caution you are talking about human life. where did you spend last night? i was out until 3 in the morning going shelter to shelter throughout staten island and brooklyn. we had to make sure we got a backup generator. in staten island we only had one hospital open. it had to be evacuated we had only one hospital for the entire island. there was some talk the bridges would have to be closed the verrazano one of the largest bridges in the world. the turn passed right over that big bridge. if that had closed we were prepared for that. we knew it would close before the other bridges. 40 to 50 miles an hour.
down. although the nuclear regulatoror commission said 12 plants in nortrtcarolina, virginia, maryland, pennsylvania and new jersey, and even michigan, declared unusual event emergencies. there have been at least half a dozen aftershocks reported since the main quake. we learned when n ose emergency backup generators started, one of them failed, so they had to go to a backup-backup generator. we re told full power will be restored to the plant soon. jim sciutto, abc news, mineral, virginia. scary to think we could have an american version of fukushima here if a big earthquake would ever strike near one of those plants. absolututy. we ve been saying this. californians have been poking fun at us. but this is the biggest quake of its kind in 67 years. the biggest we felt in new york city since the late 1800s. keep that in mind. that s why we were a little nervous. put in perspective, new york, california, in japan they had a huge earthquake and tsunami, since march 11th they ve
forces in libya are free tonight. late word of a new kidnapping and last ditch battles that may be linked to moammar gadhafi s escape plan. and cnn goes inside the virginia nuclear power plant near the epicenter of that historic quake. we have a lot of questions about nuclear safety and whether the east coast is prepared if another big one hits. wolf blitzer s off today. i m joe johns. you re in the situation room. hurricane irene is bearing town on the bahamas with winds of up to 120 miles an hour right now, and the national weather service warns this category 3 monster could be upgraded, upgraded to a category 4 tomorrow. that means irene could be capable of catastrophic damage when it slams the east coast in the days ahead. the storm has been pounding the turks and caicos and other islands and gaining strength along the way. there are reports of damage but so far no serious injuries. we do have a view from space that gives you an idea of just how big the storm is. it
flood or attack. we only need one to keep the fuel cooled but we have three in redundancy. on another location on site there is a fourth one. in addition to that there is a portable steam generator added after 9/11. change is anticipated. once we understand how they responded, the plant responded we will change the way we do business in the u.s. i can t tell you what that looks like right now, but i m quite sure we will look at other redundancies and backup systems will be in place. independentian point gicialg backup generator and keep sand bites on site in case of massive flooding. laura ingle, fox news. i m harris talkner and this is the fox report. bottom of the hour, time now for the top of the news. intentional flooding in the heart of louisiana s cajun country. this is the morganza spillway up river from baton rouge before the army corps opened up just one of its 125 gates about three
of people that were at the airport and the type of damage that we have. again, as you mentioned, we have a high percentage of windows blown out in our c concourse that serves air tran, frontier and american airlines. we had a number of windows blown out in our terminal one, our historic terminal, that was built in 1956. and then a lot of the pictures you re probably airing this morning are some of the damage outside of that terminal, which we had a lot of cars impacted. i know we had a shuttle van that was langing off the terminal parking garage. a lot of sign structures that were blown down. right now the airport is still on a backup generator. we re basically on our emergency systems. you can understand why we cannot open the airport at this time. one more thing, how many people do you estimate you had in your airport terminal, between the passengers, you have a lot of people working there as well? how many people were there? it seems remarkable that you had as few injuries as you