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Alicia. alicia: alex hogan, thank you. ben. benjamin: thank you. knew new york state is sending hundreds of national guard troops to the hardest hit parts of long island, mostly out east in suffolk county. power outages could last for a week or more. steven malone joins me now, the suffolk county executive many thank you for joining us. i wonder if you could explain what the situation is on the ground right now. >> we were preparing for a category 1 hurricane to make a direct strike. that would have been the first time in decades. there is a sense of relief that it did move east slightly overn...

Rain, particularly the western side of the state. governor ned lamont spoke an hour and-a-half ago. this is what he said about his biggest concern moving forward. >> i'm concerned about that. i think that's the biggest risk that we have right now. as you know, we had a lot of rain over the last week. the topsoil is thin. you have rock underneath. that means the topsoil is filling up like a sponge fills with water. that water is pouring off right now. >> reporter: so yeah, heavy rain is the big concern for connecticut and for much of those that are getting affected by the rest of this storm. th...

We have fox team coverage. steve bender is live on long island, new york. first, to brian llenas the in connecticut. >> reporter: look, we are in old saybrook, the southeastern portion of connecticut. the tropical storm henri made landfall 36 miles west of here. the sun is out and the worst is by us and the deck hands here have done a good job of tying up the boats. you can see -- well, take a look at the boats, they're still there. take a look at this video, you'll see it was windy, it was -- there was rain, about 45, 60-mile-an-hour gusts in the southeastern portion of connecticut. the tropi...

About 6,000, 10,000 people without power in massachusetts. they were expecting up to 69% of all homeowners and customers in connect cut would be without power. that does not look like it will be that severe, they don't expect people to be without power for weeks at a time so that is good news on that front. we know ultimately we will continue to follow this storm, the big concern now is flooding inland, rivers and small streams, that could then flood into people's homes or especially flash flooding in some urban areas as the rest of the tropical storm makes its way west past hartford and centr...

Urge people this is a sunday, it's a family day, stay home. this is a good day to spend time with the pamly -- family and allow the national gander first respond -- national guard and first responders to respond as needed. benjamin: do you feel suffolk county is better suited to handle this kind of a storm than it used to be? >> the thing that happens when you go through storms like this and you never want to, you never want to experience them, but what they do bring is the kind of experience that prepares you for future events that you can't get anywhere else and we have those relationships, ...