if you re just joining us, there s been a forced helicopter landing on top of one of the buildings in midtown manhattan. a couple blocks shy of central park. we don t know the conditions on which this helicopter had to crash land. that s how we just heard it from the governor. it started a fire. people in the building heard the shake, apparently the fire is under control. as bryn was just reporting there s one confirmed fatality and one confirmed injured. that s what we know. more than 100 fire personnel have rushed to the scene trying to get a handle on any sort of injuries from anyone else in the building or in the surrounding area. tom saider is up for me live, our meteorologist who can talk us through a little bit about the conditions. just listening to miles o brien, and he s right, it s a low ceiling. poor visibility. it s one of those days in new york city where you can t even
because there s reporting on the ground that, you know, some of the shelters are not going to be open because they re not equipped for this. so, i can t address all of the shelters, but we have four in bay county and i just came from our center. yes, they re all ready for this storm. they re ready for a cat-4 storm. good. which this could be. right. that s what we re hearing, it could get stronger. tom saider, our meteorologist told us that. the shelf and the shallower water, the temperature, we ll wait and see. i m always open to being wrong about this. i always hope they re weaker. your district, you have a lot of pockets of poverty and you have rural areas in your district. we do. harder to access, harder to check on, harder to get to places that are safe for them, slower to leave in a lot of cases. how do you deal with that?
lock, i hope we all wind up being wrong and the science is wrong, but right now everything is pointing to hurricane florence being a big problem for the east coast. i would think that we re going to be in good shape because we ve heard it from the authorities, and we ve heard it from the president today, but then he gave this confounding notion of what he considers a success, the response in puerto rico. that s what he calls an insung success. so we take it to the number actual democrat in the senate, illinois dick durbin. senator durbin, thank you for joining us on primetime. it s god to be with you. all right. tom of the docket tonight is this storm is coming, florence. looks like we re not going to avoid a bad situation here.
going to, you know, shore up and prep like that with the plywood do it, because these winds, and i want to get in a little bit closer and you get an idea of what we re expecting. tropical storm force winds hit thursday and 8:00 p.m. on thursday, by friday morning well inland and by friday you re back out to areas all the way to west virginia. i mean, this is massive. that is tropical storm force winds that extend outwards 1735 miles. people have to remember, look, you guys are living down there and note local traffic better than we do. i was looking at the maps today, and there aren t a million ways out. you are going to be hitting traffic. budget time for that and i ve been cheating in on the local newscasts. they are doing a great job in telling you what the traffic delays are and how many time you need to budget so, please, pay attention. last question for you right now, tom. the unique characteristics of this coastline that make it vulnerable to this, what is it like along there?
and people have to prepare for what could be an upstic in the hurricane season in the next 30 to 60 days. thinking of the emergency responders getting ready to rock and roll. tom saider keeping us posted. ahead for us, joe biden hitting the parade route today. shaking hands, taking selfies talking trade. yes, confirmation. joe biden is running, he is running so to speak. this as the former vice president warns democrats that everything is on the line heading into november. in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they were on it. it was unbelievable. having insurance is something everyone needs, but having usaa- now that s a privilege. we re the baker s and we re usaa members for life.