tonight folks in the storm s path are preparing accordingly we hope. north carolina, new jersey, and new york ordering hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate from areas near the coast and on the outer banks in carolina. several governors have declared states of emergency. officials are advising folks in low lying areas, including, for the first time, in new york city to pack their bags and double-check their evacuation plan. airlines have begun canceling flights and moving planes away from the storm s path. and the u.s. navy is moving dozens of ships on the east coast out to sea. team fox coverage now a very dangerous storm. jonathan serrie on the carolina coast. first, our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth in the fox extreme weather center. extreme fits tonight, rick. yeah, you said it. big concerns for so many people. this is the latest on the visible imagery losing daylight. you start to lose some of that imagery. it gives you an idea how big this is. rain bands across parts
session. therefore, he requested that he speak wednesday. if wednesday doesn t work, thursday is fine with us. the president now giving the speech on the first night of the nfl season. the white house says he ll be done before kickoff, which is set for 8:30 p.m. eastern time. we have team fox coverage, adam shapiro from the fox business network on new unemployment numbers out today, and first to chief white house correspondent ed henry on the north lawn. the scheduling has some democrats saying the president gave in to the speaker too quickly. sure, trace. white house aides say this is much ado about nothing. but james caravel from the clinton days begs to differ. he said that basically the president never should have tried to counter program the republican presidential debate next wednesday night, that that was a mistake, and caravel also added that this sort of cuts the president s clout down a bit by now having to accept thursday night when speaker john boehner
state. who talked about vermont? nobody. but they got it so badly. they have not seen flooding this bad since the early 1900 s with flood warnings in effect for a dozen american states. president obama promised help from the federal government. it will take time to recover from a storm of this magnitude, the effects are still being felt across the country including in new england and states like vermont, where there has been enormous amount of flooding. so, our response continues. but i m going to make sure that fema and other agencies are doing everything in their power to help on the ground. shepard: we still see a lot of travel delays with 1,500 flights canceled today, on top of 12,000 grounded over the long weekend, officials warn it will likely be days before everything is back to normal so, with that team fox coverage, the weather machine in the extreme weather
and firefighters had to rescue dozen frz their flooded homes on staten island and the storm slammed into land today, it became clear that the areas east of the city of new york would bare the brunt of it all. team fox coverage, molly line in road highland where the winds are blowing, let s start with jonathan hunt, long beach, low lying, and looks fairly calm, but the morning was a different story, jonathan. yeah, certainly was, shep. we re still getting bat tered a bit, but not like we were from 6 a.m. and the seas are churned up. but this morning it was a frightening scene for anybody waking up here on long beach. the waves were huge, they d whip up across the entire sand area and went underneath the boardwalk on which i m standing. and flooded a great number of homes, the other side of that boardwalk. one of the most extraordinary scenes today, as well, shep, was the lifeguard station, which was just down from me here and that was ripped off
drop in history, today wasn t far behind. team fox coverage begins, gerri willis of the fox business network. gerri, today s lost was the ninth worse lost. it went to paris. france worries overnight would lose a.a.a. credit rating. s&p said no, we are not taking that away. the focus changed to french banks. they sold off. what will be the impact on u.s. banks? our market got crushed. shepard: as a lot of our viewers probably might expect, gold hit another record today. traders didn t shy away from oil, either. no, no. oil popped as well today up to 82 bucks and change a barrel. not to worry about demand. gold bursting through the previous high. $1,801 today. it settled at 1784. people are looking for a safe haven out there. shepard: how real, gerri, are