Rain Socked News Today

New york city, its going to take a little longer than that. sometime right around 3:00 or 4:00. and by 9:00 p.m. this evening, remember those macys fireworks in the new york city area, it looks like you clear out just in time for a great show. by 4:00 a.m. even the boston area begins to clear out. so your fourth of july forecast, theres the rain socked in. d.c., youre the lucky one, same for you in baltimore. but southern portions of new england, we do clear it out for a great saturday, a great ...

The sunshine along with just a nice breeze. now, there is still some problems to be had with this storm. were focusing more now on the jersey shore, long island, connecticut, rhode island and also eastern massachusetts. we have a cold front thats stalled out to the north. thats that little rain band you see south of albany and north of new york city. we have a lot of heavy rain to the south thats being sucked to the north. it is going to be a soggy fourth of july in that region. let me take you ...

Kind of a different category. numerous areas had wind gusts that would do significant damage anywhere else in the country, but eastern north carolina, you are storm tested. you get storms like this often. the structures are built better. thats why were not hearing reports of a lot of damage. look at our storm, its almost now parallel to ocean city, maryland. it still has a well-defined eye with it. its starting to weaken slightly but you can clearly tell we have a hurricane just off the virginia...

All of a sudden you just see all that rain heading north. so eventually philadelphia, the new york city area, youve had a pretty dry morning. thats going to change shortly, especially there in new york city. youre going to get drenched for a good portion of the middle of your fourth of july. hartford area, youre going to be next as that rain just surges northwards out ahead of arthur and out ahead of that cold front. the storm itself will stay off the coast and it will begin to weaken throughout...

Many communities on this fourth of july holiday. forecasters are warning high surf and dangerous rip currents are a threat along many of the new york area coastal areas. nbcs ron allen in long beach, new york. hes been there all morning monitoring the situation. and im told, ron, that you are with the long beach supervisor. of course their concern is that safety in the ocean right behind you. >> reporter: exactly. im going to let one of the experts answer all your questions about this situation ...

Experienced. whens the last time you had to go in and rescue a surfer? >> we have to go in every year becausy dont have surfers that respect it either. it might be too big for them. they go out and they have a leash attached to them but then they panic or get too close to the jetties and they panic and weve got to help them. >> reporter: thanks very much. i hope you have a very easy day, fourth of july. l all right, richard, back to you. >> nbcs ron allen, thank you very much for that report. as...

Start filling in. all of a sudden its going to be overhead as youre standing up, five, six, seven, eight feet and things will be different. >> reporter: now its almost flat almost. >> it looks flat. its not a great breaking beach but is only coming in in sets and infrequently right now. >> reporter: somebody called this the quiet before the storm. have you ever heard that? >> i think we all have heard that. >> reporter: but the point is this is a very serious situation that people should be mind...

Information this hour. lets go straight to bill karins, nbc meteorologist. bill, some developing news that you have for us. >> yeah, no big surprise the hurricane center still giving us these hourly updates as we have hurricane warnings that are active on the east coast. they do those until those are dropped. now were dealing with instead of a category 2, a category 1 hurricane. winds went from max 100 miles per hour sustained to 90 miles per hour. it was within their forecast. we believe it wil...