Dropped off 15 foot. All the sand is just totally gone. Reporter in duey, the streets flooded, but in bethany the damage is more significant. Access to the beach is now very limited. Past the gates its like a cliff that drops down into the ocean. Once all the water calms down and the sand dries out, thailg be able to get a better look at the damage and how to fix it. Some of the dunes took a pretty good beating. He says a lot of the fences they put up to protect the dunes, most of the fences are out at sea. The water is still high in many spots and the cleanup continues. As bad as it is, many are thankful the noreaster wasnt followed up by joaquin. Tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Still, todays weather complicating the cleanup efforts in some of our areas. Glenn hurricane schwartz has more on whats causing trouble now. Glenn . Yeah, well we continue to see wind direction thats coming in off of the ocean. Its not as strong as it was, and the level of the flooding is down, but it doesnt recede
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We are watching remarks from janet yellen speaking at 915 9 15 eastern time. First, a look at our top stories this morning. Facing new pressure by the days end. Looking at pushing tougher collateral rules on the banks. Those need the ecb to stay afloat. The greek finance minister is meanwhile up the. To have fruitful discussion to confirm and will be yet another move in the direction. Thank you very much. Betty it will be able to make intelligent way Million Dollar payment due today. The price of oil is rising again. Intermediate trading advertised level this year. Some analysts think u. S. Companies have cut the number of active oil rakes to the fewest in almost five years. We will see whether Oil Inventories are rising when the report comes out. It that will be watched very closely. Agreeing to buy another drugmaker that focuses on treatments were rare diseases. The company says it will pay nearly 8. 5 billion for bio pharma of connecticut. Synergy the is developing similar drugs. Th
You know. We had a Great Program that helped us on the pharmaceuticals, which is a huge issue. How are you going to do that . Its about costs and delivery systems. And its really about intelligent use by the medicare participants of the system. By the way, its also about i hate to say this, because this is always everybodys argument how you fix government spending. They say get rid of the waste, afraid and abuse. There is a good deal of fraud in the medicare system. Not by our everyday retirees. There are a whole series of things to work on. The real thing that will be looked at is medicaid. Thats growing faster than others. I will tell everybody and take the last question. Over against that wall on this side there are a whole lot of really smart people that know about trade, know about energy, know about medicare, medicaid, health care, they know about legal reform, they know it all. And i told them to come down here, they would learn something from you. After we finish, if you want t
Maliki steps down. In the last 24, 36 hours, we see that its more them establishing emir in the area. So i think the longer they are left alone the more intense they become. Reporter they are fighting a war against terrorists and have launched a series of air strikes on various targets that are allegedly housing the suspected militants. It also now has called on thousand of shia men to take up arms and fight the Al Qaedalinked rebels. That has a lot of people here afraid that this court could be pushed to fullblown civil war. Were beginning to see some of the humanitarian tensions rising from that. Hundreds of thousands of iraqi refugees have left their homes and some of them are being turned back. Most of them say the problem is not with the Al Qaedalinked militants. Its with the Central Government in baghdad for the last several years. This is a developing story. Be sure to stay with us for continuing coverage here and any time we are not on the air, visit our website, nbcbayarea. Co