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They re still pretty high as high as 15 feet off the beach there, to try to prevent the water coming over, did absolutely no good whatsoever. yeah, the sand berms did not hold. farther inland the flooding has just as bad and worse in some cases and upstate. new york, the downtown part of the city is completely underwater and in some areas, rescue crews had to use rafts to evacuate people from their homes and president obama says the recovery effort will likely last weeks or longer and he s promising the full support of the federal government. and right now, we re still tracking irene and continue to move north. maria molina in the extreme weather center with the latest coordinates on the storm. maria. that s right. we still think the system, actually as of the 8 p.m. advisory, this is still a tropical storm and 50 miles per hour, so, irene holding on to its rains and we have heavier rains across portions of northern new england and we ....