good morning to you all. welcome to this cnn sunday morning, a special edition here. suzanne malveaux joining me, t.j. holmes here with you. we have special coverage of hurricane irene which is getting closer and closer and closer to new york city. anderson cooper is live in greenwich village there. john king on long beach for us this morning as well. already what a morning it s already been. very well foreshadowing the day that s in store for new york and north. an incredibly massive hurricane, rain-making hurricane irene, continuing her trek up the eastern seaboard. take a look at this. still a category 1 storm, 75 mile-an-hour winds. take a look at these pictures, though, the eye could be moving over atlantic city, new jersey right about now. we are keeping a close eye on that. the current track has irene moving towards, of course, new york city. all eyes on new york. they ve seen some flooding in some areas already. a number of power outages at least, 400,000 reported
however, you do have some obs nant people until they leave we can t get our houses ready. but fortunately we re down to zero occupancy and now we can pay attention to our own needs. danny, i wish you the best of luck riding out the storm. they say this is going to be a really rough one. keeping my fingers crossed for you. thank you for joining us. thank you. a live look tell me where new jersey? in delmar, new jersey. this is the new jersey coastline. belmar. okay. thank you. they re yelling in my ear, sometimes it s hard to understand. it looks like a beautiful day out there. again, so far we re not seeing any of the effects of this storm coming in for the new jersey, new york, delaware area, it looks like a pretty nice day so far. where we are starting to see those effects is the north carolina where they re getting the rain and some rough surf out there as well.
the am of water tremendous amount of water being pushed into chesapeake bay over the delmar have peninsula along the beaches there life-threatening conditions through delaware and then to the jersey shore with tremendous water pushed into delaware bay all along the jersey shore one of the we think historic hurricane events for the jersey shore. same thing with long island. in new york city there will be flooded areas but in the core of the city the high rises being inside a high rise should be safe and then we re talking about of course up into new england. everyone prepares inland they evacuate the coast be ready to be out of power for at least a week. that s it, chris. this is in some ways the big one. thank you so much. we ll keep checking back, obviously throughout the coming hours and days. now in virginia some of the same search and rescue teams that helped after the japanese tsunami are now being deployed to north carolina mcwhere the
losses continue. businesses are afraid to invest in the economy when washington continues to hand down mandates and tax increases that make it harder to succeed and to grow. all right. so there you heard the other side. let s get the headlines right now. we have a developing story for you. really tragic. six americans were part of a 10 person medical team and they have been shot and killed apparently by militants in afghanistan. they were ambushed returning back from an eye facility in the province, the leader of the group is now identified as tom little. he s an optometrist from delmar, new york and a taliban spokesman tells the associated press that these folks were killed because they were allegedly preaching christianity. well, the director of the international assistance mission says this reason is entirely baseless. as to us spreading christianity, that is simply not true. we are a christian agency. we are registered as such.
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