look at this. hard to imagine. that doesn t look like that doesn t look like something that s going to hold up there. we shall see. and here are those live pictures of delaware we were telling you about. it s tough sledding out there for us to get both video and sound up, which is why i m able to check in with all of our correspondents the way we wanted to, but we will be checking it out. this is a great resource that is available to you to monitor hurricane sandy. go to our pals over at weather.com. they ll have the latest on the storm and potentially some life-saving information for you. if you lose power and still have internet service, weather.com will be streaming the weather channel live. well, hurricane sandy is taking aim at wall street as well, forcing the first unscheduled market shutdown in more than a decade. what it means for your money next in the market rundown. plus we re taking a deep dive into battleground virginia where the presidential candidates may not b
path of the storm probably account for about 7% of all the refineries around the nation. and that s why people are very concerned about when you ll be seeing a shutdown of those potentially and for how long. that s why gas prices have been higher. chuck, back over to you. becky quick, thanks very much. it was hurricane gloria in 1985, the last time wall street was shut down on its own for a weather event. next up, we ll be live in delaware where the wrath of the storm is beginning to be felt. the dally rundown will be back in 30 seconds. the leading edge of
hurricane sandy is lashing the mid-atlantic right now. but for millions, the worst of this storm is yet to come. let s get the latest from nbc s thanh truong live in delaware where residents are pretty much cleared out. thanh, what are you seeing? what are you feeling? reporter: take a look behind me, chuck. this is high tide now. high tide started around 7:55 this morning. and this is what we ve been talking about through the past couple of days. this combination of storm surge and high tide. this is going to bring a lot of the ocean basically up into this area. take a look at what it s done to this fence here. this is just a precursor of what we re going to see. we will get somewhat of a reprieve this afternoon because low tide will hit around 2:00. then 8:00 is the next high tide. but the bad news is, is that that s going to coincide with the timing of the storm as it comes ashore in the delmarva area as well. you mentioned at the top that residents have been out of here, 50,000 r
hundreds of thousands of people from maryland to connecticut have been ordered to evacuate low-lying coastal areas including 375,000 in new york city, 50,000 in delaware, 30,000 in atlantic city. transit systems in new york city and washington, d.c., have been shut down. the federal government is closed. the new york stock exchange is closed. for weather today for the first time in 27 years. and for the very latest on the hurricane s path, let s go right to what mark halperin just described as a national treasure right now, bill karins, our nbc news meteorologist. all right, bill, walk us through i know you were saying earlier the storm s taken a little more of a left turn than what was forecast about three hours ago. yeah. it s very slight, but it makes a big difference especially for atlantic city, new jersey, long beach island, central jersey. if the storm went right over you, your storm surge would have been less. if it goes south down by wildwood, that means your damage will m
power goes off, odds are when you wake up, you probably won t have it. then the storm begins to slowly weaken. this is 4:00 a.m. we ve still got hurricane-force gusts in a huge area. so the long-duration stall over philadelphia is just going to weaken the trees with the rain. and that s just going to cause additional problems. here s the gusts currently. i mentioned we re seeing pretty strong gusts from jfk to islip out towards even new haven getting up to tropical storm-force gusts. these are going to get worse throughout the day. now is the time to hunker down in this region. do not get in your car. don t go outside. just ride this one out till tuesday afternoon. chuck todd was mentioning the heavy rain bands over i-95. don t get caught on the roads. we re going to start to see flash flooding issues in maryland, especially delaware and down towards dover where you ve already had six inches of rain. and as far as the path goes, landfall tonight about 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. that s when i e