There on the field every saturday. rick: he had big shoes to fill, replacing coach joe paterno. paterno was fired in november amid a child sex abuse scandal involving one of his former coaches, jerry sandusky. o brien will be working double duty for a bit. he will remain on the patriots staff for their run during the nfl playoffs, which are going on right now. arthel: i know about the playoffs. saints are going to beat the lions tonight. a high surf advisory for san diego. showing you waves crashing over this pier. some reaching up to 15 feet and crashing and creating dangerous conditions at area beaches. the rough surf drawing crowds of spectators. some getting a little too close. life guards say the crashing waves are something to be admired from afar, guys. it s insane. like, they re so high and coming
There on the field every saturday. rick: he had big shoes to fill, replacing coach joe paterno. paterno was fired in november amid a child sex abuse scandal involving one of his former coaches, jerry sandusky. o brien will be working double duty for a bit. he will remain on the patriots staff for their run during the nfl playoffs, which are going on right now. arthel: i know about the playoffs. saints are going to beat the lions tonight. a high surf advisory for san diego. showing you waves crashing over this pier. some reaching up to 15 feet and crashing and creating dangerous conditions at area beaches. the rough surf drawing crowds of spectators. some getting a little too close. life guards say the crashing waves are something to be admired from afar, guys. it s insane. like, they re so high and coming
Mandatory evacuation. now, right now as we see people enjoying the surf and enjoying the beach we have been watching people going up very close actually and taking pictures next to the crashing waves. not advised. there has been massive flooding along the streets that had waves lapping up against businesses that were boarded up and sandbagged before the storm. a redundant scene up and down long island as trees were splintering like tooth picks, taking down power lines and knocking out power to nearly half of long island s 1.1 million utility customers. the local fire chief here of long beach requested assistance from nassau county. thing ecktive has given him the help he needed to clean out the debris. national guard troops along the way to assist with the cleanout as well. the one good thing we can say about nassau county and the massive waves going on right now is there is going be a big sur of competition scheduled to take place next week. still going to take place next week as far
And what happens is that as those waves head up to the coast it collects and builds up here to the surface. well, eventually what happens is that builds up and it has to go back, doesn t it? well, it will break through the sandbars. as earl comes in and churns up that water and that sand, more sandbars are developed and so it will break on through there. only 20 to 100 feet or so and it moves so fast even an olympic swimmer would have a hard time outswimming this thing. what do you do if you get caught in one? swim parallel to the shore line. hopefully you can make your way become to the coast. they did have several rescues tod today. some pictures from ocean city, maryland. last weekend they had 27 rescues. today just a couple. look at those crashing waves. yeah, the sun is shining so it looks great. the lifeguards out in full force. those red flags have been
78. if only we had a report on that. if you re 40 or over and you re from new england, you re still talking about this and telling people about this and still remember this. i still remember that. can t forget it. check out this fire truck from fox borough, the temperature there 5 degrees. here s a twitter picture from whdh of the crashing waves on the south shore. at the airports, thousands of flights have been canceled. my wife already missed two today. she s going off to l.a. there she is, i m here with the kids she looks miserable. yeah, it could be days before things get back to normal as millions attempt to head home from the holidays. we ve got it all covered for you right now. reporters have been spread out all throughout the northeast and we begin about richard liu in the bull s-eye in beantown. reporter: you know, tour e, your wife heading also to a much