york city. high tide around this is new york city lower manhattan, all these yellow areas are mandatory evacuation areas. all over this island. next map and you will see that it s really all over the five burrows of new york city. brooklyn, staten island, the lower end of manhattan, queens and all along these beaches. all mandatory evacuations. a sturgeon is on the way. next map. it s going to come right up through the center of all of this. it s gonna batter into new york city. this is fire irelandal island island. a storm that cut a government cut a long time ago. dude road in the hamptons, all of this expected to get a sturgeon somewhere between 6 feet and 11 feet. the local emergency managers are telling us it may on 00 high side of that. because we have a combination that never in the history of this region has been seen. and that is a storm coming ashore directly at high tide during a full moon. and truthfully, a 6 to 11-foot
bridges shut down, especially for certain types of vehicles. shut down because moving around here is getting too tough. if you look out to the water, we are seeing some really amazing scenes of 15 to 20-foot waives coming through the night and crashing white. we have seen the sea wall over top several times and really the proprietor of this hotel was pretty smart not to rent out the lowest floor because there is about 3 in it right now. we have seen people taking up microwaves and taking up bedding to try to salvage it i think the real concern is what we haven t seen yet. because we haven t been able to move. on the bay side of this area. that s where the water has been unable to escape. that s come first light we will see serious flooding, shepard. shepard: steve, have you been through a lot of these things as far as winds and waves go. does this feel like a category 1 storm to you? what s he it like being in a freezing storm? i have never experienced that. it s very bracing to be
nation s population. as of right now, officials from north carolina to vermont report close to 2 million people without power. a number that s likely to rise considerably as the high winds continue. but there are reports of major flooding as the sturgeon rushes ashore. places like atlantic city, new jersey, it s already happened. on long island, new york. it s beginning to happen. and in the battery of lower manhattan, it s happening as well. in delaware, the national guard has been patrolling flood zones looking for stranded victims. military officials is a say they have moved planes from dover air force base in anticipation of the storm. our doug mckelway is live. what are conditions live like there now? not all that bad. just about an hour are a or two ago. governor had a press conference in the hotel we are staying. it would be premature that the beach dodged a bullet here but it looks like we are headed in that direction. something like 660 people from delaware are in cheryl s t
not coincide with landfall. now it looks like that s exactly what s gonna happen. you are exactly right with the description that ear now talking about a subtropical storm. it has transitioned from a tropical storm to an extra tropical storm. so, instead of a warm core it has a cold core it interacted with that artic front and infused some cold air really sort of acting as gasoline on a fire. so this storm is strengthening and, yes, unfortunately, it looks like the worse of it could come at high tide along those very vulnerable sturgeon prone regions. i just want to show you, we were thinking that this had made landfall, and now the national hurricane center, national weather service is saying we re still waiting for landfall because it has made that transition. so, the center is not as evident as it typically would be. with a tropical storm landfalling tropical storm system. there is ocean city, again, can you kind of see that centered. that s why we thought the center had come on
couple of hours, as a nontropical system that s why we are still waiting for the latest advisory telling us the exact landfall location and, shep, i just want to give you a location of some of the latest wind gusts that we are seeing. the latest at kings port, new york, west end of high tide in two hours. back to you. shepard: janice dean, thanks very much. live in the weather center. back to her with breaking news. this is from point pleasant, new jersey, which all day long has been taking a pounding and now the storm is so severe there that even our satellite truck can t get out. rick leventhal is live on scene where he has been all day. rick, it sounds like bigger than most they have expected. things have taken a dramatic turn for the worst. in just the past few minutes. water rushed on to ocean avenue, on to washington avenue. the intersection where our hotel is located. the water has now breached the parking lot. what was once just a puddle on ocean avenue is now at least two