Quickly, about 16 miles per hour. That puts it about 30, maybe 40 miles from the rhode island coast. By 2:00 p. M. It s clearly on shore, and then it s just going to rain itself out. Notice the winds are not an issue as we get through this evening. The highest gusts will be out on long island, possibly block island, newport. The legacy of this storm we ve already had tremendous amounts of rain around new york city and portions of new jersey. Still a couple flash flood warnings. 36 million people are in flood watches. It is going to pour this afternoon, all night tonight, and periods of tomorrow. We are going to see additional rainfall totals up to about 5 to 6 inches. I m happy to see we ve gotten the storm a little bit weaker, now down to 65 miles per hour. Bill karins, one question for you. Did i hear you correctly that you say this is going to impact 36 million people? that s how many people are in the potential risk area for flash flooding. So not all of those people are going to g
Welcome from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports. We have breaking news on tropical storm henri. We just learned the storm made landfall last hour. About 45 minutes ago or so, 12:15 p. M. Right along the coast of rhode island, henri maximum sustained winds reached 60 miles an hour at landfall. The state is bracing for heavy impact over next few hours including widespread power outages with tens of thousands of people already in the dark. Last hour the mayor of newport told me she is worried about storm surge and flooding. We have a concern about the surge and the high tides. We already pass one high tide and all the dots, the water was right up on it. If we have rain all day and we have another high tide with the full moon tonight, chances are we re going to have some flooding throughout new port. You re looking right now at an earth cam shot. The storm is causing threat ping conditions outdoors. Bringing dangerous storm surge and rainfall. At any mo
Just putting out a new update this hour. Bill karins will break it down in a few minutes. Meantime, a live look at rhode island. Where henri made landfall around 12:00 p. M. It s near westerly. The storm s maximum sustained winds reached 60 miles an hour at landfall. Let s now get to a live look at our roving camera. That one has been driving through connecticut. We re going to move there now. It is near the rhode island border. While connecticut was spared from a direct hit, the governor in the last hour stressing we need to take the impact of this storm seriously. Don t get complacent. As i said before, sandy, those were not hurricanes either. Because the terrain is so wet, you do have, just a 40, 50 gusts. Knocks over trees and that s why we re watching the power outage situation so carefully. And to give you a live look from the earth cam, we re looking at montauk, new york. The storm is causing threatening conditions. It has brought with it dangerous storm surge, strong winds, als
Winds. We re seeing proof of that right now. Your camera operator is having trouble keeping a steady camera on you. Give me a sense as henri moves in. Reporter: hey, alex, good afternoon to you. I have to wedge myself in between the balcony here so i don t blow away. The winds have started to pick up. I m not feeling a drop of rain which is interesting. Earlier this morning we were getting hit by heavy rain and high winds but the winds have intensified extremely. I want to show you, though, how much things are blowing around. You might see the light pole behind me shaking. This is ocean road and it is blocked off. It is a dangerous situation. You see the waves crashing along the wall. There is a little bit of spillover and that is what folks need to avoid. You do see some folks walking around taking this all in. It s probably a good idea to stay at home. Right now 8,000 people are without electricity including ourselves. We lost power about two hours ago. We can expect the number to go
Josh, walk us there what we are expecting to hear in the president, hopefully beginning any mom. Reporter: we expect to hear the president, when he speaks, try to change the focus from the rough initial phase of this drawdown and this evacuation, on to the progress that the white house feels they have made over the last 72 hours or so, in ramping up what they are calling one of the largest airlift operations in history. So they are going to be pointing to some of the numbers that show that they re getting more and more people out of afghanistan, including about 3900 people in the most recent 24hour period, according to the white house, who were airlifted on u. S. Military aircraft making for a total of 25,000 since august 14th, who versus airlifted on military as well as commercial flights. The president has a lot of explaining to, as he s under a barrage of criticism, not only from u. S. Allies, including nato and g7 members who the president will meet with virtually on tuesday, but f