this is the storm surge that struck southern new england. it was 6-9 feet from southwestern connecticut to the eastern tip of massachusetts. and it came ashore right at high tide. fear of that nine-foot surge led the u.s. navy on friday to send all four nuclear-powered submarines from their home port of groton, connecticut, out to the safety of deep water. all low-lying areas of connecticut, rhode island, and massachusetts are under mandatory evacuation orders, but we notice many people riding it out, and most of the people we spoke to said they were used to gales and to the floods and are taking irene in stride. so far there, has been one fatality in connecticut, none in the rest of new england, but two dangers remain. while damages to boats and property on the front side of the storm will be significant, it's the backside of the storm that's,000 more worrisome. that backside could bring six to 10 inches of rain to places like western connecticut, western massachusetts, and vermont, and the governors here in new england are warning there co

the models continue to be tracking over southern new england. notice the mae erjority are ovew york city to providence, but one is over the chesapeake bay. we haven't ruled any of that out, lynn. today we also have thunderstorms but i know everyone's going to be -- everyone's really wondering what they need to do now. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> coming up, a report that the new show of a once high rolling reality tv show gets the ax. plus,ing a new message on jim carrey's website has followers wondering. your first look at entertainment is straight ahead. [ male announcer ] members of the american postal workers union handle more than 165 billion letters and packages a year. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of millions? hundreds of millions? not a single cent. the united states postal service doesn't run on your tax dollars. it's funded solely by stamps and postage. brought to you by the men and women of the american postal workers union. ♪ >>> welcome back to "fir

are you not allowed to praise england in england? is it that a result of the 1683 eat it to false -- edict to false modesty is it because praise from an american makes you feel dirty. it turns out our show is censored in england because we aired footage of our parliament on a comedy program. this is true, it's illegal to use parliamentary footage in a comedic or satirical context. if you were a right honorable newscaster i could have shown the same footage come back on camera and so emily say, tonight we have no confirmation that the members of parliament are baby eating goat (bleep). [laughter] but we have not received or actually asked for any denials of it either. that is something the english audience would have been allowed to watch but a sincere offering of admiration from a comedian is illegal. seems crazy. i've seen parliamentary footage used on satirical shows in britain before. >> the right honorable gentleman may be at home but he is the tiny wilted vegetable -- >> stephen: if they can show parliamentary footage in england

and that's what england needs. they don't need whistles and candy sticks. >> there are a lot of people protecting their stores in england, but even the cops are having to tell them to stop because they are worried that they might hurt somebody. it is a strange world. i suppose you would defend these looters. >> wasn't much of a question. >> you are talking to a criminal defense attorney. >> i know, i blame you for doing that. you would defend these criminals. >> greg would blame me for all of the rioting. i am not sure it is really about the political ideas. i don't think it is about people who are losing their handouts. i don't believe it is about socialism versus capitalism. i think people do this. this is human nature. a lot of these people wouldn't know what these handouts are even about. i think we see it in good times, and we see it in bad times. after every super bowl you can see people rioting in the streets. after tragic national disasters, people look for an excuse to do these types of things. if you don'

far from it, irene brings new misery to new england. a 100 year flood in vermont. power outages in every town in connecticut. tonight, the destruction that stretches from north carolina all the way to maine. >>> the terrorist who killed so many innocent americans and was then set free. where is he tonight? >>> the exclusive nbc news interview with dick cheney. when it came time to go to war, who was really the decider? >>> and a stunning moment from a stunning woman last night that got the country talking. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. irene hasn't been a hurricane since yesterday. and it's long gone by now. way up and over canada. but you would not believe the damage it's still unleashing over new england. this comes after it already chewed up the shoreline along the eastern seaboard. tonight, in the wake of irene, at least 37 people are dead. five million americans at least are without power from north carolina on up to maine. the estimates at damage begin at $2 billion and go up from there. with so man

and it's blowing through new england. at this hour it is still a big storm but winds are down to 50 miles per hour. irene is blamed for at least 18 deaths in eight states, more than four million homes and businesses lost power, and with rivers still rising, severe flooding is feared across much of the already waterlogged northeast. at the white house late this afternoon president obama went to the rose garden to warn that irene still poses a threat and those in its path should be careful. >> many americans are still at serious risk of power outages and flooding which could get worse in the coming days as rivers swell past their banks. so i want people to understand that this is not over. >> mitchell: and as we told you earlier tropical storm irene is now making its way through new england. we have a team of corespondents deployed along its path now and earlier. we begin tonight with wyatt andrews in mystic, connecticut. good evening. >> russ, good evening. here in the northeast the threat all day very first, the first thr

and to in england all the -- and so in england all the scientists were terribly devout men. they absolutely were fervent believers, and the church was fine with that because the effect was to demonstrate the magnificence of the creation. is there another question? >> um, how much would you say that the, um, that the beginning of colonies in the new world and the exploration -- the age of exploration had to do with influencing these, these men to look further than what they had been taught? >> um, it's a terrific question. what did the age of exploration have to do with the scientific explorations? and what they had to do was that people at the time took them to be, to be underlining exactly the same moral. if you get a ship, if you get in a ship and sail beyond the seas, you find whole, undreamed of continents. and if you look through a microscope at the humblest drop of pond water, you find new worlds, new lives, unimagined discoveries at every hand. so, so the explorers of the 1600s, the scientists of the 1600s thought that the same message was coming from their work. no m

and we've got rain heading through the great lakes and new england throughout this evening. still very hot in texas, that's not going to change any time soon. the humid conditions in the southeast are here to stay. the changeable weather is heading through the northern plains. finally, a nice cool fall air mass and the rain in the great lakes and get ready in new england, that rain will move your way later today and tonight. you do need the umbrella to walk out the door this morning in detroit we have rain. cleveland, that's going to spread to buffalo during the morning rush. pittsburgh has seen some showers on and off and that should continue throughout the morning. and for memphis, we have rain for you. little rock, you've had some on and off thunderstorms. fort smith, arkansas, same for you. so there's some areas of wet weather out there. the heat continues to be the story in texas. yesterday was day 38 now on friday we should tie the record, if we're going to break it, we need to be 100 each and every day until saturday and it looks like we're probably going to do that.

and great lakes, that will shift into new england for a great wednesday. so today's dreary, tomorrow is much better. the cold front went down the north florida, rare for this time of year. brought lower humidity levels. we have a couple of other spots, wet weather today. we've had showers and thunderstorms form in here in between omaha and des moines. we're getting drenched in southwest sections of iowa and also in north dakota. a pretty good line of storms just barely went through bismarck. worst of it was to the south of town. now it's traveling on interstate 94 in fargo. probably about an hour or two from now you'll get wet weather. hot in texas and what a nice day in chicago, 83 and sunny. tomorrow, lynn, the 83 and sunny will head to new england, we'll enjoy it tomorrow. >>> well, google jump-starts the week on wall street. your "first look" at the morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, jim thome jones an exclusive club. the dodgers find a new way to speed up the season and push comes to shove on the racetrack, you're watching

and he became, he was under the influence of these new englanders. is until read and write. he became a teacher and a minister. but being a writer, just to say grumpy and full of misgivings, as he saw, as the years wore on and he saw more and more white people kind of drowning his homeland, and not just the missionaries, you know. malley where he lived was one of the stopping point for wailers and the golden age of one. so there would be, there are hundreds of waiting ships stopping in hawaiian parts country and ports. as he saw all these white people coming in, dropping by sailors on leave, they're probably not the ones to make the best impression. he wrote this really sad letter to the data friends were he said, something like, i'll try to get it right. when a big wave comes in, large and unfamiliar dishes come from the dark ocean, and they feed the small fishes of the shallows, and they would beat them up. and then he says, the big man from the important countries come here and see that our people are small, they will devour us. so it was kind of prophetic. but i also lik

now up pass through new england and working our way toward canada. jonathan huntsman watching from one of the areas, suburban new york city on long island. jonathan's picture appears to be frozen. he has a special guest with him. jonathan, take it away. >> reporter: i'm with i had the nassau county chief executive. we seem to be through the worst, how bad was the worst >> pretty bad 120,000 residents without electricity, 20 transmission lines down. downed trees, flooding, roads impassable. dangerous conditions many people should stay in until we get the all-clear. we weathered the storm without reported injuries, that's important. people followed the plan and we got through this, without injuries to the safety of our residents and that's primary concern. >> reporter: one thing we know, just looking out here on broadway, the main thorough fair that runs along the ocean, a lot of hopes -- badly flooded. >> flooding of homes and business significant. we are under an assessment, fema is deploying an assessment team as we spook. it is important we do that

the riots in england earlier this week. the scenes of looting and violence have sparked a debate on the challenges facing our society, but for those who have lost homes or businesses, there are more immediate concerns. alan looks at the aftermath of the riots. >> we found the spirit of a better london. thousands of donations have come in to help those who have lost their homes. clothes, bedding, towels, pots and pans, books, children's toys. it is the quiet general city of the majority. they lost everything when their home was burned to the ground. >> when you look at the building, you feel empty. you feel like you lost everything. at the same time, it's not about the furniture or the refrigerator. but it's about your memory. it's about the things you've been saving from your childhood. the gift you get from your mother to keep it forever, or the gift you get from your husband when you first met. >> the road is a battered mess, but the clear-up has begun. everywhere, the waste is evident and appalling. a safe is all that's

this could set a bank run on the bank of england and all their gold this is also the same thing the downgrade of s. and p. this is the beginning of the rush out of treasuries and into gold it is it is a run on the bank answer masked the collapsed structure the computers to buy more treasuries using borrowed money which is only making people buying gold want to buy more gold like i said treasuries carry the downgrade risk or at least they did until last week d.o.j. probing s. and p. the investigation centers on the alleged cases in which the company's analyst sought to award lower ratings on mortgage bonds but had other s.n.p. managers overrule them the department of justice in america alleges that they began the program s. and p. before the downgrade of us that they're going to rewrite the story of the boy who pointed out that the king had no clothes in this version the king investigates the boy for having faulty eyesight. well so i mean yes s. and p. did faulty grade these things but are fit to go home won't go oh no no they didn't fall to grade these things that two trillion dolla

and of course the bank of england is not the only person holding that gold the custodian also include banks such as j.p. morgan so it's as if you go chavez watches our show realize that the crash j.p. morgan by summer campaign could be applied to gold is demanding physical delivery of his gold because he knows that j.p. morgan and the other banks don't actually have the physical gold they have to go into the market to buy that gold but they're bankrupt to begin with that means they have to incur more debt which means that they're going he's trying to collapse j.p. morgan just like we're trying to collapse j.p. morgan so here goes chavez welcome to the gold liberation army yeah but the point is whether or not he'll ever get this gold back because he's put in a request but is this going to trigger other people demanding their gold back other nations demanding their sovereign gold back there are thousands of tons held by germany in at the new york fed all countries around the world store in the u.s. will the u.s. give that back that's the big question what do you think well i think no i

it's in the 60s in new england, it's very comfortable out there. and today is going to be about as perfect as it gets with temperatures, the low to mid-80s just about everywhere. d.c. may get into the upper 80s but even there the humidity is going to be low, partly cloudy in the afternoon. nice little breeze. so this is a perfect summer wednesday. so if you can get away from work early or even school in some areas now, it's going to be gorgeous. as far as tomorrow goes, we add thunderstorms into the forecast. it's not going to be widespread, but we will see a chance late in the afternoon. temperatures will be similar to today, but tomorrow we'll add a little rain. now, the forecast in the middle of the country, it's still very hot in texas. even at this hour, we're at 90 degrees in dallas, and a lot of the country's cooled off. only 65 in chicago this morning. 70 in minneapolis. it's really oklahoma and texas that we just haven't caught a break. today is 104 in dallas. in houston, by the way, today will be the 16th day in a row of 100-degree heat.

the radar, not looking at anything too bad right now the southern half of new england, central new england is clearing out. heavy rain is only up in northern new england. the winds are still howling. the congressman was telling us, he saw some of the strongest winds yet. look at boston, still gusting to 55 miles per hour. that's some pretty serious gusts if you're outside. those tries are swaying. limbs are snapping, i'm sure. those winds will be heading north ward. by far, the strongest winds, you can see it in this darker color, the maroon color, that's where we have winds that are 40 miles per hour plus. our friends out here all the way in nova scotia are seeing some strong gusts, too. it's like a big, huge beast out there that is spinning like a top. it will take a while to wind down. the center will be in canada by about 8:00 p.m. this evening. it's getting better, but it's a slow process. that's why tomorrow is the day for life to get back to normal, if possible. >> absolutely. bill, we don't want go into reflection mode because this is ongoing, your impression of this storm. you use

." >> after the riots in england, a row over a restored order. police defend their tactics after some criticism from politicians. the global stock market signs -- shows signs of healing. shot more than 20 times, the brazilian judge paid for her -- paid with pro-life fighting organized crime. welcome to "bbc news." coming up later, we return to misrata to meet the six-year-old girl who is determined not to become a casualty of the libyan conflict. senior police officers insisted that the tactical decisions about their rights under control earlier this week was theirs alone and not the result of pressure from politicians. more than 1600 people a been arrested in connection with the riots. >> a week after the riots began, a senior police officers and government politicians have indulged in a public row. emerging from the latest meeting of the emergency planning committee, the acting head of scotland yard made a remark of the criticism about the police operation by ministers who were still on holiday at the time. >> after any event, there will always

new england is where irene landed after leaving new york. now that it's gone from the big apple. the mayor announced he is lifting evacuation orders for people in low-lying areas. in fact that just happened. but some are going to come back to pretty unpleasant sights. this owner of this car picked an unfortunate place to park in soho which is in lower manhattan. one all the flooding and damage, a lot of folks took the storm in stride. across the east river in the burrough of queens, this guy decided it would be a good time to take his dog out for a walk or is that a swim. craig reports from new port rhode island where the storm is still whipping up quite a problem. >> reporter: certainly the low-lying areas are the problem and going to get flooding as we've had been all day. high tide should be around 8:00 this evening. they are still looking forward is the high tide. they have to be prepared for a storm surge three to six feet. it's going to be a little bit larger of a storm surge at 8:00 this morning. sustained winds, been checking on my wind meter, 20-30 sustained. i was over

i think look the rightful place in england why didn't they take place in scotland because the scottish scottish national government has policies in place to actually address the social ills and on the political problems that england is unwilling elin is still on a right wing trajectory and for that we're going to suffer the consequences unfortunately . transitive freelance journalism to us from london that's your thoughts. now the u.s. the major european countries have syria's president bashar asad to step down and impose a fresh scent of economic sanctions it can their response to the regime's a violent crackdown against protesters or the statements have been sent as a special u.n. security council meeting on syria is taking place in new york artie's read of what ny has more. not only has the u.s. president called for the syrian president to step down he has backed up his words with action and that action includes issuing an executive order thursday morning with fresh sanctions against syria and now according to the new sanctions that have been signed by obama all americans and u.s. c

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. >> from north carolina to new england, i read it left its mark. coastal areas of new jersey to a rowboat beading and there was flooding in winter. and the nation's capital, 200 trees were brought down including these at the national cathedral. along the chesapeake bay, these residents were among many dealing with damage. >> it is pretty catastrophic but things got everyone is ok. >> the president is a warning the public to remain vigilant. >> the impact of the storm will be felt for some time and the recovery effort will last for weeks or longer. >> the storm has left millions without power up and down the east coast. it could be days before the lights are back on. it will likely be even longer before people forget about the monster called irene. >> this is our greens course along the east coast. you can see it right here. cities like boston, new york, washington were all in its past. there were hundreds of flight delays and cancellations. >> a spokesperson at sfo told me that there was a total of 46 to purchase that were canceled. take a look at

some showers are going through northern new england but mostly a dry morning. the exception is for areas in the middle of the country, traveling in missouri near omaha, kansas city, st. louis, definitely springfield, numerous thunderstorms. here's how it looks this monday. the record heat continues, 106 in dallas, 101 in san antonio. houston and wichita falls, austin, oklahoma city, sh reef sport, little rock, that same area will brake bake. it's amazing, many are starting school so i'm sure there's more than one teacher up this morning that is not thrilled. 91 and the humid air. >> the poor kids. it's like august -- >> it's that hot and humid. >> come on, not fair. give the kids a break. >>> the downgrade won't just affect stocks. other ripples to expect. >>> first place on the line. the mets more lose more than just a game. >>> and a catty caddie. [ female announcer ] what if your natural beauty could be flawless too? discover aveeno positively radiant tinted moisturizers with scientifically proven soy complex and natural minerals. give you sheer coverage ins

it wasn't a custom in england. yes, sir? >> he organized support in the colony, any of them in the state which were called loyalists to the summit organized support for? >> the loyalist supporting -- >> yes, across the nation at least one-third of the population or absolutely loyal subjects of britain, canada and in the debate in congress only days before the actual declaration of independence, john dickinson of philadelphia author the olive branch petition to the king, pledging our american law to the king, the love of the king, love of being a british subjects, and simply asking for him to control upon and let us raise our own taxes and keep the parliament out of it. had he accepted the olive branch petition we probably could have become a member of the british commonwealth. so there was a tremendous amount of loyalty, and even loyalist forces, there was a major battle that's often not mentioned coming and i don't know whether this is prejudiced or what, but a major battle in moore's creek north carolina, not far from wilm

that's not going to change much until it gets up past new england. that's why this is going to rake right along the entire coast. when i mention the size of this storm, i mean we're talking about almost a texas-sized storm. it makes florida look small down there in the lower left corner. all of the bright colors is where all of the thunderstorms are and the heavy rain. the storm surge will be a problem in north carolina. then we're going to deal with the rain. but the wind field is what's going to cause damage in so many locations far away from the coast and well inland. this area of orange is over 300 miles wide. and tropical storm force winds. it's very rare to see a storm this wide. i'm not saying intense, but this wide, and this long. in the middle of that is the hurricane-force winds. and the most damage of that is going to be eastern north carolina into virginia/delaware coast with hurricane warnings that are up now from just south of new york city, jersey shore, maryland, delaware, down along through virginia beach, norfolk, also down along th

northern new england. big flooding concerns continue there and continue to point a little further south. take a look at how much rain across a wide swath of rain. the red is 4 to 8 inches of rain and a few areas where it was over 12. these are some of the storm totals. north carolina over 14 inches. ocean city maryland, over 12 inches. one of the areas hardest hit this month, shep, is philadelphia. 5.32 inches from the storm and over 18 inches in this month. wettest month they ever had. not the wettest august but the wettest month. the video coming out to us dangerous situations in the philadelphia area. the upper darby region. and streets turned inside rivers. we will be talking about a few of the rivers in the area of eastern pennsylvania and a lot of northern, new jersey, that are going to crest at record highs. we get a lot of flooding up a here and a lot of flooding that causes a lot of damage to areas in new jersey and area around the poconos and now some of the rivers will crest near or above their

new england took the final swipe from irene before it moved on to canada. by then the storm was packing even less of a punch. for many tourists and residents in places like cape cod, it could have been much worse. abc's david kerley is in marion, massachusetts. >> reporter: until the early evenings winds were creating a bit of a chop on what is normally a calm bay. they were worried about high tide and a surge that might come with this storm. it didn't materialize. that was the good news. they didn't see anything like they saw from hurricane bob 20 years ago. all up and down the coast, that was the worry, a surge. in fact, my colleague ashleigh babaield was in stamford, connecticut earlier in the day. >> reporter: we're at the peak of the wind velocity now as the storm is hitting coastal connecticut. while it's not necessarily a rain story anymore, the wind story is making it a water story. huge volumes of water are crashing inland. >> reporter: the morning surge did toss a sailboat onto the beach in massachusetts, and there were problems with the wind. it

and there is a concern as it heads up in new england. folks need to continue to batten down the hatches. >> it is hanging tough. >> for the moment anyway it is moving up northward from washington to boston. one in five said to be in hurricane irene path. the hurricane is proving deadly. our second hour of programming begins right now. how are you doing? >> i am doing well. we have special programming as we cover throughout the weekend the path of hurricane irene. it is a morning already. >> we can confirm the first fatality in north carolina today. a man crushed by a flying tree limb. and i want to show you the power of a category hurricane. and you watch it rock its way throughout the ocean. 400,000 in the state without power . never before has one hurricane hurt so many people in the united states. so we start this hour. team fox coverage. yawn robers in kill devil hills in the state's outer banks and atlantic beach north carolina and near where irene came ashore and our chief meteorologist rick wright in the extreme weather center. ri

stay with us. >> hurricane irene is still on track to hit new england. at least eight deaths have already been reported. the storm is pummeling hamilton holmes with hurricane force winds. in philadelphia the mayor is sounding the alarm to residents. i signed a state of emergency declaration for the city of philadelphia. this is the first time a state of emergency has been declared in the city since 1986. that is the seriousness in which we are anticipating this storm. >> president obama declared a state of emergency in nine different states. you can see this surf turning on the jersey shore. three-6 ft. storm surges could occur at new jersey beaches. thousands of red cross workers are prepared to go back east if they get the call. >> the train is in the back of everyone's minds. >> would be is one of thousands of red cross volunteers on standby incurred caring becomes a major disaster. this truck is similar to 200 emergency response vehicles staged near areas affected by the hurricane. >> we can run cooking stations, coffee pots. we can canteen right off