what do you think of the hudson terrace? your first impression walking in?u see what we have upstairs, all designed by colin cowie and the wonderful joshua, who will perform a wedding song for you in a little bit and you will be lighting this beautiful unity candle as well, we look forward to seeing you and your wedding guests. i'm holding up the dance floor. i will move out and let you take over. al, you just arrived here. what do you think? >> i am. everybody is getting ready, the view beautiful with the intrepid museum and all the aircraft out there, jeremy will feel quite at home. we look over this way, over the beautiful area, where people will be sitting and enjoying their meal colin cowie and his group have prepared. it is really, really beautiful, natalie. >> al, as i mentioned, we will tell you a little bit more about what we have planned, including the menu and signature cocktails especially made after the bridesmaids i understand, probably a story coming up. we will take you for a tour of the dance floor in a little bit. how about a check of today

you can also text in your votes at 62269 -- 622639, next 1 for hudson terrace, 2 for central park zoo. or 3 for gotham hall. we'll reveal the winning locations next wednesday. they're all beautiful. >> later you want to batten down the hatches and nail down the tables in the studio because the real housewives of new jersey are coming by. uh-oh. >> okay. >> before we go any further speaking of battenning things down, let's go to al, he's on the outer banks of north carolina where hurricane earl is fast approaching. al, good morning again. >> good morning, guys. again, about 350 miles south of cape hatteras. category 4 storm. 145-mile-per-hour winds. we are watching as we expect it to come very close to cape hatteras, the outer banks sometime around 2:00 or 3:00 this morning. what about the rest of the country for the weekend? well, we are looking at wet weather along the mid-atlantic coast because of earl on saturday. we also look for mild conditions throughout much of the country. going to be hot through the south on into the gulf coast. sizzling conditions continue in the southwest.

what do you think of the hudson terrace? your first impression walking in? colin cowie and the wonderful joshua, who will perform a wedding song for you in a little bit and you will be lighting this beautiful unity candle as well, we look forward to seeing you and your wedding guests. i'm holding up the dance floor. i will move out and let you take over. al, you just arrived >>> i'm meteorologt tom kierein in "storm center 4." i've been tracking some waves of very heavy rain that have been occurring since about 3:00 this morning sweeping from the south, all across virginia, into the district of virginia and maryland. some of these heavier downpours have had circulations with peaps some funnel clouds associated with them. this latest one right now is anne arundel county. we can zoom the radar in and show you where that particular storm cell is. this is the one i was talking about earlier that's on the western part of the chesapeake bay, just now south of annapolis. this is the sto right here. you can see that sort of hook effect. this could be a tornado, a wa

this is the beautiful hudson terrace. the river views just spectacular right now.eping in theme with our modern love scene. colin cowie helped design this location and one of two levels we are celebrating melissa and jeremy's wedding and their wedding party as they arrive. colin cowie put all these incredible touches from place settings to flower arrangements to all the personal touches, absolutely couldn't be more perfect. we can't wait for the party to get started. i'm sure melissa and jeremy are making their way over here and family members. we can't wait for them to arrive. >> actually, they're still with us. we have one more piece of news. >> it really is a gorgeous setting. i want to know what kind of food they have. are you guys hungry? you must be starving. >> if you're a normal bride, you haven't eaten in two weeks. >> much more ahead on this thursday morning, even as the music continues on the plaza, we'll talk about the honeymoon you have selected for melissa and jerimony -- i keep saying jerimona. right after this local news. >> live, local, latebreakin

> so you considered this couple and you chose among your three choices, one of the choices is hudson terraceple have parties and weddings and things like that? >> it's downtown, it's young, it's hip, it's chic and friendly and it's right across from the intrep intrepid. >> and you can see a lot from those windows, including the intrepid and from the roof deck and there's so many things to look at. >> it gives you a great view of the indoors and a great view of the outdoors. and it's got retractable ceilings so in one of the possible locations for a wedding is we're looking for something that was edgy, young and doubt. -- downtown. the great part about this location, is not only you can have the outdoors and this wonderful deck, but the magnificent view of the hudson right behind me. the first thing i'm going to do is remove all of this furniture and work with scare table tops with ten guests seated at each table. and for the dancing, we're going downstairs. after they cut the wedding case, the bridle party gets to come down to the den.

>> i'm at the hudson terrace. >> beautiful! >> i think it's amazing.ind us of some of your ideas. >> what i love about this idea is you have this great open space with magnificent views of the hudson, almost like being on a cruise line. it's young and it's fresh and the idea with the meal service, they will go downstairs and cut the cake, celebrate and dance until the sun comes up the following day. >> should it rain like today, there is a back up there. the roof comes together. >> the great thing is the roof comes off. they can be outdoors or indoors. you are pretty well covered. they have cake down there and dancing. one of the themes we like to do is have two chapters. one chapter for the dining and another for the dancing. >> i think it's beautiful. i would have been happy with any of them, but it's wonderful. more than i could ever imagine. >> very hip and modern. >> the wedding dress. to get you in the mood to look at dresses and kathy lee and i shared the stories behind our dresses. >> my wedding dress was simple. a beautiful align and very audr

text one for hudson terrace, two for central park zoo and three for gotham hall. >> not four locationsarolina, al has been braving the elements and continues to do so. hurricane earl down there, al. what's going on? >> right now the good news, rain is kind of letting up. i think we are -- on the radar, we've been looking and it looks like now this thing is pulling to the northeast. we are on the southern fringes of this. and so we still have the wind but the rain has let up just a bit. and that's good news. for the weekend, though, it's going to be, again, baffle a coastal event and it will move relatively quickly. within the next 24 hours, it's gone. and we've got a great labor day on tap. if you look at saturday, great weather throughout much of the country. ditto for sunday. again, the heat is going to be hanging around, especially down through the southeast. and then on labor day itself, another chamber of commerce day for a lot of folks all around the country. that's what's going on >>> and a much calmer picture now in san francisco. we've got winds out of the northwest close to 1