over to wilmington, 32-mile-per-hour wind gust. something else that's happening tonight, too, with the spin down to the south, some of the storms, the individual storms that are coming on shore are spinning. some could have tornados. one tornado or onslow county, camp le jeune main gate. that's what you get when you have a spinning storm to the south and that spin pushing these cells, the little cells right on shore, each one of them can actually spin on their own. there's the wind speeds for parts of jacksonville, wilmington. those wind speeds will definitely come up over the rest of the night. in fact, this is ale large wind field. almost 300 miles from top to bottom. and those winds are still going to be moving up toward atlantic beach right about 7:00 in the morning. and then onshore right at about i would say the open coke lighthouse and cape hatteras lighthouse. that's where the main wind will be with this storm, slightly off store. virginia beach, tomorrow night, 7:00. that's where the maximum wind will be, ocean city, by 2:

now let's go to brian todd in wilmington, north carolina. brian, what are conditions like where you are? >> well, isha, we're just getting hit with the outer bands of hurricane irene. you can see how bad it is here. we're getting really whipped by wind and very strong rains here in wilmington. we're on the edge of the cape here with the vehicle path. they're very worried about flash flooding. we've already seen traces of it here in wilmington getting hit pretty hard. the emergency management director of new hanover county. i spoke to him just a little while ago. already some 6,000 customers are without power. this area of the city they've got some power but they're very worried about power lines snapping down. we came from wrightsville beach over here and saw a lot of power lines whipping very violently in the win. not coming down yet. but that's a big concern in this area. power lines being down, losing power in this area. flash flooding a huge worry here. experts have told us that a lot of time when people die during and after hurricanes i

now let's go to brian todd in wilmington, north carolina. brian, what are conditions like where you are? >> well, isha, we're just getting hit with the outer bands of hurricane irene. you can see how bad it is here. we're getting really whipped by wind and very strong rains here in wilmington. we're on the edge of the cape here with the vehicle path. they're very worried about flash flooding. we've already seen traces of it here in wilmington getting hit pretty hard. the emergency management director of new hanover county. i spoke to him just a little while ago. already some 6,000 customers are without power. this area of the city they've got some power but they're very worried about power lines snapping down. we came from wrightsville beach over here and saw a lot of power lines whipping very violently in the win. not coming down yet. but that's a big concern in this area. power lines being down, losing power in this area. flash flooding a huge worry here. experts have told us that a lot of time when people die during and after hurricanes i

how are things in wilmington? severe storm surge that we have gotten so far. we are told that the winds are moving away from the area, but that is not the case here. the cape fear river is behind me. you see the white caps here and squalls behind me. we have a precautionary tale for you in new york. i spoke to officials a short time ago. the message is when you think this is moving away from you, it does not mean it is safe at all. although as we said more severe bands are moving away, but there are still a lot of dangers. they just called off the search for a man who was in the cape fear river temporarily. the conditions are not good enough to resume that search. this was a little bit north here in the cape fear river. people are being urged that you have to stay away from places like this. you have to stay inside and hunker down. don't get the false assurance that conditions will be favorable to go outside or drive in your car. flash flooding is a major concern. it is happening all over the county in wilmington

it may bring rain to miami by friday afternoon and wilmington, north carolina, by sunday evening. >>> a homeless man is in custody this morning after jumping the fence at the white house yesterday. he was captured and apparently

ya en wilmington unas 6000 personas estÁn sin electricidad.mpiezan asentarse mÁs fuertes los vientos. pero de nuevo, segÚn los pronÓsticos llegarÍa aquí a moorehead city a eso de las ocho de la maÑana de maÑana sÁbado. nosotros tendremos toda la coberturadel empate del huracÁn. regreso contigo. >> muchas gracias natalia. nos vamos a ir a nueva york, otras en la que por supuesto espera el embate del huracÁn irene donde hay muchÍsimo temor tambiÉn y las autoridades han tomado medidas desde varios dÍas con anterioridad para evitar que se presenten tragedias mayores.ahÍ se encuentra viviana. >> acidez, esa primera vez que se aplica una orden de evacuaciÓn obligatoria para residentes de la ciudad de nueva york. a 200.000 de ellos viven en zonas bajo el lÍder albanÉs ha dicho que se basan de sus casas. >> en un evento sin precedentes en la historia de la ciudad el sistema masivo pÚblico de transportes serÁ clausurado a partir del sÁbado al mediodÍa. los espectÁculos de broadway para el fin de semana sido cancelados al igual que los vuelos del aeropu

he is on the phone from wilmington.overnor, we understand there was a tornado that touched down in lewes, and what do we know? >> well, there was a tornado in lewes, at least 17 homes damaged, one pretty badly. so far, thank god, in news of any injuries. but it's hitting us pretty hard throughout the state. >> can you tell us what type of borders you've put down, governor, and what you're expecting your people to do? >> well, over the past few days we've evacuated a lot of people from the coastal area, tens and tens of thousands soft people. we've closed most of our bridges. we've put in driving restrictions, so unless you're out there nfor emergency purposs or unless you're evacuating for flooding, you should not be on the roads. we're really trying to keep people off the road now. >> and the information you're getting in coming in to you, obviously this tornado is a huge problem, but otherwise, how is this storm measuring up to what you expected? >> well, it's pretty tough, honestly. and i know i heard that north caro

he's in wilmington, north carolina, for us this morning. brian, can you hear me? >> reporter: i can hear you fine and give you a quick update what's going on here. the rain and wind hasn't let us since irene came ashore. top winds 60 miles an hour, sustained winds in the 30s. i don't think it's gotten into the 30-mile-an-hour range. this river behind me, the cape fear river, i'm going to walk toward the edge of it here with the swells and whitecaps this is expected to flood later today in the northern areas of the river just upstream a bit where it's narrower. half this county is without power right now, more than half actual actually. two-mile stretch of road on carolina beach is flooded. we wanted to give people in the northeast a sense of what it's like here. you heard mayor bloomberg about the precautions to take. for people in the northeast and new york who may not have experienced this yet. if you're going to try to go outside, i can tell you what you're going to experience. it's going to feel like thousands of needles are hitting your face every second. you

wilmington.gain, the roads here are not packed with cars they are heading to the opposite direction. >> looks like it for that picture. that is remarkable technology to be able to beam back these pictures of driving on the road on the way to wilmington. we will be checking back in with you soon. brian todd. john zirella has seen more than his share of storms. he know what is a hurricane like this can do. he is in the path of the storm and we'll speak with him next. you are in "the situation room." vrrooom...vrrroooomm vroom vrrooom vrrroooomm vrrroooomm vrroom vrrrooomm vrrroooooooommmmmm mmmm mm. have i got a surprise for you! yeah, it's new [ barks beneful healthy fiesta. gotta love the protein for muscles-- whoo-hoo! and omega-rich nutrition for that shiny coat. ever think healthy could taste so good? [ woman announcing ] new beneful healthy fiesta. >>> we want to go back to chad meyers in the hurricane headquarters for the latest. we do know and we are about to go to john zirella around moorh

our brian todd in wilmington, north carolina. thank you so much.et's turn to jacqui jeras in studio where me at hurricane headquarters. i want to ask you a question because a viewer asked it and i said i would turn it over to you. the question was, hey, i've been watching this hurricane the last couple days and it looks like it is shearing off. >> shearing? our educated viewer. >> is there some truth to that? >> absolutely. it definitely is. we have dry air which is what we call in training into the system as well. look at this thing, right? you can see down here a couple hours ago it's a symmetrical storm. it's very, very circular looking, balanceded on all sides. as it's moving up to the north, that whole side is starting to get sheered away basically. in addition to that, here's the dry air moving in there. you have dry air moving in here. all of those things work against the storm strengthening. that's good. we like to see that at that point when we're talking 28 miles away from landfall and the coastline. just because it's weakening doesn't me

brian todd in wilmington, north carolina, thank you once again. on the bottom of the hour now, it's not just our reporters out there who have been helping us with this story, you have as well. our ireporters have been sending in video to us. it keeps coming e inine ining i you for it. you'll get the view from our ireporters next. >>> all right. welcome back. we're just past the bottom of the hour. hurricane irene has made landfall and it is now on its way, heading up the east coast after making landfall just a few hours ago in north carolina. now, this is some of the stuff we're expecting here. heavy rain, high wind. irene made landfall near cape lookout, about 60 miles from cape hatteras on north carolina's outer banks. just gives you an idea there, you can hear, you can certainly see, but you can hear the force of this storm and those waves as it came pounding in. this is in atlantic beach. this is south of where irene made landfall. and more high winds and heavy rain in wilmington on the southern end of the north carolina coast. our reporters h

wilmington at 45 kph winds. sustained winds.track and show you what will happen over the next several days. no significant change as far as the velocity. what we think will happen. north carolina landfall 8:00 a.m. as we take you into the next several hours. conditions will deteriorated continue to do so and then move to the north and east. york city is still dealing with a category 1 hurricane as we take you into the early-morning of sunday here with 80-mile an hour winds and then heading off to the north and east, storm surge will be significant along with wind and rain. we will keep you updated throughout the night and that is the latest from cnn hurricane headquarters here to stay with cnn. >>> breaking news of hurricane irene. straight back to brian todd who is in north carolina. the heart of this storm. brian, can you hear me and what is going on now? >> reporter: i can hear you, piers. we still have a mild storm surge. really concerned about the entire eastern half of the state of north carolina. you can see what they are

know of any injuries and there are a few washovers but all in all in the southern coast in the wilmington area, everybody feels like we got away with one during irene, at least this time around. back to you. >> ed krump, thank you very much. bianna, over to you. >> all right, dan. thank you and joining us now on the phone from north carolina is bobby outten, county manager for dare county which includes the northern half of the outer banks. mr. outten, we appreciate your time. thank you so much for joining us. can you describe the situation in your county right now? >> right now we've got evacuation was completed yesterday so the people are out. it's quiet here. the weather is deteriorating as we speak. down in hatteras 50-mile-an-hour winds are coming on shores and they'll get worse through the day. we've got the wind blowing, rain coming, and so the first parts of the storm are really starting to get us now. >> so you're confident that the evacuations yesterday were successful? >> the evacuations were successful. we believe we've got most, if not all, of the visitor population off, and

brian todd right here wrightsville beach, wilmington. this is the closest pass he'll get. the storm will move on up towards cape hatteras region which is northeast of him. but he's really now -- look at all these waves, wave after wave of significant rainfall moving into brian's location. that's why it was so difficult much he's right there at that point. so difficult to get that communication. wilmington now has picked up over five inches of rainfall and literally hasn't even started. we still have 12 or 15 more hours, piers of more heavy rainfall. there cube foot of rain right where brian todd is. you have the water coming in from the ocean and another foot of rain trying to wash down the rivers, significant flash flooding is going to occur right there. >> chad, to try comprehend the scale of this. i heard you earlier and it startled me to say this hurricane, this storm is bigger than the size of europe. is that right? >> that is absolutely correct. let me show you a satellite right here. i measured it myself last night. i went on to google. plotted it on google. if you

and then over toward wilmington about a 42-mile-per-hour wind gust. something else, isha, that's happening tonight, too, with the spin on the storm down to the south, some of these storm, the individual storms that are coming onshore, are spinning. and so some of them could actually have tornados. one tornado warning for arnslow county on the way to the camp lejeune main gate there. indicated by doppler radar potential for tornados tonight let alone the hurricane. like they have anything else to worry about. that's what you get when you have a spinning storm down to the south and that spin pushing these cells, those little convective cells right on shore, each one of them can actually spin on their own. there's the wind speeds for parts of jacksonville, blooming ton, those will definitely come up over the rest of the night. in fact this is a very large wind field, almost 300 miles from top to bottom. and those winds are still going to be moving up toward atlantic beach, right about 7:00 in the morning, and then onshore right at about the i would say t

wilmington, this forecast looks better for you. >> thank you very much. across the east coast, residents are bracing for irene, especially in north carolina, that's where president obama has already declared a state of emergency. nbc's kristen dahlgren has more from the outer banks of north carolina. >> reporter: good morning. this is likely to be one of the first areas on the u.s. mainland to feel the effects and the national weather service is already -- some of those increased waves from hurricane irene are hitting the north carolina coastline. they say six to nine-foot swells coming in now, that suspected to get much worse tlhrough today. we could feel tropical storm-force winds later tonight and conditions continuing to deteriorate as the storm moves closer and getting worse going into saturday. there have already been mandatory evacuations for tourists. that's been expanded for residents here. that begins later on today. residents being encouraged to get out. as we go up the coast, we expect more evacuation orders, even in new jersey. >>> meanwhile,

that is where our brian todd is, in wilmington., we have two other reporters there who gave us two very different pictures. one reporter was being whipped around, the other fairly calm. how it is it there with you? >> reporter: well, t.j., the sustained winds around where we are are between 60 and 65 miles an hour. i mean, you can stand in that. you can walk around in that. it's not comfortable, but you can kind of deal with it. what is really the telling factor, i think, is the rain. it is unrelenting. it's been unrelenting since late yesterday afternoon, overnight. it has intensified this morning. we see the cape fear river behind me with this very large swells of white p caps. there are fears this river may spill over its banks a little farther north of here, not necessarily here because it's wide enough to maybe prevent that. farther north where the river is narrower, they are fearful that this river may spill its banks when the storm surge sticks around. the fact that this storm may not be the fastest moving hurricane in the w

so she's staying put at her home in wilmington. >> i won't go. that's my... that's my dog. he's the only thing i got here. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations for 3,000 tourists started today on ocracoke island, off north carolina's outer banks, accessible only by boat. melanie gordon and patrice parks put up no fight. >> mandatory. we didn't have a choice. we had to go. >> no charge for the ferry, though, back. >> that was cool. ( laughter ) >> reporter: edna mckelvey headed in the opposite direction, back to ocracoke to pick up her mother. >> it's mandatory for the residents tomorrow and she's elderly and has heart problems and a pacemaker. >> reporter: 860,000 north carolinians could live within irene's reach. hurricane fran was the last category-3 storm to sock this state. it killed 14 people here and caused $2.4 billion in damages and governor bev purdue wants to avoid a repeat. >> we are preparing for the worse, get that plan together today. >> reporter: patricia cardwell has a plan. she's just not convinced it's the right one. >> they don't know what's going to happen

track has changed and moving to the east which is good news wilmington or north carolina could see therunt see the possible of a major hurricane. something to keep an eye and something that will change between now and then. if you have interests on that side, we'll keep you advised. notice the clear sky over the bay this morning. temperatures, they are running cooler than yesterday morning, mid to upper 50s and 60 in antioch san jose and mountain view. around monterey bay, more clouds and even patchy drizzle, temperatures in the low to mid-50s. highlights for this forecast period, warmer today, even some sunshine at the coast. it will be partly cloudy tonight and mainly drizzle at the coast. hot inland but mild at the coast all throughout this seven-day forecast. let's start in the east bay valleys where it's going to be warm today, hopefully you have the windows getting in some of that 50-60-degree air. by the time you head home tonight, 92 at dublin to 96 in brentwood, livermore and concord at 95 degrees. on the bay side, it won't be quite as warm, still get toasty everywhere for oak

>> all right, brian todd for us once again in wilmington, north carolina, thank you.about 43 minutes past the hour. jacqui jeras will have the very latest on this storm, where it is, where it's heading, and when it's going to arrive, maybe in your town. stay with us on this cnn saturday morning and our extensive coverage of hurricane irene. on our car insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. wow! that is huge! [ disco playing ] and this is to remind you that you could save hundreds! yeah, that'll certainly stick with me. we'll take it. go, big money! i mean, go. it's your break, honey. same coverage, more savings. now, that's progressive. call or click today. you've been stuck in the garage, while my sneezing and my itchy eyes took refuge from the dust in here and the pollen outside. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescription strength relief from my worst allergy symptoms. it's the brand allergists recommend most. ♪ lily and i are back on the road again. where we belong. with zyrtec®, i can l

several towns are under water this morning, including the resort town of wilmington, and for now the town is cut off. all roads leading to it are always submerged. some of the state's historic covered bridges fell to it. hundreds of residents are forced from their homes and some rivers are still rising. montpelier could be worse because of a threatened dam. record floodwaters are about to utility companies -- officials say record floodwaters are about to top the dam upriver from the capitol. to save it they may have to release the backed up water. hundreds of nearby residents have by told they may have to leave their homes just in case. the storm left a wake of destruction up and down the east coast. at least 21 people were killed. most of them from falling trees. 4.5 million people are without power, and some places may stay that way for days. the damage from irene estimated at up to $7 billion. president obama says even though the storm may have passed, it's still a threat. >> many americans are still at serious risk of power outages and flooding, which could get worse in the comin

here is video of wilmington of vermont. you can see crumbled homes, our growth locally right now. hundreds remained cut off by impassable roads. the damage from my reading has caused 44 deaths. rescuers are still searching for some that remain missing. new pictures out of vermont, the roadway gave way on one of the main streets in the area into the street he did. residents are waiting for the flood waters to recede so that they can process. men the price tag to the damage books to be 2-3 billion. >> the hearing on what happened in san bruno, a pipeline explosion has started. but listen in. >> this accident represents a snapshot in time. we recognized that individuals work hard every day at pg&e, cpuc to keep our pipelines safe but good intentions and did not prevent this accident from happening. opportunities or misted that could have and should have prevented this tragedy. we've knowledge that in the intervening months much has been learned and the commitment to change has been made. we are here today to talk about the rupture on september 9, 2010. today you were going to hear so

the forecast improves for wilmington and raleigh areas.hen along the coast during the overnight dark hours. by the time we wake up sunday morning, irene will be a category 2 storm going down to a 1. new york city, instead of an afternoon event on sunday, now the worst of it is in the morning hours sunday. new york or long island, you need to prepare today. then your saturday morning will be okay. saturday afternoon could get dicey, too. mike, now all your questions. >> all right. the good news is, if there is good news, it's going to occur, the event is going to occur in east coast cities largely on a weekend. >> correct. >> now your models that you guys have, the play models, is there a possibility the storm track shifts east or further inland? >> okay. we had the wiggles watching. these are the spaghetti lines of possibility. the furthest to the right goes over rhode island, cape cod and boston. the left brings it up to chesapeake bay. six of them are putting it in the middle, over the jersey shore. that's why the hurricane center has th

it may bring rain to miami by friday afternoon and wilmington, north carolina, by sunday evening. >>> a homeless man is in custody this morning after jumping the fence at the white house yesterday. he was captured and apparently posed no danger. he's facing charges of unlawful entry and contempt of court for violating a previous order to stay away from the white house. >>> to the weather now and the scorching heat wave that's been baking the southern plains for weeks. in oklahoma and texas, this week may be the hottest week of this very hot year with triple-digit temperatures that take your breath away. this morning, there are excessive heat warnings or advisories in at least 12 states from texas to georgia and north to illinois. texas is getting some of the worst with dallas recording 32 straight days of 100-degree heat and 12 deaths confirmed since june. yesterday afternoon dallas set a record, 110 degrees. the elderly are most at risk. >> taking medications for things like high blood pressure or diabetes can pre-dispose you to not having the typical symptoms that might alert you yo

in this hospital in wilmington, north carolina, kristen elliot gave birth to a healthy baby girl this storm had already hit. mom will certainly have a story to tell baby parker. >> i'm just going to tell her that, you know, she was born during a very exciting time. and i guess she decided to make it even more exciting by coming during it. >> reporter: and we wondered about all of the other hurricane babies, from hurricanes past. ivan's mom will never forget when her son was born during hurricane ivan in 2004. here he is then. and seven year later, here he is today. he is living up to his name, full of energy. and we all rebecca trina. this little girl born back then. and she was named for the storm, long before the l lied broke and the devastation was coming in. she is now five. and her parents say she is redefining the name. >> ivan and katrina, looking good these years later. >>> let's bring sam back in. she is a category 1. but she is moving very slowly and has been devastating already. >> i want to show an important picture to folks in the inland. from virginia to maine. this is a

abc's linsey davis is in wilmington now. >> reporter: not your ordinary debris bobbing up and down in this raging vermont river. this is a chrysler, caught up in the kind of flooding most haven't seen here in living memory. it was really scary. people coming in, chest deep in water. >> reporter: at least two of the lives claimed by irene were here in vermont. one person is still missing. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: a dozen bridges have been lost, including some of the state's iconic covered ones, just washed away. more than 250 roads closed, and many stretches look like this, crumbling. in downtown brattleboro, thousands of homes and business are without power. officials are struggling to determine the true extent of the damage. the governor, who surveyed the wreckage by helicopter, described widespread devastation. >> we've seen so many heartbreaking stories that it's -- we need all the help we can get. >> reporter: the national guard is out with rapid response teams working on rescue and relief, but even the rescuers are in need of help. >> the water level got right here. >> reporte

of the first state depository, a gold storage facility in wilmington, delaware says his business is up 40% this year. >> gold is the international world currency that even will feel good about owning until we straighten out this mess and get back on the right path. >> reporter: rattled investors will now turn the federal reserve tuesday which hold what is usually a sleepy summer meeting. how important is the fed's statement tomorrow? >> well, tomorrow it's become very critical. >> reporter: economist ellen zentner says ben bernanke and company need to address the sudden and extreme volatility in the markets. >> the longer that that drags on the more depressing effect it will have on job growth, on consumer spending, on business investments. volatile city a killer of the economy. >> reporter: but for now, the selling doesn't seem to stop. >> it's anyone's guess when you've got investors running scared as to where the bottom is. >> reporter: the last time the dow hit bottom back in march of 2009, it closed just above 6,500, so the dow is still up 65% from that low point. that's probably

linsey davis, abc news, wilmington, vermont. >>> and we turn overseas now to libya, where rebel leaders have given an umeltimatum to moammar gadhafi and his supporters who are still fighting. if they don't surrender by friday, the new leaders will launch an all-out assault on gadhafi's hometown, sirte, which they have now surrounded. and as abc's jeffrey kofman reports, today, we also learned that a loss gadhafi often used to elicit sympathy, the death of his daughter, may have been a hoax. >> reporter: no one disputes that an american bomb hit gadhafi's compound on that april day in 1986. ronald reagan ordered the attack on the mad dog of the middle east after libyan agents targeted american soldiers at a nightclub in berlin, killing two and injuring dozens. >> this monstrous brutality is but the latest act in colonel gadhafi's reign of terror. >> reporter: gadhafi survived. but he has always claimed that that bomb killed his infant daughter, hanna. after the regime crumbled last we week, rebels found a room in one of his houses with medical books belonging to dr. hanna gadhafi. regime

>> just south of philadelphia near wilmington, delaware, this is a big-time circulation, probably veryington and then traveling across i-95 towards chester, maybe even toward camden in the south philadelphia suburbs there. the storm is probably either on the ground at this point or very close to coming down. it's 50,000 feet tall which means ten miles high for this thunderstorm. it's rotating and some of that rotation may very well be on the ground with the tornado warning right there for wilmington, delaware and points northeastward from there. >> thanks for the update. >>> with the market taking a roller coaster ride these last couple days, there is a lot of anxiety about what you can do to protect your own personal finances. well, we will try to help. all morning long, you have been sending your questions about the market and what it means for you. i'm joined by valerie coleman morris, a personal finance specialist and former cnn business anchor. good to see you again. you going to help us out here? >> oh, absolutely. here's my laundry list. i want to talk to the parent who has two

that is newborn georgia ann elliot, arriving just as hurricane irene hit wilmington. the hospital never lost power and successfully delivered 16 other babies as well and none of them by the way, is named irene. >> the storm canceled weekend plans across the east coast and that includes tomorrow's dedication of the new martin luther king memorial in washington, d.c.. still organizer went ahead of services commemorating the civil rights leader, featuring excerpts from king's last speech as well as tributes from his youngest child. organizers say a dedicate for the new memorial will be reschedule the sometime this fall. >> hurricane irene is also affect something presidential campaigns, g.o.p. candidate mitt romney was forced to cancel three fundraisers this weekend in martha's vineyard and the hamiltons. a spokesperson for the former massachusetts governor says the events will be revelded. >>> fellow republican candidate jon huntsman is scheduled to be at a fundraiser in new york. the former utah governor's campaign says while they are keeping an eye on the storm, irene

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in this hospital in wilmington, north carolina, kristin gave birth to a healthy baby girl as the storm certainly have a story to tell baby parker. >> i'm just going to tell her that, you know, she was born during a very exciting time. and i guess she decided to make it even more exciting by coming during it. >> reporter: we wondered here about all those other hurricane babies from hurricanes past. ivan pittman's mom will never forget when her son was born during hurricane ivan in 2004. here he is then and here he is today. his mother told us he's living up to his name, full of energy. and we all r rember katrina. this little girl born back then, and she was named for the storm long before those levees broke, the true devastation settling in. she's now 5, and her parents say she is redefining the name. >> katrina. it's a pretty name. >> it is. six years ago today is when that storm hit the gulf coast. life has never been the same. >> it's hard to believe it was so long ago. >> doesn't seem like it. it's crazy. crazy. >> well, we here in manhattan are lucky. the worst of irene passed mos

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right now, around wilmington saturday evening, it could come ashore as a major category 3 storm. >> backe, what a beautiful picture this morning, look at mount tamalpais and some of the fog that is slipping from the coast into the bay area. that is going to be short-lived as we will have a lot of sunshine and warmer weather. temperatures right now are running around 50 in mountain view and 60 in antioch. we'll have 50s for the rest of us when you step outside. clouds, drizzle in the monterey bay. low to mid-50s but clear and 49 in gilroy. warmer today, first highlight, we'll see spots at the coast. coast will be cloudy tonight. that is best area for drizzle while rest of us are partly cloudy and hot inland with mild temperatures at the coast all the way through the weekend. 24-hour temperature change, we're going up today. 7 degrees warmer in san francisco. 8 in oakland and santa rosa. san jose, concord, fremont, double-digit it can be it warmth compared to yesterday. east bay valleys getting close to air-conditioning weather, low to mid 90s for you. low 80s, mid to upper 70s around rich

. >>> to the floodwaters still raging after irene and we begin with abc's linsey davis in wilmington, vermont, for us this morning. linsey, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, robin. want you to take a look at what remains of the roadway. water did this. there's so many stretches of roadway in this area that look much the same way. asphalt in just about every other kind of debris you can imagine litter the roadway and then there's this. the art gallery. you're about to see video of this getting rushed down the street by floodwaters to this, its final destination. this building and what remains of the building behind it used to be about 300 feet down the street. this is normally main street and that is someone's business, an art gallery floating down it and this, yes, that is a chrysler, irene may have moved on but the devastation continues, homes ripped from their foundation, now gone. at least a dozen towns have been cut off from the outside world after floodwaters knocked out bridge after bridge and destroyed highways, even the state's emergency operations center, gone. the gov

my colleague amber lyon is in wilmington. tell us how the roads are there. like getting around? >> reporter: well, randi, i got to tell you, it's very difficult to get to some of these small mountain communities in vermont. they are mountain communities. a lot of them had roads that were wiped out by the flooding waters. just to get here, we had to take a small side gravel road, dirt road up the side of a mountain to get in and access this community. so right now, emergency relief crews are out there trying to open these roads as quickly as they can so people can easily travel between communities in vermont. here in the middle of wilmington, vermont, this is a town of about 1800 people, and look at this. today out here randi, it looks like some type of a bomb went off in this city. all of these shop keepers are pulling out their flooded inventory, into the streets to try to salvage these buildings anyway they can. i'm right in front of a bookstore. there's about a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of books that are just covered in mud and damaged. the ow

linsey davis, abc news, wilmington, vermont. >> amazing footage there.e out of new hampshire this morning. this was a roadway until those raging waters took out a lane, leaving a 30-foot drop to the river below. even the barriers that block people from getting too close, they've been washed away as well. it's going to take at least a month to fix. >>> in new jersey, rising floodwaters are threatening to do even more damage to a state hard-hit by irene. abc's dan harris reports from little falls. >> reporter: i'm standing in floodwaters in little falls, new jersey. the passaic river runs through this township. you can see it rushihi behind these homes here. it's set to crest at 5:00 a.m. eastern at a record 13.8 feet. and since this has never before happened in recorded history, nobody knows how bad it's going to be. although i have to say it's bad already. i went out for what was supposed to be a rowboat ride with one of the people who lived in this neighborhood. since the current was so strong, we couldn't row, we had to get out and pull the thing. i'm

from wilmington, beautiful weather all of the way up into new jersey. as we look at the big board we'll show you the west coast we're dealing with the heat from the southwest into the state of texas and we have comfortable temperatures going on in >>> who said you can't get a cab in new york? right in the middle of a tropical situation, i had a free one go right by. robin and george. >> i knew you were going to mention that, sam. >> i thought he was going to jump in. >> mass transit has been shut down since noon yesterday, but the cabbies still out there. >> letet turn to our weekend anchor, bianna golodryga. you have a time lapse. >> we have a time lapse from the empire state building. we heard jim avila talk about the concerns of the high rises, and the wind impact there. you see overnight it's continuing to be a rain storm right now. but the clouds coming over. it's becoming harder and harder to see and more and more concerned about whether or not these buildings can sustain impact from heavy winds. there's the concern about that and also elevators a

. >> as far as direct information from the sea side towns, do you have much more places like wilmington like on the western edge of the storm and hit that town pretty good. >> they have been getting a lot of wind and rain. i have been talking primarily to the outer banks area and cape lookout, and the eastern part of the outer banks and they are receiving a lot of rain and flooding. >> that seems to indicate that there is power in the out banks, right. >> northern part they have power. >> that might be a good sign. senator. what about shelters, are they used in the times in the past. that part of your state knows these storms unfortunately all too well. we certainly have hurricane season, but we have had the tornados several months ago . a number of shelters at that point in time . there are many shelters . my office stands ready to assist north carolinians as we go. 877-852-8 -- 9462 extinction 13. this is not emergency number. but once people have returned to their homes from the shelters. contact if they need help with disaster relief. >> thank you, senator, 10 seconds left. is there

and wilmington and new york city. possibly boston. we have been in touch with all of those states.e concerns, of course, in new york city, is the subway system and maintaining the subway system. those decisions will be made by the mayor and his staff. we will be prepared to support them. craig, do you want to address that? >> bill, you probably are the expert on the storm surge. you can talk about the tools you have and where that may occur. >> yes. all of these little inlets and bays along the sounds of north carolina are the initial concerns. we have concerns anywhere in the eastern part of north carolina. what we haven't talked about is the high tide water area during the storm surge. it will depend if the storm goes just to the west or the east of there. the areas that will be impacted by storm surge on this storm will be focusing on that closely. we will focus on that tonight and into tomorrow to get the exact location. we have run a set of simulations, if you will, which are run all the time. we update the basin so we have tools for the emergency managers to predict where the

the organization's delaware chapter is asking a court to stop the city of wilmington from evicting sexfe house. that safe house is located near a daycare center. how crazy is this? fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. here with more. peter? >> good, let's talk about the facts on this and i want to know what people at home do think about this because it's a nuance thing. a little bit complex, the harriet tubman safe house. been there for about eight years. place across the street decides to lease some of its space to a daycare center. people at the harriet tubman center say we are trying to provide housing for people right out of jail including people convict theed of sex offenses, people who otherwise would be on the street wandering around committing crimes so they say we were here first. there's nothing in the delaware law that grandfathers him and the aclu says that's unconstitutional. the truth is we have no record in this society for sex offenders. we believe they have no rights morally we believe that. legally, they have certain rights. i mean, compared to children, people sa

at least one person was killed 20 miles west of here in wi wilmington, vermont.became a rapid, a woman fell in. her body was recovered this morning. ali? >> it's a good reminder that that flooding continues to be very, very dangerous. gary, thanks for that reporting. i su a tweet from craig fugate, from fema, reminding people not to drive through your water. >> water is wnot your friend. there are more deaths from trying to drive through water after the hurricane. >> that's right. >> in jersey, the smell of gasoline is in the air, people are revving up their chainsaws and same on the shores of north carolina. the outer banks were slammed so hard, some areas are only accessible by chopper right now. pounding surf watched over do you knows, covering roads. water and sand all in one big mess right now, stranding 2,500 people who didn't leave hatteras island. an emergency ferry will be spent there. the governor says, quite frankly, it could be 2 1/2 months before a permanent way to get out there. some of those people, every day, commute in by ferry to the mainland. v

by the time it hits north carolina, whether it's from almost wilmington, still offshore to cape hattious, see how the cone is getting closer, now north carolina you are in a small cone, and it looks somewhere between moorhead city, and atlantic beach, it's 105 miles per hour. and then if it's inland and it goes into the chesapeake bay, that could cause a surge into the bay, and then the track in the middle, looks like it will descend on the jersey shore, and straight on up and into the new york city area. to the east of there is where all the wind will be. that could be here, even though you may not get wind in massachusetts and connecticut, if it's further to the west, the spin is potentially making tornados for you which could cause just as much damage if not more than the hurricane itself. the storm has gone down a little bit. you will not see the 135 potential anymore, but don't let your guard down, think of what an 85-mile-per-hour storm would do over the city, and still has the potential to do a lot of damage monetarily and physically. >> and in the northeast corridor, we're talkin

lifeguards at the beach north of wilmington say they've already pulled people out of the ocean. this kind of storm, you have high risk for rip currents, in the water, and, very choppy scenes and the ocean is a very mysterious thing at moments like this, don't take any chances with this. because, always there are daredevils who are trying to catch a big wave, not a great idea. >> we have done a dozen or so rescues today and had some injuries, due to the high surf, and, most -- all of the rescues were rip current related. martha: and people panic when they get into a rip current and don't realize what you have to do is swim parallel to the shore to get out of a rip current. don't try to swim in, you have to let it carry you and swim parallel to it, and that is the only way to... gregg: otherwise you tire and get swept away. evacuations underway in maryland now, a governor declaring a statewide emergency, ordering mandatory evacuations, for ocean city for the very first time, in more than 20 years. >> we are ordering a mandatory evacuation, off the barrier island of ocean city. wha

hatteras looking at winds out of the east at 45 miles per hour, wilmington, 35 miles per hour, myrtle beach 44 miles per hour. morehead city 43 these winds continue to pick up as the system gets closer to your area. landfall expect add across extreme eastern north carolina, cape hatteras, helped up this is coming your way, landfall is expected by 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. center of the storm should be well inland across the outer banks by 2 p.m. as sustained winds of 80 five miles per hour category one. the center where the storm is supposed to go along the new jersey coastline through new york city where western portions of long island well inland into new england sunday 2 p.m. with sustained winds at 70 miles per hour. significant system category 2, 100 mile per hour sustained winds. >> greta: to north carolina, jonathan serrie in atlantic beach, north carolina. >> reporter: we are being pelted with rain behind me you can see the pier bombarded by waves all day. they've been watching the surf all day many one concern is storm surge. there's a very -- small dunes that protect the rest

it's raining in new york and raining in wilmington. this thing is big. doug mckelway, hello?reporter: can you hear me talking to you right now. >> shep: i can hear you speaking >> shep: he can't hear me. go doug! he can't hear me, speak to me. >> i just lost audio. since you last came to us about an hour ago. let me give you an update. when you last came, winds were 45 miles per hour. i think we're hovering about 50, i'm getting that stinging sand and rain sensation which we did not have before. that is a significant number because at that point, 50 miles an hour, sustained winds the 50 miles an hour, they are calling it quits. they are pulling off the beach. anybody left here is on their own. turning to the waves, as i look behind me here, off the horizon, i can actually see some of the peaks of waves. i've been coming here for long time but as the peaks, some are higher than my head. as they approach the beach they come down, having said that, i just made a 50-yard spread because they are getting closer and closer to the dunes now. we are about 20 yards before they reach th

> in a stroke of luck, leeann's cousin saw her desperate plea on tv and helped them relocate to wilmingtonh carolina. >> i don't really have any family other than her. she's like a second cousin. i could have died and him, too. nobody would have even noticed us. it took me a long time to really kind of get over that. >> jahan is now a healthy, lively 5-year-old who seems to have no memory of those dark days at the convention center. >> go ahead. >> leeann hasn't returned to new orleans since the storm. she can't afford it, but she's eager to go back. >> it's a voice in my head with a little birdie saying do you want to go back and check it out to give you either closure to not go back, or to go back. and i'm not saying everything was so great before. it's just it was my home. >> coming up -- ♪ heart to heart and soul to soul we'll get through it ♪ >> coming back from disaster. >> these homes have exceeded my expectations. it's illogical to build it any other way. [ female announcer ] what if your natural beauty could be flawless too? discover aveeno positively radiant tinted moisturizers w