back from pennsylvania with their power outage issue to come down here. now obviously have to face another ice storm. loofr overtime for those guys. being on those rigs, that s just amazing job that they have. good luck to you down there, jim, and we ll be watching the south all day today. as far as snow goes, tom, charlotte, four to eight inches. richmond, four to eight. there s a stripe through the mountains of virginia, north carolina, and through the big cities to the north, this is another high impact winter storm, and a lot of these areas we don t have any place to put the snow. almost another foot on top of what we have is ridiculous. you re going to keep us updated through the morning. coming up at the top of the hour on morning joe the speaker of the house reaches across the aisle to reach a deal on the debt ceiling. does this put the speaker in jeopardy, though? how might it impact the midterm elections? we come back here, and we re going to hulgts around the water cool
and we ll have an update later this evening. the storm, the worst of the storm has passed. but now we have to do a full assessment to see what the damage was and come up with mediation timetable to tell you when we can get back up to full service. [ inaudible ] we ll have an update later. [ inaudible ] start with over a million new yorkers without power this is going to go on for days. this is bittersweet. we are celebrating that it could have been worse. and it could have been worse. but, that doesn t mean there wasn t significant damage. this power outage issue, especially on long island, this will be multiple days. mid hudson, catskills, you have tremendous flooding. you have people who are hundreds of people who are still being evacuated from their homes.
because it gets pretty warm down here during the summer. so we expect power to be off for days, maybe even weeks. oh, my goodness. and then what about any rescue or recovery efforts? how does that power outage issue impact that? and what are you finding as you look for people? well, during the night when the storm was the greatest, we had to make sure that we only went on calls that were very necessary for first responders to be out there during the storm. however, corpus christi did not have very many rescues at all within our city limits. most of the storm, the most powerful part of the storm was actually north of us. and we prayed very much for those from rockport, victoria, and all those cities that are had a little bit more damage than corpus christi did. and do you have any idea how