amber reporting from us in virginia beach. ing in the governor from virginia, bob mcdonnell. what's the latest governor? >> you just heard the report from virginia beach. there's over a million people in that area, 500,000 in virginia beach. a lot of people are experiencing hurricane force winds now and will for the next several hours. our biggest concern, revised estimates of the storm surge up to five to seven feet. that would be a record, that would put water in a lot of places and fortunately we had mandatory evacuations along those low-lying areas over the last day or so, and that was the right decision. so we're very concerned about storm surge. in some areas have had, wolf, often inches of rain so far and now the high winds come in. we're very concerned about trees. we've already had two deaths in virginia as a result of trees falling on apartment and tree falling on a car. >> one of those deaths was a little boy in that apartment building when a tree fell and killed that boy. what else can you tell us about that, govern

look at those waves coming to us from andrea, alexander, in virginia beach, virginia.very strong, andrea tells us. it was hard for her storong. in fact, as she was taking some of these videos, she started shaking around. let me emphasize to everyone, we don't want you to take any risks in taking these, but if you can safely take photos or videos, send them to us at ireport.com. you'll see it's very easy. and we're getting new details now on hurricane irene. they're coming right up after this. no, this is new bayer advanced aspirin... clinically proven to relieve tough pain twice as fast as before. what, did you invent this or something? well, my team did. i'm dr. eric first, from bayer. wow. look. it has microparticles. it enters the bloodstream faster and rushes relief right to the site of pain. better? great! thanks. [ male announcer ] new bayer advanced aspirin. extra strength pain relief. twice as fast. test our fast relief. love it, or get your money back. [ male ] using clean american fuel is just a pipe dream. ♪ [ female announcer ] we're rolling away mispercept

the district fire chief is with the virginia beach fire virginia beach fire department.usy with and also just horrible things that happened with fallen trees in your area. >> we have experienced tons of streets being closed because of trees and power lines coming with the major flooding. >> i know two fatalitis and one of them to do with a fallen tree. >> right. >> an 11 year old boy sitting at his home and the tree hit the apartment building. >> what is your greatest challenge. storm bappeds are whipping parts was virginia. >> middle part out of the virginia beach area. we are getting heavy rains and bands and tropical storm. everyone is hoping for no more reports of any more mange damage and tomorrow morning in bright daylight we'll do damage asessment. >> they a lot of full to pull out the trees. vance cooper with the virginia we'll be right back. beach fire department. we'll be right back. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest

>> painful story there, brian todd in virginia beach, virginia. thank you so much for that. >>> among those killed in the helicopter crash, nebraska national guardsman patrick hamburger, the 30-year-old sergeant was deployed to afghanistan just a week ago. military officials with knowledge of the operation say hamburger's mission was to deliver u.s. commandos targeting a taliban commander. his brother says he always put others before himself. >> pat, you know, was always -- he was the guy that was always looking out for everyone around him. and i've got a twin brother too. and he was always taking care of us and getting himself into bad situations to make sure that he had taken care of us. and he just -- he was selfless. he didn't worry about him half as much as he worried about everyone else. and you could have been a complete stranger and if he could help you, he would have done it. >> the sergeant's stepfather says hamburger joined the guard when he was 18, and planned to propose to the mother of his 2-year-old daughter when he returned to the

right now virginia beach is in this.hey join us from the fox extreme weather center with the latest on what he's seeing. >> rick: the storm is moving up virginia beach and strong over north carolina. cape - cape hatteras at 69 miles per hour. and we have 115 miles per hour wind just to the south. storm moving toward the north. you can see the wines are solidly in the tropical storm range. and in to virginia as well. and we have winds in the mid-40s. we have seen a 50 miles per hour wind gust in wallops island. we are a ways away from the center of the storm. look at wind gust. that purple is hurricane-force winds. tonight at 11:00 we'll see that in parts of the outer banks. they will get the back side of the wind and that will be pummeling the sound and watching the water from the sound back to the atlantic. reversal causing damage again and delvarva overnight . jersey shore and close to new york city and crossing along -- long island. and monday morning, 1:00 a.m., we have wins and the rain is gone and by monday morning

this tornado has damaged five homes in the sandbridge area of virginia beach. the chief is telling the associated press the fire department says that the roofs were blown off, walls collapsed and other homes with less severe damage and the tornado not confirmed, you have to wait for confirmation from the national weather center, but it looks to the locals it was a tornado. virginia, hundreds, more than 500 on virginia beach have sought shelter as the storm continues north and a few things of interesting around the big cities. new york they have had subways closed and the buses every kind of public transportation shut down for 2 1/2 hours. and that is times square right not heart of it all and some people wanted to get out of the town so they have flooded the midtown car rental agencies and it sounds as if car rental ages all over the new york city area are running out of cars because new yorkers can not it is still for more than 15 or 20 20 seconds so european tourist whose have no idea what is happening they think they are in london. it is new york. there is a

virginia beach is home to many navy seals. the loss of 22 of the elite troops is a blow to the community. brian todd is there in virginia beach tonight. you have been talking to people there. how are they doing? >> reporter: not well, don. it's a surreal atmosphere. you can hear fireworks going off here in the background. this is a weekly tdi they would have this no matter what. it's bizarre to be here in the middle of this. it's been a somber mood here. this is a military town and for a place like this where the realities of war are constant this has been a tough couple of days. kimberly vaughn describes the horrible moment when uniformed officers came to her door and told her about her husband. >> i just fell to my knees. >> aaron vaughn was one of 22 navy seals killed in the helicopter crash in afghanistan. kimberly is left to care for 2-month-old chamber lynn and 2-year-old reagan. >> i want to tell the world he was a wonderful husband, a fabulous father to two wonderful children. he was a warrior for our country. he would

. >> aaron vaughn was stationed in virginia beach, virginia. and our brian todd is there. hello to you. you have been talking to people in this tight-knit military town. how are they doing? how are they taking this? >> it's been very tough to take, don. a very difficult day for them here. and reminders everywhere here of the sacrifices the naval personnel and others make in this war. you've got a tribute here to the fallen naval personnel who've given their lives. and over here a tribute to the concept of the homecoming. a wonderful statue here, and a mural here that kind of reminds you of just what people are going through. and of course it's even more sobering and heartbreaking when you realize that so many of the naval personnel, the navy s.e.a.l.s involved in this incident are not going to be going through this reunion. we spoke to a navy s.e.a.l.'s wife a short time ago today and got another stark reminder of some of the sacrifices being made. kimberly vaughn describes that horrible moment when uniformed officers came to her door and told her about her husband. >> and

that is the virginia beach fishing pier. you look at the very end, you can see the waves, which are massive waves, coming up towards the shore and they're just coming in one by one and they are continuing to grow, continuing to intensify. the one thing that has really not changed in the past three or four hours has been how far up these waves have encroached closer to the boardwalk. they have receded just a little bit. so some good news there. if you look, though, along the boardwalk, you will see, as we wipe our lens, you'll see some of that sand that already started washing up. it washed up along the board walk. it washed up along the bike path, which is starting to flood again as well. earlier this morning they had flooded, it receded and again it is back up. so we are continuing to monitor the conditions here. i want to again reiterate to folks who think they can come drive out here and take a look at it officers are continuing to patrol the boardwalk. they're stopping folks as they drive up, telling them to go back, so

virginia beach mayor wanted to throw a parade but knew he couldn't. now he has to help an entire city grieve for men who's name many people are hearing for the first time. >> it hurts. but everybody thinks so highly upon them. >> reporter: mcguire knows about that pain. he was a former seal who was stationed in virginia beach. >> we are at war and freedom isn't free. >>> more details now on the circumstances surrounding that helicopter crash. according to the associated press, u.s. officials say the helicopter was shot down after helping other soldiers who had come under fire. it's expected the u.s. will rely more heavily on special operation forces. those forces are expected to remain in the country. nato says from april to july there were more than 2,800 special operation raids in afghanistan that is twice as many as during the same time period last year. >>> a roll over accident in marin county has left one man dead tonight. it happened at 5:30 this evening on highway 101 between petaluma and nevado. this dodge magnum rolled over and hit a tree. th

happening now, hurricane irene lashes virginia beach with violent winds and pounding rain. at least eight people are confirmed dead. more than a million homes without power as this monstrous storm marches up the east coast. maryland is in the next city in line. the mayor holds out that this is not a hurricane party. buses, subways, and commuter rail all halted in new york as hundreds of thousands are evacuated from the city now bracing for irene's impact. we have reporters standing by all along the east coast of the united states. i'm wolf blitzer with a special edition of "the situation room." >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're watching this hurricane unfold here in the united states. let's go right to ocean city, maryland. cnn's jeanne meserve is standing by. it's beginning to feel the wrath of irene. what's going on? >> reporter: the winds have become strong, so strong that the mayor has told the police to stop patrolling the streets of this town. he says if emergency calls come in, they will be considered on a case-by-cas

but three houses have already lost their roofs on virginia beach. >> eric fisher, clearly braving things for us in norfolk, virginia. take some cover, because those winds look like they're about to gust you away. >>> we've been talking about the tweets all day. many have been sharing your thoughts online about the hurricane. here are some of the tweets we've been getting at msnbc. poet icon 98 sends us a question asking if lower manhattan floods, is there a risk to the 9/11 memorial museum that is under ground zero? that is a very good question. we're going to get the answer for you and report them later. jimmy jay scott tweets, irene passed parallel to boca raton, florida. lucky for us it was far out in the ocean. it took out some trees. power just went on and off here in raleigh. and mike bettes from the weather channel. keep your responses coming to us here. use that hash tag irene. we're coming to the end of this hour as we leave you with a picture of new york city, everybody. that is times square. here's what's important about new york city. in addition to the fact that they're wait

the eye of hurricane irene is directly east of virginia beach. so for the next hour we'll see the last of the major wind gusts and storm surge and things will start to die down a bit around here. good news, too. we're starting to see some of the power come back on. the power in our hotel turned back on. at one point the majority of the city was without electricity. as we all know, when we think of the city of virginia beach, it's definitely a tourist destinatiodestination martin and keira. it hasn't stopped some tourists from coming down here just to witness the hurricane. haerl earlier we were in the catch 31 bar in the hotel. we were talking to a guy just enjoying a burger and fries as he was overlooking the ocean and watching the hurricane because he had never seen a tropical storm before. >> a burger and fries with a side of hurricane. how about that? >> how's that for an order. >> reporter: with a side of hurricane. you know, he's never seen a storm and for him it was a vacation. a thrill. an adventure-cation. >> if t it's true. if you've ne

they are in virginia beach at the operations center. i went to virginia beach, norfolk and hampton yesterday. they are regularly in touch with dominion and the other co-ops that serve the region. we're expecting far more than the 114,000 or so reported. it's actually up to about 150,000 as of noon. the problem is, of course, north carolina and maryland and other neighboring states are going to have their own problems. so we'll have to have people from other places if we need extra capacity. dominion's already planning on that. i've gotten personal calls from governor perry in texas and the governor in florida to say, we're here to help you. i have to say, for our residents, they need to know that despite the great efforts of these power companies who will be out even during the storm, that it may take days to restore all of the power or longer, depending on how many outages we have and people need to be patient. they need to help one another, be good neighbors. hopefully they've got ice or can buy ice after the storms and do everything

brian todd, virginia beach.s are with all of those family members for their sacrifice. unbelievable. >>> still ahead, we're talking religion and politics. rick perry holds a day of prayer. it seems he did connect with religious conservatives. can he connect with other americans? >>> the big moment is here. a 61-year-old distance swimmer on her way to a world record right this very moment. she is swimming from -- swimming, yes, from cuba to florida in shark-infested waters without a protective cage. we'll check in on her progress, 16 minutes after the hour. have i got a surprise for you! a mouthwatering combination of ingredients... i know you're gonna love. [ barks ] yes, it's new beneful healthy fiesta. made with wholesome grains, real chicken, even accents of tomato and avocado. yeah! come on! [ barking ] gotta love the protein for muscles-- whoo-hoo! and omega-rich nutrition for that shiny coat. ever think healthy could taste so good? [ woman announcing ] new beneful healthy fiesta. another healthful, flavorf

we go live to virginia beach. what are things looking like? >> good morning. you can see it is certainly a different scene from yesterday. beaches are closed and filled with heavy rains and pelting -- or heavy winds and pelting rains. you everybody got out of town, but we spoke with a hotel manager and he put up signs saying you have to leave. he didn't want to be responsible for your safety, and that's what we are seeing up and down the beach. the department of transportation cents -- sent out a release and if they don't believe the roadways are safe they are shutting them down. 23* res -- if residents did not leave, they would have to stay here for rete maneder of the storm. these conditions could stay anywhere from 18 to 24 hours. this is probably the best that we are going to see. the good news is there are a number of shelters open. there are people who are here who need more shelters and he is prepared to open them. as you can see behind me, we are starting to feel a storm. this is going to be the lightest. >> thanks for keeping us posted. >>> hurricane i

virginia beach reporting wind gusts of 60 miles-per-hour. already heavy rainfall towards baltimore, up towards new york city, and even boston reporting light to moderate rainfall. here is the track of this system as it will continue to move very slowly to the north northeast overnight tonight. just off the coast here at 11:00, starts to move into the new york area. by 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning could be the roughest part of the system, and by tomorrow afternoon it will move through boston and head on up toward eastern portions of canada. we'll have a detailed look and a look at our forecast coming up. >> alan: speaking of new york city, the subway system is shut down today. the bustling city was unusually quiet as the first rains from hurricane irene showed. broadway shows and some sporting event were cancelled. the mayor says 50-80% of the population has left. the city has been warning people for days not wait to evacuate. >> would be fun to say i walk around in a hurricane, but wouldn't be fun to say it from your hospital bed. >> alan: the

anne thompson, nbc news, virginia beach, virginia. >>> that's our broadcast for this monday night as we start off a new week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> right now at 6:00, facebook and prisons. the new crackdown here in california. >> i'm scott budman, looking at what another round of stock market selling means for you and your business. >>> plus, we're following developing news in the east bay after a young child is caught in the crossfire. the news at 6:00, starts right now. >>> thank you so much for being with us.

the resort strip essentially abandoned as it gets strong winds and rain all the way up virginia beachalso getting word of a sailboat in distress. virginia's coast and getting wind and rain from the outer bands of hurricane katrina. there is a 30-foot sailboat that's in trouble off ninth view street in ocean view, virginia coast guard is going out there to help them. sailboat rescuing' news service wavy. let's listen here. >> that's kind of strange for being a hurricane. and went down investigated a little further and found out that there are, i think, two people on the boat and it's anchored they are trying to get in and they lost their motor. i know you're worried about making your savis last and having enough income when you retire. that's why i'm here -- to help come up with a plan and get you on the right path. i have more than a thousand fidelity experts working with me so that i can work one-on-one with you. it's your green line. but i'll be there every step of the way. call or come in and talk with us today. what if we designed an electric motorcycle? what if we turned trash in

this is virginia beach. you can see hurricane irene's outer bands already bringing wind gusts up to 7 a miles per hour to the coast of north and south carolina. we're already getting reports of power outages. tornadoes, the worst is yet to come though. the latest advisory puts the i'll of the storm just 60 miles offshore. 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

aaron vaughn was based in virginia beach. he was one of 22 s.e.a.l.s killed in the attack. the 30-year-old leaves behind a wife and two young children. his grandmother wishes she could have seen him one last time. >> i would say, aaron, you made me proud. and i would say you did a good job. and i'd say i love you, and i always will. >> reporter: cynthia morrison with the navy s.e.a.l. foundation, a nonprofit supporting s.e.a.l. families, estimates that half of the 2,600 elite commandos are based in the greater norfolk area. the other half call coronado, california, and san diego home. in such a small group, the loss of 22 is magnified. >> we pray every day that they do come home, and this weekend unfortunately they're going to be a lot of guys not coming home. >> reporter: eight other u.s. service members died in the crash, among them, john brown, a native of northwest arkansas. his mother called the special forces medic a humble healer. >> if there is a comfort in this situation, i'm so proud of my son. so very proud of him. >> reporter: 30-year-old patrick hamburger was a

that team is based in virginia beach, virginia. this is where yunji de nies is tonight. >> reporter: they are the military's elite, the identities kept so secret. now in death, we're learning more about these heroes. 25-year-old michael strange, served in iraq, africa and afghanistan and had just gotten engaged. >> he got deployed again in july and he said he would be home for thanksgiving. he was a g gat kid, man. he fought for this country. >> reporter: his family says he understood that his dedication came with great risk. >> he knew he was going into this. unreal. everyone hears about it happening and now it happened to us. >> reporter: and to the family of 30-year-old aaron carson vaughn, a father of two with a newborn daughter he had been with for just two weeks before heading back overseas. vaughn had volunteered to return to combat. >> he was a fabulous son to his parents and a great big brother. to me, the love of my life. >> reporter: at the wave church in virginia beach this morning. >> we thank god for all the military.

yunji de nies, abc news, virginia beach. >>> police officers are patrolling the streets of london this weekend, after weekend riots. a peaceful protest of a killing of a man in north london went on a rampage sunday night. the victim's brother is calling for calm. more disturbances broke out overnight. >>> and the syrian government is expanding its military campaign against pro-democracy protesters. activists report fresh gunfire this morning, a day after at least 42 people were killed. more than 300 syrians have died in the past week. the bloodiest in the five-month uprising to oust syria's president from power. >>> and now, for this morning's weather here at home. severe storms with winds as high as 90 miles per hour around minneapolis, omaha, des moines, kansas city, st. louis, louisville and nashville. scattered thunderstorms from new york to d.c. hazy, hot and humid in the south. showers in the desert southwest. >> phoenix hits 103. albuquerque, 95. and near 90 in salt lake city. mostly 80s from fargo to detroit. 88 here in new york. 97 in atlanta. >>> coming up, a remarkable long-

it was. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. >>> are you locking at a live picture from virginia beachirene hit the coastline this morning with winds at 90 miles per hour. the winds are now at 85 miles per hour. and tropical storm conditions have spread into coastal virginia, maryland, and delaware. as irene heads north. >>> what a different situation here. make a little fog but really a nice day. >> right. that's our biggest complaint, we are very lucky and we'll have a gorgeous forecast just as warm as yesterday. we found some sunshine above that low cloud deck. we will all begin to see that sunshine in just a couple hours. right now some of our inland areas dealing with mostly sunny skies. we on the other hand along the bay and coast dealing with mostly gray, even dense fog and drizzle to start your morning. temperatures in the 50s to low 60s. lunchtime numbers, 60s along the coastline, 70s around the bay. and approaching 81-degree or so for some of the hottest inland areas. that already by noontime some for some of us it will be warm already by 12:00. 83 napa. 86 expected in santa

it's going to move up to virginia beach. somewhere near long beach, all of this rain is pouring onshore. it's ponding at work, this rain is going to last. understand that there are winds 40 miles an hour all the way from atlantic city, all the way down into central parts of north carolina and south carolina. put this into motion for the next three hours. it moves offshore, 7:00, ocean city, you're already in the dark green, that's 60-mile-per-hour winds, richmond, you're in the 40s-mile-per-hour winds, washington, d.c., baltimore, you're getting there, by about 1:00 in the morning, and philadelphia, all the way to long branch in north carolina, about 40 miles an hour, but by 2 3:00 in the morning, there are some very big winds in the ocean, they don't wrap all the way around for a while. but you will see the winds here, 70-mile-per-hour, will affect the eastern sections of long island. right there, 6:00 in the morning, this storm running up ore atlantic city and then toward new york city, the closest approach to philadelphia

virginia beach, tomorrow night, 7:00. that's where the maximum wind will be, ocean city, by 2:00 a.m. sunday morning all the way up to long island. this is what we're concerned about, when this wind gets to long island and back into the northeastern sections of new york city. isha? >> chad, thank you. now back to anderson. >>> more storm coverage ahead on "360". stay tuned. >>> and welcome chad myers talked about a short time ago, looks like the rain is getting stronger there now, john. >> yeah. you know, anderson, it's not that side ways driving, pelting rain that feels like sand when it h

we already had, we saw that one fatality already in virginia beach, due to the wind bringing down thes already raining in connecticut and it's still raining in north carolina, fred. >> this is a monster of a storm, i mean the reach is tremendous, that in north carolina people are experiencing rain and in new jersey, people are experiencing rain, all from this one system. >> and also, we're washing a lot of beach away, all the way from sandy hook down to atlantic city, cape may, ocean city and of course all of north carolina. >> chad, thanks very much, speaking of atlantic city, let's go to jason caroll, that's where he is, and he's already experiencing some effects on the beach there, jason. >> i know you guys have been talking about beach erosion, we have been using this storage shed as a landmark to test how far the water has come. when we were here early this morning, the water was far away, and we have seen the waves actually now starting to couple where you have seen those storage shed there. so that gives you an indication of how strong the surf's up just in the past few hours.

virginia beach won't get the eye until 7:00 p.m. that is 12 hours of wind over 40 then 50, 60 and it keeps going until ocean city gets it. here's 2:00 a.m. sunday morning. tropical storm force winds already into the sound, long island sound right there, blowing into the harbor, new york harbor. water backing up the hudson river and backing up the east river. 2:00 a.m. the winds are already 39 or 40. that's when everything gets shut down because winds are going to be too big to move things around. trucks can't go over bridges. the eye doesn't get there for another eight hours. so the wind is blowing in that same direction for eight hours and will push that water into where lady liberty is back up those rivers. those rivers will flood. boston, you get it about 3:00 sunday night. one thing i just noticed, we have a hurricane hunter aircraft flying through it. here is jacksonville, here is the coast. here is john zarrella there and cape hatteras. the hurricane hunter aircraft flying through. right there is the eye. they just found a 123

and here in virginia beach, you can see a sand berm they built all night long to protect a part of the boardwalk from part of the storm surge and you notice a couple of the white tents on the beach, and one of the largest surfing championships in the country and the east coast surfing championships is going on and that is all that is left from a festival that stretches 10 city blocks here and they will take those down this evening and they will not be surfing in the day tomorrow. let me show you the waves here and the beach is not as crowded as it normally would be, and the swells starting to come in, and we went into town early on and it is a mixed vibe inside of virginia beach. one business completely boarded up and one next door open for business completely. some people are walking around. and i will tell you what, as we head into the morning hours tomorrow and all day tomorrow and saturday night and sunday morning is when we are under the brunt of the storm, and if not, kree yacreating the category 1 and also a foot of range and storm surge one to eight feet, and norfolk who is mos

because it's so big, that includes a lot of communities, but one of them, virginia beach. eric fisher from the weather channel has been trying to hang on there all day and all night. eric, how are you? >> well, thankfully, brian, things improved a little bit at our location in virginia beach since the last time we spoke. i wish i could say that about many locations in the tidewater. we have a crew in norfolk. there are people literally swimming in the streets right now because of some of the surge flooding. it's one of the deadliest aspects of land falling hurricanes that is our big concern tonight. a tide above what we would normally expect. high tide is right now. the worst will last for a couple more hours before the water levels go down. we're also getting report coming in, perhaps another fatality here in the state of virginia. in the town of chesterfield. you heard bryan norcross, wint gusts upwards of 70 miles per ho hour. rainfall totals will be approaching a foot if not topping it before the rain works its way out. the wind gusts tonight will continue as well. in

. >> is surfer in virginia beach died after being caught in a recurrence. thousands of people are without power. new york ordered a mandatory evacuation for low-lying areas of the city. >> the best thing that could happen is this storm turns east and heads to see. that is not likely to happen. unfortunately there will be a serious storm coming in. it is better to take precautions and get out of the way of the storm. mother nature is much stronger than all of us. >> people have been warned to prepare for flower outages and storm surges. even the new york subway system is scheduled to stop burning this afternoon. the president says that the government is ready but people on the east coast need to stay alert. >> i cannot stress this highly enough, if you or in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. do not wait, do not delay. we hope for the best but we must be prepared for the worst. >> we have confirmed the first fatality in virginia beach. we are also getting reports of at least one tornado created by hurricane irene. >> the

but they're policing the beaches there in virginia beach extra hard. >> today it will be fun. tomorrow it will be dangerous. they're going to be rip currents with the storms and we urge people to stay off the beach. it is still a very dangerous storm and obviously while the track looks pretty certain, a slight move to the west again and we have got catastrophic problems in the eastern part, southeastern part of virginia. for people to listen to the warnings of the emergency personnel, go to the websites, www.vaemergency.gov and find out the evacuation routes and the shelters. when we hit tropical storm force winds tomorrow, bridges and tunnels will likely be closed, which really changes the options to get out of the southeastern part of virginia. so people that want to leave, need to leave today. >> we're going to -- i know you have an update at 1:00 for yourself for the people of virginia. governor mcdonald, thank you for joining us today. appreciate it. >> thank you for your coverage, thomas. appreciate it. >> absolutely. now we're waiting for president obama to make a statem

the storm only has until about virginia beach to strengthen.es over cooler water, it would weaken. the water temperatures off the ocean city, maryland are in the 70s. off of areas of new england, in some cases, temperatures in the 60s. the carolinas will get hit by most likely a category 3 or very strong 2. you can see the black center line. it is really weakening until it gets past ocean city, maryland, that's why we're expecting a devastating blow to the coast there. now, as far as the wave goes, the wave action is going to be incredible with this storm, such a big storm, so much mass and so much potential energy that will be tossed into the waves. we have 18-foot waves now off the coast of south carolina. 14 just off of wilmington. 10 foot waves off of cape hatteras as the storm nears, those big huge waves will be crashing on shore and that's where we'll get our beach erosion. at the time of high tide, we'll see that surge. we're starting to get our numbers in for accumulated rainfall. this is only out through sunday morning. but that purple

from virginia beach the wind now pushing waves, water into the chesapeake bay. that could cause a little coastal flooding up into the chesapeake. then tomorrow the waves and the wind just blow onshore all day. and watch by tomorrow night some of that water may be piling up in new york. piers? >> well, it's a very worrying situation. chad, thank you very much. my only aid vice would be to listen to authorities, to take the advice that they give you. that's all for us tonight. new mayor bloomberg out with a troubling new assessment. they are expecting the storm surge from irene to flood the area which includes the ground zero construction site with anywhere from 6 to 12 feet of water. it and other low-lying neighborhood on a mandatory evacuation order. mayor bloomberg saying the city transit system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports also in danger of flooding. they are being closed right starting at noon care this is what they are concerned about. pictures here of irene hitting the bahamas, new yorkers i used to seeing this on tv, but up clos

flooding in the virginia beach area.is likely to be a huge part of this story when we look at the aftermath of this. that's a big concern, as rick has told us, if it pushes to the west, it will hit a ton of suburbance areas. that's another thing we're keeping an eye on. >> you're about to see a lot more of this. one viewer send not guilty a picture. look at this. a massive tree uprooted in that yard by the storm. keep the pictures coming. you report at foxnews.com. stay safe and give us your name and your location and we'll be able to get a few of those on the air. that picture will be imitated up and down the east coast by this time tomorrow. ry purchase, so me and my lads earned arip to san francisco twice as fast we get double miles every time we use our card... i'll take these two... ...no matter what we're buying. ...and all of those. and since double miles add up fast, we can bring the whole gang! it's hard to beat double miles! whoa dude. [ male announcer ]et the venture card from capital one and earn double miles

a little bit of a surge possible and flooding into virginia beach. if you're flooded with a small tropical storm, it's now forecast to be a very minimal hurricane. a very strong tropical storm as it moves into new york city. that comes in on sunday, sunday morning. 10:00 a.m., right over long island. and then one more stop for you. the closest approach to boston will be 3:00 p.m. we do know -- almost 46 million people, joe, will experience 50-mile-an-hour wind or greater with this storm. >> we really haven't seen that much change of a track in the last 12 hours. >> the track has stayed the same. the intensity of the storm has come down a lit bit. the storm has a little bit of air, dry air. you don't see the big purples anymore. the purples are gone. we still have some yellows and oranges. the purple really indicates a strengthening hurricane. the oranges and ideal lows indicate a weakening hurricane. the storm is over the gulf stream. it may not be done yet so do not let your guard down. john todd apparently driving in a car down the east coast. bria

will show you some of the damage from virginia beach. if possible tornado in shutting down in this hurricane. the death toll now stands at 24 people hot from the powerful plans to the heavy rain, this is a philadelphia where the streets are flooded. their fine roads are filled with torrential rains. they already have a record setting rents for the month of august. and there are tens of thousands of homes and businesses and philadelphia without,. so it could be weeks to force power is restored. hot hot >> dense fog in the north gate. as a foe has 55 minute arrival delays. nearly a one hour back up for flights coming into sfo. india any business at the airport, called the carrier. this could domino effect into departure delays. as for the fall even at 9:00 a.m. storm tracker 4 has a false fairly wide across the heart of the day. the east shore and peninsula are dealing with it. we should get some fairly decent clearing and good warming especially for our inland locations in the northeast and south it. the fall will they locos for most of t

virginia beach got clobbered with 80-mile-an- hour winds. irene is moving up the east coast at 16-miles an hour. at least 5 people have died. the storm - is about the size of europe. 65-million people are in her projected path. { toss to jim} a grand re- opening today for a park in one of san jose's oldest neighborhoods. the "frank watson park" was built on a former dumpsite. it's been closed since 2005 because of contamination. anne makovec talked to neighbors who welcome the park's revival. ((mariachi nats)) a celebration for a park compared to a >>> the city didn't know there was any problem here at watson park until they started building a skate park in 2004. they did environmental testing and found lead and arsenic in the soil. >> everything that was here was either carried out on trucks or buried many feet below. >> reporter: in the early 1900's, there was a garbage struck and incinerator here. >> i grew up and played here since i was a kid. was i worried? not really. >> reporter: he's glad to see the new park. >> it's a real park so i

elizabet is in virginia beach. how is it going there? every hour that passes, we say we don't think it could get worse and then it does. we can feel the barometer pressure drop and gusts are coming in ways that and the waves are stronger. we are in the northern pouter bands of hurricane irene. we are watching out for the tornado watches and another thing that folks are concerned about is not only people's safety and structural safety, but the storm surge. look over my shoulder, you can see how little beach is left. yesterday we saw double the beach and you can see the waves crashing up against the pier and believe it or not. it is low tide and the hurricane irene, the eye of hurricane irene approaches here in five or six hours, that is going to be high tide and coupling, excuse me exceeding the damage and doubling the damage and not only the storm surge but high tide. people need to stay in the homes because of tornado watches. they are afraid of onlookers and people who want to come out and see the storms and the waves obviously those m

ann thompson, nbc news, virginia beach, virginia. >>> great story there. well, it's time to head back to our top story -- after yesterday's tumultuous day on wall street, we're going to take a look at where investors will start off the day today. the dow opens at 10,8 09 after sinking 634 points yesterday. the s&p lost a whopping 79 points. the nasdaq plunged 174. taking a a look at overseas trading this morning. in tokyo, the nikkei stumbled to 153-point loss. but in hong kong, the hang seng plunged 1,159. and of course, as reported earlier, america's financial downgrade hit wall street like a bomb yesterday. there were losses far greater than most had expected. stocks tumbled, despite moody's, standard and poor's rival, reaffirming its aaa rating on america. how hard and how fast was the selling? trading volume was the highest since september 2008. the fourth highest on record. at just under 18 billion shares. to put wall street's recent losses in perspective. consider in late july, the dow was flirting with the 13,000 mark. yesterday it fell below 11,00

sun starts to come up this morning, we will certainly have a better gauge of the damage here in virginia beach and along the coast of virginia. right now, we are hearing reports of a lot of superficial damage. i have a piece of stucco here. signs are down. but we haven't had a lot of reports of broken windows and things of that nature. everyone boarded up as the storm started to get closer. hopefully, we will be fairing better rather than worse. three deaths here in the state of virginia. but it looks like we may have survived hurricane irene. a lot of power outages still in virginia. more than a million people out of power and officials are working as hard as they can to get people power back. >> you are on the other end of the storm. up here in new york, we haven't really seen it yet. what a difference a day makes. friday morning on fox and friends, your hair was down, you were dry. yesterday morning, a different story. you were pelted by the rain and today, it's dry. quite a difference. >> reporter: right. we obviously wish you the best. words of encouragement that yes, when the storm does

there's a mandatory evacuation in virginia beach. she's moving up the coast of florida and has her eyes set on the east coast. president obama declaring a state of emergency for north carolina to provide federal aid. irene could make landfall on saturday. >> irene play have a bigger impact on north carolina than what we expected. >> reporter: the navy is sending warships to safer waters. >> out there you can bounce up against the waves. >> reporter: many people vacationing in virginia beach say they're leaving early. >> this is our family vacation for the year. we want to squeeze as much in as we can. we got an earthquake and a hurricane. >> reporter: this hurricane is threatening about 65 million people along the east coast. >> in fact, given the forecast track and even if the track shifts one way or another, this is likely to be a once in a generation storm for many people in the northeast. >> reporter: in new york city, mandatory evacuations have been ordered for nursing homes, hospitals and low lying areas. officials are preparin

brian working the story in virginia beach, virginia. >>> the dow plummeted today.tandard & poor's says that the u.s. could get its aaa credit rating back on condition, if capitol hill can come together without all of the partisan infighting that we've been seeing. is that really possible, though? we're taking a look at the bigger picture. >>> and on the frontlines of america's famine. sanjay gupta will take us to a tent camp, desperate refuge for hundreds of thousands of starving families. stay with us. you're in "the situation." artwa day since the meltdown of 2008. the dow alone dropped 634 points. this comes amid a political blame game over the u.s. credit downgrade and the stock market downturn. now the republican presidential candidates are playing to win. let's bring in joe johns, looking at the escalating war of words. and it really is heating up. >> it is, wolf. the republican presidential candidates are doing what presidential candidates do. if you were expecting some change in politics as a result of the downgrade, it frankly has not happened, at least no

. >> reporter: at the wave church in virginia beach -- >> thank god for all of our military. >> reporter: prayers for those lost and those left behind. in this town there are no lines dividing civilians and the military. >> it's a great sense and a great love that we have for our military. so it's like part of our family. it's touched part of our family. >> they're serving us, we need to serve them with the same integrity and same honor. >> especially now? >> especially now. now is just a really hard time. >> reporter: i spoke to the wife of a navy s.e.a.l. whose husband was not involved in this incident. she tells me the wives are rallying around these women who suddenly find themselves widows. they're creating babysitting schedules and dividing cooking duties, trying to get ready for the flood of family coming here, doing anything they can to provide some comfort. yunji de nies, abc news, virginia beach. . >> such a tragedy. >>> and moving on now, extra police officers are patrolling the streets of london this morning after this weekend's riots. a peaceful protest against the killing o

there has been a fatality now in virginia beach.ernoon, which is what we don't want you to do. here is the forecast track. we will be moving it through the outer banks today. we will scrape on up through the mid-atlantic and head through the northeast tomorrow. we will be done with this thing some time on monday. still a big wind threat and lots of rain threat and lots of power outages. t.j. >> jacqui, thank you. as always, we are giving you the latest on hurricane irene. we will reset and give you the latest on where the storm is heading. all of our reporters are up and down the east coast. jacqui says we are expecting landfall in the next half hour. we will reset here for you in a moment. [ cherie ] i always had a job, ever since i was fourteen. i could not make working and going to school work. it was not until the university of phoenix that i was able to work full-time, be a mom, and go to school. the opportunits that i had at the university of phoenix, dealing wh profesonals teaching things that they were doing every day, got m

there is a tornado watch for virginia beach. that's in effect until 11:00 this morning.ve seen a few tornado warnings. no major danger. we're going to have more on the path of the storm later on. >> thank you for that. good morning stephanie. long beach, new york is bracesing for what could be a direct hit? >> reporter: it could be. you have the forward motion of the hurricane coming in. you get that push and then the winds are coming from the south to the north. so you get that double push from the south to the north opposed on the west side of the storm the sorm's going north, but the winds are going south like that, you see how that works, that's why we could see significant gladding here. i've got to say there are just a few boards up. some people taping. taping is not what you want to do. 3/4 inch thick plywood is what you want. i got a new wind gust from the weather channel, cedar island, north carolina, 90 miles per hour. cedar island ferry terminal reports sustained winds of 90 gusting to 110. just because this is down to a category onic take this seriously still

he lived in virginia beach, right? >> yes, he was stationed in virginia beach with his wife and two children. >> yeah. and he had a 2-year-old? >> a 2-year-old little boy. he'll be 2 in september. and a 2-month-old baby girl. aaron only got to see her for two weeks. he was deployed when she was two weeks old. >> his wife, how is she doing? >> his wife kimberly. kimberly right now is with her parents in virginia with the children. she went there to stay until aaron came home from his deployment. >> we're looking at a picture of him on television now. and the last time you saw him and spoke to him, you had a very nice conversation with him. can you tell us about it? >> yes, yes, i did. it was aaron's birthday in june. he turned 30. and i told him to be careful. and he said granny, don't worry about me. he said, i'm not afraid because i know where i'm going if something happens to me. aaron was a christian and he stood firm in his faith. >> and you said you know he's with the lord now? >> he's with the lord now. and i'll

that's about over to the east of virginia beach. the problem is that we will have such a wind field. so just like kind of pushing water around and around and around. you start to pile up the water. that could actually be a wind driven surge all the way into parts of chesapeake. a lady back towards delaware into and you could see -- everybody has been asking me what about philadelphia. and the issue has not been talked about much because you are just far enough to get 69 mile per hour winds. certainly not the eye. the big threat of all of this as we get rid of the winds, the biggest threat will be the rainfall potential. the biggest potential for damage would be flooding. the rugged rough areas. ten inches of rainfall there is the threat there. long island sound there. that all is going to to have to go one place and that will be the east river. the east river goes up. you get to williamsburg, you get water there and that's right where laguardia is. water is trying to rush from two separate directions and you can't do it very long wi