here for the rest of my life. she did lose virtually everything else. i want to go home but there is no home. i can t go home. that is killing me. it is breaking my heart. i want to go home to my house. 62 and a grandmother she is trying to find traces of her life. a moment of joy as the water recedes amid widespread desperation and brief. adding to the sadness here today bodies of two small children ripped from their mother s arms were found today. by the way we asked to the mayor to respond to the outrage and we are waiting for his respond. back to you. anne curry thank you. we have learned tonight that the secretary of homeland security will travel to staten island
flooding for example along the fdr, which is fundamental closed at the moment, as we did in hurricane irene. now, when we close a road, we close it when the water comes up and if the water recedes, for example, as you go from high tide to low tide, we would re-open that. at any moment any of these roads, if it becomes unsafe, we close it. we have lots of people watching. the flooding that could occur later today is why we ordered our evacuation from zone a areas yesterday. last night there was a high tide and tonight a bigger one and tomorrow another one. water levels along our coast and waterways have begun rising and are expected to remain at higher than normal levels for the thex 24 hours. the surge will be roughly at 8:00 tonight, 8:15, plus or minus a couple of hours. remember, if you re in the south bronx, the surge that you re
the car to higher ground. they had to come in and get them out and pull them to safety and wade through the water. 100 residents in this apartment complex went out by boat. the sun is out, the water recedes. the rainfall amounts were just eye-popping. some spots had nearly 20 or 22 inches of rain on saturday and sunday. and you rarely see that much rain with a slow-moving, dying tropical depression or tropical storm. the good news about this moisture, it s heading into the southeast. atlanta has the worst drought of any state in the lower 48. from atlanta south, they re more than happy to see whatever falls out of the sky. and it won t be like it was here. 2 to 4-inch totals. mike, thank you. syrian government forces have intensified efforts to regain control of opposition strongholds today. government forces continues to attack the city of homs today.
weather. it didn t happen as well about half an hour ago due to weather, but things cleared up. we got you covered here. look telling photos from nasa. video, rather. pretty cool stuff. okay. we ll keep you up-to-date on the things going on way high above us. meantime, the cleanup from the record floodwaters in pennsylvania from new york and into maryland, that is just beginning for tens of thousands that have been evacuated along the northeast. right now as the water recedes, there is a new problem that people have to deal with. about 135 water and sewage plants in pennsylvania have all flooded. that s causing sewage to spill into the streams and the rivers, and that filthy water carried off at least ten houses in the state. nbc s ann thompson live for us again from wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, and with a good day to you. there s so much clutter and debris, i cannot believe some of the stuff we saw in an earlier live shot. what was that, like an ice machine or something that they had o
to flood victims in the gracious, giving people to send northeast. with the remnants of hurricane donations to jason s recovery fund. irene dumped massive amounts of can you tell us a little bit about this recovery fund? rain and flooded rivers. the president toured hard hit areas in paterson and wayne, new my wife is the one who put jersey, the passaic river that together. juliet: jenny, tell us about created havoc after cresting at it. twice its flood stage there. jason, the people through jason s work, he was a as the water recedes, residents correctional officer before this are getting an idea of how much happened, had me set that up. was washed away or damaged. the white house declared federal it s jason hampton recovery disaster areas up and down the fund. through chase banks, which i east coast in irene s wake and know every state doesn t have is a chase bank. fema administrator craig fugate was at the president s side yesterday. and then so we pretty much set fema, though