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Hurricane Irene

• Irene blamed for 11 deaths along US east coast
• Flash flooding sweeps through inland areas in north east
• New York City escapes the worst of the storm
• Maryland nuclear reactor damaged by flying debris

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A taxi stands in flood water as Hurricane Irene hits in Brooklyn Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

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5.20am ET: Welcome back to our live coverage of Hurricane Irene's progress, as the eye of the storm is expected to pass through New York City in the next few hours, and move north towards New England.
5.42am ET: An overnight summary, as Hurricane Irene moved through the United States' Atlantic coast and the eye of the storm is due to hit New York this morning with heavy rain, hurricane-force winds and a storm surge:
• Overnight, the death toll has risen to at least nine. Five people were killed in North Carolina; three more died in Virginia, including an 11-year-old boy whose home was hit by a falling tree.
• Hurricane Irene is moving north at 18mph, still a category 1 hurricane, with sustained winds of 75mph recorded.
• Nearly 3 million people are without power as the hurricane moves up the eastern seaboard. About 180,000 on Long Island are affected by electrical outages, with 30,000 people in New York City already without power.In neighbouring New Jersey, as many as 330,000 have had power cuts.
• More than 300,000 people have been evacuated from 'zone A' vulnerable areas in New York City. High tide at 8am in New York harbour coincides with the height of the storm, creating the risk of widespread flooding in low-lying areas.
• Lower Manhattan, including Wall Street, is threatened by storm surge flooding. Power company ConEd has said it will cut power pre-emptively if the flooding looks likely, possibly leaving the financial district without power going into Monday.
6.03am ET: I'm working just a block or two from where this photograph was taken last night: a view up 34th Street, looking east, towards the Empire State Building. The rain is still pretty intense outside in Manhattan right now, although the rainfall radar here suggests that the heaviest precipitation is now across a huge area of New England. The hurricane just made landfall on the New Jersey coast a little while ago, still some way to the south and east of New York City. It's due through here at about 10am ET.
6.18am ET: According to WNYC , New York's public radio station, the storm surge has pushed the sea level up about 4ft above normal down at the Battery, which is at the southern tip of Manhattan in the New York harbour area. We're still a couple of hours away from high tide, which is due to be higher than normal in any case, thanks to a new moon.
It will be touch and go as to whether there is flooding around Wall Street – much may depend on the wind direction at the critical time, as I was hearing on WNYC last night: in the huge rotating weather system that is a tropical storm, you get winds in opposite directions in different areas. So, apparently, storm surges depend on whether the wind aligns with tidal flows in a given area. But I'll be looking for more expert metereological opinion on this.
6.39am ET: No update yet from the Mayor's office or New York City government that I've seen, but no doubt the hyperactive Michael Bloomberg will be doing further pressers at some point Sunday. On Saturday, he told us that there was capacity for 70,000 people in evacuation centres. So far, the uptake has been modest: about 9,000 people have been spending the night in these centres, dotted throughout the metro area. To see their location, and the pattern of the evacuation zones, view this map (pdf) .
7.10am ET: Latest tracking of the hurricane predicts that it will make landfall again at about 10am east of New York City, on western Long Island. That would be Nassau County, east of Queens, which happens to be one of the wealthiest counties in the United States – though, paradoxically, one hit by budget crisis. Earlier this year, the state government had to take control of the county's finances after it had essentially gone bust and its own officials could not agree a balanced budget.
7.21am ET: My colleague Oliver Burkeman tweets that FoxNews has run a splendidly mistimed – or very well timed, depending on your point of view – opinion piece about what an outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars the National Weather Service is:
The truth is that the National Hurricane Center and its parent agency, the National Weather Service, are relics from America's past that have actually outlived their usefulness.
I think a few tens of millions of Americans might beg to differ, just now.
Oliver normally resides in Brooklyn, but tells me he is safe and dry in York. That's old York, UK.
7.41am ET: It's now light in New York City, or as light as it's going to get today. It's raining in Manhattan, but not torrentially right now; and the wind has abated. But that seems very likely to change as the storm system rotates, and the eye of the hurricane passes close to the city in the next few hours.
Via WNYC's Twitter feed , a public radio listener has posted this picture of the water rising in lower Manhattan in view of Brooklyn Bridge.
According to NBC New York , fire fighters have been answering scores of calls during the night for utility polls, trees and power lines downed in Queens. ConEd (New York City's main power company) is now reporting 75,000 customers without power.
CNN is reporting that late Saturday night, a nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs, Maryland shut down automatically due to hurricane-force winds.
"The facility is safe; there is no impact to employees or our neighbors," [Mark] Sullivan [spokesman for the Constellation Energy Nuclear Group] said. "There is no threat."
The company has not updated its news feed yet, so no word on whether that reactor has powered back up at this point.
8.15am ET: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie tweets his interview on the Today Show. He reports that 15,000 people in New Jersey have taken up residence in the state's evacuation centres, while Today shows images of a grey, choppy Hudson River off Hoboken, across the water from Manhattan. Says the governor:
We've got record flooding in New Jersey. It's already happening … Inland flooding is at record levels. We've got people trying to leave their homes and we're getting distress calls from people in their cars being swept away by the water.
He urges citizens of New Jersey to stay safe in their homes. He is asked about the nuclear power generator at Oyster Creek, NJ, which was shut down at 5pm Saturday. Christie says this was for "an abundance of caution" and there is "no concern at all" about the status of that power plant.
He confirms that 400,000 people in New Jersey are now without power.
I'm failing to embed that video here presently, but you can view it on YouTube .
8.45am ET: We're expecting a Fema press conference at 11.30am ET from Washington, DC, with Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and Fema's Craig Fugate, to update the nation on the federal response to Hurricane Irene; we'll be covering that later.
WNYC reports that the East River is cresting its banks in lower Manhattan. Meanwhile my colleague New York business correspondent Dominic Rushe tweets that on West Broadway, in Soho (downtown Manhattan), water is reversing out of the grates and manholes and causing flooding there.
But media commentator and Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff seems undaunted; he just tweeted:
Hope he has a plastic bag for that – if he can find a copy to buy and a shop to sell it to him.
Progress of Irene can be followed via this interactive graphic .
8.53am ET: Our guy Paul Harris ( @paulxharris ) has been out and about in downtown Manhattan, and just sent this bulletin:
The East Village, around 1st Avenue and 7th Street, certainly seems to bear up the idea that as far as wind speeds go Manhattan is being spared the sort of disaster people feared. Outside, it's currently very rainy with howling gusts of wind but there is little damage visible.
A few fairly large tree branches lie in the street but the local deli corner shop is still open. There was even a man taking his dog for a quick morning walk wearing a T-shirt and carrying a sturdy-looking umbrella.
But this area is a long way from the East River and the main threat to the city is the storm surge. No sign of flooding here at all. But that is to be expected. The main areas vulnerable to the storm surge lie to the south and east along the rivers.
We'll be watching that situation carefully and keeping you posted.
9.30am ET: News of a 10th death attributed to Irene, with the LA Times reporting that a man died in a fire started by downed power lines in Connecticut.
The National Hurricane Centre's latest suggests that Irene is losing force. Reuters reports that it has now been downgraded to tropical storm status from category 1 hurricane.
Meanwhile, local media are saying that Irene made landfall at Coney Island at about 9.30am ET, with 65mph winds. Boston and points north will still be braced for high winds in addition to the heavy rain.
As predicted, the number of people without power is climbing all the time. The Houston Chronicle now believes the total is 4 million, although one suspects they may have been keener to call it at that landmark number before showing their working.
9.40am ET: Patrick Wintour, the Guardian's political editor, is out at Mastic, Long Island (just inland from Fire Island), which has seen some pretty wild weather overnight. He sends this dispatch:
We have trees down on barns. We lost power half an hour ago. Hundreds of branches are down and leaves cover the roads like a carpet. There is surprisingly little rain. We are working out which nearby trees could hit our house; there are three within range. The dock is flooded. It is going to get worse.
Back in the city, FDR Drive, along the East River, is flooded and closed. There is as yet no estimated time for public transportation to start again. The Holland Tunnel, which connects downtown Manhattan with New Jersey, has been closed in at least one direction by flooding.
9.50am ET: My correspondent in Vermont reports that there are radio warnings of flash floods in numerous counties there. Governor Shumlin declared a state of emergency already, and officials had warned that "every river in the state" was likely to spill over. With Governor Christie of New Jersey earlier giving hair-raising reports of receiving distress calls from motorists trapped in flood water, flooding continues to be the chief threat as Irene continues its run into New England.
10.05am ET: Thank you to @miss_maryland for alerting me to this update via the Baltimore Sun on the Calvert Cliffs nuclear reactor in Maryland. Interestingly, unlike the nuclear power plant at Oyster Creek that was shut down in New Jersey on a precautionary basis, this was not a scheduled power-down. The reactor was taken off-line after a transformer was damaged by flying debris. Here's that report in full:
A reactor at the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant remained shut down this morning as officials assess the damage caused when a piece of debris tossed by heavy winds damaged a transformer. A spokesman said as of 8am this morning that "Unit 1 is safely off-line."
A second reactor was working fine at 100% power, said Mark Sullivan, the spokesman for the Constellation Energy Nuclear Group. "All employees are said," he added.
Sullivan said Saturday night that officials believe the damage was caused by a large piece of aluminum that was torn loose from a building. The "unusual event," declared by for the plant's Unit 1 is the least serious of four emergency classifications by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The company has begun its response to what it describes as a low-level emergency, and says the plant remains stable. There is no threat to employees or neighbors, according to a statement released by communications director Mark Sullivan.
@miss_maryland , in guise of her Guardian user handle, shenanigans09 , comments :
Personally, I think that this should be one of the biggest stories to come out of the hurricane.
Meanwhile, New York's public radio station, WNYC, reports that its AM transmission (AM 820) has failed. But I'm listening to Irene coverage via FM 93.9.
10.30am ET: We may, sadly, have our 11th reported Irene-related death; this in New Jersey. New York Times staffer Jennifer Preston just tweeted :
Body of a Salem County woman was recovered at 9:30 a.m. in her submerged car on U.S. 40 in Pilesgrove Township, said state police.
AP appears to confirm that death toll total.
10.37am ET: A spokesman for power company ConEd interviewed on WNYC confirms that, as yet, there has been no need to cut power to lower Manhattan because of flood risk. However, he also says that restoring electricity to its 85,000 customers currently without in the city, and in suburban Westchester to the north, will be hampered by conditions – notably, 400 fallen trees in NYC alone.
ABC's Good Morning America is reporting that the threat of high winds breaking windows in New York skyscrapers did not materialise. While CNN notes that the storm surge, which had raised fears of extensive flooding in lower Manhattan, has receded with the tide in the East River.
The consensus seems to be that while there are hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the New York area, the city itself has escaped the worst.
11.03am ET: US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg , prompted by that FoxNews op-ed ( see below ) about making cuts to the National Weather Service and its parent agency, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), responds thus:
Now might be a good time for Republicans to rethink their proposal to cut 30% from the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) – the agency responsible for tracking hurricanes. Noaa says the Republican cuts will destroy its ability to warn of hurricanes 5 or 10 days out. That's crucial lead time to carry out the preparations and evacuations we've been seeing this weekend with Hurricane Irene.
Coincidentally, it was noted last week by some, after the earthquake that shook Virginia, Washington, DC and New York, that the US Geographical Survey had suffered a $20m cut in its budget.
11.18am ET: Further word from Paul Harris , out and about this morning, as, indeed, some weak sunshine brightens city streets in New York:
In the East Village, it is rapidly becoming life back to normal. Crowds of curious people are out on the streets, walking dogs and taking pictures and buying the morning papers (which were delivered, it seems, to the handful of deli stores that stayed open). Lots and lots of tree branches have come down. It feels a little autumn has come early.
In Tompkins Square Park, there are many branches littering the ground and some paths been blocked off by the debris. One shop front – a beauty salon – on 1st Avenue and 13th Street has taken a direct hit from a tree that split in two by the high winds. It is a reminder that Irene did pack a punch if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But overall, the mood is one of relief mixed with a shrug of the shoulders that the storm really was not a big deal.
"This is nothing," said hair stylist Carlos Franqui, 32, as he walked his two dogs. "I got up this morning and was, like, 'All right, nothing happened.'"
11.46am ET: Time for a summary of Irene developments as the storm passed through the New York City area on Sunday morning:
• Hurricane Irene has left more than 3 million, possibly as many as 4 million, people without power as it continued its track up the US east coast. The storm was downgraded from category 1 hurricane to tropical storm as it made landfall at Coney Island, New York at about 9.30am ET, but still left a trail of fallen trees and extensive flooding.
• A total of 11 deaths have so far been attributed to Irene. The overnight toll grew when a woman was found dead in her submerged car in New Jersey, and a man was killed by a fire started by downed power lines in Connecticut.
• The threat of widespread flooding in lower Manhattan has receded. The Wall Street district was spared floods and power cuts after the storm surge crested shortly after 8am and has since fallen. But the National Hurricane Centre warns that "extremely dangerous" surges of 4-8ft will continue to threaten the north-east coast in the Long Island Sound, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as the storms runs north.
• Two nuclear reactors were shut down by Hurricane Irene. Oyster Creek power plant in New Jersey closed down on schedule on Saturday afternoon as a precautionary measure, but a reactor in Calvert Cliffs, Maryland was taken off-line after wind-borne debris caused damage to a transformer.
• Public transportation in the New York metro area remains at a standstill on Sunday. Bridges and tunnels in New York City reopened, but some major urban routes are closed by flooding. Mayor Bloomberg has said that mass transit may not be fully running until late in the day Monday: "Monday morning is going to be a mess."
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