nursing homes and hospitals, have been phenomenally cooperative. it has gone so smoothly. they all deserve a lot of credit. hopefully this will have been for naught, but we cannot take risks, particularly with the most vulnerable. we wanted to do those first, and that's basically been accomplished. we do not incidentally recommend that anybody wait forz a bus to evacua evacuate. the best thing to do is to use your own or public transportation to get yourself to a shelter, and that means you've got to do that right now. 2 1/2 hours left for mass transit. city employees, if you volunteered to help serve in the shelters today, we need you to report to your sites now. it is going to be very difficult to get to or from these sites, and when with people show up really will make a difference. to those city ployees who volunteered, thank you so much for doing so, but we need you to start making that trip. bring some stuff with you if you have to stay for a while, but you really are going to make a difference for those in this city who aren't as fortunate as of rest of us. the nypd is also sending vehicles with sound equipment throughout the area to broadcast the message that this is a dangerous hurricane that is approaching and residents must evacuate to safety. they will be doing that all afternoon, into the evening, but keep in mind if you want to evacuate later on you're going to be on your own. you'll have to walk or you'll have to find some way to use a car or taxi. for those residents in the rockaways and low-lying areas of zone "a" who have not yet left, i want you to take a look at the pictures which the press just took of these small boats. you've probably seen boats like this before. there's lots of news footage after hurricane katrina that was certainly full of images of these boats and the emergency responders that rode through the flooded streets rescuing stranded residents. we hope we won't need these boats here, but just let me point out it's not the same with katrina where you have a lot of water that stayed around for a wlong time. here what we're expecting is a tidal surge that comes in with the storm surge on top of it. it would flood an awful lot, do a lot of damage to mechanical equipment. and to protect us, an awful lot of buildings including all of nitro facilities are turning off their elevators because they don't want people stuck in them if, later on, the water or the wind or what's possible also, that con ed has to turn off some of its power in lower manhattan because if salt water gets on these cables when they are being used, the damage is substantial. there's a lot less damage to cables if salt water gets on them when they don't carry any current. con ed will make that call later on, but it's conceivable in downtown manhattan, for example, there will be no electricity as well as a lot of water in the streets. let's stop thinking this is something that we can play with. staying behind is dangerous. staying behind is foolish. and it's against the law. we urge everyone if the evacuation zone not to wait until there are gale-force winds and driving rain to leave. not to wait until the public transportation system starts slowing down today. it's going to be too late. the time to leave is right now. we just won't have the resources to get everyone in the evacuation zones out after the storm hits. we'll need our first responders to respond to life threatening emergencies. so to those who need to evacu e evacuate, do it now. it this incidentally means that now to business owners as well, if you have a business in the evacuation zone, you should close up shop and evacuate along with everyone else. please take necessary precautions, including turning off propane tanks, gas and electrical utilities at the main switches. new york city doesn't have a lot of real-life experience with hurricanes. we've watched them from afar, aas they've ravaged other parts of the nation. thank god we've never really experienced that kind of destruction here. but that does not mean that it can't happen. it can, and we must be prepared. that's exactly why we developed our coastal storm plan back in 2006, to prevent the kind of problem that's we saw during katrina. so please heed these warnings and get yourself to safe tty before the bad weather hits. as i mentioned earlier, the mta will shut down the public transportation system at noon. what that means is the last train leaves the station, but you can't count on being on the last train. it may be overloaded or maybe it's already passed you. you must assume that after noon there's no public transit. staten island ferry service will be suspended by 10:00 p.m. tonight or earlier if the winds come earlier. city bridges may close if high winds make driving over them dangerous. the beaches are closed for the weekend, as will all cultural institutions. once the storm hits, it's just not safe to be in the parks either. the risk of fallen tree limbs is serious, and people can get killed there. and for the surfers, we all know that it's a lot of fun to catch a big wave. this storm is dangerous and we just don't have the resources, we don't want to put our first responders' lives in jeopardy to try to save you. during the storm, please stay off the streets and sidewalks to prevent injury, and stay away from the windows if you live on the tenth floor of a high-rise. the risk of window damage is great so be smart and stay away from the windows or go to a lower floor. in the low-lying areas, as they begin to flood, i mentioned con ed may have to shut down power lines. might troe buildings will be shutting down elevators as well as other buildings. if you're using generator power, please do not have a generate aror inside your house or apartment. carbon monoxide fumes kill. terms of our city building, all construction has been stopped. our inspeblgtors are working to make sure the construction sites are locked down. home owners and residents, if you haven't done so already, please bring outdoor furniture inside, plywood, trash cans, any loose items. in conclusion, if you live in the low-lying areas, "a" areas or the rockaways, you have to leave. start now. do not delay. do not wait for the weather to be bad. it's starting to rain here in coney island right now. this is just the beginning. you say it's a few drops. this is going to be a very serious storm no matter what the track is, no matter how much it weakens. this is a life threatening storm to people here. for our spanish speaking audience -- [ speaking in spanish ] >> 37 minutes past the hour. you've been listening to new york mayor michael bloomberg for the past ten minutes or so giving an update, doing it in spanish now. to our viewers and to specifically the folks in new york, he started for a reason talking about public transit because the clock is ticking on you folks. we know in new york a lot of people don't have cars, people don't drive because there is such a great public transit system there. people depend on the buses and the trains, the subways. well, you have got about 2 1/s 2 hours before all of that is shut down. so if you need to get somewhere and get away, to flee this storm that's on the way, you only have about 2 1/2 hours to do it, literally. the clock is ticking on you. he said staying behind is foolish. another point he made, which i'm going to bring jacqui jeras on in here in just a minute, we talk about that cone of uncertainty. maybe the storm will go to the left a little, maybe it will go to the right, maybe it won't do exactly what it's projected to do. but still, no matter what it does, even if it veers off a little bit, the mayor is saying -- and maybe jacqui will agree -- you still have a storm that's coming. you still are going to get something from the storm, even if it's not a direct hit. so he's warning people to get out, several hundred thousand, 370,000 specifically, people were ordered to evacuate some low-lying areas of new york. so a major concern for that city, even though the storm right now is still 24 hours away from the city. it's battering north carolina right now. but new york, it doesn't have a lot of practice with this quite frankly. and the mayor admitted as such. so people right now, even this morning the sun was out a little bit, and certainly it was yesterday. people not thinking bad weather or bad storm is coming. don't wait until the storm gets bad, until the weather gets bad and then think, oh, maybe i should get out of here now. he's saying now is the time to do it. it's 40 minutes past the hour. we'll be talking to our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist and also our reporters up and down the coast today, including in north carolina. we have extensive coverage for you of hurricane irene, which made landfall just over an hour or so ago in north carolina. stay with me. all right. 43 minutes past the hour. let's say hello wuonce again to brian todd. he's in wilmington, north carolina, for us this morning. brian, can you hear me? >> reporter: i can hear you fine and give you a quick update what's going on here. the rain and wind hasn't let us since irene came ashore. top winds 60 miles an hour, sustained winds in the 30s. i don't think it's gotten into the 30-mile-an-hour range. this river behind me, the cape fear river, i'm going to walk toward the edge of it here with the swells and whitecaps this is expected to flood later today in the northern areas of the river just upstream a bit where it's narrower. half this county is without power right now, more than half actual actually. two-mile stretch of road on carolina beach is flooded. we wanted to give people in the northeast a sense of what it's like here. you heard mayor bloomberg about the precautions to take. for people in the northeast and new york who may not have experienced this yet. if you're going to try to go outside, i can tell you what you're going to experience. it's going to feel like thousands of needles are hitting your face every second. your body is going to be waterlogged to the point where it feels like the rain water is actually inside your body, dripping from your bones it's a given your clothes will be drench within sec seconds and i'm afraid rain gear doesn't help that much in these situations. it's very difficult to walk just a couple of feet. then walking gets very, very dangerous because you could walk into squalls or puddles on the road that are deeper than you think they are, trying to cross a street or near a road is dangerous because you better pay extra attention to the traffic because they're likely not looking out for you. so these are just some of the dangers people in the northeast who have not experienced this yet may experience if they try to venture out into this, t.j. we wanted to give people kind of a sense of that. >> thank you for that, our brian todd in wilmington, north carolina, we'll continue to check in with him and our other reporters up and down the coast in north carolina, new york, d.c. as well. coming up in a moment, the forecast you need to hear from our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist in the hurricane headquarters for us this morning. we'll tell you exactly where this storm is, where it's headed, and when it may get to you. stay with me. hey, the new guy is loaded with protein! really? 25 grams of protein. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat, too, and has 5 grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... what's shakin'? [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong. new ensure high protein... fifty percent of your daily value of protein. low fat and five grams of sugars. see? he's a good egg. [ major nutrition ] new ensure high protein. ensure! nutrition in charge! for red lobster we can find. [ male announcer ] hurry into crabfest for 3 crab entrees under $20 like our crab and seafood bake... or our snow crab and crab butter shrimp. offer ends soon. my name's jon forsythe and i sea food differently. my name's jon forsythe where do you go to find the superguarantee®? only superpages.com®. for local maps, deals and more, go to superpages.com®. and let the good guys save the day. we're about 12 minutes of the top of the hour. you were hearing from michael mroomberg a short time ago, the mayor of new york, talking about the storm that's on its way. well, just across from new york in new jersey, hoboken in particular, they've issued an order there for people to evacua evacuate, a mandatory evacuation, of all ground floors. if you are on the ground level of some building, they have issued an evacuation order, a mandatory evacuation. so essentially what they're saying is, you need to seek higher ground. so all ground floor units in this hoboken, new jersey, area need to be evacuated. to give you an idea, hoboken just north of jersey city. this is just across the way from new york, just across from manhattan. telling people they need to get off the ground floor. jacqui jeras here with me, giving me a forecast. we have i said 24 hours earlier, but the projection, is it something like that, when the storm will probably get to new york/new jersey, that area? >> yeah. if you heard my microphone open up, sorry. they were saying, now they're issuing that evacuation? is that enough time? the peak of the storm is probably not going to be for tomorrow morning for new jersey. there is a little bit of time. and think about it, you don't have to go that far inland. you have to run from the water and you don't want to be flooded if you're on the low floors, right? if you're in a high-rise building, you have a friend who lives up on six, that would be lives up on six, that would be good. those are things you can do in terms of that evacuation. that water is going to start rising, later today. it's going to be a very long, a very slow process. this storm will be us through the entire weekend. here's the stats, just to update you, if you're just waking up and joining us, i hope you had a nice sleep-in. 85 miles per hour, the maximum sustained winds, a category 1 storm, but it is a strong storm. we have a lot of intense winds, a lot of damage with trees, mobile home damage being reported and storm surge between 6 and 8 feet throughout the outer banks. we had landfall about 7:30 and there's the core of the storm, where the worst of the conditions are at this time. let's walk you through the steps here and talk about some of that timing, as you mentioned, in the northeast and new jersey. we'll start you out, where this heads on up through the carolinas today. virginia beach, this evening, i don't want you to focus on the time stamp that i'm giving you here. you need to give yourself a window. maybe, say, three hours or so, either side of that. ocean city, overnight for you, that's the worst time. and long island, we think this is going to be moving in tomorrow morning, say, midday. boston, midafternoon. and then this thing is out of here and looking a lot better. that's a couple of the wind gusts we've been getting reported, 115 miles per hour. that's the worst we could see. so we're going to have the worst wind damage into the carolinas, but we're still going to have a lot of power outages and a lot of water. we'll talk more about that and we're also going to talk about how far out you can expect to see. you know, with people in d.c. and philadelphia, they're asking me, what's up with me? we'll answer that a little bit more in the next hour. >> jacqui, thank you once again. we're getting close to the top of the hour. when we come back, we will be checking in with our reporters in new york as well as in d.c. as we continue to track this massive storm. weakened a bit, sure, but it's still a big sucker and it is still a strong storm and it is just getting started. ♪ with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't always haveve time to eat like i should. and the more i focus on everything else, the less time i have to take care of me. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes, which can help lower a1c. glucerna products help me keep everything balanced. [ golf clubs clanking ] [ husband ] i'm good! well, almost everything. [ male announcer ] glucerna. delicious shakes and bars. helping people with diabetes find balance. backed by the superguarantee®? find a business [ male announcer ] glucerna. delicious shakes and bars. only& suonline.s®. on your phone. or in the book. go to superpages®. and let the good guys save the day. we're getting close to the top of the hour. we continue to track hurricane irene, which came ashore, made landfall here just probably under two hours ago now. made landfall as a category 1 storm in north carolina. we are going to be checking in with our athena jones. she's in d.c. for us. rob marciano in new york for us this morning. athena, let me start with you. d.c., it was supposed to be a big weekend. >> it was. they were supposed to dedicate the martin luther king jr. memorial tomorrow, it was going to be a big deal on the anniversary of this march on washington and his famous "i have a dream" speech, but that's been postponed. there's a state of emergency here in the city. we don't expect to see the strong winds and rain come until the afternoon, although the winds have picked up. but city officials here say that they are prepared. we spoke earlier with d.c. fire and ems chief kenneth ellerby and i asked him about the whole category 1 versus category 2 situation and whether people should still be concerned. let's listen to what he had to say, t.j.. >> even a tropical storm can do a lot of damage, so people need to be vigilant. we're prepared and we want them to rest assured that we're prepared for anything that comes up. >> reporter: so one of the ways that the city is helping residents prepare is by handing out sandbags. that's going on today. they handed out 7,000 yesterday and ran out, had to stop around 5:00 p.m. so that's getting started back up again today so that residents can help protect their homes. they're being limited to five sandbags per household, t.j.. >> athena jones for us in d.c., thank you. rob marciano in long island for us this morning and you put the jacket on. >> reporter: i did. you know what, the first official rain bands of irene have arrived on the long island coastline, and quite frankly, i didn't expect it to be that intense. i wanted to put the pants on as well. we'll continue to get these throughout the day. it's starting to lighten up just a little bit. no lifeguard on duty on the beach. the looky-loos, a lot of them have left now that the rain has moved in, but the waves have certainly continued to pick up, and the surfers have not gone home, although it looks like this latest set has taken a little bit of a breather. you talk about long island. it's been a long time since we've seen a hurricane come through. bob made landfall east of here, gloria back in '85, right around here. 1938, take a look at some of these pictures. that was a major landfall. the long island express, it was called, and it did all sorts of damages, cut inlets that weren't supposed to be there. over 50,000 homes damaged, between 600 and 800 people were killed with that one. we don't expect that to be the case here, but widespread flooding, wind damage in some of the higher buildings, and a lot of tree damage. and that's going to knock out power for more than just hours, t.j.. it will be days and some folks here on the island will likely be stranded because of some of that inland flooding, which they tried to battle back with some of the man-made berms that they built, but right now, we're watching the seas begin to encroach. by this time tomorrow, they should be well beyond where i stand right now. >> all right. rob, thank you, once again this morning. and those are cnn's reporters you're just hearing from, but we have our ireporters have been sending in pictures and telling stories as well. josh levs going through that for us. good morning, josh. >> good morning. so many videos coming in. some of our own people are even sending us ireports today. we got this from our own kim siegel. this is from atlantic beach. i'll be telling you more about it next hour, but you can see a lot of flooding in the streets and the impact it is having. and we're seeing similar images coming in from elsewhere as well. let's do this now. i want you to see this video. take a look. >> there went the roof of something. >> "there went the roof of something," he just said. that's part of a roof blowing off. that's in myrtle beach, south carolina. this is from travis campbell, who's staying there at a resort, and saw part of a roof over a swimming pool just blow away. and before we hit the top of the hour here, i want to go to one more video. take a look at this. this is from a hospital that was evacuating and here's what i want you to see this. we were just hearing from mayor michael bloomberg minutes ago during our hour here on cnn. he was talking about areas of the city that are being evacuated. well, i spoke with this hospital, peniul
Related Keywords
Coney Island , Home , Nursing Homes , Patients , School Buses , Adult Care Facilities , Hospitals , Nursing , Firefighters , Borough , Elderly , Teams , Two , Ten , Residents , Zone , A , Senior Homes , Facilities , Management , Rockaways To Go , 7000 , Lot , Risks , First , Credit , Vulnerable , Naught , Thing , Transportation , Shelter , Public , To Evacua , Anybody , Bus , Forz , People , Sites , Mass Transit , Shelters , Serve , City Employees , 2 1 , City Ployees , Difference , Trip , Stuff , City , Hurricane , Nypd , Area , Us , Sound Equipment , Aren T , Rest , Vehicles , Message , Way , Safety , Afternoon , Evening , Mind , Car , Taxi , Areas , Pictures , Look , Boats , Press , Rockaways , Streets , Lots , News Footage , Emergency Responders , Images , Hurricane Katrina , Water , Damage , Storm Surge , Same , Surge , Buildings , Elevators , Wind , Wall , Nitro Facilities , Equipment , Also , Power , Cables , Con Ed , Salt Water , Lower Manhattan , Call , Downtown Manhattan , Current , Electricity , Example , Something , Winds , Evacuation Zone , Rain , Everyone , Law , Resources , Storm Hits , Public Transportation System , Evacuation Zones , Leave , Life , Responders , Emergencies , Business , Business Owners , Evacu E , Doesn T , Precautions , New Yorkers , Shop , Utilities , Tanks , Gas , Switches , Real Life Experience , Everyone Else , Kind , Hurricanes , Parts , It Can , Nation , Aas , Destruction , God , Afar , Storm , Warnings , Plan , Problem , Tty , 2006 , Train , Station , Weather Hits , Mta , Transit , Staten Island Ferry , City Bridges , 00 , 10 , Weekend , Beaches , Institutions , Parks , Surfers , Risk , Big Wave , Fun , Fallen Tree Limbs Is Serious , Windows , Floor , Window Damage , Lives , Sidewalks , High Rise , Injury , Jeopardy , Generator Power , Power Lines , Troe Buildings , Con Ed May , City Building , Terms , Construction Sites , House , Construction , Home Owners , Fumes , Apartment , Inspeblgtors , Aror , Carbon Monoxide , Outdoor Furniture Inside , Conclusion , You Haven T , Items , Trash Cans , Matter , Weather , Beginning , Track , Drops , Speaking Audience , Spanish , 37 , It , Michael Bloomberg , Folks , Ticking , Clock , Update , Reason , Viewers , Public Transit System , On The Buses , Trains , Somewhere , People Don T , Drive , Subways , Cars , 1 , 2 , Point , Jacqui Jeras , Cone , Right , Uncertainty , Little , Left , Bit , Saying , Warning , Hit , 370000 , It Doesn T , North Carolina , Concern , 24 , Don T Wait , Practice , The Sun , Reporters , Coast , Meteorologist , Coverage , 40 , Landfall , Hurricane Irene , Which , Stay With Me , Brian Todd , Wilmington , Hello Wuonce , 43 , Reporter , Irene , Ashore , The Rain And Wind Hasn T Let Us , 60 , 30 , River , Orange , Swells , Whitecaps , Edge , Cape Fear River , Sense , Road , County , Carolina Beach , Mayor , Second , Thousands , Needles , Face , Bloomberg , Help , Body , Rain Water , Clothes , Situations , Afraid Rain Gear Doesn T , Bones , Feet , Couple , Squalls , Street , Puddles , Northeast , T J , Traffic , Attention , Dangers , Forecast , D C , Protein , Hurricane Headquarters , Guy , Announcer , Part , Sugars , What S Shakin , Four , Fat , Oooooh , Both , 5 , 25 , Nutrition , Value , Egg , Charge , Red Lobster , Fifty , Five , My Name , Crab , Snow Crab , Bake , Crab Entrees , Seafood , Crab Butter Shrimp , Offer , Sea Food , Crabfest , Jon Forsythe , 0 , 20 , 3 , More , Superguarantee , The Good Guys , Maps , Only Superpages Com , Go To Superpages Com , Top , Hearing , Michael Mroomberg , 12 , Evacuation , New Jersey , Order , Ground Floors , Evacua , Ground Level , Hoboken , Building , Evacuation Order , Ground , Ground Floor Units , Ground Floor , Jersey City , Idea , Projection , Microphone Open Up , Floors , Peak , Friend , Things , Rising , Six , Stats , Process , Sleep , 85 , Worst , Mobile Home , Trees , Core , Conditions , Outer Banks , 8 , 6 , 7 , Some , Heads , Timing , Steps , Stamp , Carolinas Today , Virginia Beach , Long Island , Window , Ocean City , Side , Midday , Midafternoon , Boston , Three , Wind Damage , Wind Gusts , Power Outages , 115 , Jacqui , Back , Philadelphia , Sucker , Glucerna , Diabetes , Care , Shakes , Carbs , Blood Sugar Spikes , Everything Else , Everything , Bars , Products , A1c , Husband , Balance , Golf Clubs Clanking , Phone , Book , Superpages , Only Suonline S , Athena Jones , Memorial Tomorrow , Rob Marciano , Jr , Martin Luther King , In The City , I Have A Dream , Anniversary , Speech , Deal , State Of Emergency , City Officials , March On Washington , Kenneth Ellerby , Fire , Situation , Dems , One , Anything , Ways , Homes , Sandbags , Household , Ran Out , Official Rain Bands Of Irene , Jacket , Thank You , On The Beach , Lifeguard , Long Island Coastline , Pants , Looky Loos , Waves , Breather , Set , Long Island Express , Damages , Weren T , Take A Look , Sorts , Gloria Back In , Hurricane Come , Bob Made Landfall East , Cut Inlets , 1938 , Flooding , Tree Damage , Case , 800 , 50000 , 600 , Berms , Seas Begin To Encroach , Stories , Ireporters , Cnn , Josh Levs , Videos , Impact , Atlantic Beach , Ireports , Kim Siegel , Roof , Video , Elsewhere , Travis Campbell , Resort , South Carolina , Swimming Pool , Saw , Myrtle Beach , Stream , Police Protection , Hospital , Security , Capacity , Beds , Emergency Services , Edo , Evacuation Shelter , Compassesty , Peniul , 70000 , 91 ,
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.