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We will be with youngsters you for the next hour and then back again at 4:00. the mayor says the rain is over but the real problems only now beginning. the city facing the potential for record flooding. worse than 1999 you might remember from hurricane floyd. worse than the snowstorm melt of 1996. the mayor says they are in for it. so we are going to talk to a reporter in a moment here live in philadelphia and we will speak to her. we didn t know what we were going to be facing this morning when we came in because the initial idea. the wind was the story that didn t really happen here. it did not knock a lot of things down in terms of structures. the water was tremendous in this 500-mile stretch of hurricane and that is what folks are dealing with in a big way. go to wtxf reporter karen heff who joins us now from philadelphia. hi, karen. reporter: good afternoon, guys. there is the schuylkill river ....
Them. we have enabled a damage report tool on the city s website nyy.gov so you can report property damage online. once again for updates throughout the storm and its aftermath and now you can use it for this as well, you can go to @ nyc mayor s office or @ notify nyc on twin cities. the big news there is that the evacuation order lift as of 3 about p.m. this afternoon. kind of surpriseing that the new york airports are not going to resume service over the course of this afternoon. so that is going to back up things as we head into monday and people start doing business traveling around the country. overall a fairly good story for new york city. there is some flooding in the lower reaches of manhattan that they dealt with this morning but looks like things will probably open up as planned tomorrow morning. that is the over and the under. ....
Batteries off the shelves, the generators. they need to have the canned goods, everything in the refrigerator when the power is out going to go back. people want to be able to get out to the restaurants and pick up mo are supplies. a tough situation. but people acted responsibly. in the philadelphia area proper no deaths reported directly related to this. i think that is because people took it seriously. the message went out that thes would be shut down and you had to be safe and stay inside. the airport reopening today at 4:00. when they shut the airport down they sent the planes other areas. we will not have any departing flights from this neck of the woods at least until tomorrow. martha: snarled up traffic in all of the airports. fail familiesphiladelphia, bos. a big story as we head into the business week as well. ....
This may exceed what we saw in floyd 99 or the incredible snow storm we had in 1996. it is as bad as it has ever been, possibly worse. people have been patient, they ve looked out for each other. we are going to get this city back in shape. that s where good planning things that mayor bloomberg has done, mayor menino, stephanie rawlings blake in baltimore and corey booker. mayors are on top of these issues and we will carry our cities through. bill: you are about to see it as worse as it has ever been in philadelphia. i think a lot of people look at this storm and were scared, once it came and went, they thought, no big deal, we are okay. now is when the story develops, with the flood waters. right, it is a big deal. for us in the government, the storm is not over just because the rain tapers off or the ....
Coast. mike tobin is live with more for us on that story. there comes mike right about now. hey, mike. reporter: what a difference a couple of hours makes. looks like i m doing a traffic report right now only there is not that much traffic. this is the cross bay boulevard that you saw flooded awhile ago. the causeway is now open. people coming and going from the area called the rockaways. the only thing that makes that remarkable is the contrast from a couple of hours ago. roll the videotape. standing where i am right now you would be knee he deep in water. the storm surge, the high tide, the high winds all came together to drive all of the seawater up and over the seawall on to the main drag in the center of town. flooded as far as as the guy could see. the wind was gusting up to around 50 miles an hour when the storm was at its peak. then the winds calmed down. in fact, the winds changed direction and started driving that seawater back out to sea. the water, you are not going to ....