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Perfect Storm of Hype: Politicians, the media and the Hurricane Irene apocalypse that never was For the television reporter, clad in his red cagoule emblazoned with the CNN logo, it was a dramatic on-air moment, broadcasting live from Long Island, New York during a hurricane that also threatened Manhattan.?We are in, right, now?the right eye wall, no doubt about that?there you see the surf,? he said breathlessly. ?That tells a story right there.?Stumbling and apparently buffeted by ferocious gusts, he took shelter next to a building. ?This is our protection from the wind,? he explained. ?It?s been truly remarkable to watch the power of the ocean here.?The surf may have told a story but so too did the sight behind the reporter of people chatting and ambling along the sea front and just goofing around. There was a man in a t-shirt, a woman waving her arms and then walking backwards. Then someone on a bicycle glided past.
Obama takes charge at hurricane command centerUS President Barack Obama warned the US east coast was in for a "long 72 hours" as he led his government's response to Hurricane Irene at a disaster command center in Washington.Obama on Saturday chaired a meeting at the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) set up at the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) headquarters in Washington, which is marshaling federal and local hurricane-relief efforts."This is going to be a tough slog getting through this thing," Obama said during a video teleconference including senior federal officials and local government agencies in the east coast path of Irene.
