that things are very very good. he described it as sand and sand dunes are expendable. the infrastructure behind them is not. the fan is meant to wash away. the fan dunes are doing their job. we will keep our fingers crossed tonight, shep. shepard: mckel way, best of you and yours. brooklyn, queens, manhattan, staten island and the bronx. yellow areas again the zone a as they call it here those who have to evacuate. mandatory evacuation here. as the water, remember, there is a counterclockwise flow so the water pushes in this direction right between staten island and brooklyn and right to the tip of manhattan or the question is what happens here in the battery? this is the area where they have great concern for the subway system. once the wall is topped and local authorities say they believe the wall will be topped shortly at high tide, how much of it gets into the subway system. it s not fresh water, it s salt water. salt water corrodes and that is a worse case scenario for the larg
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
update on the latest here for hurricane sandy. let s take a listen. that s correct, but it is going to be. the forecasts are reasonably accurate this close to when we re predicting something and it is going to be very high winds. will be a lot of road closures. you know mass transit is not working and driving when you have big gusts like that is dangerous. overnight city ems crews transkbound 13 homebound he will terry from zone a residences. they transport residents from city homeless shelters in zone a. increasing effort to reach homeless on the street with focus of those in zone a. manhattan veterans affairs hospital and downtown hospital have been fully evacuated incidentally. some 45,000 of the 375,000 new yorkers live in zone a are residents of city public housing developments. we continue to make enormous efforts to reach them because they need to leave for their own safety.
around, after it started headed in to new jersey it sped up so the forward motion of the storm, rather than 20 miles per hour it is now moving at 28 michigan and the last click as it speeds up, boom, right? that means the pounding of the worst of the winds will not last as long but because of the forward speed the pounding will be harder. think of trying to kick in your door, you kick it once and it doesn t break but if you kick it 100 times the door is going down. this is 100 time kicker. see how this is positioned here? this land mass? down here and then cross? all of that water is getting funneled in and it has nowhere to go so it goes into the river, in through here, and it floods this area. now the next map, these areas were evacuated in man the, now, whether everyone evacuated this is zone a, the east village over
the statue of liberty and over there is ellis island. high tide was here at 8:35 and this water breached the southern tip of the promenade here way down here where you see that man on the bicycle. right now the waters are much calmer here. we have seen big swells. we saw whitecaps earlier. there are very few boats here today. a couple of tugs and police boats, but that s all the activity we ve seen in the water. we have seen some debris get swept up as the water level has risen. as far as people go, because we ve had a little break in the weather, weenl only got a light mist and the winds have died down somewhere. we see a lot of the curious come out, the few that have not evacuated this part of manhattan. battery park is in zone a, an area where mayor bloomberg has ordered people to evacuate. most people have heeded that warning. i can tell you by looking at the