Already starting to fall, and fema, federal Emergency Management agency, says the storm damage from wind alone could reach 3 billion. Were also going to be hearing from the president about 45 minutes or so from the white house. He is going to be making a statement, updating the conditions of what the federal government is doing to tackle this horrific storm. Forecasters expect that sandy will make landfall as early as tonight. The eye of the storm appears headed for jersey shore. The delmarva peninsula. Its an area that includes delaware, parts of maryland and urban search and rescue teams already standing by in maryland, waiting for deployment orders from fema. Coastal maryland getting ready, already pounded by a strong waves, high surf. Martin omalley is following developments from the Emergency Management center. Governor, first of all, thanks for joining us. I know this is a very busy time for you. I was just in maryland over the weekend visiting with family and friends, and clearl
Right now we know of at least 116,000 homes without power. Those numbers will obviously change. But i just want to hit home this point, that everything about sandy is huge. You see the system. This is on your screen here. The wind field, this is something well talk to chad about, the wind field roughly 900 miles wide, 60 Million People all the way from North Carolina to maine could be affected by this hurricane. About 61,000 National Guard troops have been deployed. The president making the point that a lot of the resources, as best as they can, have been prepositioned in anticipation of this storm. 87 billion worth of homes reportedly at risk. And in manhattan, the New York Stock Exchange closed today and we know it will be closed tomorrow. Also shut down, amtrak, subways in new york, washington, d. C. , philadelphia, and in boston. And at the top of the hour here we can tell you now that new yorks holland tunnel and the brooklyn battery bridge are shutting down, closing. No traffic t
Hurricane sandy is a monster storm, even though its center is still out to sea. Tropical storm and Hurricane Force winds extend, get this now, for 1,000 miles. Right now, damaging winds are blowing from southern new england across long island, new jersey, delaware and virginia. We have the full resources of cnn deployed on the story including crews up and down the Atlantic Coast as well as in cities that arent used to this kind of a disaster. Heres what the storm looked like this afternoon when the International Space station flew over. You can clearly see the eye of the storm. Right now, the center is closing in on southern new jersey. Lets begin our coverage with our meteorologist, chad myers, who has the very latest. Chad, some have said that this is the strongest storm ever north of the carolinas. Explain what that means. That means it has the lowest pressure ever that has been pressured by an aircraft or on land of 939 millibars now. North of cape hatteras, weve never had a storm
Foggy through the bay, lunch hour upper 50s to mid 60s and then mostly sunny by 4 00, upper 60s to low 70s. Inland fog thickest north bay and around concord this morning. By noon, sunshine, low to mid 60s 4 00 temperature low to mid 70s, out to the coast clouds are going to be stubborn today pockets of sun in the afternoon, starting in the low to mid 50s we end up in the low to mid 60s. Good morning. Monday morning commute live look at the bay bridge toll, no metering lights yet you can see cash paying folks starting to back up you can see the fog settles on the bay bridge problem on the Golden Gate Bridge this morning. San mateo bridge good tail lights headed towards the highrise towards foster city, moving at the limit. Elsewhere slow north 101, third to peninsula might ab issue. Drive times now up and over the altamont still looking good, heavy out of antioch, a street to loveridge, carquinez bridge to maze east shore freeway just about 20 minutes. 6 02. That love the sound of this,
Matt lauer. The storm youre seeing the effects right there is doing exactly what it was forecast to do. Gaining strength. Starting its turn towards the coast. Lets give you a reset what we know right now. Sandy is a category 1 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 85 Miles Per Hour. The eye is located about 310 miles southsoutheast of new york city at the moment. Emergency officials in new york city and washington, d. C. Have taken unprecedented action to deal with the storm shutting down the mass Transit Systems and cancelling schools. Stock markets here in new york have been closed for today, possibly they will be closed tomorrow as well. And heres why. Look at the size of this storm. This is a nasa image from space captured over the weekend. The hurricane is about 800 miles wide. That means its going to impact a huge region and since its moving so slowly only 15 or 10 miles an hour it will impact that region for a very long time. Obviously a huge weather story. Theres a politic