sadness at the passing of member right. he was a gentleman and we will miss him and we mourn his loss and i would like for us to have a moment of silence in his honor. without objection. thank you. at this point, mr. johnson, if you would like to lead us in prayer regarding the passing of our colleague, you will be recognized. thank you, mr. chairman. our colleague has joined us. he knew representative wright as well as anyone else and says he was a good family man and truly dedicated public servant to his constituents into the country. i will lead us in prayer. i pray, heavenly father, for this day and the work you put before us and all of our colleagues. we are reminded this morning of the preciousness of life and how fleeting it is. i pray representative rights example would be one that shines for all of us. he was truly committed to you, his family and his country and all those he served. let that be a shining example for us. let us be reminded of the value of one anoth
i would like to express sadness at the passing of member right. he was a gentleman and we will miss him and we mourn his loss and i would like for us to have a moment of silence in his honor. without objection. thank you. at this point, mr. johnson, if you would like to lead us in prayer regarding the passing of our colleague, you will be recognized. thank you, mr. chairman. our colleague has joined us. he knew representative wright as well as anyone else and says he was a good family man and truly dedicated public servant to his constituents into the country. i will lead us in prayer. i pray, heavenly father, for this day and the work you put before us and all of our colleagues. we are reminded this morning of the preciousness of life and how fleeting it is. i pray representative rights example would be one that shines for all of us. he was truly committed to you, his family and his country and all those he served. let that be a shining example for us. let us be reminded
afternoon as a tropical storm off the coast of cape cod. i suspect if the information continues to come in as it has been we maye a correction even further the to the east with this storm. the that is not to say we can completely rule out a recurve back toward east coast but the trendies encouraging and we will watch that for you as you go through the the end of the week. do youe this moisture along east coast. lot at the how far it is from joaquin. this is a completely different system elongated frontal boundary stalled front drawing in tropical moisture and battering north east flow and we will be dealing with this in the only tonight, but tomorrow and saturday as well with nazi consequences down the shore. heavy rain off the coast. we are seeing band of light to moderate rain work their way through, more rain could impact jersey shore here within the next several hours. we will continue to watch this, through overnight hours as band of heavy rain continue to move in. it ma
now to the storm that everybody is carefully watching. hurricane joaquin now a category 4 hurricane inching its way toward the united states mainland. but its path keeps changing and that has people who suffered through sandy on edge and getting ready for anything. we have cbs 2 storm team coverage. crews are fanned out across the tri-state area getting ready to weather the storm. let s start with lonnie quinn and the new information coming in now. lonnie. you betcha, kristine. it s coming in as we speak. if you take a look, this is the storm high up in space. i give you a satellite view o joaquin, the eye on top of the central bahamas. as big as this storm, i m seeing something that s encouraging as i look at the trebled. the national hurricane center as of yesterday had this cone, all right, pretty small tight cone because it was all kinds of consensus about this storm was going to go to north carolina or to virginia. skinny red line around the outer banks. this is yester
one goes onto the beach, due to the high surf and rip tides. residents are being extra cautious. parts of the rockaway boardwalk remain unfinished after being wiped out by superstorm sandy. i went back to my house and seen it picked up and cross shore front parkway. i m afraid. reporter: many homes are still being rebuilt in bell harbor. we took it on the chin. we are a resilient bunch. another blast like this, it is going to be devastating. reporter: barriers have been brought in in the rockaways for flood protection. flood logs, aluminum panels will be used to cut off the beach. in addition to dunes that have been cut to prepare for the worst. we are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. with a situation like this i even with a nor easter we are going to have problems here. reporter: thirty agencies are coordinating together, even the police department who tweeted these photos. we want equipment in all of the areas. even if we put it in staten isl