they ve been here for hours. the first person in line showed up just before our first new day live shot which was around 5:30 local time. and people we ve heard from say they want president biden to know they are hurting. you can see this line stretches along the street and it wraps around the block, and in just a moment, i m going to walk you up to the gas station so you can see what s happening there. the hurting part can t be expressed enough. people don t have power. those who are fortunate are getting gas for not only their vehicles, but their generators at home. and there are some signs of hope in some parts of the city here in new orleans, houpower has be restored. across the state there are still more than 800,000 outages. that s across the state. and that s not the only thing people are waiting for. they re waiting for the power to come on, but they re waiting for some form of relief because the death toll here in louisiana is
the lower portion of the florida keys. irma now churning just 30 miles southeast of key west. the storm s eye wall expected to hit the lower portion of that area within the next hour, maybe sooner. the national weather service says storm surge has already began to impact that area. the tampa bay area could see between 5 and 8 feet of flooding. forecasters expect other parts of florida s coastline to see storm surges reaching up to 15 feet. 280,000 plus people don t have power right now. that number expected to rise dramatically. perhaps into the millions. back with me wnbc meteorologist steve salsna. i keep going back to what the emergency management officials said on the phone, i m terrified for all the people who are still there right now. what are we looking at over the next hour? first off, the weather service folks are doing a heroic
that s another level. we re just west of the airport. so we were in miami earlier. as you know there is a curfew that went into effect at 7:00 p.m. there was a issue of storm surge coming up from business cane bay. we are not in a evacuation zone at this point. we can attest to the fact we have seen transformers blowing in the distance. from our vantage point, we re 12 floors up, you can get a good view of miami. you can see packets where the lights go out throughout it the night. right now we re fold by florida power and light that about 40,000 people don t have power. we are being told this they have crews out there that have been working as long as those winds stay below 35 miles an hour, they re going to go after those areas where the power has gone
three days we will be talking about temps across parts of jersey, you see that tomorrow into the mid 60 s. monday as well. tuesday those temps drop again by wednesday back into the 40s. so these next five days really crucial where we have got some warmer temps to get all the power back on for everybody. the colder air is going to be coming back in again by the time we get towards wednesday. all right, eyes. much more coming up in just a bit. send it back to you. nice to know there is warmer temperatures coming. thanks, rick. let s get to your headlines. more to tell you about. as frustration goes. two long island congressman are asking the government to step in and get something done. representative peter king and steve israel are requesting the army corps of engineers and the energy department take over repairs from the long island power authority. known as lipa whose work they have called abysmal. more than 15,000 people don t have power. what s worse is the lack of answers. some
people lost power. that s going to continue today but the area of greatest concern hit the hardest along the jersey shore, still on and off periods of rain this morning with that light green but it does look like at least long island is starting to see improvement along with connecticut and the winds still gusting at about 38 in philadelphia, 23 in atlantic city, not sure that gauge is working anymore in wilmington because it s been 55 for awhile. the other wind gusts are down in the 20s, the 30s in the mid-atlantic. looks like it s very safe to get out there and start your cleanup through maryland, delaware and virginia and even new england is looking okay. we didn t deal with too much river flooding. 6 to 10 inches of rain but it was spread out about 24 to 36 hours so we re done with that. the other tiny piece of damage that s going to occur today is going to be from the snow. we ve already picked up about a foot of it. can you believe we re talking about a hurricane causing a snowst