Nor'easter causes coastal flooding and widespread power outages

EM Morning Brief · Sep 28, 2026 · 8m · transcript

I report that a long-duration nor'easter is producing coastal flooding, damaging winds, and widespread power outages from the Carolinas to New England. We confirm one fatality in Brooklyn from a fallen tree and multiple injuries elsewhere in New York. I note roughly 50,300 customers without power in New Jersey, 34,900 in New York, about 28,000 in Connecticut, and about 9,700 in Massachusetts. We also report Hurricane Nolo as a Category 4 storm southwest of Honolulu, creating life‑threatening surf and inundation risks to low-lying atolls. I emphasize that CISA has added actively exploited…