every year more than 12,000 people are brought through the doors of the city's suffolk county jail after being arrested. >> all the way up, lift your tongue up. >> the intake center is located at one of the jail's two facilities. the nashua street jail. >> this ain't walsh street. this ain't bourbon street. it sure ain't rodeo drive, this is nashville street. >> the new arrivals have not been convicted of the crimes for been convicted for the crime for which they were arrested and considered innocent until proven guilty. >> good morning. >> those who are not quickly released or bailed out will be housed at nashua until their cases are closed. and every year, thousands of men and women undergo a demanding application process to secure and manage inmates while they're in jail. less than 1% will make it to the final stage, cadet training. >> there was 40 people, 40 candidates that were brought into this academy class. there were upwards of 10,000 applications for the job. >> the cadets must pass a series of difficult tests to become suffolk county jail deputies. >> we teach them everything

jail. >>> as new inmates flow in and out of the suffolk county jail, there's turnover in staffs well. 23-year-old abrianna is the newest officer to graduate from cadet to probationary deputy. >> sometimes you're not going to use a lot of the training we received. so the standard thing is to keep that in the back of your head in case you do need to use it. >> while he may not hold the reputation of a hardened criminal, 19-year-old sherman badgett is facing a charge of first-degree murder for an alleged shooting. since coming to jail, he has participated in a bible study with pastor timothy young who knew badgett on the outside. >> you've got to be involved in your life. >> he's a very likable individual. he has a smile that will light up a room. if you spend any amount of time with him at all, sherman will have you smiling. >> what you been reading? >> always knew him to be an intelligent, smart young man. certainly someone that would've benefitted from a mentor. just more, again, more an individual who needed to be motivated and not someone where you think, you know, unless som

. >> the suffolk county jail is often the first stop for bostonians who find themselves under arrest. male inmates awaiting trial and who have yet to make bail are dough detained at the nashua street facility where daily population averages about 700. if they have been convicted of a crime and are sentenced to less than 2 1/2 years, most will transfer to the nearby house of correction, which averages 1,700 inmates. while their charges vary, nearly all of them will need to confront the truths of their pasts if they hope to avoid coming back. >> it may be a history of abuse, negligent, lack of education, lack of job history, substance abuse issues, you name it. >> but there's another issue that is also bringing more people to jail. not only in boston but nationwide. >> the percentages of mental illness are off the charts. they are shocking. it's much harder once people begin to get older to tackle those deficits that have been growing and growing and growing over a period of time. >> though he was deemed competent enough to understand his charges and stand trial, a lifelong mental illne

for the seven months he's been at the boston suffolk county jail, 25-year-old robert sutton has onlyn to his girlfriend on the phone, but he's determined to take the relationship to the next level. >> listen, listen. i need close-up. will you marry me, baby girl? i'm serious. give me one of them little rice and bean babies. emily, i love you, baby. >> with the crime sutton has been accused of, it may be a long time before he can start a family. he's been charged with distribution of cocaine for allegedly selling 150 grams to a confidential informant. he's pled not guilty and though he's never been convicted of drug dealing, admits he's no strange tore the drug trade. >> oh, yeah, i've dealt drugs. i'm not going to lie about that. it's just my up bringing, know what i mean? surviving, sell drugs. but i didn't sell those drugs. if convicted, sutton will face a minimum sentence of ten years. but that's not the only serious crime he's accused of. less than a year earlier, a big time gun battle erupted on a boston bridge. he was arrested and charged with assault and intent to commit murde

artists are besides tool time awarding tonight goes to suffolk county new york now the county is located on long island and they're having problems with gangs so community leaders and police have decided that they have had enough of gang members in their town so they've come up with a new way to deal with this issue. is it a legitimate crackdown or gangs or is it a breach of the first amendment that is the called versus the right to tell a long island where it's a gang initiative was launched today that prohibits dozens of known gang members from head to go with each other in the town of wanted it. that's right city leaders and police are asking a judge if it's illegal to band gang members who are two point two mile area and waning now the area covers the downtown business district and police say the measure is desperately needed in the community which isn't plagued by gang violence between two fighting factions of the bloods gangs have the propensity to take over school your. street corners playgrounds in many areas within a downtown. page you know i don't know shoots but now here's how

as well. >> no doubt, suffolk county will be affected. let's check in with jacqui jarvis, and a i think a lot of folks watching this are living in new york and wondering how bad it is in manhattan, and they will think maybe they should go outside and walk around even though it's not -- this is still a hurricane, a category 1 storm. if you don't have to be outside, there's no reason to go outside. >> no. >> it's miserable out here. it's not a sideways rain yet, but a driving, pouring rain, and it's going to be a very uncomfortable day all day today in new york city. where is the storm now and what does it looks like now? >> it's very close to you right now, anderson. i will show you what we call the velocity mode, sarah, if you can do that for me. this is where the center of the storm is. here's sandy hook, new jersey. and here is new york city. there you can see the bronx over here. and there is the center of circulation. wow, it just popped up to the north further. this thing is moving very, very quickly. it's rushing about 25 miles per

i' a member of the habitat affiliate out in suffolk county, new york.ing it there for m5db the before my junior year, we were emailing and stuff like that and she told me about starting this project and i was just really excited and on board so we didn't really know where we were >> reporter: actually, starting the club was the easy part. the real challenge was raising money. one of the things the club did was an event called pasta and prizes night. >> this islç@]o& our major fundr of the year. we ravel off all of our gift baskets, we hopeá to earn a couple thousand dollars tonight to send out kids down to new orleans. k >> reporter:y teens respect jus helping in new orleans. they're also working with habitat for humanity to build homes in new york area. >> there's a huge need for affordable house, everywhere we build affordable homes for ái families, people who need them and we alsoc advocate for affordable housing, %z;-hkdl? changes in the public conscio consciousness make people aware of house issues. the kids always surprise you with the level of

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nassau and suffolk counties make up long island. 200,000 to 300,000 people have been asked to evacuatethey will not come and force you out of here. they will not help you during the height of the storm. the reason being at least from where we stand here, the nearest hospital is 40 miles away, roughly. that is the main reason they asked people to evacuate. hurricane amnesia in new york city. you better believe it. it has been since 1985, really, since we had a storm like this. gloria and hurricane bob in 1991. it has been a while since they have seen a hurricane. i think folks have been preparing for the most part. are they evacuating in mass numbers? that may not be the case. the timing of the storm coming in later tonight and we will probably get the effects of it around midnight. the second landfall, once this makes it through north carolina, it will not make landfall here until noon tomorrow. this will be a long-duration event. this coastline will get hit pretty hard with the winds and waves. new york city proper will be getting those sustained winds and the higher skyscrapers and h

lisa in suffolk county, huge rain -- capital letters. and from new jersey, rain, tree limbs down, the sewers are clogged, causing flooding on the streets. >> that could be a problem as we move into the next couple of days. we have heard from officials, this won't be a 24-hour-type thing. raw sewage making its way into -- you know, into public areas, could be a major problem as we watch all this. continue to send your stuff. there are thousands of floors,ers here in new york, oh glass windows and all of that type of stuff. that could potentially shatter if high winds come along. does the birth rate really go up nine months after a hurricane hits? geraldo rivera breaks down fact versus fiction. >> a single storm and a single event up and down the east coast. >> this is a huge, huge rain maker. >> the concern about the fact that this is a very low-lying area, it's a barrier island that could be cut off. >> it is going to be a true test of the infrastructure, whether the roadways hold and you want electricity holds up, plumbing, water system

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. >> poppy harlow, my colleague was saying earlier she's in lower manhattan, people are suggesting it cube surge of water between six and 12 feet high in parts of manhattan. including ground zero. is that a likely prospect, do you think from everything you're now looking at? >> in a worse case scenario, 12 feet is possible. right now given the track the storm is oranges given the wind speeds we're measuring, the speed of the storm itself, what we see in

nassau, suffolk counties where over half of the all people in the state have lost power.s the predominance of the flooding. that's on long island. we also have a problem in the cat skill area of the state, mid hudson, a lot of creeks and rivers have been cresting and flooding. we've had a loss of life there. going forward i don't want new yorkers to get over confident and think it's over. it's not over. there's no reason for new yorkers to be coming out of their homes. shouldn't be on the streets or roads. let the emergency personnel do their jobs. stay in your home and enjoy your family. read a good book but it's not over until it's over. irene is not done with us yet. >> governor andrew cuomo, thanks for your time. a lot of images that we were watching, some of the pictures you snapped as assessing the damage, thanks so much for your time. >> not too far from new york we have new jersey. a lot of what the governor described also a huge fear in new jersey as well. let's go to poppy harlow live in see caucus. talk to me about what you're seeing around you and how big of a

cat skills area because of the saturated ground and nassau and suffolk counties, this still isn't done. >> we heard from mayor bloomberg while people are expected to get back to work as best they can, he does expect that nothing will be back to normal especially since you heard mta may not resume until mid afternoon and that's pow people get from point a to point b. >> offices and services will be open. >> maybe people will get free passes if they are late to work. >> maybe. >> as we're talking about new york, we want to talk about rhode island and we have kate baldwin standing by where the story appears to be the wind. >> reporter: it does feel to be the wind. as we've seen across the coast, there's relative calm and then i almost got blown over one additional time a few moments ago. it does still seem to be the wind. we have been getting a little more rain but nothing people feared could be heading our way. i will tell you as we've been talking about the concern throughout this state was the wind damage and all of the problems that they have been experiencing because of these fierce

this is for nassau and suffolk counties. we get the spinups an we have this line that's been moving in over and over. new york city was in about about an hour ago. you are in the clear at this time. more tornadoes will be a possibility. the storm is bearing in on new jersey at this time. the center of circulation is pushing in just off of atlantic city. this is going to be where the brunt of the surge comes in. this is going to be where the worst of the winds come in. we're getting wind gust reports up into new york city, 64 miles per hour. that's one big thing about this storm. this thing is a monster. i've never seen the wind field on a hurricane this large. the tropical storm force winds extend out more than 300 miles. the hurricane-force winds stretch out 125 miles. none of the other hurricanes, katrina, hugo, none of them have had winds stretch out this far. it's a category 1, a minimal hurricane at this time. that's great news as this thing continues to move up the coast. it can't strengthen any more. it can only weake

. >> gnaw nassau county, suffolk county, catskills all experiencing downed trees because of so much floodwaters well as high winds that kicked in when tropical storm irene came through. so now it's making its way farther upstate new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine as well. we continue to get a lot of video in from our ireporters and our affiliates. we're going to continue to show you new images and get you new information about the damage from hurricane and now tropical storm irene. on our car insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. wow! that is huge! [ disco playing ] and this is to remind you that you could save hundreds! yeah, that'll certainly stick with me. we'll take it. go, big money! i mean, go. it's your break, honey. same coverage, more savings. now, that's progressive. call or click today. if something is simply the color of gold, is it really worth more? we don't think so. chase sapphire preferred is a card of a different color. unlike others, you get twice the points on travel, and twice the points on

there's not a single model out to sea right now, and most take them somewhere over suffolk county, nassau county or even right up the hudson river. take that, think about what that possibly could. a category 2, and you run that into any big city in the northeast, you're looking at 500,000 to 750,000 people without power, and some spots will take 10 to 15 days for all of that power to come back. so what does that mean? drew, that means you might be camping in your house for ten days. what does it mean to camp without power, without water probably, and how do i survive those ten days? take care of yourself and don't expect the government to take care of you. get the water -- i'm not saying buy bottled water. empty some old milk out of a jug, rinse it out and make sure your bathtub is full of water before that gets there. that will be your gray water. you won't drink it, flush with it. you'll water plants and whatever you need to do with water that you just wouldn't drink so there's going to be a run on all the supplies. don't need to go out and run on all the supplies. water is still very g

nassau county, an absolute mess as we have been reporting and suffolk county on long island and one of things we have heard is the national guard, and we knew it would be happening and the fire chief in long beach, specifically requested troops come into help with the cleanup and the flooding and as far as you can see inland we get major flooding and all the streets were flooded and waves were lapping up against the businesses and we couldn't get over the long beach bridge to get to island park and as we continue to monitor the situation the waves are absolutely massive and you have seen jonathan hunt today on the boardwalk, literally on the back side of the building and we have people who are coming out now and coming out, still looking at the waves because they are still big but it is still dangerous, and, authorities want people to be careful as they start getting a little antsy to get back into their homes. we'll continue to watch things from here, in long beach. back to you. >> rick: laura, thanks, an amazing scene with the sand and mud. spread so high. sea foam, some of the pictu

close to the jersey shore and on up into the western sections there, the western part from suffolk and nassau county along long i'll. l the people here in this box right there, you are in the most danger at this point in time. we'll get to the northeast in a second. we have winds coming here. we have winds pulling water from the sound into your rivers. elizabeth city, all the way to greenville, all the way down to -- even into henderson. watch this, watch what happens when you pull this water in and then you get ten inches of rainfall here. to get to this google map right here, here is the storm track moving across here, the winds coming in, shawn go ahead and move this in here, elizabeth city, right there, right on the water, beautiful part of the country here, but very low, no topography here, the water is getting pushed up the bay, getting pushed up the river and 10 to 12 inches of rainfall coming down the river. it is a tremendous flood potential here and greenville, one more spot, another area where the water is getting pushed back up here in washington, and i assume parts of the city are compl

in the five boroughs and in nassau, suffolk, westchester and rockland counties. hopefully, that won't happen. but there is the potential. combined, i think it's fair to say that these conditions make it unsafe to stay outside. let me repeat that. the time for evacuation is over. everyone should now go inside and be prepared to stay inside until weather conditions improve, which won't likely be until sunday afternoon. but we will get through this next 24 hours, i assure you. the city has taken exhaustive steps to prepare for whatever comes our way and the very best first responders are going to work nonstop through the night to make sure we get through this night as safely as possible. i am joined by our fire commissioner, police commissioner ray kelly and office of emergency management commissioner joe bruno. we have prepared for this. we have worked very hard. we have warned the public. now we have to deal with what comes from mother nature. your safety, your own safety is dependent on what you do. new yorkers, you now remain indoors and take the following steps

in the five boroughs and in nassau, suffolk, westchester, and rockland counties.pefully that won't happen, but there is the potential. combined, i think it's fair to say that these conditions make it unsafe to say outside. let me just repeat that. the time for evacuation is over. everyone should now go inside and be prepared to stay inside until weather conditions improve, which won't likely be until sunday afternoon. but we will get through this next 24 hours, i assure you. the city has taken exhaustive steps to prepare for whatever comes our way, and the very best first responders are going to work nonstop through the night to make sure we get this night as safely as possible. i'm joined by our fire commissioner, police commissioner ray kelly, and our officer of emergency management commissioner, joe bruno. we have prepared for this, we've worked very hard. we've warned the public, and now we have to deal with what comes from mother nature. your safety, your own safety, is dependent upon what you do. new yorkers should now remain indoors and take the following s