Parts of jersey shore also submerged in water. Toni yates has more. Reporter yes, you know it actually turned out to be a pretty decent winter this afternoon after the flooding subsided, but there is a high tide tonight with some more chances of street flooding overnight. Two over the top high tides back to back flooded streets along this low lying pocket, but after a few short hours, the roads go back to normal with the punching system. Pumping system. The flooding. I knew about it, but didnt day. Reporter people that live here know what to expect, moving cars early, many own waders, and have homes raises that a little mud in the garage clean up is all that awaits. Joes house is still among the hes waiting for his federal grant to come through to get it done. I knew moving in here the town flooded, so its a risk youre willing to take to live here a stones throw from the river and ocean, so you just kind of grin and bear it. Reporter well, this time joes house didnt flood, but with it
About, keep pets indoors, frostbite which can occur weather. In terms of your home, run water, add a little trickle to avoid pipes freezing and, of course, never use an oven to heat your home. That can cause Carbon Monoxide poisoning and also fires. From you heading out, make it so you can barely see your face like yours truly. Because its going to be brutalout there. Well have the full accuweather forecast including another chance at accumulating back to you guys. You heard jeff say preparations are under way across the new york city to make sure that everyone has a warm place to stay through this bitterly cold weekend. Our coverage continues now with Eyewitness News reporter bill clinton. Reporter the mayor and city leaders met here at the office of Emergency Management this morning as they would with any major weather event be it a blizzard or hurricane. This cold weather is just as serious so they are making in order to keep everyone safe. First off mayor de blasio just started off
Europe and the dday landings. Mr. Symonds, thanks for joining us. My pleasure. Thank you. We just saw yesterday, mr. Symonds, an anniversary in normandy, the 70th anniversary of dday. A lot of dignitaries there to make the day special yesterday. Why do you think 70 years later this date still resonates with the American Public . Well, first of all, im glad that it does. I think its important to remember significant moments in american and even World History and particularly this one where the world changed so dramatically as a result of the sacrifice of those who invaded northern france in 1944. And i think the 70th is particularly moving. Its a lifetime. I mean, if you consider the biblical injunction that a man has three score years and ten, 70 years now have passed. Generations now born obviously do not remember dday, have no connection with it beyond perhaps those grainy old black and white images on Late Night Television or a chapter in a history book, and not even the most recent
Well, first of all, im glad that it does. I think its important to remember significant moments in american and even World History and particularly this one where the world changed so dramatically as a result of the sacrifice of those who invaded northern france in 1944. And i think the 70th is particularly moving. Its a lifetime. I mean, if you consider the biblical injunction that a man has three score years and ten, 70 years now have passed. Generations now born obviously do not remember dday, have no connection with it beyond perhaps those grainy old black and white images on Late Night Television or a chapter in a history book, and not even the most recent chapter. So enough time has elapsed now that it would be easy i think, unfortunately easy, to let those memories slip, and im glad were not doing that. Im glad were paying attention. This is a moment we should remember. Why do you think 70 years later, whats the most important thing for us to remember on this day about what happ
It had been postponed for more than a year. Thehopes of so many, futures of so many, depended on what happened that day. We just saw video of the landing. Talk about the significance. Especially the take you put on it. This is called operation neptune. Talk about it from a naval point of view. Of us, perhaps because of the famous photographs taken that day most recently, steven spielberg, saving private ryan. We look at that story as if it begins the moment the bow ramp drops on those landing boats. That is the culmination of a very long story. Much of that story involves the navy. The name operation neptune refers to all of the naval aspects of the Broader Campaign of operation overlord. I suspect more people would recognize the title for this operation. Before. S years not just months before. Probably could be traced all the way back, as i mentioned in my earlier talk, to the british evacuation from dunkirk. The that moment on, angloamerican allies try to determine how to do this. It