thanks for coming on and letting us know what did you and how it worked out. thanks. my pleasure. the full impact of this storm will likely not be realized for days. rivers could crest later in the week, even before irene august set a record for rainfall for much of the northeast. we ll keep you covered on msnbc. i ll be back after a quick break. [ man ] behind every business is a what if. what if we designed an electric motorcycle? what if we turned trash into surfboards? whatever your what if is, the new sprint biz 360 has custom solutions to make it happen, including mobile payment processing, instant hot spots, and powerful devices like the motorola photon 4g. so let s all keep asking the big what ifs. sprint business specialists can help you find the answers. sprint. america s favorite 4g network. trouble hearing on the phone? visit sprintrelay.com. handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year.
the category 1 storm, but so far i ve said there s no confirmation of deaths or injuries from the storm and we re great much for that. we are see some very serious consequences of the flooding or up the stove. and as we anticipated, the storm surgeon has caused serious flooding across the five boroughs, including here where the hudson rivers are flowing into their banks. we did have substantial erosion at the staten island beaches, and in the rockaways where the waves breached the 94th street between 1132nd streets and on the west side of manhattan, water was flowing over the docks when i was by earlier at the boat basin in river park. i m told in the bronx ocean beach is under water, as is
condition in icu. we ve also gotten new information from the weather channel, 14 people is the confirmed number of people who lost their lives as a result of this storm in six separate states. the bulk of those sadly in north carolina, five people in virginia, four other fatalities. about 4 million are without power. 750,000 in new york, 650,000 in new jersey, 792,000 in maryland, 1 million without power in virginia and 32,000 in washington, d.c. another 480,000 in north carolina, and rhode island, and 200 thousand people without power in massachusetts. even as irene weakens for a tropical storm it continues to bring heavy rain and destructive high waters to the america s largest cities and has left a swath of destruction. some 4 million people without power. a lot of people certainly will need help in the coming days.
participate in reporting and letting people know where the problems are to get things fixed quickly. not just reporting them straight to the government but sharing it with neighbors and other people. what kind of traffic did you see in the height of the storm? well, this particular one is sort of waiting for the storm is over until they started promoting it or pass by. we are seeing a lot of traffic, literally hundreds of reported incidents throughout the city and the region. other good examples of this were someone could text in a the word zone, the short code 30644, and find out immediately if they were in an evacuation zone. all right. this provides an immediate able for people finding out what they should be doing, where they should be going, and providing that information on their phones. technology providing a big role in getting the information out. cool system you have there.
winds will continue, and they re piling up the water. we still expect a high tide this evening. we re still going to have some problems. we already had one report in the new haven area of one house that actually collapsed. one other one was partially collapsed. we were just showing you the boat rescue around new bedford. those are sort waves coming up anywhere around 10 to 15 feet, in sets one after the other the rain is over with. the huge waves are still existing. the heavy rain has shifted much further to the north. many of the strong wind gusts are strong to the north. heartfold is down to 36. we re still at 35 in albany. at this point it s almost turning into a nor easter storm. there s a very big wind shift. albany they re out of the north, almost like a cold front located in there. further to the south, winds are