hurting. many people lost their life. i don't know that you will ever fully recover from something like floyd. >> now, it's good night irene. all the way up the shore, past d.c., up the jersey shore, all around the new york city metropolitan area, with its 28 million people -- long islands, look out. not one to mess with. >> all right. thanks very much for that report. >> wnyw, in manhattan beach, dick, good to see you. how are you doing? >> reporter: good to see you, maybe not under these circumstances, rick. i can tell you right now, in the last hour or so, it's gotten very intense here. the bands of rain are probably the heaviest we have seen and the wind is kicking up at the same time. we are told within the next hour, the wind will really start to get going. this is really not starting to get going. we are in manhattan beach, near coney island area.