to countless communities where irene, now a tropical storm, is causing catastrophic flooding this is margaretville, a small village in the catskill mountains, about two and a half hours south of the city. within the past hour president obama addressed the government s response to this natural da disaster. i do want to underscore that power may be out for some time, perhaps days. i want to make sure dhs, fema and other agencies are doing everything in their power to help folks on the ground. reporter: irene is now over central vermont and moving north at 25 miles per hour, it s still got plenty of juice to make life miserable with 50-mile-per-hour winds and torrential rains. some of our best images have come from you, our ireporters. fred moore took this video of irene as it washed over west haven, connecticut. all up and down the coast we are seeing the impact irene has had. more than 15 people have lost their lives in the storm, more than 4 million homes and businesses a
certainly it s something that on a global basis, you know, we want to be consistent. we want to be doing the right thing, and when i say that illegal behavior has no place in this company that goes for the whole company. mr. rupert murdoch you are the chairman and chief executive of news corp. you are the head of the global company the buck stops with you. given these allegations that you have said indeed when you opened the session you said this was the most humiliating day of your life humble. i m sorry, humble, i beg your pardon. that is a misstatement. the most humble day of your life, you feel humbled by these events. you are ultimately in charge of the company. given your shock at these things being laid out before you and the fact that you didn t know anything about them, have you instructed your editors around the world to engage in a broad review of their own newsroom to make sure this isn t being replicate ned other news corp. papers around the plain, and if
whole company. mr. rupert murdoch you are the chairman and chief executive of news corp. you are the head of the global company the buck stops with you. given these allegations that you have said indeed when you opened the session you said this was the most humiliating day of your life humble. i m sorry, humble, i beg your pardon. that is a misstatement. the most humble day of your life, you feel humbled by these events. you are ultimately in charge of the company. given your shock at these things being laid out before you and the fact that you didn t know anything about them, have you instructed your editors around the world to engage in a broad review of their own newsroom to make sure this isn t being replicate ned other news corp. papers around the plain, and if so will you do so. no, but i m more than prepared to do so. thank you. one final question, or two final questions. the first is you touched earlier, this is for james
from the two or three inches across the area. major snow across the west. most of california is going to dry out and warm up this week but the storm track coming in is across parts of oregon and into washington. maybe still far, far northern california. you will dry out just a little bit. today a little moisture in across parts of the plain. nothing to worry about. this is really kind of anything that we are going to see that could be dangerous as you you cross the southeast to see the thunderstorms firing up here. certainly with hail and wind damage as a possibility. i don t think we will see much in the way of tornadoes but we can t rule that out either. and there is the know across the far mid atlantic areas and that is gone. severe weather will be the story for the day today stretched out from parts of arkansas over towards maybe savannah and charleston. folks in this area need to stay tuned all day. we will keep you updated from the fox weather center. shannon? shannon: thank yo
as what it can offer us and the direction i guess it can take us in being prepared. well, that s right. i mean, preparation involves engineering, seismic retrofitting, being conscious of earthquakes, being careful having food, water, so forth around for 70 hours because you re going to be on your own. we have this we publish a calculations on forecasting on openhazards.com and what you can do is fine information on how to prepare as well as what your personal risk might be to your house and other situations. we like to provide information to the public that is valuable and useful. when people ask you, professor, will california see the big one, what s your reply? nonscientific but conversational, what is your reply? the answer is, yes, we ll see a big one. it s been 150 years since the hayward earthquake in 1958 and it s been 160 years since the last earthquake on the plain. we re about due to earthquakes