It is two minutes past midnight on the east coast. This is msnbcs live coverage of Hurricane Sandy. Im chris jansing. We will be here all through the night along with meteorologist bill karins. Lets get you caught up on how things are looking and start in new york city right now. Where it is eerily dark. Over pretty much all of lower manhattan. More than 300,000 new yorkers without power. More than 3 million up and down the east coast are i want sesti the dark at this hour. Some of the worst damage here in new york is downtown, by battery park, where a near 14foot wall of water has flooded the streets as well as the brooklyn battery tunnel which connects brooklyn and manhattan. That is one of two major commuter tunnels in new york that flooded tonight. This storm has left a path of destruction in its wake. The Associated Press reports at least 15 deaths associated with sandy. Mostly the result of falling trees. Stormrelated deaths have been confirmed in new york, new jersey, west virgi
While. It would be 7 00 or 8 00 tonight. We are monitoring the Development Story and well have much more details and keeping tabs on the situation at 5 00. Until then, live in arlington, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. Abc7 and Jeff Goldberg first to break the story on twitter and online. For the latest updates as they happen go to wjla. Com and search olivera. Michelle metros Top Executive grilled on the hill today. Paul wiedefeld answering questions about the controversial shutdown. Jonathan he made the decision last month to take all the trains out of service for one full day. Emergency inspections finding frayed cables underground. Some of the tissues so bad that if they knew about it earlier the trains would have been halted a lot sooner. Brianne carter has wiedefelds explanation. He took the hot seat for sure. Brianne well, the hearing is still ongoing here on capitol hill. Just beyond these doors. That hearing again he said continuing this a meeting with the houe e
As a heinous attack. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation. Coronavirus hits the fa cup. One game is off, and a significant outbreak at aston villa means theyre planning to play their kids, against liverpool tonight. Good morning. Another wintry morning throughout the uk, some heavy snow this morning especially in the Northern England. The full forecast details coming up on breakfast. Good morning. Its friday the 8th of january. Our top Story International passengers will have to provide a negative covid 19 test result from next week, before travelling to england or scotland. Arrivals, including uk nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in. It come after months of pressure from the Airline Industry, as our transport correspondent Caroline Davies reports. Booths ready to test arrivals at heathrow airport. This scheme was ready to go, but never giv
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Evening. Something to know for all commuters, and the impending Severe Weather is suspending campaign events. President obama has cancelled events for virginia. Sandy is expected to spawn heavy rain, storm surge, and eventually snow. Dylan dryer has it all. A big report. A big report on a big storm, alex. It extends basically the size of it from boston to charlotte, North Carolina. That say huge storm, and when it makes its wayon sho on onshore, affect that length of coastline. Major events across the eastern seaboard. Still a category to 1 storm. The 11 00 a. M. Report has not changed. 573 miles directly south of new york city. It is still going to take that turn to the northwest and right now, we are already seeing wind gusts in salisbury, maryland, 33 Miles Per Hour. 43 Miles Per Hour gusts, and 45 to 55 across northeastern North Carolina. That high is still locked in place, that cold front to our west is still stalled. That means that storm is still going to take that turn to the n