whether it might have been a weapon or a piece of debris, a fod. something in on an airport. that could be catastrophic. so they ve got to not only make sure that it s sterile from a security perspective, they ve got do make sure it s sterile from a debris and stuff on the runway and ramp perspective before they ever let planes start moving again with passengers on board. not to mention people left things behind, personal items inside the terminal. we have pictures we just got in recently of bags and purses and all kinds of things. and left their things behind. they re going to have to reconcile all those baggage how many people lost a shoe running across, you know, in a panic and through the grass. big clean-up today. tom, you need to go and do more reporting. thank you so much for all that you ve been able to tell us. where are we headed next?
since then, but still the water is incredibly high. look at behind me. you can see the traffic lights right there. and even the i-44 bridge right there. the water is just underneath it. there s a tiny little water mark on those pillars underneath the bridge so you can see, it s gone down a little bit. this is going to be slow to rece recede. we are going to see the water go down little by little. by saturday, though, it looks like things are going to be a little closer to normal. we won t see quite as much flooding by the projections. but as you said, that water treatment facility, that was flooded. there s waste water in the river water that you see behind me. so this is going to be a long clean-up. not only the waste water but we ve seen trash dumps floating by. we ve seen roofs floating by. there s going to be a lot of trash to clean up, not to mention the silt and mud from the marimack river right here so there s going to be a big
of boston, but there could be eight to ten inches of snow in boston where we re hearing that the flurries have already started to land. massachusetts emergency management agency is preparing for a big storm. they have warned the utilities and the airports, the department of transportation is already preparing there for a big clean-up tomorrow morning. now, on the roads here, we re on interstate 84. we have seen some plows going by already. we ve seen the sand trucks out and the salt trucks out. they re going to try to minimize the mess before this storm here really takes hold. again, these are tough conditions. if you are, you know, getting used to the snow for the first time. we ve seen two cars off on the side of the road. we re going slowly. this is a 65-mile-per-hour road. we re going 40 right now. this will be a longer trip to boston, but we certainly aren t trying to race there. we are just hoping to make it before the bulk of the snow starts to come in in boston between 6:00 and
good morning. i m diana perez. i m john muller. here are some of the headlines we are following on world news now this morning. the lobbying begins at the white house for a military striko on syria. the u.n. says the number of refugees has passed the 2 million mark. 5,000 syrians crossing the border daily to flee violence. we ll get the latest from washington and the mideast ahead. big clean-up under way in eastern japan after a string of tornados touchdown near tokyo. twisters injured 60 people, 100 homes damaged. endurance swimmer, diana nyad, recovering this morning after her historic 53-hour swim from cuba to key west. the first time a swimmer has the made the trip without a shark cage.
i tell you, i heard your discussion earlier, the line that got the biggest applause out here from the mayors or from the residents of hoboken was from the mayor who said she believes president obama and governor christie are working together to make things better for these folks. that got the biggest cheer. i think whether or not you believe that or not, the fact is that that is what most people want. and it was, you know, just a tragic situation out here. you d never think people in hoboken would be flooded by the hudson river which seems so far away or so far down at least, but even in these apartment buildings they got water. it washed through the town, and it s going to be a big clean-up. so they re happy that they re all working together. this, by the way, i lee you with a leave you with a shot of mayor dawn zimmer as she continues to brief this community, megyn. megyn: jeff, thank you. here in new york, the folks who live in downtown mat hand tan, some of them have to leave the