with in the coming hours. and another high tide eight hours from now. again, we re not out of the woods here yet here in connecticut. we ll check out the damage across the river. yeah. look, very important aspect of this is the water table. you have saturated ground. it makes the trees and the root systems weak. it s easier for them to come down. you ll have pooling of water. and then for the power guys, the men and women who to out to fix it as first responders, you got to get the trees out of the way. it gets complicated quickly. let s go east of where we are to the eastern most point of long island, montague. miguel is there. we are starting to deal with what tom saider was explaining earlier from the weather center. this southern band that s bringing some wind, i would say it s gusting about 15, maybe 20 here. and bringing rain with it. this should sustain for 6, 12 hours. it had been slightly more
isn t here. i m feeling about 20 miles per hour, 25. we were looking at reports. tom, thank you. back to fred right now. again, look, tom s point is it gets really frustrating for people. you want things to end. and we did seem to get lucky here, but the story is not over. that s right. you got to be patient. chris, thank you so much. tom, i mean, he s one of the best. i m in agreement. that s why he s one of my favorites. all right. joining me right now to talk further about the conditions, particularly, in the northeast, u.s. coast guard admiral thomas allen junior in boston. you oversee all coast guard missions across eight states from new jersey to maine. you have quite the territory to keep a close watch on. what s the situation? what are you seeing? well, i think as you guys have been talking and describing, there was a lot of uncertainty with the storm. we watched it kind of move from cape cod all the way to new york city. and when you look at the marine transportation syste
one fire in oregon has become so fierce it s creating it own weather. the heat from the bootleg fire is forming storm clouds with lightning and strong winds. that fire is burning so fast. it would scorch through central park in about 45 minutes. south in california there are seven large fires currently burning in more than 200,000 acres have burned there so far this year in that state. that s more than five times greater than at this same time during last year s record breaking season. let me turn to cnn meteorologist tom saider. tom, let s start with the bootleg fire. it s creating its own weather. what exactly does that mean? well, take a look at this picture. it looks like a thunderstorm with an anvil head. when you have the type of intense fires that we have seen the last couple years, that rapid rise of the warm air is creating its own weather. let me share a statement from a mark us kaufman, a spokesperson for the forestry department. he told us, again, in an article
at this time last year. this week it s now five times greater. and, again, we re going to have more of these popup storms with the lightning really creating havoc for the firefighters even again today and the next couple weeks. is there any relief in sight for the fires? well, there is some rain as mentioned. it s not going to be a lot to help areas of the northwest, but the monsoon is helping. i think there s six large fires in arizona. this comes with lightning. the problem with all the extreme heat, the heat domes we ve seen with all the record breaking temperatures are not moving much. it s slower the jetstream. the heat dome in the pacific northwest now moves to the plains and the great basin. we re going to put up with this for a while as well as the smoke encompassing northern parts of north america and to eastern canada as well. we ll have to put up with this for a while. record breaking season, unfortunately, underway. tom, thank you. talk about mixed messages. at the
area across long island. starting to see the colors of green. that s getting into a little bit of a heavier downpour. it s not dramatic. it s not monsoon rains but it is in blue light. but that all plays a role in the visibility and low cloud deck. obviously it s going to be something they re going to be watching. we have the hour, hour and a half delays at the airports around the region. tom, thank you so much. tom on the conditions of the new york weather as we cover this helicopter crash landing. shimon is back up with me. we see the flashing lights, nypd. talk to me about the response. who s down there? it s a massive response. when the call initially came into the nypd through the 9-1-1 system and the fire department, they didn t know what they were dealing with. there was thought that maybe this was a plane or small plane that went in this building. there was a massive response. hundreds of firefighters on the