stretching across the pacific from russia to alaska the commando archipelago in flames two large islands bearing and near two smaller islands called the fuck off and are a come. they were named after commander victors bearing the seafarer who discovered them in seven hundred forty one born in denmark vetus unison bearing served in the russian fleet he was in charge of geographic expeditions organized by peter the great. belling ship ended up wrecked on this island. and you know hardships they suffered during the winter define description of high winds a bitter cold blizzard and sludge ice. that was an agonizing winter just terrible. saying a pass a new came to the commander rollins when he was seventeen years old. since then he's worked as a sailor a fisherman and a hunter. he singlehandedly crossed the pacific not for reaching seattle. he is now a permanent resident nichol's where he's preparing illustrations for his book about the commander island's. little bearings crew was lucky to be stranded at this place there must have been a guardian angel watching from above because the ship was thrown

. >> and long island bears the brunt of a tropical hurricane that culminates in the worst storm in historystorm barreled over the eastern end of long island... >> in westhampton it says two bradley children were missing. >> reporter: ...otis bradley was only six years old. he and his sister margaret were visiting a beach house directfully the storm's path. >> there was no warning. absolutely zero warning. >> reporter: otis remembers the grown-ups in the house telling him not to look out the window-- so, of course, he did. >> dark and windy and scary. my sister says that she saw a 50-foot tidal wave. >> reporter: the category three hurricane made landfall with bellport, new york, with winds at 121 miles per hour and a storm surge that rushed into the house that otis and his sister were visiting. >> after the water started piling up, we moved up to the second floor. and then to the attic. and the men cut a hole in the roof so that if the house got washed away, we could get out. >> reporter: what do you remember feeling? >> cold and damp and wet and scared. >> reporter: in the village of west

and will move around the caribbean islands. this bears watching closely especially if you live in florida or the east coast. the heat's going to continue to crank, dallas, oklahoma city, their streak of 100-plus days continues at 30 and growing. some of the heat will continue to grow up toward the north. 108 the expected high temperature in dallas. 100 in kansas city. this will stay with us, i think, across the day today. new york, you'll see evening thunderstorms. same deal with d.c. and philly. might see delays this, and san francisco some fog. traveling by car, and a lot of folks are this summer holiday season, ali, check this out. imagine if you're on a family vacation and you're driving down the interstate in memphis and a snake -- wow. >> i was wondering what that was. wow. >> pops out of the hood of your car and on to the windshield. >> what are you supposed to do about that? >> well, scream. especially the little girls in the back. i know i would be screaming like a little girl probably. then pull over and maybe through the windsh

at a camp site in northern norway, where a polar bear mauled a 17-year-old british teen to death and injured four others. the attack took place on an island where the population of polar bears actually exceeds that of humans and where food is scarce. the polar bear was killed after the attack. >>> we turn back to this country this evening and to a stunning fbi manhunt in florida tonight. the search for three gun-wielding siblings. they robbed a bank, set out on a high speed chase and then sprayed cops with their ak-47s. now, the bandits are still on the run, and here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: police say this trio should be considered armed and dangerous. three siblings being urged by their mother to surrender. authorities say they robbed a bank in georgia with what appeared to be ak-47s. as they entered the bank, the fbi says they fired shots at the ceiling and then took off with an undisclosed amount of money. earlier, they were allegedly involved in a high speed chase in florida. at least 20 gunshots were fired at a police car. authorities have been pursuing dylan dougherty stanley, lee grace dougherty and ryan edward dougherty

at 500 miles from one side to another comes bearing down on america. i am the barrier islands of north carolina, they are fast selling out of generators and other emergency supplies peeving -- emergency supplies. >> it is a bad storm that hit directly, it will not take much of an elevation of sea level to create a lot of havoc. >> and for the north, the u.s. navy is moving warships away from their base in virginia. and along the east coast, communities right up to new york and cape cod are bracing for what may lie ahead. bbc news, washington. >> and a storm of a very different kind has already hit the tech world of giant apple. steve jobs announced he is stepping down. the relatively unknown tim cook has become the chief operating officer and will likely replace tim. this has caused a flurry of speculation about his ailing health and the fate of the corporation he helped to bill. we're joined now from new york by the author of "be political diet." i heard that steve jobs' is described as one of the most creative people of our generation. do you agree with that? >> i would agre

irene is a category 1 bearing down on the turks and caicos islands, and is expected to be getting strongerteorologist david bernard of cbs 4 miami is tracking the storm for us. david, which way is this headed? >> well, right now, scott, it's heading to the west-northwest. pretty slowly at around nine or 10 miles per hour. again it's a little weaker. the latest information we got 90 miles an hour winds. as you mentioned, a category 1 storm. but that is just temporary. we think it's going to get stronger. in fact, the track takes it through the bahamas over the next 48 hours and restrengthens it to a category 3. the next big landfall could be near the outer banks of north carolina on saturday. and then the question after that is, does this make a significant impact and landfall somewhere-- maybe near the jersey shore-- as we go into sunday? that would be an unusual track, i believe, for a hurricane. tell me, what is steering this? >> well, basically we have rivers of air that go through the jetstream from west to east. it depends how strong those rivers of air are. that is what will drive th

island of hispaniola. the people of haiti in real trouble as that tropical storm bears down on that island. >>> and just above it, 279, that's the campus of virginia tech where there is fear, a report of another gunman on the loose. three youngsters said they saw such a gunman carrying what looked to be a gun today. so far police have investigated, they say they have not found anything. we're continuing to keep an eye on it. jenna? jenna: new information, now, on the massive recall linked to killer salmonella outbreak. cargill, one of the biggest names in the meat-packing industry, now pulling some 36 million pounds of fresh and frozen ground turkey off the market as the agricultural department hunts for the source of this deadly bacteria strain. 76 people sickened so far, at least one death linked to this outbreak. you can see how widespread this is. the recall of the ground turkey all made at plant in arkansas, but salmonella cases now spread. as we mentioned, really around the united states, and here's why. >> when we see a lot of animals whether they're birds or cows being ground into meat and parceled ou

but it leaves boston, rhode island, massachusetts that could bear the brunt. we're tracking it closely. our models contributed to something called the hurricane evacuation models that have helped inform state and local leaders and federal agencies as they made recommendations and then course those state leaders made decisions. >> poppy harlow, my colleague was saying earlier she's in lower manhattan, people are suggesting it cube surge of water between six and 12 feet high in parts of manhattan. including ground zero. is that a likely prospect, do you think from everything you're now looking at? >> in a worse case scenario, 12 feet is possible. right now given the track the storm is oranges given the wind speeds we're measuring, the speed of the storm itself, what we see in our projections are sadly there's a timing issue. timing is everything. there's a high tide, a moon tide if you will that will be occurring in new york at the time that the hurricane is about to make landfall. so, there's about a one-foot increase over a normal high tide at the battery, and

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. >> hurricane irene is turning into a bear this afternoon, growing over warm water, lashing the caribbean islands zeroing in on the bahamas. now, people in north carolina are taking cover. abc has the latest. >> in bahamas, business owners boarded up stores. and tourists lined up in airports. was it a quick get away they're hoping for. >> planned to have a week of relaxation. and we got here and spent two days and have to turn right back around. >> packing winds up to 120 miles per hour, irene is now a category three. soon suspected to grow into a category four. that is why residents in this tiny barrier island of north carolina are heading for higher ground. >> it's a low-lying island. if there is a bad storm, it won't take much of an elevation of sea level to create a lot of havoc. >> with winds over 400 miles, with irene is shaping up to be the most powerful hurricane to strike the east coast in decades. this is the storm from space. the image captured by the international space station. >> it's central eye is opening up. the central part is uniformed and dense. >> the force was on display, it

bear has been named. four others were injured on the attack in a camp on the islands in norway. the injured were flown by amblass. >> air lifting the casualties to hospital from the remote archie pell go. one british 17-year-old dead, four more members of the group injured, two of them severely. an expedition of british students on an arctic camping adventure of a lifetime that turned into a tragedy. it's the chance of seeing a polar bear in their natural habitat has one of the top attractions of trips here. nearly 3,000 bears roaming wild amidst the stunning landscape. blogs posted on the expedition website a week ago talk of an arctic adventure of sea ice and the polar bears they were dreaming of seeing. >> he was a fine young man hoping to go on to read medicine after school. >> the organization is based here expedition force young people for an experience of self-discovery in some of the world's last true wildernesses. >> holidays to zones like this where polar bears roam free are dangerous. but as the habitats are melting, encounters with humans are getting more common. >>

irene bearing her teeth in the bahamas slamming the islands with winds, heavy rains and powerful rains. phil keating is live for us there. >> reporter: the eye of hurricane irene now a hundred miles or a little bit north of that north, northeast of nasa. this morning pre sunrise mornings winds and rains were actually pummeling this island and have dissipated to winds of 30, 35 miles an hour. it has turned into a strong stormy day rather than a hurricane it felt like this morning. the bahamas, 80% of the homes in an area called lovely bay flattened by this category 3 hurricane early this morning and overnight. taking a look at the large satellite shot of this mammoth storm it's more than 400 miles wide from edge to edge. even though florida was breathing a sigh of relief as the change in direction of this kept it off of florida, you can see it's so huge that it's still a very dangerous day in the surf in the coastlines along florida. hollywood, fort lauderdale airport april miami's airport have canceled more than 200 flights today. back in the bahamas east of us one weather station repo

bear in mind, this is a river, not quite an ocean yet. this is close to where it spills into the long island sound. this looks like ocean the way the waves are lapping up against the sea wall. one of the things we're concerned about in connecticut is the storm surge, we're anticipating near or perhaps above-record storm surge and that can create some serious flooding issues, not only along the shoreline here in connecticut, but also for many of connecticut's rivers that feed into the ocean. right now we have a serious power outage issue here in connecticut, a quarter of a million people are without power and the storm surge obviously continues to rise, because my photographer and i continue to get battered at saet wall. we've moved our position once and we're probably going to have to move it again. because as irene gets closer we're getting a little too close to these waves. and right now, we're not esseei the worst of it. we're not expecting to see the worst of it in connecticut for another two or three hours and not expecting to see high tide until 10:30 this morning. >> i would say, jeff

bearing down. they simply did not have the vehicles. they didn't have the transportation out. here on these island communites these are more resort towns. many visitors have means of getting off of the island. many of the residents, most of the residents do indeed have cars. as far as hospitals and nursing hopes on these island communites, standard procedure is actually once a hurricane watch is declared, by and large, these facilities will try to get patients, particularly the most elderly and sickly patients, to other medical facilities on the mainland. once the winds start picking up, there's nothing you can do. at some point you have to hunker down. >> greta: jonathan, thank you. of course be safe as that wicked storm comes through. >> we switch gears to the road to 2012. it is really tricky to figure out the right strategy. a candidate's strategy is dependent on polls, money, place of birth, prior jobs, gaffes and even spouses. everything is in the mix. right now 12 republicans in the race. joining us dick morris former adviser to president clinton. i wanted to talk to you. tell me the differ

lanikai beach, hawaii, newport, rhode island, point reyes, california, sedona, arizona, and sleeping bearhousands more of you told us which was your favorite. your most beautiful place of 2011 is the sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore. "gma" viewer jim nominated it saying it is peaceful and serene where gazing out into the world and realizing that the universe is truly a majestical and magic history and humans are just a very small part of it all. a remarkable landscape crafted by ancient glaciers, 64 miles of sand, 26 inland lakes, 2 islands, countless shipwrecks and, of course those monumental sand dunes, but the beauty of this area doesn't stop with the sensational scenery. the small town surrounding the park are full of the makings for a perfect vacation. charming architecture, cozy inns and especially lots of good food. >> mm-mm. >> good? >> really good. >> reporter: one of the biggest fans of upper michigan just happens to be one fof our favorite chefs, mario batali and his go to place for a bite a special place called "heart and vine." >> i spend my entire summer here on lake m

bearing down on japan. let's go to ivanka brar wra in the weather center with more on that story. >> it's going to reach the islandsdon't have much time to prepare. we're going to watch it closely. it's been moving rather slowly but it's going to begin to pick that up. look at the winds now. 220-kilometer per-hour winds. it was a significant typhoon. it's a cat 4 at this point here. as far as tracking it, what's going to happen in the next few days. it had been moving due north in the last 48 hours and now it's going to make that dangerous turn to the westful if you're watching from mainland japan, it's okay. but here at the okinawa islands it does not look good. it's going to maintain its strength at 212- 214-kilometer per-mile winds. perhaps the secondary landfall into shanghai. here's computer model forecast here. a tightly wound eye. we continue to see nothing impeding its development here. it us at least going to maintain strength and perhaps fluctuate up and down over the next couple of days. as it does. this thing is finally getting together. what i'm showing you is the tropical disturbance of the eastern at

anders bearing breivik accused of killing dozens in norway returned to the island where the shooting the massacre as part of a police investigation. you can see him apparently wearing a bulletproof vest and harness that tethers him to the police as they roam this wooded island. joining me now bob ricks. thanks for joining us. you were an fbi assistant special agent in charge of the waco siege and also in the oklahoma city bombing. we're happy to talk with you. you can share your expertise with us on this one. the first question that comes to mind is why have this suspect, breivik, return to the scene of the crime? is this a usual practice? >> i find it somewhat perplexing as to why they're doing this. we oftentimes do reenactment of crime scenes and sometimes we even take suspects back to a scene. but usually it's for evidentiary purposes. we're trying to find perhaps where bodies are buried by serial killers, we're trying to find homes that have been burglarized by burglars when they're willing to cooperate. to actually take a killer such as in this case, is really quite unusual. >>

bearing down on the east coast very soon. the category 3 storm is now southeast of the bahamas packing winds of nearly 115 miles an hour. evacuations are under way on north carolina's ocracoke islandstorm may hit the state by the weekend and then head up coast to new york and perhaps even new england. and the last one to hit new england was on, oh, august 18th, 1991. >> you know that why? >> hurricane bob. because i got married that day. [ laughter ] >> and it added a little spice to an already fun and crazy day. >> they say when it rains on your wedding apparently it's a good omen. >> that was 20 years ago. >> you will never forget the date. >> memorable in many ways. >>> it is gorgeous outside today, beautiful yesterday too and toasty inland but today we'll be more seasonal and going to see sunshine for the most part inland and along the bay shores. clear outside right now in san francisco. but we are seeing some cloud cover out at the coastline. you can see, yeah, kind of gray out there right now so some sun breaks this afternoon. but definitely sunshine inland. that's where you want to head if you want that. so for this afternoon temperatures going to be near seasonal hitting

island. 160,000 homes have lost electricity. we've seen trees uprooted and power lines bearing the signs of high winds.der a mandatory evacuation. about two thirds of the city has taken that warning and left town. the biggest concern now is the flooding that will follow. >> mason: byron pitts on long beach long island. the "mystery spot". not a mammal in this household is willing to lay claim to its origin. >> the mystery spot. not a mammal in this household is willing to lay claim to its origin but now is is not the time for blame. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online... [ whirring and beeping ] [ ding! ] and we give you a discount on both. great! did i mention no hands in the bundler? bundling and saving made easy. now, that's progressive. call or c

island. >> reporter: the generator at lisa's massapequa park home is for the necessities, nothing else. it's running her refrigerator, so her family has to grin and bear >> just right now i need some light. >> reporter: sunday night they reported 4500 out of 6,000 customers, like lisa, are without power here in massapequa park. she's relying on candles and flashlights to get around, and dreading that cold shower in the morning before work. >> the tree came down from across the street, took the power down. we've been without power for a while. it's warm. it's beaiful out here. and the storm is over. but we've had enough. we need power. where is lipa? we haven't seen one lipa truck. where are they? >> reporter: so many people here on long island dealing with one of three things -- flooding, lack of electricity or storm damage. just one of those three things can be so frustrating. put all three together, and it's devastating. reporting at massapequa park, long island, abc news. >> biggest power outage in long island in 20 years. >> that's right. of course, affecting transit systems as well. boston's transit system is supposed to be back on at normal at 8

the polar bear attacked the tents of 13 people that were on a nature expedition to an island inside theager was killed and four others seriously injured. the wounded were airlifted to a hospital on the norwegian mainland. new reaction to eye raising comments made by one influential lawmaker today. massachusetts democratic senator john kerry this morning claiming the media, saying reporters were, quote, irresponsible for 0 giving, quote, equal time to tea party views. >> the media in america has a bigger responsibility than its exercising today. the media has got to begin to not give equal time, or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual, it doesn't deserve the same credit as a legit nat idea about what you do. and the problem is everything is put into this at this time or tat equal battle, and america is losing any sense of what is real, of who is accountable, of who is not accountable, of who is real who isn't. shannon: the latest comments coming as a number of democrats

islands. does take a northerly scoot but this bears serious watching as we get towards next week, it could make an approach across to the coastline of the united states. little bit closer to home, here's what's happening. there's your quiet weather across the northeast for the cleanup weather and the heat continues across the south. cleanup effort, a lot of pictures of the devastation of vermont, the flooding in new jersey, but places like connecticut and eastern massachusetts, i mean the entire coastline got hit hard. pictures from swampscott, north and east of boston, the harbor about 30 vessels were ripped off their moorings and thrown inland and now stuck. they have to bait for a serious high tide or get some tow boats out there to make it happen. you know, so much coastline, this is such an incredible storm, guys, because we have the effects inland, the most dramatic effects inland, yet there are miles and miles of coastline that were affected by this as well and millions of people. back to you. >> i know. like fairfield, connecticut, not many realize that's right on the long island sound,

bearing down. we think the highest surge is going to be over here in this area over towards the bay. up here in the long islanding to see higher surge as well. these numbers, this is the latest of what we call slosh model that noaa runs for us. we've been getting reports as high as four feet plus in that area. that's a little bit on the conservative side. things are bearing down. let's take a look at some of the wind gauges here and show you what we're getting. it looks like that's not working. it's definitely not 7 miles an hour right now. there you go. 39 offshore. we can expect to see the winds continue to pick up along with these heavy rains. this is pushing towards jersey right now, moving over the hudson river. there you can see, this is manhattan island. this is pushing off towards the west. this whole thing is moving in this direction right now. that center of the storm still way down here. so it still has a ways to go for you but because of the way the storm has structured out, you're going to be seeing the heavier winds pushing in over towards jersey and another couple hours to go for new york city i

the sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore located on michigan's lower peninsula stretches over 35 miles of sand, is home to 26 inland lakes, two islands water lake surrounding the park to the waters you might find in the caribbean. wide and boundless, just without salt or the threat of sharks. still, even among national park's experts, this remains a hidden gem. >> this is one of not only michigan's best kept secrets, but the nation's best kept secrets. when my friends come here from parks they've worked in across the nation and i take them for a hike in the dunes and we'll stand there and look around and they'll say, tom, i had no idea this was here. >> reporter: to see them up close is to wonder how they've remained a secret and from where they came. formed during the last ice age, these spectacular dunes were created when drifting glaciers pushed natural rock debris to michigan shoreline. that debris was covered with hundreds of feet of f nd and the result, these stunning m muments to the passage of time. today, the dunes stand proud and sturdy. visitors are actually encouraged to amble up the incline to experience the majestic vie

island could see the first hit since gloria,, in 198. martha: here's the scene in cuba, as the storm, nearly 600 miles wide, the storm, bears down on a 2,000ile stretch of american soil, in the coming 48 hours or so and we have team fox coverage for you. rick levin that you mean is live in new york city where mayor bloomberg has been talking about preparation and we also want to check back in with phil keating and see how he is doing. we have been watching him hold on over the course of the morning as irene batters the bahamas. how is it going? >> reporter: well, martha, it was a whirly-gig of wind ferocity this morning and the winds died done a little bit in nassau as the aye iseye is 70 m away from nassau, in the northeast direction and is moving 12 mile-an-hour march towards the u.s. coastline. and pan around the island, on video stream, through the internet, there is a little bit of break-up and we'll pan slowly as we do this. this is the beach, desolate, wind-swept all day long, furniture strewn about and we watched a lot of the thatched roofs and thatched umbrellas, moving around and they did a good job of moving everything in yester

bear hugs. technology. [ male announcer ] new bengay cold therapy. the same technology used by physical therapists. go to bengay.com for a 5-dollar coupon. >>> it is vacation time for president obama. he's heading for the resort island vineyard off the massachusetts coast later today. it comes after he spent the first half of the week touring the rural midwest talking about the economy. some critics say mr. obama should stay in washington and focus on the nosedive on wall street and other troubling economic issues. white house spokesman jay carney says he doesn't think americans are opposed to the president, spending some quality vacation time with his family. in carney's words there's no such thing as a presidential vacation because mr. obama will be in constant communication with his staff and will receive regular briefings from his national security and economic teams. veteran african-american congresswoman maxine waters is outraged over the economy and black unemployment that is nearly double the national rate. she says president obama should be doing more. >> the president of the united states is, of course, the president. he is the leader of the nation. we support him. we want to work with him. we want him to

bear in mind. one is, your conception about what a terrorist looks like is wrong. the people who have been a home grown in this country like jihad jane, daniel who came from long islandese people do not look like what you think a terrorist looks like. a 92 year-old person? what was the age of the man who shot a gun at people? 92-years old. how many children in different parts of the world have had bomb strapped to them and sent out against american troops? what about the couple that was going to get on an airplane in 2006 with their one-year-old baby and blow the plane up? it would be nice to say that certain people are out of bounds. we cannot say that. the second point is this, i often hear the argument that tsa does not work. they have never caught a terrorist. it is meant to deter terrorists. fort knox has never caught a bank robber. does that mean it is insecure? or does it deter bank robbers? you have to have a realistic understanding of what security delivers. it is not a perfect system but a system that gives you a much better chance of averting a risk. >> i have never argued that point. i argue there could be more intelligent measures. the aardvark a fact? -