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The county, Nassau county widespread. That's right. And the county executive of Nassau Bruce Blakeman joins us now, Bruce, good to have you with us. Thanks so much for joining us. What is the situation particularly along the South Shore? You know, we were concerned about the winds, but it seems like this is more a flooding event than it is damage from winds. Well, as of 3 a.m. we had about four plus inches of rain. So that's a lot of precipitation in a short period of time. So we do have some flooding in East Rockaway, Freeport, Massapequa, the five towns Oceanside on the South Shore and Bayville on the North Shore. We have about uh approximately 2000 houses that have power outages and uh we've alerted Pseng, they're on it right now. Uh We got a few uh trees down maybe about 10 or 12. Uh Most of the roads are open now, Northern State Parkway had a little problem earlier this morning. Uh, but I'm told that uh people are able to get through now and uh we're basically just recovering from the storm. I wanna thank all our county workers who were up 24 hours last night to, uh, make sure that, uh, we had all the services as well as our volunteer firefighters, our police department, uh, our emergency management people. Uh, we wanna thank them, they did a great job and they're continuing to do a good job. And, uh, there's, there's a lot of work to clean up, but I'm hopeful by early afternoon we'll be back to normal here in Nassau County Bruce for, for people who live Mid Island and, and they don't live along the shore or they may not think the storm was much slept through it. But we had uh Oyster Bay town supervisor Joe Saladino out showing us video. He was on Zoom with us on facetime with us showing behind us just homes taking in what looked like inches, maybe a foot of water in their homes in Massapequa. So there are homes in Nassau County dealing with that right now. Yeah, Massapequa got hit, uh, pretty hard and, uh, Supervisor Saladino is uh out there. I know he's working hard right now. Uh, with the Oyster Bay Town workers, we also do a great job and county workers and we will assist uh uh Joe in anything they might need in Oyster Bay. And of course, uh Freeport, uh the village of Freeport has had some flooding as well as he drive and some of the other low lying areas uh along the coast. Uh, they hopefully will be back to normal once the water recedes it's starting to recede. Now, which is a good thing. Uh Some of the water we may have to pump out of some of the uh areas that have a, a big accumulation of water. Uh So, uh we're on it, we're working on it and hopefully by early afternoon, everything will be back to normal. All right, Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive. Thank you so much.

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Red Cross says dozens of volunteers have been on stand by ready to help in any emergency and joining us. Now, American Red Cross, Long Island, Ceo Jose Dominguez. Good morning, Jose. Thanks so much for joining us this early Wednesday morning. Good morning. Thank you for having us. So the storm, the wind and the rain seems to be over, the flooding may be to come today. But what has been the response for you guys so far? We're very fortunate. We didn't receive much, you know, as far as response is concerned, just some isolated, you know, uh uh cases here around the island, especially in Nassau County. Um But one of the things that I can tell you is that our, our volunteers have been on stand for the past 24 hours and will continue for the next 24 hours as well, considering there's still some advisor, advisories in effect. And of course, you know, just making sure that our community members are aware that if there has been any damage that they can contact the Red Cross for assistance. Uh Jose, I would think it's got to be a relief that there haven't been that many calls overnight because it's already been a difficult winter here on Long Island. We know the Red Cross has helped so many who are dealing with fires and homes and apartments. It has been and it was a very, very busy December and, you know, previous previous years, we actually, our numbers actually went down. However, it's just because of the holiday situation a week before Christmas, we had at least seven incidents across Long Island with homes that were destroyed by a fire. So there's still so much prepare that we can that we can actually, you know, continue to educate our community members around flooding as well. Jose Dominguez from the American Red Cross here on Long Island. Again, we do have some coastal flooding to come today. Uh So I know you're gonna be on the lookout for that and alert us. Uh and just let us know what you are responding to throughout the morning.

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Meteorologist Alex Calamia was in Freeport where coastal flooding is a concern.  

Coastal flooding a concern along the South Shore as storm moves out

Meteorologist Alex Calamia was in Freeport where coastal flooding is a concern.

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