atlantic city are empty. bad news for 11 casinos here. this is the last weekend in august, one of the busiest weekends of the year let alone the summer. and they are dead. there is nothing going on here. saturday night in atlantic city and it is a ghosttown. they are suffering financially. but at least, people have heeded the warnings and they re in safer territory. we were out on the beach earlier and the surf was very, very rough. and they were concerned that the ocean milt feed the bay because of the elevation. the storm surge they are expecting with high tide and a new moon, sometime early tomorrow morning. we are not sure if that s going to happen. we are seeing a lot of pooling here on the streets and things could get worse as dawn approaches. you mentioned the bay. this is an area here in south jersey, atlantic city and vettener and margate and
the rain is heavier in newark, new jersey. we re seeing some high tide damage. the wind in jersey on the back side not bad. most power outages in jersey have been done. the biggest problem for jersey is flooding in the rivers. as chris christie has been telling us, over the next 24 to 48 hours, i m still concerned about the high tide cycles. we will see some rise in the water levels. we ll have some damage from that along with our friends in coastal rhode island and back at buzzard bay. the southerly fetch is the reason we ll have higher tide there s. to the storm the storm is so big we ll have gusts. 38 in norfolk. even though people want to begin to clean up down there in the chesapeake, you probably have a good deal of sunshine, wait until the winds sky off before you head out.