. >> thru heard that concern, the concern is response and recovery. the federal emergency management agency, fema, is prepared, it says,s and cities with all the limited partner they will need to respond and recover from hurricane irene. homeland security secretary, janet napolitano telling everyone to realize that hurricane irene is a large and dangerous storm and people should prepare for it. >> some of our states are moving into the response mode. but other states that are further north along the atlantic citysea coast are still in preparation. so if you receive a warning to evacuate, please do so. even if you haven't received a warning during the storm, please stay inside. quote, hunker down, until the storm passes. stay off the roads, until the roads can be cleared. >> and fortunately, many people have taken heed to that warning. and since irene began making landfall, nearly 1.5 million power outages have been reported across four states. that number is expected to rise and likely will, adding to the power outages, there will be a need for shelte

has in their latest write-thru on the storm and new york city. for once, it says, this was a city that slept. and as you can see, the city that never sleeps is awfully quiet tonight. folks staying home, very wisely, out of the rain and the heavy winds that are beginning to make their way to the new york city metropolitan area. we have heard about some storm surges in lower manhattan. we have the very latest for you coming up. we are live, right here on fox. >> notice, many people are asking, will hurricane irene remain a category 1 hurricane as it's barreling up the east coast? we will ask an expert, valerie smock with the accu-weather in state college, pennsylvania. hey, valerie? >> reporter: good morning. yeah, it looks like the storm will be a category 1 as of now. but as we continue into the next couple of days, this is obviously going to lessen. as we are looking now, very big band of rain. now, there is no convection on the east side of the storm. so you can see, there is not much upon an eye. but the area of circulation is continuing to mo

you can't drive-thru there any more. the taxis are running and livery cab drivers running but all mass transportation still shut down so new york, hes will not be able to get out and about, at least today. now?se are pictures from where >> i'm told this isjersey but t on the outskirts. hoboken is a one square mile town with the largest concentration of bars within a one square mile. they have a lot of water over there. jersey city just south of there and a lot of flooding there as well. as you might expect in low-lying areas there is low lying flooding. this is wayne, new jersey, which is my understanding which is just down the coast.oong, fe as the tide has gone back out a lot of this flooding has subsided. the big picture is a good one but for individuals could be a difficult couple of days. 14 lives taken as this big storm went churning up the coast. trent city is about -- atlantic city is about to get wet. then ought to be a beautiful sunset over america's largest city. this is fox news channel's continuing coverage

taken in swatt, an area taken over by the taliban and the army pushed them back out and the army took thrus to visit the area. the point of that photograph was to show that, you know, what was once a very, as i said, moderate, peaceful, agricultural region, had really become a gun culture and now there are guns all over pakistan. and these islamic groups that are now threatening both the state of pakistan as well as their neighbors, you know, there millions of weapons in that country. host: you point out in the book, one of the polls show 17% of respondents in pakistan found america to be a favorable country. i haven't seen it but i suspect it's the same way going the other way after all this. and you have to ask, why are we spending billions and billions and billions of dollars from us to pakistan, and how much -- have you ever totaled up the figure from the beginning? guest: i've heard a lot of different figures over the years and some of it's military, some is economic. there have been different sources of aid in different amounts but certainly in the many billions but actually what's ha

we will stay about the same thru thursday, friday at the weekend starts to warm up to bringing us back into the '90s. >> here is a live picture out of washington d.c.. we're looking at a picture of the washington monument. the washington monument is closed indefinitely. hot it what call if a hot thing fica >> >> to the news and bad news hit, the oakland a's were able to snatch up a rare win against the yankees. check out this shot. the ball was crushed to the third deck. that is the second of all to reach that height in the new yankee stadium. holidays 16- 5. >> the reason i go is to see the long balls. the giants lost this time to the padres. i am going to the game tonight, join us at the giants' game tonight. we will see by the blue. lucille will also be there. that is my guest for mother's night out. we will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. the stock stayed to revere. r them this 1/2 data behof >> on 8:47 a.m.. we're taking a peek at the street. stocks have fallen. we're looking to it earlier this morning. the dow is now off by 80 points. we are still trading abov

been toll plaza, 80 getting thru vallejo, you will need extra time because of earlier problems. >>> good morning. we have a lot of fog and low clouds. in fact, a rather large surge. inland temperatures will take a plunge, maybe 10 degrees for some. today a bigger fog bank, cooler today, more of the same tomorrow. 60s 70s, and 80s. thursday and friday, if everything continues to come in as advertised, it does look warmer. we're getting that time of year, starting at the end of august, september where you -- where you get a cooldown and then a warmup. more fog today. sunny but cooler. biggest decline will be in the temperatures away from the coast, which were in the 80s. today they will drop in the 70s. so cooling trend tuesday/wednesday. i did reverse that starting on thursday. nothing dramatic but i think we'll start a warm up then. another system moves up to the west. santa rosa, 47. that's cold. if it weren't for the co low clouds and fog, we would have -- for the low clouds and fog we would have warmer temperatures. a sea breeze -- sea breeze, delta breeze is all in place. developing

she's the -- she's the eighth person to die from the thru this year -- from the flu this year. >>> colin powell says he's not happenly about the way he's -- happy about the way he's protrayed in a book by dick cheney. >> they are cheap shots. he takes great credit for my resignation at the end of 2004. well, probandi always agreed that i would -- well, president bush and i always agreed that i would leave at the end of -- end of 2004. powell calls the claims in the book nonsense. the book is set to be released tomorrow written by dick cheney. >>> let's check in with sal. >> good morning. right now, traffic is getting busy around the bay area, almost everywhere you look, you are going to see some slowdowns. this is a look at 280 northbound getting up to highway 17. definitely see slow traffic getting into the valley in case you are driving to cupertino and sunnyvale this morning. if you are driving down to fremont --less say you are just -- let's say you are driving through the crash, you will need extra time. the traffic is back under into hayward. it's part of the xsh -- it's part of th

just an hour and a half of walking thru here and meeting people touched by those contributions, it remindedi get to stand here today and speak. i thank you for this invitation. thank you. [applause] in fact, i have a distinct honor because not many people -- the only two people i've ever walked down the aisle with are here today. one is my wife, jeanette, and the other is mrs. reagan, we just walked down here. i tell people all the time that i was born and raised in ronald reagan's america. i was raised in ronald reagan's america. he was elected when i was in fourth grade and left office when i was in high school. those are very important years, fourth grade through high school. they were the years that formed so much of what today i believe and know to be true about the world and our nation. ronald reagan's era can be defined, number one, by the cold war and the end of it. ronald reagan didn't just believe that the soviet union and communism could fail, he believed it was inevitably destinned to fail. it was our obligation to accelerate that process. that all we had to do was be american a