: governor christie will be joined by homeland secretary janet napolitano as well as the director of fema. they will be taking a look around. they have nowhere toking and are scared to -- to go and are scared to find out what they will find. back to you. >> thank you. >>> residents are being urged to help the people affected by hurricane irene by donating blood. the east coast cancelled blood drives and that's caused a shortage of blood. all eligible donors, you are encouraged to contact the red cross. >>> a

wallington sits alongside a river that is due to crest tonight. 4,000 residents in nearby paterson, new jersey, have been ordered to leave in what's being called tonight an unprecedented evacuation, and as governor chris christie and governors along the eastern seaboard go to the government for help, will the help be there? to help me answer the question, congressman frank pallone of new jersey. thank you for joining me tonight, i know it's been a tough week. >> thanks. >> what's the latest on the ground there in new jersey in regards to the flooding? >> there's a lot of damage, not so much from the ocean, which is what we expected from the hurricane, but from the rivers, whether the rariton or delaware, it has been a tremendous amount of flooding. as you can see from some of these pictures, in some cases it's getting worse even though it's a few days after the hurricane. >> look, i'm pretty distressed as someone sitting in a city that is currently being overcome by basically a marsh cloud that eric cantor is basically making federal disaster relief funds part of political gamesmanship.

in paterson, new jersey's third largest city, emergency crews used boats to pluck people from their homescaped after watching the water rise in their living room. >> it scared me. reality really hitting me in my face. >> reporter: the record- breaking flooding is affecting nearby communities where utility companies turned off the electricity last night. >> guess they cut it off because of the water. crazy. >> reporter: homeland security secretary janet napolitano and fema's director will see the flooding for themselves today in new jersey. tuesday officials surveyed the damage in three other states including hard-hit vermont. the national guard is using helicopters to deliver food and water to some towns still cut off. irene's torrential rains washed out hundreds of roads and dozenses of bridges in the state. crews are already working to rebuild the crumbled infrastructure, this emergency road was built in just 8 hours. and engineers didn't wait for approval to move this creek. >> we'll apologize later. this had to be done. records there is no time to waste in a state dealing with its wor

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we are hearing about the evacuations along the passaic rivers in paterson, and those could increase as the afternoon goes on. tamron? >> thank you, michelle, very much. now to the president's much anticipated jobs plan. the president stressing today just how dire the situation as he prepares to unveil the plan next week to get folks back to work. speaking at the american national legion conference two hours ago, the president said it has taken longer than anyone has imagined to climb out of the economic crisis. he has announced a new way to help the economy by hiring american veterans. >> i have directed the dod to create a new boot camp to help civilians have their skills translated to industry. i have challenged companies across america to train 100,000 unemployed veterans or their spouses. >>> and joining me is the politico ground reporter joining me now. will obama go bold on the jobs plan? we understand there is a debate within his own cabinet of what to do. >> hey, there. certainly is. there are weeks of meetings and conference calls on how to go, and what to propose. it seems pr

emergency crews in paterson, new jersey, rescued people from flooding that turned their homes into islands and kept coming. and in manchester, new hampshire, on monday, a man and his two daughters were found clinging to buoys after they tried to jet ski on a roiling river and the jet ski was swept away. their life jackets kept them afloat. >> the gentleman was cold, very cold, very frightened. he was very disappointed in himself, but he saved his own family by first having p.f.d.s on, and then keeping them all together. >> suarez: others were not so lucky: a number of deaths blamed on the storm came after its passage from drowning or electrocution. meanwhile, an estimated 2.5 million people still had no power, but that was down from nearly 7.5 million at the height of the storm. and in north carolina, where irene first made landfall in the u.s., some 1,000 people were still in emergency shelters. the homeland security secretary, janet napolitano, visited today, promising help. >> we're going to take care of immediate needs of all states and communities affected by irene, and we're going to

this is paterson. sheriff deputies used rafts to rescue people out.ley has more. >> reporter: you are talking about the rescues in new jersey. what's happening, a lot of that water that hit upstate new york, development, parts of massachusetts, and the areas that really got hit with the floods a couple of days ago, the water is coming down, basically flowing down as it would towards the atlantic ocean and long island sound depending upon which river you are talking about. this is the connecticut river. it all flows southward. that's all coming from the runoff from the development area. dave? thank you. >>> 8:16. now, san francisco-based wells ar fargo is trying to help east coast residents affected by the hurricane. the bank is waiving the fee normally charged to customers when they use another bank's atm. the fee waiver only applies to customers in new york, new jersey. j.p. morgan and other banks are waiving their fees. >>> police in novato hope a surveillance photo will help them track down a bank robber. police may a -- police say the man walked i

we're not there yet in the state of new jersey or in paterson.ington over fema funds and whether there will be enough money to go around. when you hear of a fight in congress over money -- over funding to fema, what goes through your mind? >> well, i'm outraged. i can only be outraged for those who can't speak for themselves, those who sit on capitol hill and don't quite understand america didn't put nous this place. we got here because the folks supposed to be paying attention, probably weren't or don't quite understand the magnitude of what we're all facing at this point in time. to find that mother nature has a mind of her own and will of her own, we can't have the petty wranglings going on when we have folks who are in dire need. i'm not comfortable nor am i happy, i'm very disappointed and i'm hoping, i still have hope, that folks who understand that this is a land of democracy and democracy means compromise and who compromise to get the job done. >> there has been well, ron paul, i'm sure you heard his comments about fema, that fema is unne