time, what will that mean in terms of pockets of local flooding, and what will that do in terms of power, in terms of creating communities of need, especially the elderly. remember, the storm passes. you had flooding. you have some things fall down, you have some power outages or you re just isolated. now you have heat and humidity that can last days without air conditioning, you can get into your health concerns there. that is a sub stack of the story of this storm henri. in new york city last night, just one of the outer bands early on from the storm gave an historic rain occasion in central park. we all know the story about the concert. so brian stelter decided to do double duty for cnn. after reliable sources, he got in the storm car and has been driving around seeing what s happening with the pockets of flooding in the area. what s the latest? we re in lower manhattan. we ll show you a couple of cool sites by the south street seaport. we ll take the roof cam and show
really missed a big one here. we re happy about this. the talk of stalling of the storm, rain for 12 to 16 hours, do you have any concerns going forward? i really don t as long as we don t get the high winds. i don t think we ll lose the big trees. whenever you lose the trees, you lose the power. we re finishing up a big summer here, so we can finish strong. we re really happy we avoided this whole mess. you got everything you need from the power companies that do any work that needs to be done. that s what i should have mentioned. pseg has been unbelievable. they have a huge contingency of trucks at our local airport. they re ready to go. everyone has been great through the storm. i want to thank all of our volunteers. i don t know if you know, but most of our fire departments and ambulance crews are all volunteers here. without them we would be nowhere. thanks to all the volunteers for doing everything they do.
evan, what s the latest from where you are? reporter: chris, here at the long wharf where we ve been all morning, the water has not come over yet. as you can see, it would really like to. this is a part of the city that does flood in these big storms. a few years ago there was feet of water where i m standing right now. this storm hasn t done that. people have prepared for a lot of things, not happening in boston fortunately. the wind is starting to pick up. you can see it on me, you can see it behind me. you can see the windmill over there just spinning away. this is one of the things people were concerned about, trying to prepare for potential power outages with power lines going down. for now, things in boston, the rain has calmed down. besides the wind, things are chilled out, to the point that we ve seen people coming out of their houses. i saw a group of people in
if it were my vision, i d look into preservision preservision areds 2 contains the exact nutrient formula recommended by the nei to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. i have amd, it is my vision, so my plan includes preservision. i m chris cuomo. cnn is here on the southern shore of long island in east hampton. joined by the mayor jerry larson he s actually my mayor. i m his constituent. we were worried about what this could be. what has been the experience so far in terms of what you re hearing and what your concerns are? we were definitely really concerned by the track of the storm. thankfully it went further east and we really haven t seen much of anything. a little bit of rain, little bit of wind, some high surf. no power outages, no trees down.
the 70 to 70 mile per hour wind gusts on long island. the wind totals have to be dropped. the reason that s important because wind gusts, 50-mile-per-hour plus with leaves on the trees to start getting widespread power outages. from islip to new york city, i don t expect any power outages. best chance of power outages in rhode island. storm surges continue even going down from a hurricane to a tropical storm.an it s not going to change. we re approaching high tide and as we go throughout the next couple of hours we will see the storm surge occurring. high tide in the next two hours. we re lucky this storm hasn t sped up anymore. then we would be talking about storm surge with the high tide.