you can see that eyewall, that intense eyewall developing with the high resolution, visible satellite photography, up in new york. as the storm makes that approach closer and closer, we were hoping it wouldn't make that trajectory. we were within 100 miles of the kind of deaf station they saw in our -- devastation they saw in our area. look at the totals, over 10 inches through crisfield and totals over half a foot of rain in baltimore and points west of isolated pockets, even higher. again, some of the isolatedded highest totals -- isolated highest totals. that rain as to go somewhere. flood stage for the conowingo 25. also, out in frederick we're at the max stage. highest forecast occurring this halloween evening. here's some interesting statistics talking about hurricane snow stacks. oakland 24 inches plus. west virginia 20 inches and in tennessee 22 inches of snow, unbelievable storm impact. all right. let's get it back to halloween night. a cool breezy scenario. we're in the 40s in hagerstown and york. the overall setup is for dry, cool but cloudy weather throughout the rest of t

the eyewall coming in right now right here on the southern tip of jersey. it's beginning to push in over the next throw six hours. really over the next three to four hours especially. these rain totals are getting very excessive. down eastern shore totals over four inches. here are the current winds, steady winds around 5, still at the beach a northwest wind that's good in terms of keeping the bay on the drained side. themes wind gusts have been unbelieve baling, gusting to 74 in ocean city. 61 in kent island. 62347 chris field. we're getting near hurricane force winds on the southern end of the chess -- chesapeake. let's head it back over to the news desk and the governor. >> governor martin o'malley. >> he's pretty good at this. i don't have to be the weather man. that's all right. let's begin. here we go. i want to give you the 5:00 update. we just had a briefing from the national weather service. it would appear hurricane sandy is actually pick up, not only strength as she approaches landfall but also picking up speed. the bad news is the storm is becom

no eyewall or anything like that. a high impact storm. especially at the airports, the ripple effect across the country i'm sure will be felt monday and tuesday. >> unfortunately this is a big one. >>> as the 2012 election race enters the final stretch, at least one new poll shows republican mitt romney with an edge over president obama. according to a new abc news "washington post" poll, 50% of likely voters now support governor romney. that's verses 47% who favor the president. yesterday the president wrapped up a whirlwind two-day campaign blitz with a stop in chicago to cast an early ballot. that's a first for a presidential nominee. and yes, he did have to show his id. >>> mitt romney made three stops in ohio on thursday. he told voters this campaign is about families and said his main goal is getting people back to work. >> i want regulators to see their job as encouraging business, not attacking business because i want more jobs. my priority is jobs, jobs, jobs. we're going to get them here in ohio. >>> nbc's brian williams spent t

this is the eyewall that's coming on through here. you can see it coming right here and straight across the delaware bay just to the south of dover. i'm waiting for that hurricane center official statement, but this is definite ly making its way onshore right now just to the north of rehoboth beach. we are dealing with probably the strongest bands that we've been dealing with all along, winds gusting 50, 60 miles an hour. we're seeing anywhere between half an inch to an inch to two inches an hour. we'll continue to see that as this band moves through. it's supposed to move up through the baltimore area. as it does that, it's going to pivot this rain around where we are. so we're going to stay in the rain, especially areas down to the south of washington, i think, are going to continue to see that heavy rain. the heaviest rain in through frederick county, right through the d.c. metro area, down into already seen uthern maryland tremendous amount of rain, upwards of 5" to 10". 52-mile-an-hour wind gusts in washington. 46 in camp springs

bahamas you can see it's just about to pull out of the bahamas 89 brighter wider tops you don't see an eyewallve circulation. it does look huge. i think people are seeing how big this field is and thinking it's this monster storm. it's the potential it has once it gets up around new york, boston and philadelphia. it could be a monster storm them. category 1 storm churning up northwest 10-13 miles an hour. winds are up around 80 miles an hour. i think you will get nailed with rip currents but the bulk of the storm, strongest part are in the northeast quadrant. it's not until it starts to recurve and head toward philadelphia and d.c. monday night that will hook up with the arctic cold front. just like the perfect storm it's going to increase in intensity and create all that damage that katie just told you about. monday and tuesday we're really concerned about what the hurricane could become. back here at home, completely quiet. dry and cool, temperatures in the 40s and 60s. we'll be in the 60s and 70s with a whole lot of sunshine by 4:00. warmest afternoon on saturday, sunday and just a little c

the good news is for atlantic city, there's no eyewall there.infall, the storms have stopped. so that's why the winds have died down. and i will show you on the next map, there's not much rainfall on that side of the storm. the storm has just about come onshore. let's say half of it's onshore, half of it's off. but the part that's still off doesn't have any storm on it. doesn't have convection. doesn't have weather there. so there's not as much wind with that part. that's good. now that the wind is beginning to die off, it will continue to die off in most places. we always knew this storm wasn't going to be a huge wind-maker as it moves onshore. it's going to be a wind-maker inland when you start to add in the cold air that's already here. it's already raining here all the way through virginia. but it's snowing back into west virginia. parts of virginia and also into kentucky, this is the cold part of the storm that will wrap its way into the warm part of the storm where ali is. that's when it turns into the winter event. i just got a report off

that's where the eyewall is, where you'll see our weather channel friends try to be in the middle of the storm where the most destruction is. we've already had almost 60-mile-per-hour gusts in boston. this storm is closer to atlantic city. we had a high tide flooding down yesterday in areas of florida when the storm was off the outer banks. i mean we're talking about a storm that's the size of the largest nor'easter winter storms we get with tropical characteristics and moisture and rain. it's a strange combination all the elements came together and may never happen in my lifetime again and we're all fearful and had hope we all get through the best later on tonight. >> absolutely. thank you, thanks, bill karins. now let's go right to the jersey shore and nbc's ron allen point pleasant, new jersey. you must already be seeing the waves, there you are, tell me how it is changing and what you've seen since you've been there early this morning. >> well, andrea, the winds have picked up considerably. we were up here three or four hours ago and i wasn't having difficulty standing in positio

we finally saw a really good presentation on radar of the eye and the eyewall. you know, we are just out here, trying to gather data for the hurricane center, folks on the east coast, everybody be prepared. we see the wind field continuing to expand and the pressures have dropped to 950 millibars at the center. so it's a big storm and very powerful. >> all right, ian, thank you very much. ian is on board the -- an aircraft flying right through the massive storm right now and he is a hurricane hunter, he works for -- flight meteorologist ian sears. before go to the next story there, the information he gave you, you heard him say, chad, what does that say to you? >> tell us the wind is kind of catching up to the pressure. earlier, i tweeted this, talked about this on the air, the pressure was equal to a cat three, we just don't have any cat three winds. it apackers not going to get to cat three. it appears that at least some of the wind that potential with this storm is catching up. could be that 80, 85-mile-an-hour storm some, including us, have forecast it is mi

that is where the eyewall came onshore. it would have taken that tidal surge and thrown it into the sounds we're looking at. martha: bulldozers pushing sand back to clear some of those roads in long beach island which is a barrier island. seaside heights is out there. this is one of the areas we've been watching so closely but there are a lot of barrier islands that come along on the jersey shore where generations have been spending their summers for many, many years. so, many people who can't get down there at all to see the damage may be getting a first look at it from the aerial shoppers themselves. they're squinting and tv screen to see if they spot their house as we go by in the choppers. we don't have control over these images. we're getting what we're getting. that is a look at long beach island right now. more on that coming up. >>> in ohio as well the race is on to restore power today in the westlake area. there are nearly 200,000 people who are in the dark. that has complicated the efforts to clear debris and repa