Flying over a wildfire firefighting planes cannot. For 26 minutes firefighting planes were grind friday according to fire officials when they should have been putting out this fastmoving wildfire that crossed over a Southern California freeway. In the air instead five drones according to the u. S. Forcest service. Ground crews tracked down the Drone Operators and forced the drowns down. Its very serious. Fire prevention specialist says theres no way to know exactly how many structures or vehicles were lost because of the delay. She says grounding operations when a drone is overhead is not negotiable. You could have a midair disaster forks firefighters on the ground. Their efforts to educate drone enthusiast including this psa by the fire center, warning of drop dangers. Bus this is has become a new threat and people dont know about it the with a we educate the public is doing this, speaking to you. Reporter Southern California u. S. Congressman paul cook introduced legislation banning
Every corner of the storm. Tonight, the moment it crashes on land, our team in the storm zone bringing you whats happening at this hour as world news begins. Good evening, and welcome to this special onehour edition of world news and as we come on the air, it is happening right now, Hurricane Sandy crashing on shore. Winds now at 90 Miles Per Hour and this storm is so big, so vast, 60 million americans will feel its power. Tonight our extreme weather team is all over the storm zone ready to report so lets go straight to abcs meteorologist ginger zee who is right in the bullseye as the storm is hitting the shore now in Atlantic City, new jersey. Ginger . Were essentially inside the storm. Diane. Were easily getting into some of the worst stuff, 60 to even 74 Miles Per Hour, that threshold of hurricane force, one of the worst storms that has ever hit Atlantic City. This city is basically under water. Water from the ocean, water from the bay. It is everywhere. This is the storm that we fo
Storm. Sandy is no longer classified as a hurricane, but her punch is practically still strong. Reporter about three hours ago i would have been stand investigate hudson river, the powerful storm surge caused the waters of the hudson to overflow the sea wall, come into this park and out into the streets of new york. Waters have receded, but the danger is far from over. Sandy brought on shore south of roared ashore south of new jersey early monday morning, packing sustained winds of 80 miles an hour with gusts over 100. The storm blew out windows and flooded streets up and down the east coast. Tearing up atlantic citys famous board walk. The storm cut electricity to more than 200 million storms and businesses. This is video of the Power Substation exploding in new york. We knew it would be a very dangerous storm and the storm has met our expectations. Reporter new york city is all, but shut down. The powerful storm surge from Hurricane Sandy pushed the waters of the hudson river through
More than a dozen deaths are being blamed on sandy right now. And that number is likely to rise. Some 5 Million People are without power so far, from all along the eastern seaboard. Even into the midwest. Today, also, stock markets will be closed again for a secondstraight day. A continuation of their first unplanned shutdown since the 9 11 attacks. And at this hour, there is breaking news from queens, new york, where as many as 50 homes have been destroyed by fire. The heavy winds are making it extremely difficult to battle the flames. Nearly 200 firefighters were called to the scene, trying to rescue people. No word yet on what set off those fires. Have to wonder if downed power lines played a role. Well see. Also, the outer boroughs of new york city have been hardhit, as well. With most areas of coney island and staten island, described as being underwater, following sandys record storm surge, as it came ashore just to the south of the state of new jersey. Dunes and sand berms were
And good morning to all our viewers in the west. Were coming to you live right now. And lure yooking at the scene overnight in parts of new york city. The fires rage. Entire neighborhoods burned up. Over 50 homes destroyed. Weve got new information pouring in every minute. This storm has been deadly. Taken at least 17 lives so far. And there are so many scenes of devastation at this hour. From sandy, as we come on the air on the west coast, the damage is still unfolding. Heres what we know right now, more than 7. 5 Million People are out of power. The center of the storm is over central pennsylvania. A berm in new jersey gave away overnight. And now an entire town is under water right now. People climbing on the roofs of their mobile homes waiting to be rescued. And also a huge story in new york city this morning. Much of the city is under water. Look at these pictures from one of the major highways. All but one of the tunnels in the city are closed right now. Officials also say this i