cliffs plant was apparently damaged by winds from the storm. a large piece of aluminum ripped from nearby building on to the transformer. authorities say this is not a serious emergency. and that the plant is stable. plant workers and people who live nearby are not at risk. that s going on out there at the calvert cliffs plant in maryland. juliet: i m getting a lot of tweets today. everybody is asking about what s going on. people asked about the dams and nuclear plants. somebody from australia is watching hoping we are safe today. everybody is watching around the world. we will continue to give you all of the information not just going to be new york and new jersey centric as we sometimes can be. dave: we will focus on the entire region as this thing moves. let s bring in now the police chief of west hampton beach, new york, ray dean who has been helping people in that area evacuate. good morning to you, sir. tell us the latest on that evacuation. good morning. we evacuated yest
dave: the worst of it you are saying in the low are manhattan area in the next four hours. it looks like it s beginning to lose a little bit of its structure if it will. is that good news. you are good. yes it is yiewdzing some of its structure. that s what happens when it gets this far north and going over cooler watters. that s why prediction from 8 a mile-per-hour storm down to 70 mile-per-hour storm happens because you know it s going to go over that water and begin to lose structure as its up here. won t keep that same hurricane form. that s exactly what we re dealing with now. strong storm just because you see that that s part of what you expect to see. that is part of what is taken into account when you see the projections for winds to be lower. steve: it is still a hurricane though. category 1. 7 a miles per hour. he is at the irene center and we re going to be checking in with him all morning long. thanks, rick. we talked about pour outages to houses and homes. hurricane
proves me wrong. it s unpredictable. you don t want to come out in there. there s the big gust. you don t want to come out in this. we saw people walking around and driving around. it s not a good idea. stay home. stay inside. don t come outside. when you do, when the sun does come up, be careful driving around. there are so many trees down in this area. you never know when there will be a live power line involved with a tree being toppled. indeed. driving around may be severely compromised. there have got to be places where there are trees down. suzanne kennedy, thank you so much for that. you re welcome. indeed, one other place we know about where there s a tree down, this one had much more violent intent, did the two that suns was telling us about, the 3700 block of ingamore street in washington, d.c. a tree went into a house and knocked out power. it s 4:00 now, 4:01. we want to do resetting for you. maybe the most potentially serious situation, frankly it s not all