the center is going or what time because again, sandy is very large and spans over 800 miles from one end to the other so we ll be feeling the impacts for quite some time. geraldo: i ll be speaking with you as the evening progresses, maria molina our crack meteorologist in the fox news extreme weather center. and north carolina has been getting rain and some wind already. grier beaty, the director of north carolina department of transportation, so, grier, tell me what you ve experienced so far and if you can, let me know what kinds of damage you ve seen. well, we ve seen a good bit of flooding and over washout on the outer banks. the nc-12 is actually closed from the oregon inlet bridge, to the oak cokrcracoke island is experiencing flooding and there s plenty of water, lots of overwash, lots of sand
search going. megyn: can you confirm that the ship has sunk? i don t think it has sunk it is only thing above water, though, are the masts, that s all that was above water. the last crew that came back reported the same thing. it has sunk partially. megyn: what happened? so many vessels have been brought to shore in advance of sandy, what happened with this ship? why was it in peril? i was told that they somehow had some kind of steering casualty. loslost steerage. most of the water was overwash because they lost steer age and couldn t maintain a good course on that overwash kept the water coming on and the pumps couldn t keep. megyn: as we watch the pictures of the rescue efforts it s
it s a long that sparks controversy and outrage as well as sympathy and imitators. today the supreme court told arizona it went too far in trying to stem illegal immigration, taking matters into its own hand that constitutionally belongs to the federal government. the justices struck down three major portions of the law but upheld one of the most controversial provisions. kate bolduan has more. kate, what does the ruling say? hey, joe, it was a big day at the supreme court. one that has both sides trying to spin the ruling in their favor. the high court put the brakes on aggressive state efforts to crack down on immigration, at least for now. from the arizona border to the usz supreme court, the justices offered a split decision on the controversial, illegal immigration law. known as sb 1070. writing for the majority in the 4-3 ruling. justice anthony kennedy said arizona may have understandable frustrations with the problems caused by illegal immigration. but the state m
west half ton beach at pikes beach flooding a little bit, what the locals know as pike s beach and the road overrun and no new cut put in there. caller: that is exactly riecht and it is still with in the village boundaries and site of the original overwashing and breaching in the 90s and watched over because, you remember that is an access point to get to the beach and there s a lot of road traffic, that gets over, kind of makes the do you know. (inaudible) always the sweet spot for the storms but, now is still holding up well enough and we have overwash, and that s all. and we have still pictures from that spot. we know, mr. mayor, there are sutwly gets topped during a bad nor easter or a bad storm in the winter and second do you know has been holding up pretty well, and saves all the house and the road. is it good? caller: you are exactly right. and you have to remember these homes today are built to a
which is causing so much trouble further up in new england, new hampshire, and up towards the adirondacks, pulled all of that rain away from from us. you can kind of look down and see we re about two hours away from low tide. high tide against 7:00 tonight. this could push more storm surge in, but the kind of coastal flooding into homes and condominiums along the coast did not take place. there was some overwash, those were the ones evacuated. i was just on the phone with rhode island emergency management officials. they tell me the power outage numbers now, about 100,000 national grid is out there working to restore when they can with the winds. as you can see right now, winds gusting up 35 to 40, so not the eastiest thing to get out there and work. the heavy flooding they expected