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Congressman tim pitch open. good morni tim bishop. >> good morning. >> what can you tell us? >> well, its very devastating. and, you know, its 5:00 in the morning am im not sure how much current information i have. but as of last night, there was significant coastal flooding and coastal erosion. there was significant flooding in port jefferson and downtown riverhead was particularly badly hit. greenport was underwater. the area of the north shore was particularly hard hit. so we have some very s...

That impressive. they were plenty strong enough to knock over trees which is the reason we have so many power outages. long island, theyre saying about 80% of the island doesnt have power. the wind gusts are stronger there, 90 at islip. central park, 62 mile per hour gusts. jfk, they were gusting to 80. central park is a little more protected. as far as the storm goes, the immense size of this storm is still just amazing, even about eight hours after land fall, 12 hours after land fall, chris. i...

To other hospitals in and around new york city. the coordination that is going on in the hours leading up to sandy and now, chris, in those hours afterwards has been impressive and massive. >> as elsewhere, theres going to be a lot that we see here in manhattan when the sun comes up and throughout the rest of new york city, throughout the night, weve been getting reports from everywhere up in harlem where were hearing about devastation to businesses where awnings are ripped off and a lot of tree...

panel to talk about aids. and we are talking about jobs, j j jobs, jobs, and the employers are not hiring enough to bring down the latest figures. you see that 80,000 new jobs were added last month but the labor unemployment rate remai remairemains 8.2%, and that is because of the jobs added in may. it is a different picture from the jobsarlier in the year. now president obama and mitt romney are talking about it. >> our mission is not to get back to where we were before the crisis, an...

eastern tennessee overnight. reportedly killing two people and injuring dozens more people. the storms tearing through parts of the great smoky mountains. the park spokesamerican telling wtae that a falling tree killed a woman and another man died when his motorcycle wrecked during the storm and rob mars an mow is going to let us know where theyre going. >> good morning. >> well, the storms have weakened. around 5:00 they were rolling down the south, the western part of the smoky mount...

Their homes. more than 1,000 firefighters working to contain the waldo canyon wildfire gaining some ground as they have 25% contained, thats up from 15% on thursday. 347 homes there have been destroyed. extreme weather wreaking havoc in the eastern part of the country as well. violent storms killing two people and knocking out power from indiana to maryland. in virginia, two people were killed by falling trees. one that crashed down on a home, the other on a car. take a look at this video from d...

intercom, and it is all caught on video. three major stories we are watching right now. record heat, millions without power, and a massive wildfire in colorado. weve got it all covered. rob marciano is in colorado springs, meteorologist karen maginnes is watching the heat, and athena jones is keeping an eye on the outages on the east coast, which could be a very dangerous combination with the heat for people hours from now. this all after a violent line of thunderstorms swept across ...

dangerous situation for those suffering through record-breaking heat. triple digit temperatures are making life absolutely miserable for about 100 million americans this weekend. thats about a third of our population. heres a look at todays predicted highs across the united states. lets go first to cnns reporter live in atlanta in a cooling center where the heat is expected, nick, to hit 106 degrees. that makes me think back to the record here in atlanta in 2007. lets talk about how da...

Thank you, always good to see you. bill: weve got a breaking news alert now, wires that power trains have fallen down, the new jersey transit folks saying it happened in motuchen, they do not know whether the train can be moved or passengers evacuated. this will have an enormous ripple effect up and down the east coast. millions will be affected. the downed wire is causing delays of up to 60 minutes. new york-bound trains, planning up to 30 minutes behind schedule, so were working on that story ...

corporal punishment and discipline to abuse. an ongoing debate sparked by the video of a judge caught on tape repeatedly hitting his daughter with a belt. also this morning a kid suspended from school. what did the kid do? he gave a hug to a friend. is that okay? 6:00 a.m. here in atlanta, georgia, 5:00 a.m. in fayetteville, arkansas. wherever you may be, were glad youre here on t.j. holmes. where is your money this weekend? is it on the move? a lot of americans money on the move this ...