gary tuckman in newport rhode island and soledad o'brien is in new york city. the evacuation orders for parts of new york was actually lifted minutes ago, hundreds of thousands of people left for higher ground ahead of irene but today the storm pushed the rivers on either side of manhattan over their banks and into the streets but good news now, a lot of water receded but just a little bit of wind they are still experiencing. >> just a little backdrop from soledad o'brien. it looks like a few people have left now. >> they are all on this side. you know, the wind has really picked up. it's funny, when you cutaway from me, the wind blows hard. when you come back it slows down. but the evacuation order lifted and we can expect to see people coming back from the high rises, evacuation zone a they called it chgs a mandatory evacuation, this is landfill and the concern was that if people didn't get out and the storm was as bad as they thought it would be and if lots of water rushed in there would be major problems in the high rises, they got people out here. now peop

soledad o'brien, thank you very much. fred, to you. >>> irene at this point expected to dump a whole lot of rain. of course it's leaving the new york city area making its way to upstate new york. they're already starting to feel the effects as well as connecticut. onto rhode island. that's where rewill find our gary tuchman in newport. you and i spoke yesterday and you talked about there were some who were actually considering riding out the storm in their boats. you're feeling the effects now. have they second-guessed that by now? >> reporter: the battle is not over here at new por, rhode island. it's great a lot of people did decide to ride out this storm on their boat bus this is the newport, rhode island, marina. but as you can see there are beautiful pleasure craft and fishing boats. people slept on them overnight. overnight it wasn't bad. but the rain has stopped. we had heavy rain for several hours that ended about an hour and a half ago and it seems like the worst is over, yet the winds have picked up. in this sta

. >> let's check on our soledad o'brien. she was in the meat backing area earlier. >> reporter: we're along the west side highway, so we're downtown in what is known as the meat packing district. and take a look here, some folks made the mistake of driving through what they thought was clear and open paying the price for it. their vehicles stucked and they are waiting to see how they will move the vehicles out. right across the way is the hudson river. and that's a problem because the hudson crested its banks and flowed over into a walkway as far back as we can see heading that way. and let's walk down this way, jamie. the big problem, already almost a foot deep as i head this way, for the residences here, this is your problem. it looks to me two feet deep. these are first floor apartments and the water is flowing into them, and we talked to the super, carlos, who has been through the night, and pumping will not do anything at this point. this is why they evacuated people. this is the area they talked about, and this used to

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as part of our upcoming documentary, soledad o'brien introduces us to people whose lives and futureswait to see this. >> it has turned into a great documentary and what great timing. you have been talking jobs, jobs, and jobs. we are talking about mountain top removal mining. you say people who drive by and say that has ruined a mountain. others who say i see that mountain and i think of jobs. think productivity and i think my family working. so it's coming down to this debate framed as this debate between jobs and the environment and should you have to pick between a healthy environment and a community that has been put to work? so we went to blair mountain in west virginia to explore what their big fight is really over. take a look. >> reporter: james and linda dials live near blair mountain in west virginia. ground zero in the battle over mountain top removal mining. one side says it's a fight to preserve jobs. the other side says it's about preserving mountains. >> as far as the community goes, it's not much left any more. you know? there is still some people here, but in this ar

. >> let's check in with soledad o'brien, to the west of me, known as the meat packing district. >> thece where meat used to be packed and processed. in the last 10, 15 years it's become the center of hip and happening new york city. on a normal sunday morning you'd have people returning from clubs. obviously it's not a normal sunday morning. you can see the water, that's the west side highway and the hudson river. we're just about a block from the water. everything to my left is evacuation zone "a," mandatory evacuation, low-lying area. this is landfill. these buildings built on landfill. over here is evacuation zone "b." they encourage you strongly to evacuate but you don't have to. i'm on washington street, the wind picks up because we're in a channel, the wind running through at this stage already, two hours out from the storm. the rain coming down through the streets. inside this building, i want to show you a little bit, anderson when we went inside to see what the problem is with some of these old buildings, the real issue. take a look. so we're inside one of the old buildings, a

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