Emergency crews are responding to a downed utility pole and lines on Papa Place near the Hāna Highway intersection in Kahului. The incident was reported at around 12:33 p.m.
one of our affiliates have their helicopter overhead assessing the damage here. this really is where all of this started to develop, it blossomed and when you go into the oklahoma city area, that s where the storm parked itself, and just dumped a lot of rain. flooding is an issue there. what about now daylight here, are officials on the scene yet to really survey the damage? do you see any efforts to restore power? reporter: right, well you know, just maybe 15 minutes ago i saw what seemed to be a truck, you know, someone going through this street surveying the damage. if we pan over here a power pole down, look at that. this is what you see all over the place, these downed power lines, downed power poles, trees that are down in some places so yeah we saw someone that seeme to be looking at that. also we are seeing people drive down this street to start looking at their homes, you know, so this is really a time
this extends cloudwise from south carolina into maine. the first band of rain has moved through new york city, so it shows you how large this storm is. we re still getting winds out here sustained at about 60 miles per hour, and now another nasty band is coming in at us with more heavy rain and even stronger wind gusts. look behind me. this is what we ve seen. we have good news. mark potter from nbc news was riding up the highway up to kitty hawk about 10 miles from her, and they surveyed their drive. they didn t see anything significant. not one power pole down, no power lines down. just what wee see here are shingles off roofs and i ve seen some clap board and siding ripped off some of these houses. as far as any major structural damage, so far so good. no power outages here where we are. with surge here along the coast. now, we will have another high tide around 7:00 this evening, and at that point the wind will