. >> the shore and the boardwalk in seaside heights of my childhood no longer exists. >> governor. >> thank you for everything. >> the rough and tumble governor took charge when a superstorm named sandy ravaged his state days before the presidential election. a romney backer suddenly christie was standing arm in arm with the president, praising mr. obama's leadership as they toured sandy's wrath. >> when you know you have responsibility for those folks, you could geb a damn about the politics of things. i could care less today. >> reporter: number three, olympian gabby douglas. >> gabby douglas. >> one of the fab five at the london games, she captured our hearts, becoming the first african-american gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same olympics. >> i wanted to inspire a nation, and whole point about this is inspire a generation and i love that. >> she did just that. number two, school age activists malala rose to fame blogging about the brutality of her life in pakistan under taliban rule. not yet a teenager, she dared to suggest girls

the first song you played features casper running on this wooden boardwalk across the ghosttown and a lot of, i think it's forks playeded on empty bottles. one of the works are built a house of empty bottles. that's in the song. yet the one you played was -- that instrument is one of our favorite findings. i think also it says when you read about the place the world's northern most grand piano stands in the concert hall. something we got excited about playing that piano. it was great. maybe the oil things, we had fuel tanks, empty fuel tanks, eight meter high, each had a different pitch. so we were able to actually turn it into an instrument sort of like microphonish. >> gigantic. >> amazing to listen to, too. i'm told you made a thousand field recordings for the album. what do you want people to get from listening to it? what do you want them to take away from it? >> well, i mean, it's interesting when you use recordings that you record from one place because you tied very much to that place. in our minds, we are totally there when we listen to it, so it's hard to tell what people wi

. >> the boardwalk we walked on it together this summer greeting residents, talking to business owners. it's gone. >> reporter: tourism is a $38 billion a year industry in new jersey and more than half of that comes from the shore. the new jersey tourism board says it's too early to estimate sandy's impact on the coming season, but atlantic city's casinos, like bally's and bravada have already taken a hit. total casino revenues were down 20% in october. >> my sense is that in the short-term, maybe auz look at revenue numbers that may come in for october, november, you might see some diminishing in our projection. on the flip side, come december through next june and beyond, you may see it be much brisker than we thought it would be because of the circumstances that have been forced upon our state. >> reporter: getting into new york and new jersey is no longer a problem. amtrak estimates a busy thanksgiving day. while its trains and lines are fully operational, storm damage and loss of revenue has cost the company tens of millions of dollars. new jersey transit are still repairing the d

. >> wolf, this is all that's left of a popular boardwalk here. some describe it as looking like a war zone. many here and near by are still in the dark. pamela shapiro has been cleaning up since water gushed into her home, and now she just craves to be able to turn on the lights. >> i feel let down, we did everything that we were asked to do, and still that we don't have power is mind boggling. >> the basement ruined had just been redone after damage from hurricane irene last year. and a promise restored power was mixed because of a snaf few with her electricians evaluation. >> i said i wish i was young again and my parents were here to take care of me. just to make it better for half an hour. that's it, i just didn't want to be an adult for half an hour. >> she considers herself lucky. not far from her, there are families that can't live in their homes. the house that this family bought three years ago is now destroyed, and now he is waiting for help to rebuild. >> it's frustrating and i'm getting angrier every day. you know? that's how i feel.

the boardwalk was completely washed away along rockaway beach. and there are crews now -- the bulldozers were pulling the sand out of the streets and sifting machines are trying to put everything back together to try to bring the community back together. so a lot of work happening, but still much more work to do. ted? >> all right, a long way to go indeed. victor, thank you. >>> mcafee, sound familiar? john mcafee, the computer anti-virus pioneer, is now wanted for questioning about the murder of his neighbor. standing by on the phone is the police chief in belize. but first -- >>> the unemployment rate among veterans in -- from the wars of iraq and afghanistan is several points higher than the national average. we caught up with one female veteran in san diego who is putting her military training as a helicopter mechanic to use to help fight fires. >> i am currently in the fire fighting training with the california conservation corps. when you're holding this, just pull. >> close it. >> there is a lot of training. it is really good that they're

also the boardwalk was ripped apart so they're going to start rebuilding that soon. we saw a towel, someone had writ ain't phrase on at the beach and said" never retreat, never surrender, not now, not ever, rockaway forever" the community's determined to return. >> good for them. if you want to help the storm victims in the northeast, it's easy to do. log onto to cnn.com/impact. find all kinds of information, how to contribute to the leaf effort. go to the site? new details keep coming out about the former director of the cia and what people are saying about this affair. ally bank. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sargent. nobel laureate in economics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell me what cd rates will be in two years? no. if he can't, no one can. that's why ally has a raise your rate cd. ally bank. your money needs an ally. >>> hi there. on the help desk talking about your mortgage. with me, greg olson and carmen wong ulrich. carmen, this question's for you. >> a single parent who mana

everything taken off the roads in the city, from the boardwalk, furniture, appliances, anything inside the houses and placed on the street has now been trucked over to this site. at some point later in the month, all this debris will be taken out of here and sent to landfalls in pennsylvania, new jersey, and determined by fema. >> fema says more than $400 million in assistance has already been approved for storm victims. >>> and a 4.23 quake rattles kentucky this morning, centered eight miles from whitesburg, kentucky. they're not uncommon here, but others felt shaking, some more than 300 miles away. >>> and it took some days, but we have a winner in florida, president obama won in florida based on projections before today's noon deadline. >>> and we're learning today that an e-mail investigation sparked the surprise resignation of director david petraeus. sources say the affair came to light because the fbi looked into a complaint that the biographer, paula broadwell, was sending harassing e-mails to another woman. tom, it is good to see you. wish it was a better story that we were ta

there's some long-term projects like the boardwalk which is gone, but we're still cleaning up. we're still cleaning out basements. >> the cleanup process is certainly a long one. michelle, you're doing so much to help victims there. tell us if officials are watching what you need there because as i understand it, you and other neighbors are really pitching in and helping. >> we're trying to do as much as we can, and in terms of getting supplies and sort of first response things do the neighborhood. but what we really need on a larger, bigger, more important scale is fema to come out here and help. a lot of people are hesitant to clear out their basements because of insurance purposes and a lot of people don't know what they're supposed to do in this situation. and we've got some damage setting in because of water, some mold, and you know, we've got people with wet basements for now, going on almost two weeks. and so people are concerned about mold and long-term health rives and damage to their houses. and we need fema people to come out here to help assist in those situations.

the entire boardwalk. 1.2 miles of it ripped out by the storm. they are working feverishly right now. they're preparing for that nor'easter that is reportedly on its way. now it's not going to be as bad as any superstorm, but you have to understand that this city's water table is now so high the mayor told me just a short time ago that if they get even an inch of water from that storm, it could flood the basements of this town all over again. what are they doing? they're pumping. they're pumping tens upon tens of thousands of gallons. the mayor says 60,000 gallons a minute are being pumped out of these two lakes as they try to lower the water there and protect this town from many of the effects of that upcoming storm. on another front voting. there's been a lot of talk about the electronic ballot,, the possibility of voters turning in their ballots by e-mail or by fax, but in a town that doesn't have any electricity, that's want really a very viable option. yes, it may work for some of the residents who have taken shelter outside of the town in a

i am standing on a huge chunk of boardwalk. a boardwalk that used to run north and south behind me along the ocean. but now it is broken up by crashing waves from superstorm sandy, and it is on side streets, this being one of them. this boardwalk is now strewn with all kind of debris from the homes that line this -- what was a street. and you've got furniture, you've got washers and dryers, you've got downed power lines, no power. the temperatures are plunging now, and for a lot of people, voting is the last thing on their minds. but for others, it is something they will never give up. listen. >> yes, voting is on my mind, even though i'm living in all this mess, i still am who i am. it hasn't altered the essence of my person. >> reporter: is voting the last thing on your mind right now? >> i'm not making it a problem because if i have to walk, ride, whatever, i'm going to get to the polls. >> reporter: you are going to make sure you go? >> i'm going to get there. >> reporter: but how? they still don't know where they have to b

i am right now walking on a boardwalk. a chunk of a boardwalk that is running 90 degrees perpendicular to where it used to be, behind me, running along the ocean. huge chunks of a boardwalk that has broken up and is now running down side streets of new york. homes here along the water front, due to flooding, people on their own have dragged all this out to the street. they have no power, look at these power lines down here. and they have to figure out how they are going to vote. nevertheless, people tell us, they're trying to do it. the board of elections is running generators out to a lot of the new polling places to make sure that the voting machines will work. they spent a lot of time doing that today in hopes that that will help people be able to vote. but will they get there? i talked to a couple of people who say they intend to do it. >> yes, voting is on my mind, even though i'm living in all this mess, i still am who i am. it hasn't am tered the essence of my person. >> reporter: is voting the last thing on your mi

this was the beating heart, really, of the shoreline in belmar, no doubt about that, their boardwalk completely ripped up. they have a couple of lakes inland in this town. they filled up with water. the town center flooded. hundreds and hundreds of people were forced out of their homes, had to be rescued, and they've had to pump that water out. let me show you what the situation was like at the beginning of the week when we were here earlier. you can see that the waters were high, that there were problems. they were putting the pumps in place. they've been pumping 60,000 gallons a minute out of there. let me show you what it looked like today when we took a look. you can see the water has dropped by about 3 feet or more. they're going to continue pumping. meantime, here on the ground they're continuing to haul away sand, continuing to haul away debris. let me show you. they're putting some debris now. they're scooping this up throughout the town. as the water recedes and goes back to those lakes, they're able to scoop up the debris on the streets. they're coming back slowly but surel

perhaps it's most prominent feature was always a boardwalk that ran along there. it was completely removed by the forces of sandy that took away all of the sand and ripped the boardwalk up. you can see now what's left of it is being cleared away as they try to rebuild. and rebuild is exactly what they have in mind today. we talked a little bit earlier with mayor matt dougherty, and this is what he had to say about the determination to get the job done. >> we want to be very aggressive in this cleanup operation after hurricane sandy. we have numerous pumps going at the same time, getting the water out of our community and back up to the atlantic. president obama and governor chris christie have been outstanding in their statements and even governor christie coming here to meet with me saying just get it done, do what you need to do to get it cleaned up. >> reporter: case and point, some of the pumps operating down here to drain out the city, it's literally a bowl. the sea water got in, it has no way of getting out. they're going to have to pump it out. so they're d

you see where there was a boardwalk. see where there were homes. literally one, two, three, four, homes, and then go to the after. this is before. the houses are moved. they're gone. foundations aren't even there. go up the beach a little bit. i think we have a marina here on the other side. this is still around seaside heights. there's boats. there's the water that came right across the shore. then one more spot. a little bit farther north. this is -- here's the roads too chadwick beach. highway 35 and literally that road isn't there anymore. there's one little house right there in the middle of an island. just disturbing. we just hope that people weren't there. these are all obviously mandatory evacuation areas. boy, that's tough. let's show you some animation. we have some before and after. back to seaside beach. it's -- you know, i don't think anybody really knows until we get on the ground and can show you aerials and that things are missing and aren't there anymore, but the issue is that these are people's lives, these are people's livelihood

boardwalk destroyed. and down by cvs on route 35, a big house in the middle of the street. and it was the most devastating thing i've ever seen. parts of the boardwalk were indented in the hotel. the boardwalk pieces that you literally walk on were in the streets. i literally walked over them with posts that hold up the back and forthwalk. it was out of this world. i've never seen anything like that in my life. and i'm glad i survived it. because i was really worried after i made the decision to stay that i made a mistake. >> all right. he was in the neighboring community of seaside heights that was so devastated where they had their entire boardwalk washed away. governor chris christie referring to that just a day ago, talking about how some of these landmarks, the ferris wheel, you know, the roller coaster, were now in the atlantic ocean. real devastation here, but people getting bark back to work, ashleigh? >> i appreciate the update. jim clancy live from belmar. and if you want more information about

surf club pounded into pieces, main roads are buckled, famed boardwalks splintered. those who remained and survived wondered and rued their decision to stay. >> we just couldn't believe the devastation, sick to our stomachs and pray that everybody is safe, and we're safe. >> reporter: more and more evacuated to the mainland. many still in shock. >> as i was down in the basement, debris hit one of the windows and burst it open. the water started rushing in. all i could hear was jack say run, run, run! >> reporter: this man, whose wife had alzheimer's, gave in to her pleas to stay in familiar surroundings. >> i really would have gotten out. like i said, with my wife, her condition -- >> jim clancy is also with cnn. jim is in that area right now. jim, is there a sense that the danger has passed? >> reporter: there's a sense that they faced down the destruction that has been caused. they've now seen those images that you showed, you saw the faces of those evacuees, what they've been through. there are still dangers looming out there, a long way to go. the gas lines you w

today some of the video i sent you you see a boardwalk three blocks in, sand up to people's midway through their front door three blocks in. legendary surf club you talked about, it's just gone. they need to get people -- they need to get the gas off before fire starts. wolf, there's no electricity to pump water for the fire trucks to put anything out if a fire starts. they need to get the gas off and they need to go door to door over there. i just heard the -- saying that the search and rescue is over. >> if you could speak to the governor or the president of the united states right now, what would you say? >> they need to get people door to door in the bungalow. i'm not talking about the ocean front wealthy people like me. we have plenty of insurance. those houses are gone. the bungalows where elderly people were living, they need to get the gas off and get to these people. they have no phones to call anybody. >> john, i think people were watching, were listening to what you were saying. our heart goes out to you and everybody who's seeing what's going on. and hopefully they'll get into

the boardwalk. it was unusual on that boardwalk. i remember it very well. and i looked for it today. and the entire structure is gone. >> a lot of businesses, large and small now gone. i want to bring in paul blue who works for a firm that tracks the recovery process for small businesses. he lives in short hills, new jersey. we're looking at pictures of the roller coaster in seaside heights and now pictures from the park's better days, the amusement pier, it is a huge tourist draw to the jersey shore. any idea how much we're talking about, how much this is going to hurt new jersey's tourism economy? >> well, i'll tell you, it is a big deal if we don't recover because tourism is one of the top three industries for the state. and about three-quarters of the industry associated with the jersey shore. so we are closely trying to monitor what we know in terms of the full impact and the recovery process, but it is going to take a little time and it is really the big question of how fast we can ramp up for

boardwalks have been destroyed. piers are being destroyed. i don't know how they'll begin to repair this. they have begun clean-up. front loaders and dump trucks that are picking up the debris off the roads already. my goodness, as i'm looking down on the beach now, you can see house after house after house damaged by the storm. it's going to take a long time. >> michael, is there anybody else who is there? you say you are the first of the media to get on barrier islands. are there emergency personnel? are there crews out there. are there any residents who are, like, picking through the debris? >> there are all of those things. yeah. about three -- probably three hours ago now we saw a mile long convoy going on to these islands. busloads of workers, heavy machinery, gas trucks and the like over here, and then it was about three hours ago, and then the police allowed a small group of media to come over and have a look for ourselves. it's still not safe for people to be wandering down. i smell natural gas. very strong smell of natural gas. ther

that has entertained vacationing americans for generations, one iconic landmark, the atlantic city boardwalk, lost a big chunk due to crashing waves. governor chris christie says the damage to the state's beaches is, quote, overwhelming. today, governor christie will tour the devastation with president obama. the republican governor who has campaigned steadily for mitt romney raised eyebrows by praising the president's response to this crisis. we'll take a look at the politics in play. but first, more importantly, we'll focus on the devastation, the damage along the jersey shore. michael holmes is in toms river. that's on the jersey shore. he joins us by phone. very hard to get a live shot out of there right now. michael, describe the jersey shore. what are you seeing? >> reporter: damage in barrier island. it's quite a sight, i can tell you. there's a mile-long queue of emergency vehicles, tractor trailers, four-wheel drive, heavy earth-moving equipment, buses loaded with rescue workers, fire truck, rescue truck, national guard is all here, all lined up on this side of the bridge waiting fo

what are you seeing there on the boardwalk today? >> reporter: well, right behind me, directly behind me, that scrap wood you see there, that was parts of the boardwalk. this is the northern part of atlantic city, again, the atlantic ocean just pounded away right behind me. the ocean is just over some of that scrap wood, maybe 100 yards. and you actually had had people -- if you can see these buildings -- if we can take a look at these buildings once again. there's two buildings. i had a chance to talk to the person, it's a husband and wife and daughter living in the center building there. and they tried to ride out this storm. this gentleman was telling me the story, and i saw the damage firsthand, the yellow tape there now, it's too dangerous, there is a strong scent of gasoline coming out of the buildings. but the man said at 7:30 in the morning yesterday as the storm began to wallop this area, the atlantic ocean was knock ong his front door and blew open his front door by 8:30 in the morning. so here is this guy trying to pound u

there are pieces of the boardwalk which are being located blocks away from the boardwalk. throughout the towns we're seeing trees, 100, 150 years old, just ripped up by the roots. many of those throughout our town. and, of course, power lines down everywhere. >> and, a, what is the situation with power right now? i assume there isn't power. we didn't have power at asbury this morning when i was there. do you have a sense of the timetable it might take to restore it? >> well, our power is out in majority of the city. the good news is that at the light of first day our crews hit the streets hard and had been working to get the trees out of the way, get them away from power lines so that the power company can come in and do what they need to do. that's first thing we're doing. we have gotten the majority of our streets cleared of debris and trees and our next step will be working to try to restore the power. >> i saw your police -- your firefighters, your utility crews out in the darkness, with their lights on, looking over -- looking for people, looking for any damage. so it

boardwalk that washed away. and we are getting reports now from "the star ledger," 85% of the city was actually under water at monday morning's high tide. you can see what you're dealing and with there as the streets just absolutely abandoned. people were either inside their homes or evacuated. we saw the water rise dramatically about 8:30 at night last night, our alley val shi out on the streets and deserted with exception of rescue crews that were trying to make sure that everything was okay and people were not out there. but it was absolutely devastating to atlantic city. and the boats that have washed up to the shore, the houses, boardwalk that has been partially collapsed and water that is just streamed into those homes. massive flooding. it is going to be unbelievable recovery effort as we take a look at aerial pictures. you can get the sense of the scope of just how massive this flooding has been to this community. and get the sense of how long the recovery effort is going to take. talking about many, man

you're on that famed boardwalk. give me a feel for just what it's like this morning after, rob. >> reporter: well, i can tell you we'll start with the good news. first of all, there's no serious injuries or fatalities here in asbury, but a tremendous amount of damage. we're at low tide now. the ocean is still churning pretty good, the sun is prying to break through but the winds are pumping. we have a lot of debris on the beach and boardwalk. this line of what used to be stores and probably souvenir shops, now it's just used really to store stuff. that's pretty much gone. these holes are kind of strewn throughout the boardwalks. they're designed to pretty much relieve pressure as the water goes underneath them so it doesn't rip the entire boardwalk off. this stretch has done okay. where our cameras can't get down to the south, the southern part of the sound, that part of the boardwalk has seen tremendous damage. where the we're walking right now, this is where the brunt of the storm surge came through last night aro

these holes are all around the boardwalk. they're actually built to pop up when the pressure gets too bad because the water certainly was coming under here, going over the top of this boardwalk as well and up geps what was, back in the day -- you better believe were some restaurants, candy shops and souvenir shops. this area has just been used for storage for the past -- i don't know how many years. couple of people we talked to have said maybe this is -- as bad as it looks right now, maybe tess a small blessing in some cases, insurance money might be able to do something a little better here, get this thing going as far as asbury park is kerped. the water came last night, obviously hit these areas. in many cases, just funneled down these sidewalks and barreled into town. take i taking with it rocks, soil, all sorts of debris. these roadways are absolutely littered with not only debris from the beach, from the ocean, from the stores, from the sidewalk sidewalks, but a lot of these street lamps have gone down. there's windows

goes by the boardwalk. we'll walk down there in a little bit. it's a serious situation here. but again, i think it's more the length with which this storm will stay over this area and the amount of the lengthy sustained winds blowing for bringing a lot of that surge, a lot of that flooding in. i think we've just begun to see it here, wolf. >> anderson's going to have more coming up on his show 8:00 p.m. eastern. anderson, thanks very much. kate baldwin is here helping us cover the disaster, as well, kate. >> amazing the size of this thing. let's stay in nnew jersey for a moment. ali, you have been blown around quite a bit. what are you seeing now? i understand the city wide curfew just set in. yes? >> reporter: curfew is under way right now. you are not to be on the streets of atlantic city. it is against the law now. there's a complete travel ban. if you are not an emergency crew, not covering this, you see this emergency vehicle coming up next to me. that's all we are seeing. national guard just drove by.

right now i'm on the boardwalk at rehoboth beach, delaware, officials worried about how this boardwalk will hold up. as i walk past the gazebo and walk toward the surf, the surf and the beach erosion are what they're worried about as it relates to the boardwalk and the hotels and businesses along here. just a short time ago when it was high tide, this surf was pretty hellacious. it was coming up right about where i'm standing and washing completely past the dunes here and up toward the boardwalk. there's a lot of sand on the boardwalk. what they're worried about is beach erosion. earlier this year they expanded this beach. they reconstructed part of it with the army corps of engineers. they built it out about 300 feet toward the ocean. and they said if they hadn't done that right now, this boardwalk might be pretty much shot, because 20 years ago a nor'easter came and pretty much splintered this boardwalk apart. they're worried about it because of course this boardwalk is big for tourism here and summer visitation. and they are very concerned about whether it will hold up. they said if

i know there are conflicting reports about what the state of the boardwalk is it. we'll get back to you as soon as we can clear up some of that sound a little bit, and, of course, you knowing, the presidential election -- we're talking about days away. hurricane sandy is turning out really to be what we were all talking about. it's an october surprise. well, the storm causing both the president and mitt romney cancel several campaign visits. the president was supposed to rally with former president bill clinton in florida. that's not happening. president obama, he arrived back in d.c. got off air force one. you can see the pictures there. quickly got into the motorcade. normally he is flown in a rain chopper from the joint andrews base in maryland, but weather forcing a road trip back to the white house. that often happens when the weather is pretty bad. they don't want to take any security risks or chance there's. the president scheduled to make remarks about hurricane sandy. that is happening at about 20 minutes or so, 12:45 eastern to be exact, so keep it right

landfall, about 50 to 80 miles to our south, that's when we expect the water to come up and over the boardwalk. tell you what, this surf coming in here has been impressive. all day long, we've seen 10, 15, even some 20-foot huge breakers really testing some of the jetties and seawalls here that protect this stretch of coastline. yeah, everyone's evacuated. mandatory evacuations up and down the coastline to all of new jersey. there are shelters set up. there's been a few hundred people that have taken advantage of those. officials here at the fire department here tell me there have been a few calls they've had to deal with. but all in all, so far, so good. the storm itself is still a couple of hundred miles away. we have all afternoon long and all night, residual wind pounding the coastline to deal with. in for the long haul here. >> looks so aggressive that, surf behind you. we're just at the beginning stages of it. rob mars nocianomarciano, stay . we're not only going to watch what rob's been watching, the surf, surge and the flood danger. but coming up, what's going to happen when millions o

water has been coming up to the boardwalk and just a few times washed over the boardwalk. i've lived here in virginia beach all my life. i can tell you, we've only seen that happen a few times. in addition to the tidal flooding along the coast, another big concern here is some of the inland areas of virginia beach that are fed by the linhaven river and elizabeth river basins. what we're worried about there is a phenomenon called tidal stacking. because of this prolonged wind, remember, this is an event that's been going on for days now. because of the prolonged wind we're having a lot of flooding in those areas inland away from the coast as well. several roads impassable. so as long as this rain and wind continues, that problem is going to persist and probably get worse. that's what we're looking at the most right now, carol. >> art, i couldn't help but notice those two people walking under umbrellas behind you. it's hard to believe anybody would be out in the elements. because not only is it rainy and damp, it's really cold. the kind of cold that kind of seeps through eve

right down those lights that you see streaking down, that's the atlantic city boardwalk. these pictures, of course, courtesy of our affiliate there, wpvi. look at this camera moving around, so you have to imagine that is very, very windy there. you heard alison kosik, who is in asbury park, talking about gaming in that area. very big business and they're going to have to shut it down. so a lot of folks are probably going to lose some money, but chris christie saying get out, be safe. to new york city now as we move away from atlantic city, new jersey. laguardia airport, that is from a cnn editor/producer, natalie y yarborough e-mailed me that picture and another one. this is a security line at laguardia. can you imagine? and that's just laguardia. i wonder what hartsfield is like and airports all along the east coast, and once those big airports like laguardia start backing up, you know it's a domino effect. if you're sitting there watching us, sorry about that. chad myers said airports probably not going to stay open much longer along the eastern seaboard. so you have a

comparing and anticipating hurricane sandy to hurricane gloria back in 1985, which it destroyed the boardwalk. so they are certainly going to look for that storm surge damage to possibly happen because of hurricane sandy. and beach erosion with the mixture of high tide, again, and this long storm, that is what they are really concerned about because the storm surge could affect this region, devastatingly, certainly they are hunkering down bracing for the worst. and the worst is not going to hit this area for another 24 hours or so. >> all right. we'll stand by sandra, thank you very much. don't go anywhere as we get to sandra, george howell as well and meteorologist chad myers. chad is in charge and helping me here. we'll be on for a long time, chad, so get rested, afternoon break, take it now. >>> thank you, everyone. more on this when we come back, but with hurricane season reaching the end, a lot of people weren't ready for this. we'll talk to russell honory who dedicated his life to help people be prepared after his experience with hurricane katrina. here's live in studio with me just mom

joining me on the phone, delaware governor, jack mar quell, i understand that you are under the boardwalk at rohoba's beach, what is it like there? >> the center of it is still hours away, it's rough even like it is at the height of the storm. >> we are concerned and the message is if you live in an evacuation area, the time to live the is now. the problem is if you stay, you could very well be cut off. you put yourself in harm's way, you could put others in harm's way as well. so we're really recommending people get out. so in many cases you have hoes -- >> we haven't -- for people who want to leave -- duey and bethany beach that one is closed so there are other evacuation routes for people, but now is really the time. >> we have already seen some flooding, but still quite pertinent, right? >> we're seeing more flooding than we normally would. we have opened several shelters across the state. providing that and they're already starting to get people there which is good. businesses in the evacuation area have to close by 6:00 p.m. tonight, but bottom line, again, people in the evacuation

usually this is the boardwalk of key west. now it's not quite a ghost town, but definitely not nearly as packed as it would be on one of the last summer saturdays of the year. >> in august, i was just there memorial day, that place should be packed right now. thank you. appreciate it, jim spellman. good luck. >>> a major storm looming offshore as republican convention delegates arrive in tampa. should they be worried about this weather? well, we'll take you to florida again for the very latest on the storm preps at the gop national convention. n ving. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financial advisor, she had planned for ever eventuality. ...which meant she continued to have the means to live on... ...even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! wow. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. but that doesn't mean

take a look, in no particular order, you have "boardwalk empire" getting a big old nod, also a lot of friends who will love this one, "breaking bad" just returned for season 5, and don draper, it's "mad men." what other shows got nominated for best outstanding drama series? naex. ( whirring and crackling sounds ) man: assembly lines that fix themselves. the most innovative companies are doing things they never could before, by building on the cisco intelligent network. riverside exit, i-95. variante ascari, monza. mile 7, highway 1. wehrseifen, nurburgring. the horseshoe, twin peaks boulevard. every famous curve has an equally thrilling, lesser-known counterpart. conquer them, with the lexus is performance line, featuring the is 250. real performance demands real precision. this is the pursuit of perfection. >>> i really need to start watching more tv, because i've only seen like half of these. the 64th annual prime-time emmy nominations are out today. before the break, we ran through three of them here. these are the shows up for outstanding drama series. here are the other three. br

"breaking bad," "game of thrones," and "boardwalk empire." "modern family" ran away in the comedy series again. last year it won and swept the comedy series. this year, every single adult actor from the show it seems was nominated. and also the show got 14 nominations. the most in the comedy category. along with "modern family," "big bang theory," "30 rock,". left out, no "glee," no "parks and recreation," even though amy pohler was nominated. and it wouldn't be the emmys without an appearance from miss betty white. and she will be there this year. she was nominated for best reality show host for her show "betty white off their rockers." you know, she's been nominated 18 times. she's won five times. the show is really funny. so i'm very excited. we are always very happy for whatever happens with betty white. now we were kind of talking about some of the snubs or omissions this year. and there were a couple of big surprises. i told you no "glee," no arks and recreation." also in the actor in a drama series, no hugh laurie and no kyra sedgwick.

populated area for the naval air station to be right in the middle of virginia beach here, the big boardwalk. everybody knows about virginia beach, and then the rest of the area called hampton roads, but you have fore folk, and chesapeake and much more populated than when the naval air station oceana was installed. let's fly you through what happened today. we'll get you right to where virginia beach is. we'll start this all over again so you can get an idea for where the crash happened to the beach, one mile. from the end of the runway to the crash, two and a half miles. so not a lot of time at 200 and something miles per hour, this plane's going about 200 knots as it left here, run way 5r, taking off toward the beach and leaving the naval air station. at some point, something catastrophic happened here where the pilot at some point knew that this plane wasn't going fly. if you follow a straight line it will take you right here, to this side of the map, way over here, but at the very last moment we know the plane began to tilt to the right, kind of just using it to the right and that plane

there's the beautiful new boardwalk there, there's probably a lot of spring breakers out there on virginia beach. >> and i'm thinking spring break too and i'm thinking, wow, kids possibly being in these apartment complexes. >> there's the vertical stablizers, that's where the foam is going right now. it's that little black spot that's sticking up, there's another one right next to it. the tail isn't just one tail. it's a two-tail system that really makes this plane so ultramaneuverable. it's the same plane that the blue angels would fly. an f-18. i have flown that plane that is on the ground right there, maybe not that particular plane, but the f-18d who nit. i have flown that plane, obviously i was in the back seat, the pilot was in the front seat, he gave me the stick to fly. it was the most amazing experience of my lifetime. as i was working for a tv station and we were preparing for an air show, and the men who fly this plane, how physically, they are athletes, they are truly the best of the best. >> i want to bring in joanna hyatt. do you live in this apartment complex? tell me what y

it wasn't a boardwalk empire or the "sopranos," and luck ran out. it's sad about the horses definitely. >> it sure is. paul, thank you very much. nice to see you on this saturday morning. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> the news doesn't take the weekend off. hopefully you do. grab a drink, coffee, oj, put all your feet. stick around for this. some of the coolest videos coming your way, especially a special bond between a gorilla and a rabbit. ok, guys-- what's next ? chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast speeds. we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small businesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the best technology rules. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006. you're not... filming this, are you? aw! camera shy. snapshot from

former president jimmy carter and his wife cruising down the boardwalk of a couple of three-wheeled scooters called a trikke. they called the president of the company to go for a ride. the go for a trike ride, wouldnt you say yes? >> the carters are in town raising mostly sunniy for the carter foundation. a nonprofit center. >>> newsroom continues at the top of the hour with fredricka whitfield. >> hello. good to see you. welcome to the weekend. >> thank you very much. >> it's going to be fun getting a chance to chat with you every morning now as opposed to us -- shifts crossing. >> passing in the hallways. >> every now and then during the weekday, so fantastic, congratulations. >> thank you very much. we'll catch up every time this hour on saturdays. >> we'll talk about all kinds of interesting things. >> what do you have coming up. >> well, you just mentioned you went to the movies recently so you have a pretty good idea just how expensive it is to the go to the movies. you've got the ticket prices, you've got popcorn -- you have to do popcorn and soda and candy and stuff that goes along w

a helicopter crash caught on camera during a shoot for a tv show, and those on boardwalked away. >>> each week dr. sanjay gupta profiles innovators from all walks of life. the program is called "the next list." next sunday he talk was a group of art collectors at sin labs who create extraordinary art, xheshti commercials and videos. here is a preview. >> sin labs is an art collection. we're a group of people from various disciplines who come together to create really fun and interesting innovative art. >> what the unofficial motto here? >> there's a couple. >> no surprise. >> geeks with girlfriends. we've also been called a drinking club with an art problem. fast company called us the league of extraordinary nerds. some people express themselves through science, some express themselves through art. syyn labs is a meeting place where it all comes together. look, every day we're using more and more energy. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough

outstanding tv cast went to "boardwalk empire" for the second year running. i asked george clooney why i didn't get to attend the sag awards. >> i kind of recognize this guy and young lady. i think it is george clooney. hello. >> i haven't stopped laughing. george is such a comedian. george clooney and his beautiful date. we are so thrilled to have you here with us. talking about the big night ahead. how thrilled are you? >> fabulously thrilled i am. i am a little disappointed that don couldn't make the show. >> reporter: what do you have to say about that? >> i'm very disappointed. i didn't get the invitation. >> it's in the mail. >> still never got it. >>> moving on. hugh hefner says the lindsay lohan edition of playboy magazine could be the biggest selling issue ever. lohan was reportedly paid close to a million dollars to pose for playboy. >>> it was the longest grand slam tennis final in history. it ended in the early hours of monday. after almost six hours world number one djokovic defeated spain's raphael nadal in five sets. >>> up next a mystery illne

and now boardwalk empire for the second year running. >>> earlier tonight i asked george clooney why i didn't get to attend the sag awards. listen to the exchange. >> there's someone there, i don't know, kind of recognize this guy and young lady. i think he is george clooney and stacy korean winter. hello. >> don, vicinity stopped laughing. george is such a comedian. george clooney and his beautiful date stacy kiebler. we're so thrilled to you have with us. talking about the big night ahead. how fabulously thrilled are you? >> fabulously tlhrilled but i'm disappointed dan couldn't make the show. >> i'm very disappointed as well. i didn't get george's invitation. >> he's very disappoint the as well. >> i'm sorry, it's in the mail. >> still never got it. all right. moving on now. hugh hefner says the lindsay lohan edition of "playboy" magazine could be the biggest telling issue ever. "playboy" with lohan on the cover is going to be a record breaker. she was paid close to a million dollars to pose for "playboy." all right. >>> it was the longest grand slam final tennis open in history.

to sell a live animal on any street, highway, public right of way, parking lot, can val or boardwalk. and the reason for this. animal rights groups have pushed for this. often animals that are -- maybe have problems, that are ill, some try to sell them on a boardwalk and then impulse buyers will buy the pet but then regret it later and then you end up with abandoned pets. they are hoping there will be fewer abandoned pets if they put in these restrictions. we'll see how that plays out. and tanning beds. check this out. it's now illegal in california for minors to use ultra violent -- ultraviolet tanning devices, even with parental consent. for a while they had to have parents' permission. now even if your parents say it's okay, you cannot use a tanning bed in california if you are under 18 years old. so that's just a few of them. i want you to see the language on this and see thousands more, which is why i posted them online here on this megalist. it's on my page on facebook and twitter. >> happy reading. 40,000 new laws there. >>> fireworks go up and dozens of birds go down dead from

here, "to sell a live animal on any street, highway, public right of way, parking lot, carnival, or boardwalk." and the reason for this, as we look at these nice pictures of pets, animal rights groups have pushed for this, because they say often that animals that maybe have problems, that are ill, some people will try to sell them on a boardwalk, and impulse buyers will buy the pet, but then regret it later, and then you end up with abandoned pets. they're hoping there will be fewer abandoned pets if they put in these new restrictions. and tanning beds, it's now illegal in california for minors to use ultraviolet tanning devices, even with parental consent. for a while, they had to have parent's permission. now even if your parents say it's okay, you cannot use a tanning bed in california if you are under 18 years old. so that's just a few of them. i want you all to see the language on these and see thousands more, which is why i've posted them online for you on this megalist. it's up at my page on cnn.com/josh, facebook and twitter, josh levs, cnn. natalie, i will tell you, it is always fasc