anything wet is going to freeze. that will be a wig problem, come overnight and tomorrow morning. the the rain, that will of course, heavy throughout the afternoon commute. meteorologist justin drabick is live from the cbs-3 mobil weather lab monitoring the conditions on broad street in olney, hi justin. reporter: good evening, kathy. that is right. we just passed the albert einstein medical center on broad street heading north coming up to the intersection of broad and until any. we have a light rain. we have wet roads to deal w traffic is certainly increased but that is typical. the we re in the rush hour. people walking around. they have umbrellas around. you will need that throughout the evening hours. just steady light rain. the just enough to use the wipers but again you can see standing water on the road. that could an issue later tonight. let s go to the graphic and talk about this. eventually once we get there cold front through we have temperatures dropping well i
monsters right into homes and they are taking out por lines. that s what make its so dangerous, the big tree, downed power line and it is debris on the road. the things you can t see in the dark and the things the utility companies won t be able to get to, possibly until daylight. there is still about 500,000 to 600,000 people without power, largely due to the situations like this. that situation is constantly changing, they are working to get people back up and the power back online, so the things slowly get back to normal. but the situation remains pretty dangerous because of things like this. wow. talk to us did the displaced people. there were some evacuations that were voluntary. how many folks have actually left the area? reporter: you know, at about 9:15 tonight, the governor stepped up to the plate yet again and said all of those folks down at the shoreline, they had asked people to leave at their own will, very early in the day in the low-lying areas. but about 9
0 he called the officials across the state to call on their police departments to make this mandatory. we were down at the shoreline this evening and they came by and said, hey, there could be a really big storm surge up to an additional 5 feet in the next half hour, we need to you to move to higher ground as soon as possible, so we did. it is hard to say how many people in that last burst of energy, near the end of the night moved to other places. but there are hundreds of people in shelters tonight. there is an incident in one shelter, where the generator was failing and they had to move, fairly quickly, about 60 people to another shelter. so precarious situation, a lot of people not in their homes, facing situations like this. no power and a lot of cleanup to come. in new london, connecticut, thanks very much. we were warned, of course, that it would be a monster of a storm. and in the past several hour, predictions about sandy have all been proven true. here s what the 900-mile