rick reichmuth. new information? >> rick: we don't know all the small towns, to the east of terrytown. up the hudson river, 30, 40 miles, and off to the east of there. a small town, nowhere near the coastline. at all. this is inland flooding from rain. not storm surge or anything like that. >> you warned us about that. the rain information of the storm is enormous. >> rick: exactly. we are seeing cases of flooding and causing fatalities, far inland, and we always say, actually the far majority of fatalities is from inland flooding, not anything along the coast an these pictures now, dramatic rescues and somebody that far inland not thinking i have to be prepared for something from a tropical storm or a hurricane because they are so far away from the coast. and here you go. that far away and they are dealing with ramifications of it. >> the rescue happening now, looks like we have a young one there. probably a little bit embarrassed as the taf cameras are there and another young one there and police from elmsford new y

. >> brian: go out and check with rick reichmuth now. he is our chief meteorologist working around the clock. right now in long beach, new york. we saw some of that footage, rick, of the lifeguard stand and we knew it came ashore around there. what are you seeing even though it's dark? >> rick: yeah, you know, long beach is one the harvardest hit areas there is a lot of damage come out of here. i want to show you that in a second. first, i want to go and take a look at wyndham, new york. so many areas inland dealing with devastating flooding right now and communities have a very, very scary night. wyndham, new york, a beautiful town in the scat -- cat skills. it took on a lot of rain in a short amount of time. 8 to 10 hours. get so much rain in a mountainous terrain and it causing massive flooding. community inundated. roads ripped out and bridges knocked out by other buildings that hit the bridges and then knocked those out. people there dealing with all of the flooding and then the winds came. the winds came after the rains stopped. so

our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is live in the extreme weather center. winds still kicking up down there, rick? >> not just down there but places across boston seeing heavy winds. probably the strongest that they are seeing and they are not seeing any rain there either. the rain event done across the southeastern parts of new england but still very much rain falling across northern new england. big flooding concerns continue there and continue to point a little further south. take a look at how much rain across a wide swath of rain. the red is 4 to 8 inches of rain and a few areas where it was over 12. these are some of the storm totals. north carolina over 14 inches. ocean city maryland, over 12 inches. one of the areas hardest hit this month, shep, is philadelphia. 5.32 inches from the storm and over 18 inches in this month. wettest month they ever had. not the wettest august but the wettest month. the video coming out to us dangerous situations in the philadelphia area. the upper darby region. and streets turned inside rivers. we will be talking about

rick reichmuth, good day to "ou. we spent 12 hours together yesterday. the beat guess on today.h irene. >> i want to add something. if you have an iphone the american red cross has an great app, if you are out of power you can find out any shelters they have open at any time. they do such a great job, it is one great way you can find out what going on. i want to recap the storm a little. rainfall totals that fell from the storm. north carolina, 14 inches of rain, significant rain across the entire area of the northeast. orange, new jersey almost 10 inches. central park, 6.7 that adds on to the rain we've seen over the last number of weeks. we are continuing to deal with big problems. flooding concerns, you heard as you were talking to the mayor. massive flooding from the storm inland flooding. we go big flooding in the spring when you get the snowmelt from the winter snows. here we are in the middle of the summer dealing with what probably is going to break records. anywhere you see the burgandy color that is flash flooding right now. pennsylvania, northern parts of new jersey,

rick reichmuth is there now. what's the threat here, rick? >> pretty significant threat.stern side of florida we want to watch it closely. some of the models take it to the west. things could happen to change conditions pretty dramatically. this is a storm. there is the dominican republic and haiti. the storm though is going to move over that. it's a lot of mountains to get through and kind of break apart. official track right now by saturday has it offshore about 60 mile-per-hour storm. that would be good news. you would be on the good side of the storm. if this trough that's going to pull it to the north doesn't do it, shepard, some of the models pull it into the gulf. that's a very different scenario. officially we are looking at it and the track of it keeps it offshore because of the hurricane well offshore to the outer banks. wind and rain across the coastal areas but none of this set in stone just yet. >> shepard: west of there the heat. it just won't stop. >> we so desperately need some sort of tropical storm to go into texas and help with the drought and cool thin

let's head over to fox extreme weather center where rick reichmuth has the latest on irene's path up the eastern seaboard. >> such a big storm. we talked about the path of the storm. we get obsessed with the center most point that's about there. the storm very . a big area pushing a lot of water towards the north and a lot of water across areas of the outer banks. hurricane warnings in effect from cape cod down the coastal areas of north carolina. think how many people live in this stretch under a hurricane warning right now. it is unimagineable. the path of the storm takes it along the coast, the entire way. right now very heavy rain moving onshore. this red box is a tornado watch box in effect until 5 a.m. when the storms make landfall. extra rotation, small tornadoes, we'll likely see that tonight in addition to the heavy rain. winds gust 47 miles-an-hour in wilmington, 39 in cape hatteras. the storm is quite a ways away over 200 miles away. very heavy rainfall where you see purple likely in excess of 8 inches of rain across parts of mid atlantic and the northeast. last week saw o

. ♪ put a little love in your heart ♪ >> juan: let's go right to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth fordate on the storm. >> such a concerning storm affecting so many across the eastern seaboard. typically these storms may affect a couple states. this one tracking along at least from the carolinas through new england and hitting everybody along the way this is a satellite image. through the radar on top of that we are getting heavy bands moving across parts of north carolina. totals are going to be extreme, 6 to 8 inches going to cause a lot of flooding. one of the models that we use, very reliable that we used to forecast this. it has been consistent the last couple of days. you like to see models consistent gives you a higher confidence in the for cast. that's what we feel with this. by tomorrow morning, landfall around morehead city, north carolina. you never like to be on the eastern side of a hurricane all outer banks will be on the eastern side causing a lot of damage. heavy wave , a lot of beach erosion overtopping of some. dunes and a lot of structural damage. it hugs the coast

a new advisory, by the way, rick reichmuth is over there working diligently is expected to come down any time now. 12 states under a state of emergency right now. homeland security secretary janet napolitano reminding us this is not something to be taken lightly. >> we don't want it to be a lethal storm. but that means proper preparation. it is a very large robust storm. it's going to cover a lot of territory, many states. it's going to have major flooding associated with the rainfall, preparing not just for the storm but for the after-effects is so very important. >> brian: okay. i didn't expect her to end. >> dave: brian in for vacation of clayton morris this morning. we will be covering this storm for the next four hours. >> one of the biggest stories juliet will cover extensively 10:00 a.m. to 11:00. >> juliet: what? >> brian: the president comes off vacation. governor christie comes off of vacation. clayton stays on vacation. [ laughter ] let's go live to elizabeth prawn. she is not on vacation. >> no. not on vacation this morning. as you can see it's really hitting hard here in

rick reichmuth is live in the extreme weather center. how did this happen?t so much rain falling in such a short amount of time. up to six inches and falling right across a populated area of charlotte. that's what caused it. still some rain in the area. the most of that flash flooding is gone. rising in downstream rivers and streams. more rain to be had here throughout the evening hours. could be see be repeat of that. further to the south. >> amazing how one part of the country deals with one thing and then you have heat wave and drought conditions in places like texas. >> you said it take a look at radar pictures here. rain showers in around new new mexico. oklahoma, texas you can't get any rain at all. very significant drought going on exceptional drought. highest category there is no rain here. you factor in that and it's been so completely hot across the area for so long 106 still in dallas. 108 in oklahoma city. these temperatures aren't going to budge. it has been over 100 degrees. 35 -- 45 days -- 35 days in dal. overnight lows only getting down to w

a little bit earlier says rick reichmuth. 9:00 a.m. on saturday. that means you have got to get out if you are along the coast line or little bit inland. complete updates tomorrow and throughout the weekend. i will be with you dawn to dusk. all weekend. see you then. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight: >> in the eye of the hurricane, of course, massive destruction. >> a category 3 storm barreling towards the eastern seaboard. >> she is really heading straight for us. >> bill: hurricane irene bearing down on the u.s.a. forecasters say the storm could be one of the worst in history. and could cause billions of dollars in damage. we'll have the very latest on this dangerous situation. >> i'm not a witch. i'm nothing you've heard. >> bill: christine o'donnell the tea party senatorial candidate defeated in delaware getting roughed up by the media once again. >> okay, i'm being pulled away, you know, we turned down another interview for this. >> bill: miss o'donnell here on the factor tonight. >> this cannot be political. there is an awful lot

chief meteorologist rick reichmuth at the fox weather center with his eyes on tropical storm irene. today across parts of the northeast and mid atlantic. some of these storms becoming is a rear around philadelphia and up towards new york city. watch out today. as we move forward the next couple of days a tropical storm, tropical storm irene. our ninth storm of the year and we haven't had a hurricane yet. that has never happend that we haven't got that far without having a hurricane. this is one that likely will become a hurricane. a lot of land around it. going to go around puerto rico and then hispaniola. looks like all of the other conditions are ripe for strengthening. wednesday into thursday probably a hurricane around the bahamas headed some where in towards parts of florida. some models pull it a little to the west and some a little to the east. the area like miami possibly hurricane conditions maybe wednesday night and thursday morning and maybe landfall thursday night into friday. in you live across georgia report carolinas we will watch this potentially impacting you as well

. >> check in with rick reichmuth outside with the forecast. still raining throughout?ling a little bit. not looking that bad. take a look at the temperature map across the country. still warm across so much of the south temps into the 80's again. 83 in dallas. another hot day in store. i want to take a look at video. great story coming to up outside of alabama. university of alabama students graduating yesterday. should have graduated back in may. and it was cancelled because of the tornado that cut through, killing six of the students. university students and this happening just a couple of days before graduation. so they had to call it off. they called off classes and those students now finally getting their chance to graduate. so, such a great day for them. certainly a rough one though for some of those students that were lost. go back to the weather maps and take a look and move forward at the satellite radar pictures. eastern part of the country going to continue to deal with a lot of storms. rain across parts of florida from what is now tropical depression emily

rick reichmuth live on the beach in new york. thank you very much. meanwhile, hurricane irene's wrath could be felt for days especially if you're trying to hop a flight. right now, j.f.k. and newark airports have reopened as of six minutes ago for arrivals only. departures start at noon. laguardia airport will be open to both arrivals and departures one hour from now at 7:00 a.m. be aware, delays are still expected in addition to the more than 11,000 cancellations that happened over the weekend, grounding roughly 650,000 people and there are a lot of airplanes that are not in position right now. >> all right. i was wondering today is the long island railroad going to be up? nearly all of new york city's 222 s22 subway lines are up and running on a normal schedule after a shutdown, the first shutdown in the city's history, that's true for the same amtrak trains. all service from boston to philadelphia canceled. your best bet is to call amtrak or check their web site or just stay home. >> from web site to wet site, let's talk about your house. >> yeah.