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Great. no problem. in new jersey in the path of this storm, inspectors in there checking the state's four nuclear power plants to make sure the plants' water tight doors are working and to secure anything that could be loosened by the wind. dealing with an emergency is essentially a technocratic skooil skill. it takes a specific kind of leadership and a specific kind of good governance. a storm of this scale -- but that we count on in a mass life or death way in extreme circumstances like this one. that is why talking about roads and bridges and dams and power plants is not supposed to be a pa...

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>> president obama of course on top of this and concerned spoke with the head of fema this morning. governor bev purdue has declared a state of emergency. >> putting shudders on. >> and the last time a hurricane took this track -- >> "nbc nightly news with brian williams" with tom brokaw. >> the north carolina, virginia, and maryland. >> some of new york's biggest skyscrapers never opened for business. >> high tide was at 11:00 this morning. >> this will be a long time forgetting. >> hoped this morning that the weather for the geneva summit will be better. >> the other storm in washington, dic...

>> causing billions in damage. >> it will be a billion dollar disaster. >> president obama of course on top of this and concerned spoke with the head of fema this morning. governor bev purdue has declared a state of emergency. >> putting shudders on. >> and the last time a hurricane took this track -- >> "nbc nightly news with brian williams" with tom brokaw. >> the north carolina, virginia, and maryland. >> some of new york's biggest skyscrapers never opened for business. >> high tide was at 11:00 this morning. >> this will be a long time forgetting. >> hoped this morning that the weather for...

Okay. jeff ranieri, thank you for the update. i know you're not going far. let's go to nbc's kerry sanders, in atlantic beach, north carolina, you were there all day yesterday, you rode it out. though part of the pier behind you, that didn't make it. >> indeed, it did not make it. that was from the pounding surf. we had waves rolling in here consistently eight to ten feet. but some rogue waves that came in close to 17 feet that slammed the pier. the unfortunate thing is that the u.s. geological survey had monitoring equipment at the end of the pier to try to measure the force of the waves and ...