i m jenna lee. gregg: i m greg jarrett in for jon lee. a brand-new hour. jenna: we have new flood dangers that are really affecting the east coast as the east coast tries to recover from hurricane irene. you have vermont days after irene slammed the state where national i should say national guard ground crews are still trying to reach one town completely cut off by the floodwaters. people there have no food, no water no powers. much needed supplies are being airlifted into the state. gregg: the connecticut river cresting to the highest level in 20 years. 370 folks are still in the dark. jenna: in new jersey the passack river rising dangerous rehigh forcing a new round of evacuations and rescues in patterson, that s the state s third largest city. another of the hardest hit towns is little falls. joining us on the phone is lieutenant salvatore
the this newly created position after 9/11, dni or director of national intelligence they say does not have the power authority or to make the kind of changes that the 9/11 commission had in mind for the u.s. intelligence community. jenna. jenna: we ll be speaking to the chairman of the commission later on in the show. reporter: oh good. jenna: we ll be sure to ask about that. reporter: you re welcome. gregg: tensions are running high in the middle east. israel dispatching warships to the red sea on fresh concerns about a terrorist attack and wait until you hear how iran is responding. imagine being in the path of this? we talked about hurricanes. how about wildfires threatening some people in texas and oklahoma. flames already destroyed homes and more today are at risk. why conditions are ripe for this disaster to get a whole lot worse. gregg: and you saw it here first, the dramatic rescue of three missing hikers from a national forest in minutes we ll be talking to the people w
coast this weekend. the good news here is that texas, parts of texas really need to see the moisture. so we ll keep our fingers crossed there. we don t want to wish a hurricane on anybody at this point in time. gregg, back to you. gregg: would that one have a name already? yes. gregg: leroy. is it lee? jenna lee. gregg: jenna lee would know that. she would know that. so cute. lee will be a very pretty, beautiful, tiny storm. jenna: like it. tiny storm. gregg: lots of famous things named after jenna lee. all right, jenna? jenna: we ll move on a little bit to other news on the day. members of the 9/11 commission issuing report card today document status of many recommendations issued in the landmark report in 2004. this is an update. correspondent catherine herridge with the report.
tragedy on a number of levels that, frankly i have no words to describe. it s sad, very sad. i feel hollow inside. they didn t have no chance. jenna: no words indeed. hollow inside, says it all. fred is from wilmington, vermont. he is a vermont town manager there. and fred, how are things today? well, let s just say relatively speaking they seem a lot better but we still have a very long way to go. just listening to your previous, previous report there described quite well. you know it has been a very difficult period for us but to answer your question, right now, things are looking better, but, again we still do have a long way to go. jenna: we re taking a look at more of the water that is just rushing into different parts of the state. we know that certainly affected your town.
relief effort that much more difficult for us. jenna: i m sure people are anxious to get back to their homes when they start seeing a little bit of improvement. they can t wait to get back to their homes. jenna: we can all understand that. lieutenant have you ever seen anything like this in your time with the police department. not this bad. this is our 7th flood in seven years no, 6th flood in seven years, and this is the worst its been since 1903. jenna: what s the game plan? over the next couple of days what are you trying to achieve? over the next couple of days we want to maintain saourt in our area. we just want to assist the people however they need to be assisted, and we want to keep our biggest concern is keeping our residents safe. jenna: lieutenant, what do you think of the response so far? governor chris christie has been out in front really talking about the damage to the state. you have the department of homeland security secretary visiting the state, overall on