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fun in the flood caused by irene, he went for a swim while sporteding his new york best dad t-shirt for his 3-year-old son to see on tv, peter arnold is dry and he s on the couch this morning. good morning to you, peter. good morning, thanks for having me. what were you thinking? not much, i think weri, dur that time. i m starting to start a new fitness craze called street swimming. it s like you only have to do it once every three or four years during a hurricane. that s how i keep so svelte, very low cardio workout. there you go. you saw you saw channel 5, local fox affiliate camera guy there and you coordinated with him for you to do this and you were trying to make sure that your 3-year-old son saw that. why? well, i ve been going through a little bit of a separation with my ex. so i don t see him that much and i was going to see him that day because of the storm, i was going to be nervous and worried and i want to let him know his father is thinking about him and
hours. they say because of the hurricane. we understand that your little baby was 7 pounds, 12 ounces. you named her parker. did you consider calling her irene? no, never! i never thought never once that i wanted to name her after a storm that s caused so much destruction across the east coast. yes. we not a good memory. we understand. well, she looks great and so do you. good luck. thanks so much for joining us with your hurricane birth story. that s incredible. thank you. ok. thanks. meanwhile, coming up next, grading the response. did the leaders of our country do enough to prepare for hurricane irene? former white house press secretary dana perino is going to weigh in on this. how did he do it?
there was only one breach then and now i flew over it yesterday. there was two that i saw and i m told this morning there s three so it will take a while. i don t know how much. we have a whole crew of department of transportation people and engineers there as we speak and we re trying to talk to the feds about the permits we ll need. people don t understand how dangerous it can be after the storm. so what s your message to people this morning? my message to the people in the areas that still have some danger of flooding is to be very cautious about saying it s over because it may not be over all up the east coast. for those who are in counties and places that are still without power, we ve got about 350,000 without power. that could very well mean hot wires and hot lines down somewhere around. be very safe when you re traveling because of that fact. yeah, governor, you and governors up and down the coast in anticipation of the storm did a lot of preparing people, you
that s all we know at the moment. this is developing and we ll keep an eye on this as we get more information. i wonder if he possibly could move that thing. the tailpipes are up at the top. it s not like they re underwater. you ve done so much works with engines, allison, pick it up from here. i m hoping he could climb out the window. that s what i m thinking. we head over to kelly wright in washington with the latest on the president s response to irene. he was saying this isn t over. no, it clearly is not over. and this is something that the president had been watching for sometime now and president obama said fema had begun working with state and local authorities even before hurricane irene made landfall and in the aftermath of this storm, fema continues to work now and helping with the response and recovery efforts. hurricane irene may be over but the storm left its mark on many areas from puerto rico to vermont as we ve been seeing all throughout new england and vermon