It is frustrating. Doing minimalt i may last an hour or so, t dunes, there no protection. Its supposed to dredge this a couple of years ago and level it off and got noing. Reporter so you can see right now weve had the water coming through here through this each. They did have a pile of sand in ont of this house. But obviously the ocean has washed that away. They can only hopehat this berm here elsewhere will hold and protect what they have left here in ortley beach an army corps of enginee project tha wieplenish ts san on jersey shore is who knows how many months or maybe even re than aeary as they coinue that long simmering battle oveemen her i county. Nortl beri om new 4 n. Alreadyeeg power of the ocean ther here in the city, peopleing in low lyi a shoulbe t for hh w coastal flooding. Katherine craig is on Rockaway Beach. What are people doing there. Reporter you mentioned not lettg your guard down. Not in this community. First we want to show you the coastal storm conditions, it has been raining on us all day long. The waves are high as well. In this part community, Rockaway Beach a big festival scheduled for this weekend has been rescheduled, a change of plans to make sure everyone stays safe. In neighborhoods where memories of supertorm sandy remain fresh when theres mention of a hurricane or storm. We were minute to minute watching doppler and trying to decide what toe do. Reporter linda hum free, ecut director of the partnersp in Rockaway Beach says the Second Annual fall festival has beerescheduled. Instead of this sunday, it will be october 11th. Workers putting down barricades for the faest estival had hoist them back up again. Were still rebuilding from Hurricane Sandy so these eves we like to have to bring the community togeth fnately pushing it off another week. We want to make sure everybo is safe and we have a gat t. The coastal storm hitting our area right now has brought rain and strong winds surfers took advantage of it, crews worked through it. Building a new bwalk at beach 95th street. After the last experience with sandy, youear the word hurricane and get afraid. Its a bigrelief. Reporter since the storm sandy hit several miles of sand du vn built and new boardwalk is elevated. The feeling among rockaway dents, hurricane joaquin, stay away. Thank god it went out to the sea. Reporter we want to show you live pictures. There are about 20 surfers out here tha weve seen right by where we are and then a little bit further east. Im trying to figure out where exactly we are, were on beach 95th street. Theres so many surfers out here and these are good conditions for them. You hope they stay safe. As for this community, we understand that there were a lot of people buying tarp, buying duct tape and preparing for whatever this weekend may bring. There goes my hat. Its only a pony tail. Its windy. There she goes. At least you have a pony tail to hold it, thank you. Id be out of luck. Were keeping an eye, governor christie is supposed to be a News Conference in Sea Isle City. We may check into it a little bit to hear wt he has to say. Now we turn to that campus shooting massacre in oregon. Were getting new information about the gunman, chris sharper mercer, they found several firearms inside his apartment. He shot and killed ten students, nine others were hurt before he ne 4s john dienst has the latest. Reporter describeds a loner who lived with his m and always wore Army Fatigues and posted photos of himself Online Holding a gun. Building . Searching the gunmans apartment for clues, 26yearold Chris Harper Mercer was armed three resistant vest. He was asking peoples religions before deciding whether to shoot. They were christian, they were shot in the head. But if they stated other, or didnt answer, they were shot in the leg. All my brother could focus on was please koept r dont kill me, i have a family. Chris mins was shot multiple times and survived. Just startedlaesty school. Heegged the shooter to spare him becaus it was his sons birthday. The candlelight vigil held for victims, nine dead, plus the ice in the shootout. We do have one female that has been shot at this time. Exchanging shots with him. Hes in a classroom. Reporter the motive still not clear. He was not a recent student at the school and social media postings appr to show he supported some extremist groups like the armed wing of the ira. The president looked on as another masshootok lives of the innocent. He spokeutegun for tougher gun laws. Several of the wounded just starting their battle to recover. Our hearts and prayers continue to be wit the victims and families. As for the suspect, some neighbors describe him as a loner. Other Associates Say he had a temper but the extent of any Mental Illness now a focus for investigators. Back to you. Jonathan, thank you. This story has gotten the attention of the nation. We have a programming note, were expecting a 1 00 p. M. Update from police in oregon and were goingo bring that to you live righte on nbc 4. You canch days ofur lives on ourigital channel cozi tv were makinglset re information on an elevator death in brooklyn. Police and building ipector investigang what haened thismorning. Thuildg is onope in williamsburg. What they can tell uss an elevator malfunction mayave caused autlf e opentor do. Ce tryin contact the n family before releasing his name. And as i see now, governor christie is about to approach the podium here in Sea Isle City and update us on the situation in new jersey. Thank you all for being here and thank my friend, congressman, an extraordinary partner in dealing with those various natural disasters weve had to deal with in the last five and a half years. I was saying to the group of electedicials i was just that there was no one who engaged in more aggressive and effective hand to hand combat for the people of new jersey on the floor of the congress than frank did. Everything we did in reaction to sandy in last tee years would not be possible. Were facing another challenge. Im glad hes here. Plause ] i met with theoc fials, not onlynounty but from the neighboring south jery countihis morning. We have a statewide Conference Call thisorni wh or 0 elte the e. D ive had three meetings anabout to go to my fourt with my cabinet. In the last 48 hours to make su whatsg. All morning weve been receiving latestuptes fromhe nional athee. We know what were dealing with in a general sense now. The noster thawere experiencing right now and that will continue throughout the rest oth day and into tomorrow, is diminishing a bit. Wee getng hougti get, which fmg rs oio t morg r ntiesn y, lantat, cumd an no be prepared for tt i believe the officials are prepared for whateveell have too dealwith. The state is well prepared as we goo ns on hurrica joaquin, it connues to track east, not west, into the middle of the atlanocean. And i the tra continues the y itwas now, were not going to haveo worry about joaquin any typ ofajor effect on the jersey shoreline and on our citizens. So far so od. D nor us,e prered if it comes but re very happy hear that theyll be visiting someplace se. Hurricane tourism here in jersey. We expect about 1 to 3 feet of flooding in the cape may and Atlantic County region. You need to be ready and prepared for that. Were prepared for everything from working on the beaches with the dep, to makeure we plenish and provide protection ere but also to the extreme of shtering if we need to shelter asell working with the county fials and we have statewide Assets Available as well if we need to the worst o this will come together. Weve got high tide happening as we speak around 12 30, through about 3 00 this afternoon. Well s 6 to 10 feet waves, maybe as high as 16 feet over the course of th weekend which will damage the beach and lead to more beach erosion and less protection for the shoreline. Right now, we dont have mar outages, 147 right now in cape may county. Youre one of those 147 those arexaordy major but were glad we dont have more than that. Making sure that were getting real time information on that. We have hundreds of crews out of state crews heading to new jersey to prepare to deal with anything that mightappen as a result of the storm to make sure power restoration happens as quickly as possible. What i want folks to be ready for in this area of the state is to be ready and be prepared to spond to the flooding. And to respond to a loss of power. Go to places where you can be safe and warm. Its going to get colder tonight, down into the 40s tonight. And so i want people,f you lost powe staying at home if you cant be warm. If yave a generator, please goo on to our website and remind yourself of safe operation of nerators. During sandy we l lives to carbon mon e poisoning e ople dnt know how to properly use generators. Goo our ready. Nj. Gov website. But those are this were most concerned abo at the mont. Reaction by the lower lying areas to flooding andotal loss o wer. Ha a prepara plan weve been talking about this for a longme. If you loseer and thes flding, erreou going to go to be safe and warm . Do you have friends or family . If you dont, contact your local officials. Well have sheltering available for people if you absolutely need it. But your first aa of resort tnds or famy in the area if you lose power or if theres flooding that forces you to leave your home. We dont expect there should be widespread instances of that type of flooding. If there is, we want you to be prepared to do that and local officis are ready to hope in that help in that regard also. But you need to be able to ve a plan to execute on so we need you to do that and be ready. Were very fortunate at the moment that the hurricane is heading sout to sea and not towards the coast. This is another indication of why the Preparedness Measures and resilience y measures were continuing to take post sandy are so important. We were just having a conversation in the room behind me, i continue to be frustrated and speak only for myself. I continue to be frustrated by the opposition of some folks in the state to us completing the dune syem. And were wasting time and taxpayer money in court in cases that we ultimately will win on Eminent Domain to build dunes to protect the people and the property of the people of the state of new jersey. And so ill say again, quite candidly Chris Christie in Sea Isle City at this noon talking storm preps and declared a state of emergency and really the governor sounded relieved about the latestorecast regarding the coaal flood, the coastal storm that were dealingith right now through sunday and the ack of joaquin, we are still expecting some flooding and possible Power Outages as well. Lets get aupdate from rafael. We are brehing a lite sigh of a storm to getto. Hereshe lates ofjoaqui still a category 4 hurricane, winds of 130 miles per hour. Look at the path again, thankfully right now almost everyone is agreeing the storm is heading out to sea over the ne few days, not going to be a major problem for us, but we have our own coastal flooding heres live look at th storm tracker,he banf rain sweeng in. Its light to moderate a soaking wind drivenrain. We have winds up to 35 mer hour rightno it is ra ouide. 47 in par ipny. D it feels like 4s, you need to dre for 40s a wet 40s at that. Brinth umbrella andater proofea today. 53 in poughkps. 52 down the shore. Around 00 today were still dealing withherain. Its a sogg windy and difficult commute at tis. We could see localized flooding in spots and were tracking now in tomrow morning, ernit saturday, 3 00 a. M. , pretty quiet and rain continues to st on in. Watch what ppens as e rn becomes more a moreparse as head i the afternoon, 5 00 p. M. Only aew lighter showers. Heaviest suld be gone by tomorrow afrnoon and evening. En shower threat does linger a bit into sunday. Lets bre it down rion by regi her at jsey that what wereng t hiest impact which we seen already. 1 to 2 inchesf rain possible. Winds gusting up to 50 miles and moderate coastal floodi, the fa south you head into toms river andtaord and lo at th wave heights, to eet there. Arnd new yor ci less of a impa, minor coaal flooding but very windy. If we see Power Outages, likely to south to counties south. Still windy and raw tomorrow, high of4 degree this gradually winds down and sunday maybe leftover shower ansunshine by the end of the day and looking much a head into next week. Stay with us and janice huff will have another update at 5 00. Back to you. Also on our website, nbcnewyork. Com if you want to watc of the new with gorn are you getting the Internet Speed you need . [excited yelling] ah, yes you cannot stop it aww. Your mom liked my post. Youre friends with my mom . We all use it differently. So why should we get it all the same way . Now you dont have to. 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Wee celebra early. Looks delicious. O. Tonight starting at 5 00, storm team 4 will continue to track this nasty coastal storm and hurricane joaquin. Governor christie is still talking right now and says the big concern is for Power Outages and flooding there, however the entire shoreline is vulnerable. We have our reporters prepositioned to see how they are dealinging in anticipation of this coastal storm moving through in these hours. And governor Chris Christie plans to be in belmar around 4 00 and hold another News Conference there. Well bring you all of the latest on that at 5 00 this afternoon. Also, want to give you a heads up, around 1 00, our partners at nbc news will be having a will be covering the latest out of oregon on the terrible shooting out there. Look for the live report at 1 00 today. We have you covered throughout the afternoon, you can always go to nbcnew york. Com for me updates up to the minute and well have all of the latest beginning on news 4 at 5 00. Have a great day and dont hey, everybody, welcome to new york live, happy friday on this gross, rainy wet its friday though. That proves it all. Its still friday. We have a great show for you today. We hope of a fun weend planned. To kick things off we have coming up today, were getting an early start on sundays National Taco day. Find out where you can grab a few of the citys best breakfast tacos and for a great price too. Which is key. Celebrating food. Plus, hes bringing the funny to new york this weekend wit some shows. Were talking comedy family, his band and famous costars, the one and only, sinbad. Sinbad. If you or someone you know it an online dater, the most common mistakes women make online with love at first swipe host Clinton Kelly in just a bit. Hi, clinton. Hello. Nice to see you. So good to be here. We cantt to talk to you. The always entertaining lena dunham stops by ellen. And reveals very personal conversations between her and her musician boyfriend. He says to me, he said, something about one time i was like, if you ever broke up with me, dont go out with another like chatty female comedian. Are you kidding . If you broke up with me i would start dating someone who didnt speak english because i would like to get a word in edgewise. I love that. Thats hilarious. But i love that shes hel to plan his life if they dont end up together. Right. Heres what you should do if we dont stay together. Just in case. Ellen surprises lena with a gift for her beloved dog batting an injury. Since its ellen, she gives lena a gift as well. Those cones arent really fun and thats a boring cone. So i got lamby a new cone and put that on. [ applause ] its weird, this is what ive been waiting for my whole life. Now humans can see how dogs feel with those silly cones. I love her reaction. She talks about Hillary Clinton in the interview and talks about marriage and how she feels about were all expecting a wedding because everyone could get marylandry marylandried, she was going to now. Its definitely going to be a gloomy rainy weeke but that shouldnt stop you from celebrating National Taco day. Nothing should s you from that. Here the tastiest places to dig in with a breakfast twist. If it were up to me, i could eat tacos all day every day. If you love them as much as i do,ou might want to know where the best place to start your day with them are. Were starting at gotham west market. Choza which meensz little house has been around for several years, several locations around manhattan. They several up breakfast tacos, available every day 8 00 to 11 00 a. M. And five different ones to choose from. So the basic breakfast taco is