that this area would be underwater. and boats might be the only way that people get around. they had crews out cleaning storm drains and it is all hands on deck essentially to make certain that people will be prepared if this storm hits with the intensity that they re predicting. thomas? rehema ellis in downtown new york for us. thanks so much. want to show you what long lines are showing up now on the jersey shore as people are starting to leave their vacations, leave their vacations early under the evacuates taking place there. and the long lines, see how that is stretching, but they are getting out well ahead of what is expected along the jersey shore. experts do predict that the economic damage from the hurricane this is a major one, hurricane irene could run into the tens of billions of dollars, especially if it makes landfall in the big apple. we were talking to rehema about that. situations like this, business, governments, they turn to risk modeling software to predict and