16-year-olds on this show. good morning, welcome to early start on this monday. i m ashleigh banfield. happy to have you this morning. i m zoraida sambolin. let s get started. tropical storm beryl making landfall in northeastern florida near jacksonville beach. it s packing a wallop, 70-mile-per-hour winds, torrential rain, more than 24,000 people without power this morning in the area. take a look at the pictures on your screen. that shows you the wind. the wind warnings, storm warnings all up along the atlantic coast from florida to georgia to the carolinas, putting a severe dent in a lot of the memorial day festivities. rob marciano has been pretty much up all night in the severe weather center watching all of this. things getting better tleels for now? well, the wind has died down but the rain is still coming. this event is far from over. at one point winds at 70 miles an hour, almost a hurricane. and some could argue that it was a minimal category 1 hurricane whe
this is hillside new jersey west of newark. there could be power lines in the floodwaters. it s ironic, look at this police car in newark alone six police rescues getting people out of their cars that were stuck in stranded roads because of this water. that s incredible. the force of the water can t be underestimated. it s amazing how it could probably move like that picture demonstrating, moving that park bench. why they call it flash flooding. it s pretty significant. this alone, 6 inches is drown a person. alexandra steele. thanks very much. for now, welcome back. top of the hour and we want to bring you up to date on this tropical storm irene. i m fredericka whitfield. the storm is chaurning over new england and upstate new york pounding the area with wind and rain. it hit little egg inlet in new jersey and weakening to a tropical storm, it hit land at coney island, i rerene s march accompanied by death. 15 people are dead acrond more n 5 million without power