even though during another big disaster, he wanted relief money for his own district with no strings attached. we re keeping them honest tonight. also in a moment, we ll take you live to a town that s still under water and you ll hear from a man who has been stranded by hurricane irene and he says forgotten by fema. rising waters leaving him surrounded. roads are gone. nearby houses gone as well. power is out. supplies are still limited. he says he hasn t seen a government official or fema worker and only local sheriffs trying to deal with the problem. he joins us shortly by phone. breaking news tonight, late word that president obama will hit hard hit patterson new jersey over the weekend. flood warnings in effect for the area up and down the east coast in fact days after rain from hurricane irene first began falling. susan candiotti is in the middle of it in little falls, new jersey. parts of little falls have been evacuated. what s the latest on the flooding there? repor
hurricane irene and he says forgotten by fema. rising waters leaving him surrounded. roads are gone. nearby houses gone as well. power is out. supplies are still limited. he says he hasn t seen a government official or fema worker and only local sheriffs trying to deal with the problem. he joins us shortly by phone. breaking news tonight, late word that president obama will hit hard hit patterson new jersey over the weekend. flood warnings in effect for the area up and down the east coast in fact days after rain from hurricane irene first began falling. susan candiotti is in the middle of it in little falls, new jersey. parts of little falls have been evacuated. what s the latest on the flooding there? reporter: just to give you a sense of where i am standing on the ledge of one of those vacuum cleaners at a car wash now dipping into the water so you can see how high the water is. putting this piece of paper in there to show you how fast the current is flowing. it s cold he
checking on whether their bridges are cracked and dangerous. whether they are sound enough to handle what they need to handle right now. in maryland, whether the bridges were built to withstand the one-two punch of a earthquake and a hurricane in the same week. in new jersey, inspectors making sure that culverts and storm drains are sound. in vermont, inspectors making sure dam can handle all extra water that s about to push up against them. xhek the dam will hold. nuclear power plants which are generally billed along oceans and rivers because being near water is helpful with dissipating the heat. in new jersey in the path of the storm, inspectors are checking the nuclear power plant to make sure the plants water tight doors are working. to secure anything that could be loosened i by the wind. dealing with an emergency is essentially a technocratic
jersey, new york, including parts of new york city, rhode island, virginia, the outer banks of north carolina where evacuations are also taking place in five inland counties. in light of those evacuation orders, some of them literally orders, some of them suggestions. it s been a sobering thing to see cities and states checking on whether their bridges are cracked and dangerous. whether their bridges and their infrastructure is sound enough to handle what they need to handle right now. in maryland whether the infrastructure, whether the bridges were not to with stand the one-two punch of an earthquake and a hurricane in the same week. in new jersey inspectors making sure that culverts and storm drains are sound. in vermont inspectors checking to see if dam there s can handle all the extra water that s about to push up against them. checking that those dams will hold. nuclear power plants, which are generally built along oceans and rivers because being near water is helpful for dealing
waist, so he managed to survive, was rescued two hours later. officials say the washout was caused from flash flooding near ryan park in southeast wyoming. officials say debris in the creek apparently blocked large culverts that run under the highway, and the water that tore through the roadway opening a 25-foot-wide, 9-foot-deep breach. flooding in be wyoming in the spring and summer has been blamed for at least two over depths. a fixed-wing aircraft is flying over the area this morning singeing for additional searching for additional vehicles affected by the flooding. heather: thank you very much, julie. bill: you have got that heat out there, and it s not going away. now we find michele bachmann surging in the polls, a wall street journal poll showing that bachman is gaining ground. romney at 30% be, bachman at 16. those new numbers follow report