that's the situation in new jersey. ross the river, the east river is beginning to overflow right now. abc's chris cuomo has been reporting this. you can see yourself leading to a foot of water in battery park. not far from there is sam champion in lowermanhattan. we are beginning to see the water rise there, sam. >> it would be the exact right time. here we are with battery park behind us. that is the tip of manhattan. we are in a high tide cycle right now. this is when we expected to see water breech that area and m me that move up against, not only that sea wall there, but alson the road surfaces on the lower east side and the real concern was, once we saw that happen, how much water would get there. how much sea water would get into this area. d could create problem was power and some other big problems in this area if we get much more. we'll continue to watch that. let's show you the radar though, this is where the heaviest lane is. this rain is opening up as this hurricane opens up. this storm you can really see it

over a million have left the jersey shore in the last 24 hours. and it has been done with very little traffic disturbance, very few reports of people having to sit in long lines of traffic. and that's a credit to the local officials who helped with the evacuation and a credit to the d.o.t. commissioner and the state police who put together the traffic plans to execute that and i thank all of them and all the people of new jersey, both folks who are residents of the jersey sure and those folks who were there vacationing for heeding our warning and for leaving. we have, now, according to ocean county officials 95 percent of long beach island vacated. there are few remaining residents who have refused to evacuate. but 95 percent of the folks on the island are evacuated and reports from cape may that 98 percent of cape may county is now evacuated. again, few stragglers but over all a majority are evacuated. and atlantic county a report from the barrier island that 90 percent of the people are evacuated from the barrier areas of atlantic county. the co

we are in spring lake, new jersey which is called the jewel of the jersey shore. ickname. but just want to show you real quickly some of the flooding that this area is dealing with now. this is across between a huge pond which is out in that direction and the ocean. the two combined. there some water that comes down from the nearby townships. it causes all of this flooding. i want to show you video from earlier. we've been here in south jersey since about 1:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon in our mobile two unit. basically, taking in as much video as we could. again, with this technology we were able to be here on ocean avenue which is the main drag on driving on right now which runs right along the coastline here in the jersey shore area the entire distance. it runs for miles him, as a matter of fact. we were able to stay up and broadcast late last night and early this morning when conditions were at their worst here at jersey shore. lindh was coming down, the tide, the storm surge had inundated most of ocean avenue. like i said, it's this boulevard right along the jer

brian, 1944 had a storm on the jersey shore, cut long beach island in two pieces. it rearranged the map. is that what we're talking about potentially here? >> it's very possible. 1944, a great atlantic hurricane was actually well offshore and this hurricane is forecast to be closer to the jersey shore. we have been looking at that 1944 hurricane, we have also been looking at an 1821 hurricane which also ran right along the jersey shore and into new york city and caused tremendous flooding all around the fledgling city at that time. >> is there any good model of the spaghetti noodle graphics, the hurricane projections you can cling on to for folks who need a little bit hope? is there anything that's going to come along and steer this thing out, perhaps something coming across the country? >> we don't think that a significant probably hurricane of a lifetime event can be avoided, brian. but it doesn't mean that every single spot is going to get that kind of a disaster. we can't pin down exactly where it's going to be, but the way the u.s. coast kind of juts out and th

jersey. this is the new jersey coastline. belmar. okay. thank you. lling in my ear, sometimes it's hard to understand. it looks like a beautiful day out there. again, so far we're not seeing any of the effects of this storm coming in for the new jersey, new york, delaware area, it looks like a pretty nice day so far. where we are starting to see those effects is the north carolina where they're getting the rain and some rough surf out there as well. we'll find out if people listen to the officials and get out of dodge ahead of the storm. quick break here. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to msnbc, pennsylvania has just added its state to the list of those in state of emergencying ahead of irene's arrival. governor chris christie is talking about his state's preparation plans. >> we are working on making sure that we have appropriate evacuations for folks who can't evacuate themselves. jim simpson whose here, the commissioner of transportation and jim wine steen the executive director of new jersey transit are working to supply bus assets to move

along the jersey shore, they may have dodged a bit of a bullet. they had that surge that came in along with the high tide today, that was causing a bit of a problem in the bay head neighborhood here and other coastal communities as they deal with flooded streets. the warning from governor christie, he is asking people to stay indoors because the wind is still kicking up, still raining. the trees are vulnerable to snapping and falling down. more than 600,000 people throughout the new jersey state are without power. that also is an indication of either through just wind or with the downed trees in this area of just the power outages that were caused by irene. a lot of cleanup here. still some people in shelters, about 15 now at the height of the storm in all 21 counties. >> thank you. just reading some of the tweets out there. incredible flooding in edgewater, new jersey. also a tweet coming in that the cranes are still intact at the world trade center in new york. there was concern that the cranes were secure and some things that people are saying o

plus, a live update from the jersey shore. also a look inside the storm with a brave group of hurricane hunters. it is all ahead in our continuing coverage of hurricane irene. keep it right here on msnbc. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. >>> we're looking at live pictures right now on atlantic beach, north carolina, where hurricane irene is expected to come ashore around 8:00 a.m. eastern this morning. we're just speaking with our kerry sanders moments ago. you can see him off to the right in the shot. he's trying to hunker down and get to safety. just moments ago he was getting hit hard by one of those outer rain bands. we're going to go to our meteorologist jeff rainieri. what was he experiencing? >> that was right near the eye wall of the storm. looks like it's going to stay pretty

jersey. where do sthangsd? -- where do things stand? >> the storm is almost passing out of new jersey. the northern half of our state is covered now still by the storm. but we're about half a million people who have lost power and that number is growing a little bit. about 15,000 people in 45 different shelters. 250 roads are subject to closure. but, we're able to move a million people off the jersey shore in 24 hours without incident and i think that that helped us present significant loss of life along the shore line. so, so far we're cautiously optimistic about the way things are at the shore. we're going in to make an assessment. what we're concerned about is inland flooding and that flooding could be record flooding in new jersey because of all the rain and the fact that we've had one of the wettest augusts on record in new jersey before hurricane irene. >> i know it's hard with this storm drain systems and they are being put to full capacity use. what part of new jersey do you worry about most? is it along the coast or along the rivers which make yours such a beautiful state? >> a

the outer banks of north carolina. mark, thanks. as i said we're in point beach, new jersey, president pleasant beach at the river inlet. a place on this shoreline that any veteran of this shoreline knows well. and to look at it tonight it is an otherwise beautiful late s e summer evening. we have guys on jet skis and families with small children patting around in the tidal pools. but the problem is these looks don't count for anything because it's about to go south. in a big hurry. with us now, the man in charge of emergency preparation and dealing with all of this on behalf of his state, governor of new jersey chris christie. governor, do you feel that your warnings and some of them have been very full throated as late as this afternoon? have been heeded? i, for example, can't remember when the garden state parkway is heading one direction. the contra flow is under way tonight starting at about this point in the state going north. >> you know, brian, listen, i think we still have work to do in getting folks to heed the warning. you know new jerseyans are tough and they're

over a million people have left the jersey shore in the last 24 hours. and it has been done with very little traffic disturbance, very few reports of people having to sit in long lines of traffic and that's a credit to the local officials who helped with the evacuation. that's a credit to the dot commissioner with the folks at the new jersey state police who put together the traffic plans to be able to execute on that. so i want to thank all of them. and thank all the people of new jersey, both folks who are residents of the jersey shore, and those folks who were there vacationing, for heeding our warnings and for leaving. you know, we have now according to ocean county officials 95% of long beach island is vacated. there are few remaining residents who have refused to evacuate, but 95% of those folks on long beach island are evacuated. we have reports from cape may county that 98% of cape may county is now evacuated. again, few stragglers staying over, but overall in the majority are evacuated. atlantaic county, we have a report from the barrier islands

pressure's off. >>> we're back here on the jersey shore. nted to set the scene a bit from point beach, as we call it, we here in the local area, point pleasant beach. this can get, even more veteran mariners, very sporty, especially during a tidal change. right now as they do every afternoon, the kids are playing out there in the tidal pools, but, again, as this storm surge comes up the east coast, the atlantic gets angrier. no one is officially allowed to be out on this beach right now, but there's just families with kids at this hour. up the beach a bit. there's an aquarium, quite an attraction for people visiting here. and people will be staying with the animals, but they have to care for all the animals here in the aquarium. this is the point where we normally say good night, we're actually going to keep going for another half hour. and if your nbc station where you live doesn't air our next hour, you can see it on our website, nighty.msnbc.com. and our partners on the weather channel are providing coverage all night long. so for >>> rig

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karen, we're seeing there the long lines of people leaving new jersey. lot of people heeding the warnings that are coming from the different governors alon the coastal states, which is good news. i want to talk about how your company analyzes the possible impact of these major storms, like irene, like irene, and your estimation, what kind of economic damage could we see from this after it is all said and done? >> well, thomas, right now everything hinges on the track of irene. that's going to dictate what the economic impacts are going to be and unfortunately right now the projected track, which is to make a small landfall on north carolina but then hug the new jersey coast and make a second landfall somewhere near western part of long island is the worst track. because the thing about hurricane -- it is a couple of reasons why this is a very dangerous track. one is for the wind damage, hurricanes are right-handed. so the strongest winds are always on the right-hand side. so the further that track is to the west, on long island, the larger population area

that includes along the jersey shore. we have a team of correspondents covering the flood zone. we want to begin tonight with nbc's michelle franzen in bay head, new jersey, on the jersey shore. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the water is slowly receding from this street in bay head. just one example of the damage caused near the shore. but it is new jersey's inland communities that may have been hit hardest by hurricane irene. with the worst yet to come. water spilled over the floodgates on the rariton river in new jersey, swallowing portions of this low lying community. >> we're a little worried now. >> reporter: marie hollow is worried. the town's new flood control measures implemented following hurricane floyd are now being tested to the limit by hurricane irene. >> we're afraid because now the wall is here and the water is going to come closer to us. >> reporter: floodwaters are now the biggest threat to new jersey's inland areas. >> this storm is transitioning into a flooding event. we're going to experience major flooding. some rivers haven't cre

the rain. no doubt about that. but for new jersey and long island, we're talking about the wind and the storm surge. if you decided to stay along the coastline it's been reported four to six feet of storm surge. and as we get into the high tide coming at about 8:00 for most of long island and new jersey that's when things could definitely get a little bit worse. but we do have a little bit of some good news at least on the storm front. when you look at it from a meteorological perspective, you can see on the bottom edge, there's not much in the way of cloud top development. we look for the brighter colors, you can see at the top of the storm to show us where thunderstorm development may be. and we're seeing it really starting to weaken on the southern end so that is a shred of good news at this point. we're are expecting our next intermediate update coming up here at 8:00. so about an hour from now. now, hurricane-force wind gusts are occurring right now along the new jersey shoreline as we're seeing here. also, still for parts of ma

a lot along the jersey shore. ese people scrambling to protect their property right now. >> we're boarding up the windows, preparing for the hurricane. >> this is a lifetime event, you know. this never happened. three days ago, earthquake. now this. mother nature, what are you going to do? >> martha: what will you going to do? mother nature. she's so right. julie banderas is dealing with mother nature down there at battery park city in lower manhattan. how is it going and how are new yorkers getting ready for this event? >> let me tell you, our new york officials have been very busy for the last 24 hours. in fact, andrew cuomo's office releasing a statement moments ago that there has been an earthquake in new york, southwest of there, 2.9. not a strong one, probably most likely after aftershock. but certainly you would never think as a new yorker that you would be experiencing a hurricane and earthquake all in one week. but that is indeed what new yorkers are being prepared for. andrew cuomo's office releasing info

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we have been focusing our attention on the jersey coast. atlantic city is a ghosttown on saturday night at the end of august, which is not usually the case. let's check with rick leventhal near the casinos. what's the latest there? >> reporter: well, it's raining here, still. wins not significant. this is the first mandatory evacuation of atlantic city in its history. and earlier, this evening tappeared it was a wise decision because the streets were flooding, especially the side streets and the weather was very, very rough and it looked incredibly dangerous on the roads. since then, it's calmed down significantly. fortunately for the police who are patrolling pacific avenue here, very few people out. they don't have a lot to worry about. they didn't have a lot of 911 calls because most of the people did heed the evacuation orders, but at this point, it appears -- i know the storm is not completely passed, but it does appear as if atlantic city has dodged the worst and the predictions that it might exceed a record storm surge here is not the

the favorite track is right along the jersey and maryland coastline and up into southern new england. that would bring the storm surge over the top of southern new england in a significant way come early sunday morning into sunday afternoon. and as far as our forecast, this is just one of our computer models. there is the storm down here, and we can track it up the coast. you can kind of see how our many computers are projecting it with the center right along the jersey shore as we go throughout sunday morning. this is a storm system that will be affecting just millions of people on i-95 and knocking power out to thousands, if not millions, as we go throughout this storm. so as far as the last, one last little map here to show you where the computer models are. we still have a track far to the east as boston and providence, and as far west as the chesapeake, that's why the hurricane center right now has it many coming over long island. we're still three days away. as we get closer, we'll narrow this area of impact, but you need to be preparing now from midatlantic up to new england. p

the coast. coming up here, bradley beach in new jersey. as in many locations along the coastline, trees here have come down, blocking many roads. on the atlantic city boardwalk crews are already assessing the damage. the tropicana casino took a bit of a pounding but nothing too serious. in the southern tip of manhattan what it looks like in battery park city hours ago. the water lapping over the sea . feels like the island of manhattan is recovering. >> reporter: sure does. these are some of the strongest wind gusts we have gotten all morning long. a lot of rain but not so much wind. now, the rain is coming from the note. the rain is kicking up making up white caps on the hudson river and new york harbor here. restore and recover mode is what the mayor it is calling this. saying that the evacuation order will be lifted for zone a where i'm standing here in battery park. staten island ferries will resume. bus service will slowly come back. the subways still shut down. but he says hey, every monday morning commute is hectic tomorrow should be

one is all the water that's fallen especially in new jersey on the saturated soils. some case top five all time, other cases top ten. the delaware river runs this way, and this is where the water will be quickly rising, down right along the small river town is where we're going to see the worst of this flooding. that will be peaking soon. to the right of your screen is the center of the storm heading two westchester county and stamford. we have the rivers in jersey, as we go out wider, the ear concern is areas around southern new england, we've been watching the high water, but also watching the radar up there. it look likes we're about to get some strong winds in the bothing area, all through massachusetts, these are the higher gusts. we've watching this 53 mirp gust, and also 49 in bridgeford. we're still getting very strong wind gusts knocking out power. you do not want to be outside in areas from boston to providence to hartford, springfield, that's where we're going to see the best chance of trees coming down. we have this one strong band heading to the north, s

the coast. hurricane watches and warnings are posted from north carolina to new jersey. roughout the area have declared states of emergency. stay with cbs news as we continue to track the hurricane in the days ahead. for now, that's the "cbs evening news." and for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org a >>> every time an out-of-state company moves a job out of california, then they get a tax break. >> new at 6:00, $1 billion to put more californians back to work. with the state already billions in the hole, why governor brown thinks his new plan will work. >>> barry bonds goes to bat again. the 75 seconds that could be a game changer as he fights to

the wind in jersey on the back side not bad. most power outages in jersey have been done. the biggest problem for jersey is flooding in the rivers. as chris christie has been telling us, over the next 24 to 48 hours, i'm still concerned about the high tide cycles. we will see some rise in the water levels. we'll have some damage from that along with our friends in coastal rhode island and back at buzzard bay. the southerly fetch is the reason we'll have higher tide there's. to the storm the storm is so big we'll have gusts. 38 in norfolk. even though people want to begin to clean up down there in the chesapeake, you probably have a good deal of sunshine, wait until the winds sky off before you head out. i'm sure they will want to have a lot of trees to clean up. don't get in the way of power crews. when the storms is said and done the most power outages and damage probably occurred in virginia late last night. forecast track toes take the storm up through connecticut and new hampshire. i don't want to ignore our friends in vermont, massachusetts and maine. you'll lose power

we just got word from the new jersey department of environmental protection the ground was aaileai before irene. now the screen streams and tributaries have been inundated with water. right now they are predicting about 48-hours and some are going to peak at record levels. there was a guy up here valentino capone told us a story of watching the storm from his window. opened the basement door and saw everything was flooded. he had five minow ttes to gathep his dog and wife and get in the back of an emergenisr vehicle ad get out. he thinks he lost everything in his home and lost it just that to oasbout there areup of power don't have electricity in the same way. o outy one litity.e glimmer of ho as we look at the flood water from the mahwah. you can see the high p. >> nnt of the flood waters now. ic walk over here a good bid to the high water mark. it shows you geraldo and this location anyway are going down at this p. >> nnt in time. >> thae whs the sitbe ttion the but you are saying other rivers and the general suggests other riverers won't peak for another day or so, is that what you sai

the saturated states. here is craig in fairfield new jersey. >> the streets of fairfield new jersey are already flooded thisflood stage. all a result of hurricane irene. i am with deputy chief anthony mannah the fairfield police. have you ever seen anything like this? >> 1984 we had a very, very bad flood. but the levels are expected to be worse th worse now than they were in 84. >> we are in the back of a truck using these trucks to evacuate many of the residents. you have a job here. >> the resources normally allocated to fairfield are being deployed throughout the state. we are on our own for the first 24-48-hours of this event. >> normally this event we would see with the nor' easter but what's different here? >> basically the rapid rise of the water over the last 234 hour period a lot of wasserer was dropped as well as upstate new york. >> m how many residents do you have in this community? >> 9,000 residents. what happens during the day during the monday through friday workweek we elevate anywhere from if 60,000 people. the work we are trying to get out is just because of where you live and maybe you

joining me now from the regional operations intelligence center in ewing, new jersey, is the governor of new jersey, chris christie. governor, good to have you here. what's your big issue, your big concern this morning? >> david, our big concern right now is flooding, not only on the coast, but inland. we have our rivers here that are swelling over their banks. we have flooding inland already and we have over 250 road closures already in new jersey, more than 15,000 people in 45 different shelters, and that number is climbing, and we have over 500,000 people without power. and so, what we're transitioning now towards is dealing with the flooding and the aftermath. the good news is we got a million people off the jersey shore in 20 hours and i think we would have had significant loss of life if we hadn't done that. >> talk about that decision. you know, there's a lot of lessons learned from past disasters, like a hurricane katrina, even the big storm earlier this year in the northeast in the new york city area. what triggered it for you that said, you know what, you know, conditions ca

american pride and joy the jersey shore so abercrombie and fitch has actually asked not to wear their clothes anymore there's the like they just don't want to wear their clothes you wear these they will literally wearing our clothes i was really curious i didn't like who wears abercrombie and fitch anymore as i had for maybe pre-teens or when you're like fourteen or fifteen years old and abercrombie and fitch should be all about you know tanning engines they're the only hired good looking people i feel like they're making a big mistake you know what is so funny you said that because back in the day before i was a broadcast journalist i used to be an equity research analyst and i used to actually cover abercrombie and fitch and their brand was suffering from a tarnished whatever they think is going to be tarnished by the situation more several years ago so i can attest to the fact that the situation is probably helping their sales if anything i mean i can understand how the jersey shore doesn't really help your image but it's going to get really expensive for them because i think every

by early morning moving up the coastline of new jersey affecting all of the resort areas in new jersey, and in the morning hours and making its next big landfall in new york city. i don't want you to get too carried away. you saw in the radar and satellite imagery. it is a broad area, hurricane-force wind and we'll keep them in the forecast at least for now. right up to final landfall into new england. next slide, please. tropical storm probabilities as we talked about. this gives you an idea of how large of an area likely to be impacted by tropical storm-force winds while hurricane irene makes its trek up the eastern sea board. those last for hours. that's the area we'll focus on for the wind damage associated with trees coming down and the like. next slide, please. >> if you get higher than a four foot storm surge, right now, the high surge is where it is happening. also point out the likelihood of exceeding four feet in the james river and chesapeak and the ocean and upper chesapeake on this forecast is not looking like it will have the kind of flood issue you saw with isabelle. the

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they're talking about hurricane i rate approaching the jersey shore. he is talking about voluntary evacuations right now and possibly a mandatory evacuation by saturday. we have been tracking the latest in a major hurricane that looks to be making its way up the eastern seaboard. we have the latest update from the national hurricane center. whack right now the storm is " breaking through the bahamas with 115 mi. per hour winds. we're getting preliminary reports of major damage. all this could strengthen into a category 3 hurricane with a wince hitting into the coast of the carolinas and the outer banks. this would be on saturday around midday. if you look at the latest pass, that would take the eye of the hurricane right over new york city, to the east of manhattan, over queens and brooklyn. the hurricane could have an affect on tens of millions people will keep watching the latest as his major hurricane is expected to announce a closer to the new england and northeastern coast over the next 96 hours. here is the dos of nassau in the bahamas. very stron

zapata's close to the jersey shore. evacuations are underway. people living near the coast, hurricane warnings for the advisoentire jersey coast. new york city under a hurricane watch. that is likely to be upgraded to a hurricane warning. residents should get out of the storm's path, if they can't. in >> those of the path of the storm should make sure that you're taking unnecessary and common-sense precautions. when he should have water, food, especially with batteries. we do it isn't a significant amount of power outages. >> motorists are lighting up at gas stations to get out of harm's way as before the storm hit. this is ocean city marilyn's. drivers are lining up for hours waiting to fill their tanks. thousands of residents are fleeing the area. of the end of a hurricane will hit version city tomorrow night and headed into near cities in the morning. airlines are to begun canceling flights. hot hundreds of lives will be cancelled throughout the weekend. belgrade a ripple effect from the country. will tran is live at as a at s.f. boardsailing

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irene was the first hurricane to strike new jersey in more than a century. it could cause severe flooding there, well into the week. shaban is in atlantic city with the latest. good evening. >> reporter: here in new jersey, 650,000 people are still without power and along the jersey shore more than a million have been evacuated. and the strong winds, they're still here. irene's eye may have passed new jersey, but the storm's outer band still have its sights set on the state. the governor says threats of flooding could continue for the next two days. >> some rivers haven't crested yet and it's still raining in various parts of the state. >> reporter: in atlantic city irene's storm surge overflowed the barrier island's back bay. sending water into some neighborhoods but not nearly as much as what many feared. >> we are a block from the ocean, a block from the bay. we thought it was going to meet, and as you see on the street, there's nothing. so we are very, very lucky. >> reporter: in northern new jersey, floodwaters nearly swallowed cars. cbs news early show

about a million people have fled the new jersey shore. governor said he's concerned about 600 mostly elderly people in mostly highrises refusing to leave and are at risk. they'll experience much the same in philadelphia, just about 50 to 100 miles west of here later today and keep in mind that the hurricane is going to be passing offshore not until tomorrow, so things will get worse here, expecting flooding and power outages in this area in this state. >> all right. our brave ron claiborne, lone man standing on the >> ron claiborne, our lone man standing on the jersey shore tonight. good to see that people followed the governor's advice. >>> new york city, the first hurricane warning in 26 years. you've all heard the saying, this is the city that never sleeps. they're not going to be sleeping easy tonight. they'll be tested. parts of new york in lockdown this evening. jim avila, in times square tonight. jim? >> reporter: you can see the rain is falling here. it's not falling strong enough to chase the tourists away. if you want to see an i

. >> behind the scenes of "jersey shore's" italian vacation. >>> and, in the heights. it is the craziest, scariest, highest night's sleep an amateur climber can imagine. after pitching a bed and breakfast on owe semideep's el capitan. but man, is it worth the view. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," august 3rd, 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. and we begin tonight with what could be a break in one of the most intriguing cold cases in our country's history in the early '70s, a hijacker calling himself d.b. cooper jumped from a flight and disappeared in the woods of the pacific northwest. his fate remained unknown. his true identity a mystery, that is, perhaps, until now. thanks to this exclusive interview with abc's pierre thomas. >> i'm certain he was my uncle, lynn doyle cooper. >> reporter: this woman has reignited the investigation into the only unsolved hijacking in u.s. hihiory. her name is marla cooper. and she says her uncle is the infamous hijacker,.b.

because we had the wettest august on record in parts of new jersey, before the storm. already, we've had six to eight inches of rain dumped on south jersey and the rain is continuing throughout the state. what i'm really worried about is flooding at this point and how to evacuate more people than the 15,000 we've already had to evacuate in shelter. in the short term over the next couple of days, my big concern is inland flooding and shore flooding and how we'll deal with folks that have to be evacuate from their homes and need to be sheltered. >> is there anything the state of new jersey needs from the federal government that you're not getting? >> not at this point, jake. we have fema representatives here at the regional operations at the intelligence center that we're working with. i'm calling secretary napolitano in an hour or two to make a further request of additional needs. so far fema has been very responsive. i spoke to secretary napolitano in the last 24 hours. she's offered to do whatever she needs to do to help us out in new jersey. she knows how hard we're g

hour, 2:00 on the east coast, hurricane irene is turning off the coast of delaware, heading toward the jersey shore and then, of course, to new york city. glad you are with us, everybody. >> i'm ainsley earhardt. for the first time in history, a total mass transit shutdown for the city of new york. mayor michael bloomberg has a message for new yorkers -- if you are planning on evacuating now, he says, too bad. >> 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 to this next 24 hours, i assure you. the city has taken exhaustive steps to prepare for whatever comes our way. >> new york has shut down the transit system. philly has shut down the transit system. boston is doing that as of 8:00 this morning. the winds are about 80 miles per hour. the rain already causing major flooding in some parts where the ground was already drenched because there has been so much rain in the northeast over the last couple of weeks. and we have gotten word of tornadoes in three

the middle of long island. it's no longer going over new jersey, it's just off the coast of new jersey. so that would keep some of the strongest storm surge off the new jersey coastline. the track is still wobbling here and. there it's supposed to make category three early saturday. wilmington, this forecast looks better for you. >> thank you very much. across the east coast, residents are bracing for irene, especially in north carolina, that's where president obama has already declared a state of emergency. nbc's kristen dahlgren has more from the outer banks of north carolina. >> reporter: good morning. this is likely to be one of the first areas on the u.s. mainland to feel the effects and the national weather service is already -- some of those increased waves from hurricane irene are hitting the north carolina coastline. they say six to nine-foot swells coming in now, that suspected to get much worse tlhrough today. we could feel tropical storm-force winds later tonight and conditions continuing to deteriorate as the storm moves closer and getting worse going into saturday. there ha

the map. ineps not only new jersey ineps new york, ramapo, all of these rivers are coming down the cot of ton that is flo seing th area here. all of these communities are affected. ineps not just new jersey. can abasething beat about it? >> we had the army corps of engineers sugh dying this for 9 cuears. 7 solutions three out of the top five was to build a tunnel. >> actappenlly two tunne that wide from here to the north day. it would alleviate flooding forever. >> get the water past these areas in new york bay. >> i will hold my breath for that one. they are not gs rail tunnel from new jersey to new york to millions of conow uters i donred c thi ia w build this tunnel that has 300 citizens. >> there are there sewers or septic tanup i in that coma tne and what about that volushia? >> geraldo was asking are there sewers or cesspoo that whaneps happening with the wates? >> the sanitary system is fine. >> the pneping station gets flooded and they have to be taken off. >> drinking water? ld> they wilwillnot have are tc for absolutely not. >> what about the tunnel she ea? >> it was a tunnel back in

then up the coast with the potential direct hit to new jersey and new york. millions of people. we're tracking the storm with live team coverage. what you need to know to prepare. >>> bounty hunting. the walls close in on moammar gadhafi. rebel forces try to root out regime loyalist frs tripoli as they join the hunt for libya's ousted dictator. >>> and the end of an era. an ailing steve jobs steps down. what will the departure of technology's great est inventor mean for apple and the rest of us? and a dramatic announcement from stevie wonder last night. he was able to touch the face of the martin luther king jr. statue and now will make it possible for other blind people to have the same experience. >> as i touched this memorial of dr. king, i think of what i hope we all will do. i hope we'll remember the meaning behind the monument. >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. as you can see behind me, rain here, but up and down the coast, a bigger threat. a threat that could devastate the entire east coast. the storm is packing maximum sustained winds of 115 miles an h

strong across the southern half of new jersey. continue to gust in tropical storm force strength during the night tonight. by tomorrow morning, these purples, hurricane-force winds. landfall around new york city, maybe to the east, somewhere early in the morning. >> bill: the history on this as well as anyone, it's rare when a hurricane of any size gets this far north. you would have to go back 30 or 40 years to the 1950s where it used to happen more frequently. is there anything in the atmosphere, say around the area of virginia or new jersey, that could push this storm out to sea? >> not a thing. it's not going to happen. a lot of times storms out here do a big deflection and they curve off towards the east 'cause they get caught up in the western region and moving really fast. that's not happening in this case. not a single model -- >> bill: is there a reasonable for that? is that el nino? or la nina or neither? >> no. it's a big trough building out across the west and a lot of times those lumber across with big wind speeds tha

. >> things are quiet locally and moving up the east coast as it hit the jersey shoreline, weakened through the early morning hours, we saw it make landfall as a minimal strength hurricane or downgraded as a tropical storm as it moved to new york city, currently 50 miles an hour winds and moving to the underneath-northeanorth-. the heaviest rain is shifting to the north and northeast. new england still looking at a very blustery evening out there and continued flight delays and cancellations tonight. i think things will improved markedly for us in the east coast tomorrow. we'll talk more about that. your local forecast is looking nice and warm. details ahead. >> thanks. national guard reservists from the bay area loaded a plane for search and rescue mission in the wake of irene when it was canceled this morning. they had two helicopters, 50 crew members and life saving equipment loaded onto a transport plane at moffitt field. they planned to fly to maguire air force base in new jersey when the mission was called off. >> the mission was called off because the rescue capability we provide was

you walk into never going to show which i will admit i've done on one occasion and it feels like the jersey shore there's music bump in the lights are kind of low it's overwhelming smell of cologne that is to write this is no middle of them are going through yeah this is perfect for them so you don't like it are just there as a hobby and yeah they're having an identity crisis they don't want to look in the mirror yeah yeah yeah. let's move on to a story for starters just just check out this video and tell me if you know where this kid is from. this has nothing to do with the story except for that little kid is german and a little kid that we're. looking at we never said we were adults here. there is an eleven for eleven year old boy in germany who actually called nine one one to report his mother for forced labor just because you told him to do some chores and call around the house and i don't just cracks me up i'm a guy with a pretty innovative approach he actually had a logical argument this is child labor not legal i think it's pretty clever why don't i ever think about that this kid is

the flooding on the rivers in new jersey is extensive. that is where the story continues to develop. >> it continuing, because those rivers have yet to crest thank you so much, bill karins. let's get the situation from new york's coney island, specifically brooklyn. there's peter alexander, you're by the cyclone, appropriately enough named. >> reporter: it is pretty appropriate given what we just experienced, the cyclone roller coaster, the cyclones, the minor league baseball team located not far from where we are. this is willthe oldest roller coaster. if you bring the camera this way, this is one of the old rides that has been shuttered, but all night long, we heard this howling, whistling as the wind was whipping around this structure, and then sort of the banging of metal against metal, which we only assume is happening, and there were blue skiersier. this is turning into what frankly could be a gorge usa afternoon. a few of the other sights you've seen in the past, and you can see are still standing is the good news, as the hurricane

historic hurricane events for the jersey shore. same thing with long island. in new york city there will be flooded areas but in the core of the city the high rises being inside a high rise should be safe and then we're talking about of course up into new england. everyone prepares inland they evacuate the coast be ready to be out of power for at least a week. that's it, chris. this is in some ways the big one. >> thank you so much. we'll keep checking back, obviously throughout the coming hours and days. now in virginia some of the same search and rescue teams that helped after the japanese tsunami are now being deployed to north carolina mcwhere the hurricane may well hit the harders. the gosh is warning people to get out of the storm's path now. >> a number of local governments up to today have issued those evaiks. i want to tell you what those are because it is very important that people heed this warning and do it now. tomorrow will be too late. >> major paul frame leads one of the most beautiful cities we have here in the unit

heaviest rain exited the new jersey and pennsylvania area. w york state up into the adirondacks and all of northern new england and should be exiting most of connecticut and scepter extreme western massachusetts -- and except for extreme western massachusetts this afternoon. next slide, please this is the forecast for the rainfall continuing rainfall from on. we are still looking at some two to six inches of rain across this area, very highly prone to flash flooding, mountainous and hilly terrain already saturated grounds. next slide please. these are the impacts we are looking at. we are already getting some record reports in the river systems in philadelphia area responsibility widespread to moderate to major flooding southeast new york, western connecticut. our and is with the rainfall going up into the river systems of new hampshire and vermont we could see record flooding. flood stages on those rivers. the details for that is best had through our local forecast offs. by going to weather.gov and clicking on that area you will find the deta

so the first new jersey transi had buses will be sent to send them back to atlanta county. we're going to do the same then at the arena and the other shelters weft throughout the state. should it become necessary, we've worked with the department of education to identify schools and with ago consult to make sure there's food, water and proposing staffs available for additional shelters if in fact it's necessary. to make sure we have that at the ready. director mckenna has done a electricity job for that. and so i want to thank him for that. i think we'll continue on that past if we need it. conferred this morning regarding hospitals. two hospitals remain closed. hops are monitoring current situation and will divert as necessary. that's a normal course of events, except for the two closures. a number of the health care facilities around the state have experienced power outages. health and senior services are reporting the f. to the dep use, and can be prioritized as appropriate, as we move forward here. as of last night, 25 health care facilities have been evacuated affecting