new jersey, you have phones trying to get out and about, trying to get rid of all of those downed trees to try to make way those roads to be cleared for when people need to get up and out on a monday morning and get back to work. we have heard from both the governor of new jersey, as well as mayor cory booker, and both of them have said let s have folks stay inside, allow emergency crews to do their thing and have today be a work of them, a day of rest for others, so we can get back to business as usual tomorrow on monday. let s go for nbc meteorologist bill karins. he s got the latest with the path of now tropical storm irene. where is it heading? we have two concerns. one is all the water that s fallen especially in new jersey on the saturated soils. some case top five all time, other cases top ten. the delaware river runs this way, and this is where the water will be quickly rising, down right along the small river town is where we re going to see the worst of this flood
guard about, particularly those folks who remain in irene s path. our ron allen will be taking to his camera post in just a moment. here s some snap shots of some of the damage left behind. from the mid-atlantic region of this country, there you saw downed lines, downed branches, rather, and trees earlier, that has been very commonplace, and of course some downed trees took with it some lives tragically, as we also look in the area of new jersey, you have phones trying to get out and about, trying to get rid of all of those downed trees to try to make way those roads to be cleared for when people need to get up and out on a monday morning and get back to work. we have heard from both the governor of new jersey, as well as mayor cory booker, and both of them have said let s have folks stay inside, allow emergency crews to do their thing and have today be a work of them, a day of rest for others, so we can get back to business as usual tomorrow on monday. let s go for nbc meteo