welcome back to fox & friends and other special coverage of hurricane irene baring down on the entire new england coast, right now about to bear down on lower manhattan. juliet: yeah, down in long bridge, new jersey, my brother, john huddy is there, and getting some really nasty conditions. and john, we saw you, i think twashgs last hour, and you were holding onto the railing and you had the gusts of winds and everything, how are things going now? well, the wind has died down, but, the storm surge is moving in and you know, you have to kind of being the bands of winds that flow through and some can be intense, but the water is moving up and i think we re coming up on high tide and this is the kosh along the shore, by the way, we are he kind of in the northern part, northern tip of the jersey shore and long branch, new jersey, you can see the swells coming in, i mean, they re pushing through and this all was exposed beach yesterday
here. we ve got the sand berm that s built up and several of these along the boardwalk, built to protect the boardwalk and the structures that are here. these waves are absolutely massive. and those, too, have been left behind here, and who decided to stay behind. they had to fill out wavers for the police and so he will know where to find people, if there is an emergency. as we were driving here, to the boardwalk location, we could barely get through some of the streets, there were huge puddles in some areas, trees that were down. all over the place and some streets had just, it looked like a green carpet shedded leaves all over the place, and as you can see, there are a few people that have been along the boardwalk, and seeing some people trying to take in the wind and it s extremely dangerous, very strong and certainly nowhere you want to be right now. back to you. all right. thank you very much. giving birth, not easiment
i can tell, good morning, mike a. i can tell you a man with a barometer on his wrist watch. 978 millibars of pressure the edge of a category 1 hurricane according to the barometer. the wind gusts are considerably less than that. the strongest i ve heard measured at 59 miles per hour. jfk off in the direction you re looking at now. shy of the 75 miles per hour leaded to make this a category 1 hurricane. what people are concerned about right now is all of the water that was coming in. i heard you talk with rick. high tide here is expected at 8:24 a.m., we ll see when the eye of the hurricane, when the peak of the storm surge shows up. right behind me here, where the water s edge is now. a beach back there yesterday where people could walk out a considerable difference and that water has come up this way and city workers are
has wind and rain associated with it and columns ever air going up and down and getting the wind along with it, but each band successively gets stronger and stronger. an amazing people coming in in north carolina and it helps us, we don t have camera crews every place and helps us. wild. hey, rick, we re not just a show, international and a viewer watching in the u.k. this morning that wants to know the difference in a watch and a warning for those people sitting at home this morning. a great question and depends on what the event is that we re watching or we re warning on, but a watch says, conditions are favorable for something to happen or conditions will be happening down the road. a warning is it s happening right now, and in a tornado scenario we have a tornado watch across long island and including new york city and parts of connecticut, conditions are favorable for tornados to develop and a tornado warning is it s developing right now in an
you don t know how deep it is, don t drive through it. unless somebody has just driven through it in a great big four by four and only that deep, that s okay. but it gets three, four feet deep, in big trouble. as you pointed out, steve, this already being an already wet season we ve broken the all-time wettest month here in new york city with some saying more than ten inches still to come in the next 24 hours, we ve already broken the wettest month here in new york city. 16.85 inches, so, it s going to shatter the all-time wettest month here in new york city. you saw the pictures from virginia. elizabeth has been in virginia beach covering the hurricane. elizabeth, we re starting to see daylight out there. not looking too bad. a pretty day. you look lovely. thank you. that s the update there. i know you guys have a long road ahead of you. look behind me, auf long day of wind and rain what we re seeing now is what you will