Superstorm sandy has pounded huge portions of the northeast and midatlantic at this hour, we know at least 16 people have died. More than 7 Million People have been plunged into the dark and local officials have been stunned by the damage and devastation. Good tuesday morning. Im Chris Jansing reporting live from new york and parts of new york city are underwater this morning. The images from Lower Manhattan shows cars half submerged. Tunnels, subways and the financial district flooded. All of Lower Manhattan is in the dark. Some of those outages caused by a con Ed Substation that exploded overnight. More than 1. 5 million have lost power across new york city, long island and westchester. Now we also want to show you these pictures from breezy point, queens, at least 50 homes have been destroyed by fire. Further east at least seven homes on fire island have fallen into the ocean. Atlantic city, new jersey, took the full force of sandy when it came ashore around 8 00 last night. People
I pledge to and we leave these remarks from the pennsylvania governor to go live to capitol hill for a Senate Hearing looking at the nations infrastructure and modernization efforts, being held by the Senate Environment and public works committee. These things allow for American Goods to go from the heartland to the coast and even overseas. They allow for flood protection for both rural and urban communities that save lives. In addition, our committee has jurisdiction over the environmental laws that impact the modernization of infrastructure. Doesnt matter whether the setting is urban or rural, rules and regulations can halt and delay the modernization of infrastructure and the impact is particularly counterproductive if theyre applied without understanding the difference between urban and rural. Our committee has members from both urban and rural areas. The members of this committee represent new york city, and new port, rhode island, nebraska city, nebraska, and mississippi. Wheatla
Inland and as a result major coastal flooding could become a problem, rain lingering, though, along the shore through your monday, possibly even your tuesday here, looking at 35 to 55 mile per hour winds, gusts up to 60 Miles Per Hour are expected along the shore. Especially sunday night into monday. Here is your radar and satellite. Heaviest rain is off the shore, the center of the system is actually now off the shore as well but notice we have got rain thats moving right into delaware. We will continue to track that and talk wind speeds coming up. Thanks, krystal. Now to that breaking news out of Atlantic City. Gunfire erupts near the casinos and a Police Officer is shot during a routine stop. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne has been live at the scene all morning long. She has an update on the officers condition. Pam, fill us in. Reporter well, he is in very Critical Condition right now, i can also tell you that a 20,000 reward is being offered for any information that leads to the arrest of
Several streets in pin el as county are underwater. Radar on wheels in north carolina. We can give you the most updated forecast. The radar can extend 75 miles, and it can show us views inside the storm that you cant get anywhere else. The nbc 10 First Alert Team is tracking hermine and its impact on our Holiday Weekend, and even into next week. We have you covered at the beaches and in the air. We begin with meteorologist sheena parveen. Sheena, i know timing and location are critical here. Yes, jacqueline, very critical to the weekend forecast. And like you mentioned, storm ranger 10, we drove it to Elizabeth City. I have that look in just a second. Hermine is in South Carolina right now. The winds are 50 miles an hour near the center. Its weaker than yesterday as it made landfall as a category 1 hurricane. Its moving at 20 miles an hour. Its picked up speed here. When it gets closer to us, its expected to slow down offshore. Not good news for us. The rain extends to the north and no
Within the past 15 minutes we received confirmation from officials in Atlantic City that an officer is in surgery after a shooting early this morning. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne has been live at the scene. We will get to her in just a moment, but first we want to talk about the first alert that we have issued because of Tropical Storm hermine. This is a big deal so pay attention. First alert meteorologist krystal klei keeping a very close watch on this storm thats moving to our area, you can see just below krystal that first alert radar. Right now it looks like its hovering over North Carolina, virginia, but you told us earlier that delaware could soon see some of the effects of the storm. Were already seeing cloud cover thats spread across our region thats because of the storm though it is well to the southwest of us still. Rain is starting to creep into delaware and thats going to happen this morning. Currently the Tropical Storm sitting at 60 mile per hour max winds, thats the update as