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There was word that was caused by a ruptured gas line. luckily nobody was home at the time, so that is good news. bill: here is something you don trary every hear every day, new jersey governor chris christie urging people to stay home from work today, the governor has been assessing damage along the coastline, we heard from him at least twice on sunday, about 700,000 homes and businesses without power in new jersey, waking up today, and officials expect several new jersey rivers and creeks to spill over today, so those waters are still rising, also. martha: further south further south in north carolina irene s fury was on des play in kittyhawk, complete sections of roads washed away, homes destroyed, north carolina governor bev perdue says cleaning up from this storm is going to be a huge challenge. there s a lot of property damage. it s what you would see on the first day after a hurricane. we saw peoples goods in the streets, waiting for pickup, we heard about debris everywhe ....
Debris. it s been a hard week for a lot of people in north carolina along the coast. martha: boy, that s the truth. jonathan serrie is live in wilmington, north carolina. jonathan, how much damage? what s the graph of the total state issue here? reporter: yeah, governor perdue is still trying to get her hands around it as she continues her tour of eastern and north carolina. yesterday she visited portions of the outer banks which really took the brunt of the storm. we have some dramatic pictures to show you from the kittyhawk and kill devil hills area in that video. you can see damaged buildings, washed out roads, including highway 12, which is the major thorough fare going through these outer banks, and linking them to the mainland. so very significant, the portions of that major thorough fare are washed out. also, in some case, the storm surge was so strong that it carved out new channels through the outer banks, water, running in between buildings and in some cases, washing out sa ....
Hatteras island. one of the barrier islands on the carolina coast and the only way to get anything in and out there have is by ferry. and it s reached peaks and in between, that has been the positive about four foot deep, and we ve got resources coming over, west of frisco and a storm surge coming in live cape hatteras, a major storm surge breaches on the south shores and you ve got trapped in the wert and sand here, that s not pretty. that s a bad scene here. and the aftermath, the storm wiping out enormous chunks of the highway in cape hatteras, the mainland, we re told that the sand and water completely cut off the road in not one, but five different places, would you look at that. crews are now out assessing the damage and is similar scene an hour north in kittyhawk, another prime vacation spot on the outer banks and here, you can see the high tide washed out roads ....
Is it that bad? just breezy and windy? the sustained winds aren t that bad. but there are gusts that really do push you off your feet almost, greta. and the ring comes down in that wind feels like little knifes in your back as you re walk sog it s intense. there is a big storm coming. you can see on the beach a lot of commotion taking place. just getting word, excuse me, that south haven, that is further north up the coast if you were to come onto the mainland from where kittyhawk is. on the outer banks we re on the mainland. there are reports of trees down. some reports that we cannot confirm. tornado activity is not unusual. david, we re looking at the pic tour, it does look grim. we know next 36 hours is only going to get worse. fox news is covering all of the very latest. ....
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