First, were tracking tropical Storm Henri. This is new Satellite Video from noaa capturing the moment when tropical Storm Henri made landfall. It packed high winds that knocked out power to more than 80,000 customers in Rhode Island. Close to 4,000 people in massachusetts and 2,000 on Long Island without power. Well have the latest on the path of the storm which, in fact, is slowing. One bit of good news, though. The Storm Surge Warning has canceled for all areas. A lot of folks breathing a sigh of relief. We got kathy park, who is standing by for you in narragansett, and tracking this whole thing is Bill Karins. I want to start first with kathy. This Storm Making Landfall just east of you, so talk us us through what youve been experiencing and what youre experiencing now. Our understanding is henri made landfall about 30 Minutes West of es, but nothing like what we saw in the 12 00 hour when we were barely hanging on. You can still see the waves crashing behind me. Earlier today, it w
Good luck to your state, as we hopefully move on tro from the tropical storm. thank you for joining us. coming up, everybody. we expect to hear from the president about the response to tropical storm henri. he s also expected to give an update on effort in pakistan, and break down the benefit of our power panel. stay with us, everybody. stay with us, everybody. s pain l my husband s got his moves back. an alternative to pain pills voltaren is the first full prescription strength gel for powerful arthritis pain relief. voltaren the joy of movement
Not to worry they are there. ready to go. damages not so much, some trees down. pretty much the power outages, and 9 heavy rainfall is what we re dealing with so far. chevy, thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it, good luck. we re continues to take a look. henri made landfall just hours ago. twist for updates as they happen. the president is scheduled to make remarks on henri, and the
And that may continue for some time. it s not until, i guess, maybe tuesday, as i read the forecast, that henri is tropical depression and moves off the coast, by that time reaches as far as vermont and new hampshire. 9 bottom line is, yes, they dodged a bullet. people have seeing what tropical storms can do, like sandy, which is a much more massive event, but still a big sigh of relief here on eastern long island. i bet. i want to bring bill karins into the conversation. we were e-mailing yesterday, because i was on the ground covering sandy and saw the devastation. a lot of folks were worried this was going to do what in fact sandy did. so far, so good, it seems like, but combining of what we heard from ron and kathy, we re not yet out of the woods yet. it seems as though at this point it slowed down. so where are we?
Obviously the ground has been really saturated because of prior storms in the past couple days, yasmin. interestingly, this storm was supposed to make landfall over the east end of long island. that in fact did not happen. it kind of skirted arrange and made landfall just west of you, as you mentioned. how are folks preparing? were there evacuation orders in place? were people heeding those warnings. reporter: here in particular, we spoke with a manager in town. they said there were no evacuation orders in place. obviously the beach was closed ahead of the storm. yesterday we were kind of talking to folks getting ready for henri. there wasn t a mad dash to the store. we were told it was busy. a lot of people were stocking up. you know, they have survived