am doing. dr. ronny jackson is planning to be a nominee for director of veterans affairs, what do you think? the allegations, which i ve heard are very serious, and if they re true, i don t think he has a chance of getting through a nomination process. is your find closed right now? you ve already decided he s not the best person? my mind isn t closed. i think we should do the vetting. the really unfortunate thing here is the trump administration never does the vetting, then it s up to the congress. we should do the vetting. the things that i ve heard, whether it s the being drunk or misprescribing drugs or all those kind of things, they re allegations now. but if there is truth to them, i think he s got serious problems in terms of taking over this
could be days before it s restored. waves surged 7 to 10 feet, enforcing navy submarines to flee for the safety of the deep. pleasure boats put into any harbor they could find. it s hard to believe how destructive a hurricane could be. reporter: the last time people here saw anything like this was six years ago when hurricane gloria paid a visit. trees were down everywhere from that one. i can imagine what this is going to cause. reporter: in boston employees were sent home at noon. roads were clogged and winds were so strong the city suspended bus service. farther down the coast the tip of long island, new york, took only a glancing blow from the storm. for some there, bob is now just an exciting memory. you can t get something like this. reporter: for most people caught in bob s path it looks more like an extended cleanup. john mckenzie, abc news, falmouth, massachusetts. so funny, moving here to new york from the gulf coast, this is typical summertime activity,
here s yahoo! s trend expert pamela woon with more. hi, pamela. good morning, guys. so, we ve been doing these web trend reports for years and we ve always been able to count on a couple of things to spike every time. chocolates and lindsay lohan. but first the chocolates. i m sure you both know we re fast approaching world chocolate day. no, it s not exactly an official holiday and the post office isn t closed or anything. but for chocolate lovers it s christmas, fourth of july, and easter wrapped up into one yummy package. on yahoo! we re seeing huge numbers for chocolate recipes, cakes, cookies up 123% this week. even how to make beef tenderloin in chocolate sauce. searches for your favorite local chocolatier, including my fave in the bay area, ghiradelli. now about lindsay lohan. movie searches are spiking right now. the biggest buzz is for the new robert rodriguez action flick machete. up 229%.
lohan. he s been linked to paris hilton. and i m not trying to say anything bad about those lovely young women but jennifer seems to be a different kind of caliber here. so i m interested that she d be interested in someone who s dated those two before. they were spotted out. hard rock cafier, right? she s not starving, let s be honest here. she likes going with the younger guys, doing the cougar thing. messing with john mayer for a while, now this guy. do what you got to do, jenn, but i don t appreciate being cheated on, that s all i m saying. you like shakira? we have an interesting thing to report, that her song waka waka, have you heard it? let s take a listen, i ll tell you some interesting things about it on the other side. so you see the soccer there. this is big talking about the world cup, sort of the theme
east coast, hurricane bob. the latest satellite photos show the eye of the tomorrowstorm is off the coast of maine. it moved off the shore of new england throughout the day, forcing thousands of people to leave their homes. and here s abc s john mckenzie. reporter: the storm came barreling up the northeast, traveling at 30 miles an hour, pushing around just about anyone or anything that stood in its way. with winds gusting above 100 miles an hour, people along the coast were left with a basic choice. either move on or hold on. on cape cod, resort towns at the peak of the season looked like ghost towns. after an estimated 50,000 people fled the area. just have to know when you can move, when you can t move. you ve got to respect that. but yeah, it s scary times. reporter: high winds smashed windows and tore off roofs. trees and utility poles were down, leaving many in the dark. in all as many as 750,000 people were left without power and it