the heavy wind could bring hazardous conditions to the road. they closed at 3:00 p.m., giving employees time to get home safely. the south bay, the oak ridge door closing early because it is prone to flooding and power outages as well. the high winds are having a significant effect on flights at san francisco s airport. flights have been delayed, diverted, canceled outright in many cases. there have been 84 cancellations. any of the short haul to west coast cities. the airport is asking you to check your flight status with your airline. there is minimal impact to oakland and san joseoma county airport at this time, that could change. the biggest effect is on the san francisco airport. let s look at our camera. this is the san mateo bridge tower camera. people are still out there driving. it does not look too bad, taking our time. it is hard to see because it is dark, there is rain, there is wind. we will continue our weber coverage in just a few moments. you are watchin
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philadelphia through northern new jersey. dozens of water rescues happening, taking place and numerous roads have been closed. so we ll get the images up as we get them. the latest flash flood emergency included newark which is new jersey s largest city. you re looking at that, images from newark, new jersey, right now. these are the rainfall estimates for parts of eastern pennsylvania and new jersey. range from 4 to 8 inches of water with some isolated locations approaching 10 inches. some parts saw 3 to 4 inches of rain an hour throughout wednesday. we ve been speaking to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who s been telling us about the rainfall, the one-hour rainfall totals in new york city, which is measured usually in central park. the highest since they started keeping record. let s go to our meteorologist now, pedram, to give us some
could see tremendous rainfall as well, about a 1200 mile stretch of land from louisiana out towards cape cod where we have the flood advisories in place. so rainfall estimates go right back up to maybe 6 plus inches, some areas potentially close to 10 inches in eastern pennsylvania getting awfully close to philadelphia, new york city, so some of the major metro cities will see what is left of the storm system and i always try to emphasize the significance of that because when you are in an area where it is a lot of natural ground, the countryside, we know about 90% of what hits the ground is absorbed by the soil, about 10% becomes runoff. and in the south where we ve had so much rain in recent weeks, a lot more in the way of runoff when we see flash flooding. but you bring it into an urban environment, a lot of concrete, about 55% of it translates into runoff. so that is the concern that we ll see significant flooding in some of these major cities around the northeast as the system her
36 million people are in the flood watches from vermont all the way through all of connecticut, massachusetts, hudson valley, back down to new jersey and long island. and the rainfall estimates, we easily could see an additional 3 to 6 inches and we re very concerned, jonathan, with the mountains of the berkshires and western mass, western connecticut and through the hudson valley including the catskills. that s where we ll see the problems starting this afternoon and continuing all night tonight. so the bottom line landfall expected in the next two hours of henri in rhode island. all right, bill karins, thanks so much. this sunday as we await remarks from president biden, they have activated the civil reserve fleet. 18 commercial liners will be used to transport evacuees from afghanistan. freeing military planes to focus on getting people out of kabul. meanwhile a brand-new nbc poll out this morning reveals the president s approval rating has