we had all sorts of damage to windows. granted we had gusts up around 100 miles per hour, i don t think we ll see that. but this will be a longer duration event. i wonder if we ll have similar problems. all it takes is windows blowing out to add to the debris in the air. the multi-hazard event. one in which just for new york city, certainly coastal flooding, heavy rain, and the wind through some of the buildings will be the biggest fears. across northern and western new jersey, new england, we may see several rivers. perhaps a couple of dozen plus get to a stage of flood. a flood stage that we typically see with 100-year floods. so records will be broken in terms of the kind of water volume we ll see coming down the rivers. both new york and philadelphia have already set record rainfalls for the month of august. so that means it won t take much to flood. two inches in about 12 hours is
d.c., so it s another morning you can roll down the windows as you head out the door. we re still hot in texas and that will be the trend later this afternoon. not a lot of rain out there. we have just a few showers that a weak frontal system, areas along the pennsylvania turnpike have had a couple showers. interstate 80 and western new jersey, you ll get a shower or two. this is a more organized line, even lightning strikes with this. so that will be sliding on 76. possibly towards philly and trenton as we go throughout the peak of the morning rush hour p but those will be hit and his quick showers. forecast for today, temperatures in the hid 80s up and down the east coast. nothing too hot or cold. that will have down pours later this afternoon. continuing your wet and rainy trend, but that s actually good. it s been very dry in florida. we could use the extra rainfall. no such luck in areas of texas. 105 today in dallas. one of the best forecasts in the entire country today, if you r
alabama. jefferson county and areas around here as well. so right now they re still trying to assess where they need to be. more than 350,000 people are without power but obviously thoughts and prayers going out to the more than 130 people who lost their lives. thomas? nbc s thanh truong for us in tuscaloosa. unprecedented is how experts are describing the storms that ripped through the south. our meteorologist bill karins is in the studio to explain exactly what happened and also, bill, you have more to tell us about as we continue to watch some strong storms. sit here and break down what happened and everything but we still have the potential for deadly weather even this afternoon in through this morning. we have a tornado warning now right along the border of the pennsylvania/new jersey line. this is just outside of allentown heading into western new jersey, crossing interstate 78. areas around hunter ton and warren county in new jersey now under a tornado warning. pretty strong
1989. it was my first job out of high school. i remember that in 1966. i was 11 years old. val and tony are co-owners of the western new jersey based imperial billiards. not too long ago they were custom making 250 billiards a year. but times have changed. but in recent years demand has slumped for items reaching $1,800. to make matters worse, repeat business is rare when you are designing a product lasting for decades. death one to survival was to diversify their product line. val and tony now build shuffle board tables, bars and cabinets. the new lines have gone a long
then we had qantas. quanting airlines, 107. that was coming in from lax. it was on it way in, almost ready to land, and somebody there at jfk said not yet. turn the plane around and now it s headed back into western new jersey to make a couple of loops here. waste some more time. klm flight 641 from england going to jfk, it s just doing loops over the hamptons. and so planes, although trying to get to places that are closed, still not having a lot of success because of that. look at the numbers at newark. two feet. brooklyn, two feet. central park, one of the biggest snowstorms we can remember at 20 inch. there s been bigger snow events around, but central park typically doesn t tipile up tha deep. this time it did. unbelievable. last year at this time, we were digging our way out in d.c. how long is this going to last before things get back to normal? are we talking about days and