Theres a lot of work ahead. As kids across the country prepare to go back to school, in georgias Largest School district nearly 300 teachers and staff already sick or exposed to the virus. And overnight, startling images emerging of this crowded party in Beverly Hills as 30 states are seeing a spike in hospitalizations. But President Trump claims the outbreak is under control in a fiery and bizarre interview overnight. Oh, youre doing death as a proportion of cases. Im talking about death as a proportion of the population. Thats where the United States is really bad, much worse than south korea, germany, et cetera. You cant do that. Fda commissioner stephen hahn joins us live with the latest hopes for a vaccine and new treatments. Anger and outrage over this family and children detained by police in colorado. The kids here forced to the ground, some handcuffed after their car was mistaken as a stolen vehicle. The mother speaking about it this morning. Hot air balloon crash. Three sightseeing balloons slam into the ground with dozens on board sending at least 17 to the hospital. How they all miraculously survived. And we certainly do say good morning, america. Its good to be with you on this very busy tuesday morning. We want to get right to the latest on that powerful Tropical Storm that is moving fast up the east coast right now, amy. Thats right, robin. Nearly 500,000 americans losing power. Isaias making landfall overnight as a category 1 hurricane lashing North Carolina. Their governor will be joining us live this morning. Lets take a look at the radar. There you see the thunderstorm targeting more cities including washington d. C. , new york, philadelphia and boston. Parts of virginia facing a flash flood threat right now. Rob marciano starts us off from wilmington, North Carolina, which took a direct hit last night. Good morning, rob. Reporter good morning, george. Hurricanes that come in at night are by far the most terrifying and this one like hanna ten days ago intensified as it made landfall. A different scene this morning, no doubt about that, this storm moving quickly, but last night at one point when the wind and waves and surge were coming up, they were crashing on this dune, completely flattening this beach. Beach erosion a huge problem but thats the least of our worries as this storm drove inland leaving a trail of damage in its wake. Overnight hurricane isaias wreaking havoc on the carolina coast, ushering in lifethreatening storm surge flooding. Damaging winds reaching 85 Miles Per Hour with sheets of rain. The storm too fierce for me to report on camera. Sparks flying right before thousands lose power in wilmington, North Carolina. Power is out. Reporter an apocalyptic scene in ocean isle beach. Multiple evacuated homes engulfed in flames as the eye of the storm hovered over the town. I stepped out on the back porch and the sky was just completely red and it clearly smelled like smoke, and there were embers flying down the street. Reporter residents like Nate Thompson springing to action helping firefighters battle the flames. Trudging through the water. Just grabbed oxygen tanks and grabbing on to a hose and spraying water, whatever. Were a family here so take care of each other. Reporter officials urging residents to shelter in place. Crews gearing up for rescue and damage assessment. A lot of trees down, wires down, almost 50 of our county is without power at this time. So we have roads blocked. We still have a lot of damage in our coastal communities. Reporter in birdie county, one is dead and at least three people unaccounted for after a reported tornado there. Were trying to get trained personal in there, people with dogs, and theyre going door to door to make sure that weve accounted for everyone. We have medical services here to support them if we need to transport other people. Reporter in oakland isle, North Carolina residents riding out the ferocious winds and surging water in the dark. Probably about 11 00, came down here, looked. We had a stream of water coming from the back towards the front. House shook, first time i was in a house that ever shook. Reporter moving water and bringing sand inside filling homes with debris. In south carolina, streets turned to rivers. Homes flooded, cars buried under sand after winds caused more than a fourfoot storm surge. North of myrtle beach neighbors traversing kneehigh water in the dark soon forced to take shelter on the second floor as waters rose. This morning, the storm making its way through virginia. Rough winds knocking down this house. Trees are down everywhere around here. Its difficult to get around. We spoke with the fire department. Theyre trying to get out to do an assessment. There are areas difficult to get to because they require a ferry, boat or bridge that is shut down. So it will be a slow go this morning. This storm is moving quickly combining with a strong jet stream so thats keeping its wind energy up and why were seeing so much bad weather in front of it. Its not weakening all that quickly. And as a matter of fact, the trail of this thing, we havent seen a track like this impacting the entire east coast for a hurricane in over 50 years. Remarkable storm that were not done with yet. Amy . New york city taking extra safety precautions to guard against flooding, learning a lesson from when super storm sandy struck. Tom llamas is along the waterfront with how those measures are holding up. Reporter here in new york city were watching isaias for two reasons, storm surge and tornados. Lets talk about the storm surge right now. New york city officials have set up this inflatable water barrier meant to keep the water from coming into lower manhattan. This is from the seaport all the way to wall street. Years ago this area was heavily flooded during super storm sandy. They dont want that to happen again. We are under a tornado watch right now in new york city. Were checking the skies and the radars. Theyve told everybody in new york to make sure they have an evacuation plan just in case. They dont want anyone taking any chances. George . Thanks, lets bring in rachel scott from alexandria, virginia, which is the focus of a flash flood threat right now. Good morning, rachel. Reporter george, that storm is less than 100 miles out and weve already felt the rain and wind pick up. Just an hour ago this street was clear. Now it is underwater. Heavy rainfall is expected in this area up to six inches. Winds could reach over 50 Miles Per Hour, and that is the cause of so much concern. When those powerful winds were behind me, it carried over the banks and it will dump it right here on homes and businesses, george. Thanks very much. Lets go to robin. Okay, george, and the jersey shore is also expecting to get hit hard in just a few hours with possible wind gusts at over 70 Miles Per Hour. A state of emergency has been declared as conditions rapidly decline there. Stephanie ramos is in cape may, new jersey with the latest of the situation there. Good morning, stephanie. Reporter robin, good morning. We are starting to feel the winds pick up here. Wind gusts are already over 20 Miles Per Hour. This part of the state here in cape may is under a tornado watch. Now, the office of emergency management, they tell us they pulled the beach equipment off from the shoreline and secured it here and also asked Business Owners to bring in their outdoor tables, umbrellas, benches so they dont become dangerous projectiles in the high wind which is expected to top 75 Miles Per Hour. Along with the heavy rain, were feeling that rain right now, coastal flooding is also a major concern. Amy. Stephanie, thank you so much. This storm affecting millions of americans here so lets turn to ginger tracking all the latest on where the Tropical Storm is right now and where it is headed next. Good morning, ginger. Reporter amy, the storm is bolting for the canadian border. Its going to be here really in the next couple of hours in new york city, but what youll see is all the storm gone by tomorrow. The biggest threat this morning has been tornados, at least 13 reported already. The outer bands making their way through new jersey right now. Maryland is taking the brunt of it. It will move up to new york city, southern connecticut and even just north of new york city in eastern pennsylvania, too. Weve already seen damage and flash flooding. The images coming out of just outside philadelphia, inches of rain will happen very quickly and i think the heaviest rain is going to be inland. Thats where the flash flood is greatest. The worst of the winds will be right at the coast. Lets move on then to what happens after tornados, winds, flash flooding but also youve got the shot at coastal flooding. So when that water pushes and you can see the streamlines push against central new jersey, youre going to have those gusty winds. The heaviest thunderstorms, albany, new york, burlington, v vermont, youre going to see the potential for flash flooding. Then we have to look at the wind gusts. 57 mile per hour gusts in new york city. Its a good thing people are not traveling today. A little lighter in new england, but long island, rhode island and massachusetts, watch out. It will be here before you know it. Between noon and 4 00 is the tristate worst of it, 4 to 7 along coastal new england and the flash flooding threat extends all the way to the canadian border. Ill have much more coming up, robin. I know youre keeping an eye on it for us, ginger. Thank you so much. As we know, North Carolina was hit hard overnight and the governor of North Carolina, roy cooper, is joining us live right now. Sir, we really appreciate you taking the time to speak to us. As we were talking about earlier, a hurricane coming across at night is terrifying. Can you give us a sense of the damage that youre seeing this morning . Well, this slammed onto our shore a little after 11 00 last night as a category 1 hurricane. We have a lot of trees down. We have some storm surge flooding, particularly in southeastern North Carolina, a number of cars floating around. We have about 355,000 people without power. Weve had a number of tornadoes, not sure of the count yet, up in the northeastern part of the state. We know we have at least one fatality, a number of people injured as the tornado hit a mobile home park. We have search and rescue teams there. North carolina is ready for these kinds of storms. We had to get ready for it in a covid19 environment, which means that we had masks and social distancing and the 24 shelters that we set up screened people for covid symptoms and made sure that ppe was distributed and that social distancing was maintained. But all in all, this storm got in, got out pretty quickly and thats a good sign for potential river flooding which we hope will not be serious. As you said, hundreds of thousands without power right n now. Governor, what are your states immediate needs . We think right now that were able to handle those. We have American Red Cross volunteers who are here distributing to people who have had damages to the places where theyre living. We know that there are a lot of trees down so we have crews out cutting trees and things are a little chaotic right now. Weve had a disaster declaration so well be getting help from the federal government and we appreciate that. Were about ready as any state can be for these kinds of storms and disasters. We were ready last night and things operated as they should from what we see so far. Youre a very strong state and your residents. Can you tell us more, to have to deal with this as you said in the middle of a pandemic, just the difficulty in planning for a hurricane under these conditions. Yeah, you know, our number, our covid19 numbers have stabilized in North Carolina. We have not seen the spikes of other states. I put in a mandatory mask order over a month ago. We have stayed in our phase two. We have paused for about a month to try to drive our numbers down. Still, in a disaster, we know that when you have congregate sheltering and a lot of people in one place you have the potential for spread of the virus. So we had to make sure that we had extra precautions as we plan for evacuation shelters. We knew that we needed a lot more of them because you have to have about 115 square feet per person in a shelter in order to be able to ensure social distancing along with the ppe that you need with the masks and all that to make sure that we keep people safe so we had to work extra hard this time to make sure we had a number of shelters identified to handle all of that. Its double trouble really when youre dealing with a hurricane and covid19 at the same time. But we have been ready for this and we have been planning for this. We know obviously that we do get storms and hurricanes on the North Carolina coast in this time of year and so we were ready for it last night and lets just hope and pray that we dont have another storm during this. This pandemic is hard enough to deal with, for sure. It is. Amen to that. Governor roy cooper, thank you very much and thinking of everyone in your state. Appreciate your time. Take care. Be well. Thanks very much. Youre welcome. George . We get the latest on the coronavirus emergency and an internal fema memo shows nearly 8,000 people died from the disease last week, 24 jump over the previous sevenday period and now new backtoschool concerns with some schools that tried to reopen already forced to shut back down. Steve osunsami is in atlanta with the story. Good morning, steve. Reporter good morning to you, george. Many would say this is to be expected. Were already seeing an increasing number of cases in School Systems that are just now opening. There are 30 states across the country this morning seeing spikes in covid19 hospitalizations. And at the same time dr. Anthony fauci is pointing to states outside the sun belt warning that they could see a, quote, insidious increase in cases. For those of the group out on the front line, thank you for what youre doing but be prepared because theres a lot of work ahead. Reporter one of his concerns are School Systems welcoming back students in the classroom. In georgias Largest School district north of atlanta, school hasnt even started yet and nearly 300 Gwinnett County teachers and Staff Members are sick or exposed to the virus. Its hard to focus on what im paid to do because of this Health Pandemic and how risky it is to go into the building. Reporter for many families across the country whose School Systems have decided to go with inperson instruction, its a tough decision to send the kids to class. I just want to cry. That was hard. Reporter Health Officials insist that none of this will get any easier as long as we keep seeing this, people crowding a Beverly Hills mansion overnight, and at the party there was not a Face Covering in sight. Police responded after a noise complaint. They made no arrests and wrote no tickets. On the other side of the country, new Jerseys Health commissioner is blaming another crowded party for a growing outbreak that has hit the Rutgers University football team. So far at least 28 players have tested positive for the coronavirus. And even when schools, for example, follow precautions recommended by health authorities, children who return to them are still at risk. A mother with a student at Indiana University shares this Facebook Post saying that despite routine testing and social distancing at the school her son, freshman offensive lineman brady feeney, tested positive last month, had trouble breathing and is now struggling with possible heart issues writing, bottom line, even if your sons schools do everything right to protect them, they cant protect them. This morning, a group of College Football players from several schools in the pac12 are now threatening to skip all preseason activities and Training Camps if the ncaa and their schools dont take a greater stand on Racial Justice issues and do more to ensure their safety in the middle of this pandemic. They want to be able to opt out of playing this season and still keep their scholarships, george, if theyre not cool with the health risks. George . Thank you, steve. Were going to have a lot more on the coronavirus emergency coming up, including a live interview with the fda commissioner after an interview with the president where he claims it is under control. Also this morning, that horrifying incident caught on camera, a police mistakenly swarming the car of a young black woman with her family inside. But first lets go back to ginger. Reporter you know, maryland and delaware are getting whipped by those outer bands right now. Several tornado warnings just popped up in the last couple of minutes. Well see these tornado watches extend all the way to connecticut very soon here. Were also going to see the flash flood threat so flash flood threat extend along this track. It moves very fast all the way through new york, vermont, New Hampshire and maine. 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