new england are digging out and cleaning up. it s a little discouraging we finally got the water pumped out of the basement. reporter: others dealing with the reality of having to rebuild. the waves were just coming right through. you could see them from the road. which was very devastating. reporter: irene swept away the connecticut house of the barn bees, their home for more than 30 years. just all precious things that some friends had given us before they had passed away. and i have no idea where everything is. reporter: gifts and memories gone with the storm, but not that new england determination. the river is receding, so the water level is going down. the sun is out. the birds are going to start chirping again. we ll come back. and we re going to come back stronger and better. reporter: a comeback that began the minute irene left. jay gray, nbc news. in our area, there are still thousands of people without power. bg&e is currently reporting more than
moment, but now we see it around 8:00 passing just to the east of norfolk, virginia beach and hampton roads with that worst part of the storm north and east of the center out to sea with winds of 85 miles an hour, so a little weaker there. just off the coast of ocean city as it continues up the coast into new york still as a category 1. that s a little different because we thought that might be a tropical storm at the last update, maybe a little stronger going into the western portions of long island. that is the very latest track. we know that will definitely have a big impact here and perhaps it s just a bit slower am perhaps it s a little jog to the east, more information slower, perhaps it s a little jog to the east, more information coming up. evacuation orders are happening across the area. we begin tonight in charles county maryland where roz plater is showing us their response to hurricane irene. reporter: we are here at the cobb island fire department which is
structure of the storm, as you can see the eye beginning to show up again, there it is, a category 3 moving north. that s a good sign. the northward turn has begun, but unfortunately it does take it into hatteras. it looks like that will be saturday afternoon, still as a category 3. what about for our area? not a lot of change i m sorry to say, folks, still a category 2 when it comes across the ocean city region about 8:00 sunday morning. so that affects before that certainly in the overnight hours is what we expect. then it continues to slightly go west into the long island area and on up into new england as you can see monday at 8:00 with 65-mile an hour winds. i wish that track would have changed more on that scenario. we have to stick with the forecast we ve given you and keep hoping for the best with this thing. hurricane irene impacting a huge event planned here in d.c. sunday, the dedication of the national martin luther king, jr. memorial has been postponed. fox 5 s
considerable amount of damage there. it is continuing its track toward the east coast of the united states. it is over 400 miles wide across, some 430 miles wide. it s category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. indeed, the low low lowerr east coast beginning to feel it. this is what we re looking at right now. this is updated information now. this is the this looks like 59:00 a.m. update so maximum sustained winds right now 110 miles per hour. it is moving to the north at 13 miles per hour. that does take it along the coast of the united states, possibly making an initial landfall across portions of the coast of north carolina. hence the evacuations down there t could be a category 3 as it does that. then moves across the lower chesapeake bay right across ocean city heading towards atlantic city and the new york city area as well which would be quite extraordinary. preparations under way there too. it remain as a hurricane until it moves int
over towards salisbury, not quite but ocean city, yes. wallop, as teague, under hurricane warnings. the delaware bay, much of southern, central eastern new jersey under hurricane warnings as well and then tropical storm and hurricane watches extending north of that across long island. even philadelphia under a tropical storm warning. irene has wind of 110 miles an hour category 2 storm: it will fluctuate 2 to 3 here over the next 24 hours or so. by tomorrow morning getting close to the coast here at 9:00. but the advanced hurricane center they think this will accelerate quicker than what they were thinking yesterday. crossing north carolina during the day on saturday and hatteras, the coastal areas, the outer banks going to get the brunt of the storm as a category 3 storm. they ll be on the left side. the weaker side if you will. still a formidable storm with even a 6 to 8-foot storm surge in and around the tide water down here. coastal areas around the delmarva. passing ocea