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Now, this area, in particular, supposed to get more wind and perhaps more rain, we're under a flood advisory, a coastal flood advisory right now and that extends into the afternoon, but you can just see all kinds of debris here on the ground still crews doing their best to get things out of the way to chop things and move them out of the street so the roads are passable but, unfortunately, still some debris and people going to be out of power possibly for some time. live in alexandria, virginia, melissa mollet for wrc. >> i'm reminded by one of my producers at msnbc that a number of deaths hav...

Throughout the state, the potomac, also in the lower shore of maryland we're hearing reports from the field similar to what you just reported, that people are saying 50 years, 60 years haven't seen this much flooding. we had to evacuate residences in chris field maryland on the lower shore. we have 41 shelters opened. about 1200 or more marylanders are currently sheltering in these areas, shelters around the state. so we're seeing flooding that, you know, most of us, many of us have not seen before in maryland. >> i'm also reading reports about trees down in maryland. have you had a lot of rai...

Done to human beings when trees fall on homes and we're going to see a lot of trees get knocked over and a lot of power lines getting knocked over in this long, violent night ahead. >> some of the trees in d.c. where i live -- or work rather. i live in mare nd are. these trees were planted decades ago. not of them have root systems and they go over, they topple. they don't even break. >> you know, i guess given some of the experiences that we've had, i'd like to believe that the strongest trees have survived. we lost a lot of trees in the duracho and i'm looking at the outages and see that cec...

nice to be here with you for the next five hours. tropical storm irene after lashing new york city, irene is dutching heavy, heavy rainfall in parts of upstate new york and also new england. the storm made landfall overnight as a hurricane in two stops, first on the landfall on little egg inlet in new jersey, and then it hit another landfall, coney island, new york. at that time irene had weakened to a tropical storm. >> on long island, irene's storm surge flooded downtown long beach. some streets in manhattan also flooding, but the water really has started to recede already. it is s...

we see any clear skies here. anderson. >> that's it for us on "360". more hurricane coverage next. hi there. good morning, everybody, from the cnn center. this is your cnn start morning. coming to you an hour earlier today to cover this storm, hurricane irene that is actually putting about 20% of this country's population under threat of this storm. we're talking about 65 million people are in the path of this sucker. you see the line there. that's the cone of uncertainty they call it. but still they believe this is the path it's going to take, right up the east coast. and we're ta...