it puts it 115 miles from new york city. we've been focusing on new york. there is a reason to are that. new york is say place that has 8 million, 9 million people in op population. you're talking about a lot of people being affected in a place that's not known for its hurricane preparedness. new york is ready for a lot of stuff. it ain't quite ready for this. you have the airports closed, the public transit closed down. they're telling us, can you imagine this, tomorrow morning, rush hour, the commute, no public transit tomorrow in new york. >> a lot of people don't have cars. they rely on the subway system and the buss to get where they have to go. people are basically stuck at their homes. it's unclear -- maybe that's what they need, people to stay home for a while and maybe that's what's going to happen here. >> the mayor is telling them to do that, asking everybody to evacuate. that was yesterday, the day before. that's over. don't even try to go anywhere now. you need to stay in your homes. jacqui jeras, do i have you over there? >> i think you got me

way, close to new york city. >> thank you, julie. glad people are listening to those warnings. a lot of new yorkers are like, hey, we dealt with 9/11, we can deal with this. but this is serious. another advisory at the top of the hour. stay with us for the late test as irene gets ready to slam into new york city. we will go to the fox extreme weather center for the latest on the storm. f!

if it is coming to new york city and nothing gets weird and stops it and comes to the west of new york city and fills up the hudson river and floods manhattan and the subway system. this city has huge short-term problems ahead and a economic blow to the city. when new york suffers, the nation suffers. monday is difficult enough with a lack much transportation and getting two and is a nightmare. this is one of the slowest times of the year for new york city residents. there is almost no one here in august. european tourist and southern schools have gone to school. and people are at summer houses and doing whatever they do. we are not full of new yorkers here anyway. if it was weak, this is one. we'll be in a world of hurt. wehave a new's conference. virginia governor bob americadonald. virginia is in the path . a lot of concern there. >> elizabeth river. it is a bad timing with the winds at their peak at the same time as high tide. so storm surge is dangerous and we urge no body to go out or anywhere near the water right now. it is extremely, extremely hazardous. aware that we have dram

tony guida, cbs news, new york. >>> and irene's first target was north carolina coast. the outer banks took a beating. governor beverly says the beaches will be reopened in time for the summer's final weekend. mark strassmann was there just as the storm passed. >> reporter: at daybreak, irene was gone. beauty was back. and mike kessler discovered his brother was still alive in kill devil hills. steve kessler's house took a hit, $50,000 in damages. >> and it just kept coming and it kept coming and it kept coming, and that wind -- >> reporter: irene lashed coastal carolina, hit hard, hit fast. its early hours sucked the life frl the outer banks. irene was a disaster with a small "d." yes, snapshots of damage in hatteras and despair in rodincy, but not wholesale destruction. >> here's the waterline right here. >> reporter: in ada andrew's house, the water is going down. so is her anxiety. >> i live through them because it's beautiful 364 days of the year. >> reporter: and steve kessler still has a roof over his head. >> inside i can handle. it's the outside that's -- that'

york and new jersey. there's concerns that major rivers will crest causing severe flooding. >> irene passed over us, john, i'm here without a jacket because i'm starting to sweat. the rain is starting to trickle down. i see the center not the eye, it's a tropical storm. there could be more on the back end. now i'm on high ground here. so you're not looking at a lot. down in lower manhattan it was a different story with the flooding. in looking at you know, you look comfortable, people walking around carrying backpacks, the september 11th memorial read none of the memorial trees were lost. sounds like this wasn't that much damage in new york city. >> at least that we know of now, we will pan the camera to the left to central park. this was a loud pop, it sounded like an explosion, the very, very large tree came tumbling down. the scary thing about that, this was no rain or wayne when it fell. the reason it fell is because the ground is so saturated here. even though people are coming out and looking around

that includes new jersey, new york, and connecticut. and as for evacuations, those will stay in effect and public transportation will not resume until monday. if you haven't gotten out by now, you better do so soon and the taxis are actually price gouging right now. one of my friends tried to get in a cab and they were charging $10 a person. they know they can because there is really no other way to get around here. martha? >> martha: that's shocking. i cannot believe that the taxicab drivers, knowing that there is absolutely no other form of transportation around the city, are actually price gouging. unbelievable. nobody would believe that happening in new york city. let me ask you about the surrounding areas -- only in new york, kids -- talk to me about the surrounding areas, new jersey, as they prepare for this as well. >> well, like we have here experienced in battery park, low lying areas have been evacuated. right across the river, hudson river to my left, you've got hoboken, they have evacuated low lying areas, also for newark, n

it actually hit new york city? >> correct. because it would run all the way over new jersey. now, we're talking 50 miles one way or the other. and that's 35, 40 hours away. if this is over new jersey the entire time, the storm will lose some power. if it's just offshore, anderson, it still could be that cat 2, 2 1/2. i don't think 3 because the water's colder up here. but it would not lose as much energy as it would if it would just run over new jersey the entire time. and the piney woods. i'm talking between atlantic city and trenton and princeton and kind of run on up the turnpike. that would lose a lot of energy. it could steal a lot of energy because the eye is not over water. so that's the potential there. >> there you go. this is what it looks like. this is the map. this is the map of inundation. all the way over to south street sea port. there are the tall ships. if you come around here on the other side as well you can actually see that part of the world trait tower complex, and i know you've been there, wh

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evacuation orders in new jersey and new york, in connecticut. we'll get to that whole tri-state area. let's zero in hoboken, new jersey, right now. mayor don zim ser on tmer is on with us. you ordered some evacuations. were people paying attention? were they respecting that order? >> reporter: some people are heeding the warning. but people are most concerned about right now -- we are very focused on our seniors and making sure that they understand that it's very important that they go to the shelters. those that are on -- the situation we have, we have a number of seniors who are on oxygen and they don't understand that the electricity could go out and if the electricity goes out, we won't be able to get to them and help them and save them. so we're focused on saving lives right now in hoboken. we have teams of people going out. we've already knocked on these people's doors. but we're continuing to go around, bringing in the police. we want to make sure they're safe. we're providing transportation for them to our shelters. but we have those bac

evacuate new york. thousands are ordered to leave the city and low-lying areas as hurricane irene races towards america's atlantic coast. >> i cannot stress this highly enough, if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. >> horrific and cowardly, the u.s. condemns the suicide bomb attack on a u.n. building in nigeria's capital. at least 18 people have been killed. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. coming up later -- three weeks after a record number of police take to the streets of london. hello and welcome. evidence is emerging from tripoli as hundreds of killings in the days before the fall of the capital. with the center of tripoli mainly quiet, human rights group have been able to gain access to areas previously too dangerous to enter. there are reports of hundreds of decomposing bodies, which some found handcuffed and shackled or riddled with bullets. our world news editor

president barack obama has issued a state of emergency for new york meaning that new york will receive federal funding obama did cut his vacation short and headed back to the white house on friday he said that this is a historic storm and everyone in its path should prepare for the worst some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new york city because it is so walls may not be able to withstand the powers of the wind there may be flooding in puddles of new york city some airports may be flooded homes possibly even flooded and or destroyed so at this point everybody is preparing for the worst bracing themselves hoping it's not going to be as bad as forecasted but if it is it is not clear what will be of new york come monday. we're closely of following the developments in the u.s. on our web site where the potentially historic here again is approaching. right now where you can see on your screen you're watching live images being broadcast from new york city still seems relatively calm but there are still a few more hours before winds are expected to pick up and you can log on to o

public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called the low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to have that kuwait their homes and goats as shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation for this hurricane hurricane i read it's also been recommended to anyone that lives of more to a vacuum wait from their building this storm is expected to hit the city by nine pm with winds gusting anywhere between forty and eighty miles per hour u.s. president barack obama has issued a state of emergency for new york meaning that new york will receive three federal funding oba

we'll get to new york in a second. this is still in north carolina where the storm made landfall just are a short time ago, about an hour ago. you see a local reporter there reporting for his local station. just to give you an idea, this this thing is really whipping up, been battering north carolina for the past several hours. landfall has made a difference in some places, with winds kicking up, and it's made a difference in some other places, starting to get a little quieter now. it it really has been under the gun for the past several hours in north carolina. like i mentioned, new york is getting ready because the storm, at least from the project tdz path, is on its way. poppy harlow is there in manhattan where a lot of people are not used to preparing for a hurricane. you were told, you got a little reminder yourself, not too long ago about hurricane preparedness. you were told you had to evacuate. >> reporter: that's exactly right. yesterday afternoon the mayored said if you live in zone "a," a lot of lower manhat

new york. almost two dozen people say they are trapped in a vacation home in prattsville, including pregnant women, children and infants. joining me on the phone is irina novik. what's going on? >> reporter: it's crazy out here with no lights, no water. we're trapped in a house up in the mountains. it's pitch black. there is a high pressure river coming down from the top and going down, blocking all the bridges. all the bridges are coming to the house when we just came to the house. there is no way in or out. no one can help us. we are stuck here and we have a lot of children and two pregnant women, three infants, toddlers, teenagers and practically nothing that could keep us going. we cannot use bathrooms, eat, drink, nothing. it's pitch black. we cannot have water because water comes from the well which works on electric power. >> let me slow you down. you are cut off, surrounded by water? explain why you can't -- >> there is a river next to the house. it's more of up state new york like a mo

this is fox news channel coverage of hurricane irene. i am shepherd smith from new york. the national hurricane center with the latest update on the storm. they come out with updates every three hours. not a lot of change. maximum sustained winds at 85 miles per hour . gusts are higher around hundred have been logged. it is a strong category one at the moment. when the storm made landfall it snapped trees in half. these are live pictures coming to us from atlantic beach. power cuts in 400,000 homes. resort town in maryland, virginia and new jersey are turning into ghost towns. more than 42,000 people in southeast virginia have lost power. in new york city officials are shutting down the mass transit system one hour from now. it serves 15 million people over 5,000 square miles, the largest transportation network of its time. it will shut down for the first time in my lifetime here in an hour. city ordering 400,000 people in the five burroughs was new york city to evacuate. live look in dc, no politicians are left. they have a camera there and federal emergency management f

i'm at cbs news headquarters in new york. good morning. irene is making her new york debut. she hit land here just before 9:00 this morning in coney island downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm but still packing winds of up to 65 miles per hour. irene first made landfall in north carolina yesterday as a category one hurricane and on her track up the east coast, she has brought heavy rain and flooding that left millions without power. at this hour the center of the tropical storm is centered growth of new york city, highest sustained winds are now 60 miles per hour. the storm is moving north northeast at about 26 miles per hour. the storm is blamed for at least 10 deaths in five states, including two children. more than 4 million homes and businesses up and down the east coast are without electricity and more than 11,000 flight had been canceled potentially affecting millions of travelers nationwide. this morning airports in new york, newark, new jersey, and philadelphia remain closed. we have a team of correspondents to play throughout the hurricane zone all along

york new jersey and connecticut. the worst has been avoided here in new york city. we will keep tracking the storm as it heads north and this is our local weather >> a live look outside at the golden gate bridge in you can see it is still socked in. it will get hot on the in land spots. a look at temperatures outside we are get warming up. temperatures are in the '50s and '60s. and the warm temperatures that we will see later on this afternoon 88 in sent it owes a and 95 in morgan hill. 89 in fairfield this is all look of your seven day forecast we will have a cool down by midweek >> when we have just that right got reports that the death toll is now 14 >> make you for joining mr. cali we just heard the secretary of homeland's security talk about the need to follow-up the assessment and that fema is standing about another thing she talked about links to the precaution " there was not all large loss of life we hair wheat now have 14 deaths. >> new york city had the winds have died down and the rain has stopped and tha

areas of new york city. the mayor michael bloomberg is ordering people to take this unprecedented order to leave seriously. >> we have seen a marked increase in the number of people evacuating, most are getting the message, but for some reason, some people have yet to leave so let me just one more time, i hate to sound like a broken record, but it is exactly what we are trying to do. if you haven't left, you should leave now. not later this evening, not later this afternoon, but immediately. >> our senior medical important elizabeth cohn is covering the medical evacuations in new york city. >> reporter: wolf, they went surprisingly well given that hospitals had about 12 hours to get all of their patients out. and if you take a look at this map we're talking about five hospitals in new york city, lower manhattan, staten island, coney island, et cetera, but when you add nursing homes, wolf, and other health care facilities, 22 facilities had to get people out. and i sat at new york university hospital and watc

it's a beautiful end to the workweek here in new york. hard to believe hurricane irene is just hours away. further south, the time is now. this is wrightsfield beach, north carolina, where conditions are already going downhill. winds picking up along the surf. folks will feel the full impact of irene late tonight. the beginning of a long weekend for some 65 million americans in the storm's path including big cities like philadelphia, new york and boston. leaders, including president obama, are urging calm. give a listen. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. >> the sun is shining, but don't be misled. there is a very dangerous storm headed in our direction. >> first, of course, there was an actual earthquake on tuesday. and now we are faced with a hurricane, the likes of which we've not seen or experienced in at least 50 years. >> weather channel meteorologist and hurricane expert brian norcross starts off our coverage. >> it's offshore of north carolin

jersey and new york. the rain there and that will last right on through tomorrow. look at our weather coming up. >>> mayor of washington, d.c. and the governors in ten states have declared states of emergencies. u.s. airlines says it will cancel 6,000 flights over the next three days. three major airports are closed. laguardia, j.f.k. and newark. bay area flights are being disrupted, as well. 40 flights have been cancelled today. >> reporter: vacationing tourists came up from sidney last week. they talked about the quake earlier in the week. >> it's very interesting out here. >> the flight to new york was cancelled. >> it was cancelled and we went on line, it's been called and we couldn't get in touch with american airlines. >> they have been in line for two and a half hours. it's all because of hurricane irene. she is responsible for more than 600 flight cancellations nationwide so far. east coast airports are experienced serious delays. irene is stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers. >> anyone pl

of new york state thruway. it suffered with a mudslide. more inone dated ground saturated with water. thank you very much bill karins. let's go to tom cost who is live in ocean city, maryland where things were rainy a short while ago but pretty much can you say you were safely on the other side of irene. it's come and gone? >> reporter: well i hope so. is bill there? it certainly seems to. about two hours ago when i did a live shot with you about 6:00 a.m. i was maybe a little too optimistic. i came out in shorts and just a quick rain jacket. >> the sun was out. >> reporter: boy was i mistaken. yeah. then we got hit by these really strong winds and then we got hit by more rain. so i decided i better put on the full get up again. this is probably the calmest we've seen the ocean here in 24 hours. as you can see it's got some good chop to it. not like yesterday. we had an nbc news crew is your straight streets of ocean city. if you have property in the ocean city area, if you own a home, if you are somebody who r

new york. because all the water for the ocean gets pushed into the harbor. >> professor, nicholas coch. all the best as you weather the storm as well. >>> irene has forced a change of plans for the president of the united states. dan lothian joins us next with details. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event. see your lexus dealer. whether it can be done safely and responsibly. at exxonmobil we know the answer is yes. when we design any well, the groundwater's protected by multiple layers of steel and cement. most wells are over a mile and a half deep so there's a tremendous amount of protective rock between the fracking operation and the groundwater. natural gas is critical to our future. at exxonmobil we recognize the challenges and how important it is to do this right. is it the new forty, i don't know. i probably feel about thirty. how is it that we don't act our age? [ marcie ] you keep us young. [ kurt ] we were having too much fun we

bill cahill with the port authority in new york. thank you. now over to my colleague john harwood, and i understand that you are on a amtrak train and amtrak officials say that operations in several states have been affected and they have stopped trains to inspect bridges and tunnels in several states, and john, what are you seeing on that train you are on outside of baltimore? >> yes, tamron. i'm on an accella express, and they are saying that the trains arek bad up behind them while they inspect is the tracks. i did feel anything while we were riding but it is such an unusual situation, because everyone here is trying to call back to friends and relatives in either new york or washington, and sometimes you get through and sometimes you can't. i just reached my 18-year-old daughter and said i didn't feel anything, but i got to the mall and the mall was closed so now i'm going home. so, it's all of the e-mail reports that i am hearing from the colleagues in washington is that the building shook, but no visible damage, so we are sitting parked

lived in new york. abdel meskini was supposed to deliver money and a cell phone to ressam. o'neill's agents arrested him. >> arrests were made that had they not been uncovered... the plot had not been uncovered and those arrests made, we could have had horrific tragedies around the millennium. >> we have two million people, two million people compressed in this small area here in midtown manhattan. no incidents and... >> narrator: o'neill was one of those two million people. if al qaeda struck here, this was where he wanted to be. ( crowd cheering ) >> five, four, three, two, one! ( loud cheering ) ( music playing ) >> and i remember talking to john shortly after midnight. there was a sense of accomplishment. we had just made the arrests in the... the ressam spin-off, and, you know, certainly we believed that we got everybody that we needed to find, but, you know, you're never really 100% sure of that. >> and so, i think a lot of the fbi leadership for the first time realized that o'neill was right, tha

is in new york. well right now the big apple looks extremely eerie the streets are and the businesses are either or either have boarded up their windows or put cheap along their windows and you can feel the wind increasing you feel the rain increasing the rain is coming down like sheets of water and new york city has also been put under a tornado watch in new york city is it is a city with shereen lee told buildings so it's a it's sort of like a graph of of of the buildings that can create green tunnels and knock anyone down con ed may be forced to shut down power in certain parts of new york city between now and sunday evening if those areas get to light it let's remind our viewers that on friday in new york city michael bloomberg for the first time in history issued a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city up to three hundred seventy thousand people live there all these evacuation zones and that those evacuations began on friday evening and continued on through saturday into sunday

and i said you used to live in new york and we have all those people in new york. why don't we open a restaurant in new york? he can't open a restaurant in japan. in three, four years, all the data, the three professors we have here in new york, the five that are allocate on the project in japan, a total of eight employees that he has, and three to four years, this will be a graduate program in his school for those chefs who want to cook with the same integrity and purity outside of japan. >> rose: located here in new york. >> outside of japan. >> rose: and so what-- how did-- when did you decide to create the restaurant? >> well, that was seven years ago at we had that conversation and we both looked at each other and said this is great. ask so his students who are going to take this extra graduate two years will now choose where they'll cook but with the same levels that they would cook in jan, hopefully outside. >> rose: just for the sake of how is it different of other cooking schools, other culinary institutes, whether it's paris or new york or wherever it mig

it's hitting new york, not us. it hits new york as a category 1, 85 miles per hour storm. it certainly could push a whole lot of water right into connecticut, right into rhode island, in nair began set. i know it's only -- it's not a category 3 oar 4 that it was forecast to be. that is still a big storm. a category 2 storm, significant enough that you need to worry about it if you are north or south of the line from new jersey right on over to cape hatteras. there's the storm. category 2. it drives itself. it's finally made a full turn. this turn actually happened because of the winds pushing it this way. those winds tore it apart a little bit. that's actually why the storm got down to what it was. it was a little bit of shear, the computer models didn't forecast well. over the islands, over duck, maybe ka ral a at 100 miles per hour. along long island. all the way from wildwood right to long branch as an 80 to 85 miles per hour storm. that could tear up a whole lot of people. the amount of money that this thing could damage could really be significant. >> i want to show y

, all the way up to the new york metropolitan area, long island, new england. and the possibility of people actually being cut off, on their own camping for three to five days? >> well, that's again the evacuation zone is to get out. but we're going to get a lot of rain out of this, and we expect flash flooding and a lot of places get isolated so everybody from coast guard on down to local officials are getting ready to go out and do rescues of people that get cut off. but it's going to be a big storm. i think we need to be serious about this and let people know, we are going to have impacts and we're going have power outages, almost simultaneously from north carolina north experiencing and being impacted by this hurricane. >> i heard you say last night, one of the lessons learned since katrina, you're working with the private sector, like big box retailers to use their networks, their trucks, their systems, to get things that you need to the midwest to the east? >> exactly. if they can get their stores open, then we want to focus where there's heavier damages

york, new jersey and new england. and the rivers are still rising. here's abc's david muir. >> reporter: the dramatic pictures coming in from upstate new york. in a town of windham, the fire chief there says the town center is, quote, wiped out. completely under water after 10 inches of rain. this school bus submerged. the waters there slamming up against this bridge. as irene barrelled toward so many major cities -- philadelphia, new york, boston -- no one quite knew what the hurricane would quite bring. but irene would provdeadly. more than a dozen deaths across eight states and power out for 4 million. we would all learn very quickly it was not the skyscrapers, not the subways. they survived it. at daybreak it was the cities and towns all around n new york deluged with water and wind. in queens power line crisscrossed the streets. cars under water, nearly vanishing. irene's rain came so quickly, it swept drivers off the road. in new jersey a 20-year-old woman desperately calling her boyfriend and 911 from her car.

. >>> lester holt is in new york city. >> chris, there are 8 million of us living in new york city and we would like to think we have seen everything, but when the mayor announced mandatory evacuations for part of the city today, it got a lot of folks' attenti attention. come sunday this area might be under water. there's a urgent new reality taking grip here in the big apple. the naked city has never felt so exposed. tens of thousands now under orders to get out. >> i feel nervous. i feel like i don't know what is going on. i don't know what is going to happen and that's always a scary feeling. >> the city produced a map with the flood risks in the five boroug boroughs. today's seniors at this brooklyn hospital were among the first to be relocated. >> i cannot stress it enough. please, nature is a force more powerful than any of us, and it really is better to be safe than sorry. >> reporter: this is battery park at the lower tip of manhattan sitting at sea level. it would be the first area to be overwhelmed by a storm surge. experts say the entire area could be buried in water, even f

york unless you'd been watching the news. this looks like just a bad rainstorm. it's obviously, according to jacqui, going to be lasting 12 hours. it will be a big inconvenience today. but there's no doubt folks are going to be coming out and walking around unless the winds pick up substantially. it's just going to be an irritati irritation, very different story as we're seeing in a lot of these coastal areas. we continue to check in with correspondents all along the coastal areas. we'll be right back, our coverage continues. really? no. it comes with a hat. you see, airline credit cards promise flights for 25,000 miles, but... [ man ] there's never any seats for 25,000 miles. frustrating, isn't it? but that won't happen with the capital one venture card. you can book any airline anytime. hey, i just said that. after all, isn't traveling hard enough? ow. [ male announcer ] to get the flights you want, sign up for a venture card at capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? uh, it's okay. i've played a pilot before. >>> welcome ba

to new york or d.c. getting back is even trickier. >> the soonest i could get to new york on a coach ticket would be tuesday? >> tuesday. >> reporter: the airports impacted the most, newark, jfk and laguardia in new york, philadelphia and charlotte. >> this is going to be a really big deal because this hurricane is hitting some of the largest cities in the country and not only that but some of the airline's largest hubs. >> reporter: now all new york airports will stop accepting arrivals both international and domestic at noon eastern time today. that's about in an hour and a half. they are fearful that any passengers that come here would be stranded after all, the subways and buses here in new york city are about to come to a standstill. dan and bianna? >> all right, t.j., thank you. and coming up on "good morning america," how prepared are we? we'll tell you what you need to know about staying safe in youo house during the storm. >>> dr. richard besser is here with tips and the hurricane's big impacts

yosoman was turned over to the fbi who flew him back to new york for trial. from the window of the plane, the fbi's senior new york agent pointed out the world trade center towers and reportedly said look, they are still standing. yoseff replied they wouldn't be if i would have had enough money and explosives. >>> the efforts to make ammonia nitrate harder to get and why some have resisted that change. >>> tonight on a second look we're revisiting a number of terror atracks that have involved the same explosive mixture. ammonia fertilizer. in 2006 authorities arrested 17 suspects in toronto and its suburbs in what they say was a plot to set off fertilizer and fuel bombs in various locations throughout canada. and in 2004, british investigators took eight men into custody and confiscated a thousand pounds of ammonia nitrate. about half the amount that timothy mcvay used in 1995. in 1996, atf experts arrested seven members who were accused of plotting to blow up government facilities. all but one were sentenced on weapons and explosive charges. faith fancher br

we live in new york city. no matter where we go, we are getting hit with the storm. >> that storm coming in with all that water? i'm going. >> reporter: even with a mandatory evacuation order officials can't force people to leave. but they are telling them if you do stay you do so at your own risk. once winds top 45 miles an hour they won't respond to 911 calls. fire and police will be hunkered down. if people stay they are doing it at their own risk. megyn: federal emergency management steams and homeland security officials have been getting details jaw dates all day. paul, thank you for being here. now there is discussion about folks who do not heed the manned story track was orders. they cannot be compelled to do so as they herd rick leventhal say, yet they need to be reminded of the danger. >> hearing some of the talk about the casinos before coming here and doing this job and flying the hurricanes out of tampa, i was living in biloxi, mis. i saw what happened with katrina. i saw the casinos that were push

new york stock exchange and -- >> that seems remarkable duarte. is everything expected to go back to normal in new york city tomorrow, no glitches or anything of the sort? >> reporter: hardly. >> ann-marie: , one of the biggest problems now is our transportation system. new yorkers are not known as car people, most people use the subways. it's not known whether they will be fully function al. buses will be the first option. >> it will be a trying day for you, duarte geraldino in new york. thank you very much. >>> north carolina took the first hit from irene. they are starting to clean up from the flooding damage. we have the latest from manteo, north carolina. >> reporter: bulldozers are cleaning up the outer banks after a massive storm surge from irene. >> it's a devastating thing because you can't stop it when it comes in. >> reporter: the committees letters decided not to evacuate, once the eye had passed they thought they were fine, and then they say a wall of water from the sound ariza foot every 5 minutes. >> you could see the water was up t

to jacksonville and miami. >> 94 in atlanta and 84 in new york. kansas city up to 87. chicago, 81. minneapolis, 78. just 73 in seattle. 92 in albuquerque and 86 in salt lake city. oenix the hot spot at 102. >>> coming up after the break, the latest face transplant recipient reveals her new look. >>> post office pinkslips. slip. are 120,000 workers about to get the ax? >> "sesame street" producers forced to take a stand. are bert and ernie more than friends? >>> overseas markets got off to a quick start before losing some steam. tokyo's nikkei average lost 18 points today. hong kong's hang seng is barely up in late trading and in london the ftse is down early. now, on wall street the dow gained 423 points yesterday. the nasdaq index gained 111 points. and this was the fourth day in a row that the dow moved more than 400 point, something that's never happened before and one big reason for the upswing was the positive jobless claims report. positive corporate earnings reports also helped out. >>> americans looking for more welcome economic news shoul

disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine p. am saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to our home it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vapid week from their building now up until this point new yorkers were really taking these warnings and these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to the stores to stock up by good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructu

it is video from a backyard in oceanside new york. south side of long island and also south of the sunrise highway. mandatory evacuations were in place here. obviously this person did not go. 20 shelters open in this area it is a coastal flood plain and look at the water. it is certainly very scary. this is her backyard in oceanside and that white is a big fence connecting her toe at the time neighbor. you can see farther left it's broken up. the note is saying, look what happened to my fence. kind of looks like a low garage but it's a fence. 6 inches of flowing water drown a person 2 feet can float a car. we're talking about incredible power here. mandatory evacuations and some didn't do that. >> i know a lot of people in lower manhattan, you go to battery park, it should be a beautiful sunday want to see statue of liberty. not yet this morning. you shouldn't be out there but a lot of tourists are already heading back out. i know soledad o'brien is it going to have a look for us at the cleanup effort there as you can see trees are do

into new york and new england for tomorrow. we will keep a close eye on that. >> our weather is perfect. it >> it is looking eyes. we will see you tomorrow. thank you for watching. >>

that new york harbor area will act like a funnel. that water will be pushed up into manhattan, will be pushed up over into the east river and the hudson river and the water will rise. that's the biggest threat, the storm surge possibility for new york city proper. anderson? >> that's it for 360. thanks for watching. >>> in the line of fire, hurricane irene takes aim at the entire east coast. 65 million people at risk. after irene does this to the bahamas, what could it do to the new york skyscrapers and subways. is new york city facing a doomsday scenario. >>> steve jobs, the iphone, the ipad and this. >> i'm a mac. and i'm a pc. >> tonight, the man who started apple with jobs, the legendary steve wozniak. is this the last gasp of moammar gadhafi? >> do not leave tripoli. fight them. destroy them. >> rebels advance in tripoli. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. my one-on-one with steve wozniak is coming up. >>> but first, estimates the storm could cause a stunning $11 billion in damage. if it continues on its current p

that is bringing the new wind into new york city. for a long time, you were in this basically a black hole of no wind across most of new york. now that black hole is gone and this surge or this backside wind is coming through at 45, 50 miles per hour. even a couple of fwuss not out of the question at 60 miles per hour with this. you have to understand this may not be over when it comes to falling trees. may not be over when it comes to significant flooding up here in new york from syracuse back to schenectady. i know there are evacuations going on in utica. evacuations going on in rensselaer county. very, very heavy rain in burlington, vermont. rutland, we have our gary tuchman on the way to chase some of this flooding. the problem is it's flash flooding. it comes up very fast. it may come up 12 feet in an hour. then goes back down 12 feet the next hour. you have to be ready for it if you live near water. now that it's going to start getting dark, you don't want to be driving near creeks and streams if you don't know where they are a

new york. >> aaa in new york is giving us some tips this morning on storm safety. they say pack an emergency kit, fill your car with gas now. don't wait until the lines get long. don't drive through the high water. that's a big no-no. and stay tuned for forecast. and living in new orleans, you may not think about -- clean the fridge out. don't leave nasty food in there. when the power goes out, you don't want the salmon in there marinating for too long. >> but stock it with lots of water. plenty of canned food. >> the nonperishable stuff for sure. you'll need it when the power goes out. and it will go out. >>> stay with abc news all day long, as we follow hurricane irene. look for more live coverage on "america this morning" and extensive reporting on "good morning america." >>> and now, we turn to libya, where rebels are moving their interim government in to tripoli, where there's still heavy fighting this morning. >> in a new audio message, a defiant moammar gadhafi is urging supporters to not let tripoli fall into the hands of those he calls the rats. abc's john

york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the process is a new york city officials are on a week and see approach they're trying to monitor everything everything warn everybody but at this point the trouble quins are moving and everyone is just bracing themselves for the storm. artie's marina reporting for us there from new york now you are with r.t. and coming up a new president but old problems. as the people of the caucuses make their choice at the ballot box we look at what lies ahead for the new leader as his republican struggles to rebuild after winning independence from georgia. and our close up team takes you to a russian city that knows how to party find out more about the spectacular festival held in kid off every year. the richest sector of french society is pledging another three percent of its annual income this week to help the country battle its descent into debt as growth slumps france has also announced some twelve billion euro worth of cuts but as daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fears social unrest could fall. fro

he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, c