heather: we begin with a fox extreme weather alert. much of the east coast experiencing a dangerous weather outbreak. here is the current radar showing watches and warnings, from the carolinas to new england. the risk include damaging winds, hail, dangerous lightning, flat flooding and tornadoes. look at this amazing video. you can see there showing a dark funnel cloud striking the breezy point section of queens, new york. the national weather service confirming it was a tornado. but new york city isn t out of the woods yet. here is a live look at times square. actually that showing the white house on capitol hill. gregg: it s looking better. heather: yeah, it cleared up since the last hour. here is times square as we were mentioning, the new york city area. also still under a threat for more severe weather. dc, that s where the national
Sustained winds of 70 miles per hour, aside from a tornado risk today, we also have a chance to see damaging wind gusts easily in excess of 70 miles an hour. at times that can bring trees down and that can bring power lines down. take this risk seriously. we have possibly severe weather as far north as new england and as far south as the carolinas. a number of severe weather watches in effect. the greatest risk area is the area shaded in red across parts of upstate new york, albany, burlington, vermont, new york city, and philadelphia, very large cities that aren t really used to seeing tornadic activity here across northeast. nome are these cities not used to seeing this kind of activity, but it s also somewhat unusual to be talking about severe weather at this time of the year. typically we re talking about tornadoes during the months of april. also may and june. so a little late in the season here to be seeing such a strong front pushing through. we re getting into the fall months a
Much of the east coast remains on high alert for severe weather. gregg: a twister already touching down in queens new york this morning. there is the videotape. hurling debris in the air, knocking out power and upsetting residents. heather: president obama telling an audience in florida that republicans are, quote, dead wrong calling america a country in decline. gop presidential nominee mitt romney is holding a campaign rally in virginia. gregg: new developments out of iran to tell you about where family and friends are welcoming home a christian pastor who has been in prison for almost three long years. the 35-year-old man was awaiting execution for refusing to renounce his faith when suddenly he was set free by an iranian court today. leland vitter is live with more. he at one point were told was hours away from execution.
The front. drier air, cooler air and that clashing air masses, warm, humid air ahead of the system, that drier air that cause this is explosive development in storms, you can see we have many severe weather watches in effect across parts of new england, down into the carolinas. these are the expected expiration times. across new york city in effect until 9:00 p.m. eastern time. within this line of storms, we also have a number of severe thunderstorm warnings because aside from tornadoes and also damaging wind gust, you also have the possibility of large hail, dangerous lightning and even some flash flooding as the rain comes down very heavily and gregg, here is a quick shot of that map. i just mentioned typically we see the peak of activity during the month of april, may and june. somewhat unusual during september. but not unheard of. gregg: indeed it is. thanks very much. we ll check back with you as things develop. heather: more now on the deadly oklahoma storms that we told you
England down to the carolinas, throughout the rest of the day into the night time hours. we do have tornado warnings that go out to central maryland. prince gorges county and east central maryland. you do need to seek shelter or in this particular tornado warnings goes 4:45 eastern time. earlier today we did have a tornado that was confirmed by county officials across fairfax county and also in queens county in new york city. we had a tornado that was also spotted. we had video of that. we ll bring that later today. greatest chance for severe weather, in parts of new hampshire and up stated new york including the city of albany, down to the philadelphia area. large hail, damaging winds and even some tornadoes will be possible. there is a difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning. a tornado warning means there