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George howl has that story from clearwater beach, florida, where he is. it looks like, is the rain getting worse? how have you seen it progress in the last say hour or so, george? >> reporter: christy, you know the torrential rainfall comes and goes. definitely, were in it right now. a lot of rain coming down. the winds have picked up here substantially. weve seen the wind gusts pick up. they can go anywhere from 60 to sometimes 70 miles per hour. as we are closer now to that centre of circulati...

The statue of liberty and over there is ellis island. high tide was here at 8:35 and this water breached the southern tip of the promenade here way down here where you see that man on the bicycle. right now the waters are much calmer here. we have seen big swells. we saw whitecaps earlier. there are very few boats here today. a couple of tugs and police boats, but thats all the activity weve seen in the water. we have seen some debris get swept up as the water level has risen. as far as people g...

nursing homes and hospitals, have been phenomenally cooperative. it has gone so smoothly. they all deserve a lot of credit. hopefully this will have been for naught, but we cannot take risks, particularly with the most vulnerable. we wanted to do those first, and thats basically been accomplished. we do not incidentally recommend that anybody wait forz a bus to evacua evacuate. the best thing to do is to use your own or public transportation to get yourself to a shelter, and that means...

supplies. they really couldnt find their way out. it was an issue of where to go. and that is the case for a lot of new yorkers. many people dont have the capacity to leave the city or dont have a place to go inland. so -- >> they dont have hurricane plans. >> theyre die-hard new yorkers. theyre going to stay where they are and hope for the best. >> fredricka, its all yours. you have a long day of coverage here as well. >> ill see you tomorrow morning. this is like one long psych zbll ...

As an inspection of all deep water oil rigs and platforms in the gulf begins. the white house has sent a team of top officials and agencies, the epa, homeland security, interior defense, even the justice department, all are there today, and cnn has its own team of reporters on the scene. theyre trying to blanket this story from all angles. and there are a lot of angles. the environmental impact, the devastating blow from fishing, tourism, and the $7 million a day battle just to try and stop the ...

Little bit. we saw it clearly offshore where there were whitecaps all over the place. the tide is getting much rougher. its coming in. its pushing a lot of the boom right up on shore. its breaching some of it. its washing over it, sew that will be a huge factor here. and the wind is blowing from the southeast toward the northwest, again, not good news for the people trying to contain this. not good news for those trying to put more and more boom along the coastline, because that complicates it, ...

Coastline, but a lot of it was breached, too, because the tide is coming in, a lot of whitecaps are kind of washing over the booms and sometimes breaking them apart. so, a lot of the coastline is still exposed. we flew over the breton island wildlife refuge where there are thousands of pelicans and seagulls nesting and gathering there. no signs of oil there yet, but were told that its creeping closer. we did see in other areas slivers of oil kind of coming into inlets right by land, so the oil i...

>> let me tell you, long beach you are approaching your low tide time, as well. any time of receding you do see from the water is being exacerbated from being at low tide. back on the pictures of hawaii, you have been talking a lot and very well about the wave all of those waves, any wave you see at the beach enjoying your day, those are wind waves. those are stirred up by the wind. that is just running across the surface of ocean and that friction is causing those waves to happen. that is what ...

Powerful tsunami. what procedures are in place to deal with disasters of this magnitude, and are they working now? joining us from honolulu is congressman, tell us about the evacuations, the area where you are had plenty notice. are people heeding evacuations? >> thank you for the opportunity. yes, waikiki has been warned. all of the islands operating under civil defense, national tsunami warning center and pacific command, civil defense is operating on every island. think weve done everything t...

Shore. in the background, i wasnt sure i was looking at whitecaps or bolts and my producer said those are boats? >> the odd thing now is the ocean is placid and deep blue as ive ever seen it. its utterly completely calm out there, its a little surreal. >> julie: its the calm before the storm. what is the boats doing out there? >> the wave will pass under them. they will just rise up. i dont expect theyll notice it at all. that is where they have been told to go. >> julie: so essentially you will...