will be moving towards wilmington and then going right along and raking the coast line of eastern north carolina. the hurricane warnings do extend through the outer banks through camp lejeune, the military base in southern north carolina. you're under a warning. the storm specific is starting to accelerate moving to the north at about 9 miles per hour. it will start moving faster during later portions of the day. wind field, troublesome winds are off the coast. the forecast path does brush it through eastern north carolina with probably a closer direct landfall as we go throughout late tonight into early tomorrow morning. the good news, thomas, for cape cod, they've pushed it a little farther out to sea. nova scotia will get hit. there will be minor damage. there will be minor inconveniences. i think the biggest concern still is going to be the waves and the rip currents right through the weekend even when the sun is out on saturday all the way up to cape cod. >> we see the warning coming out from the governor of north carolina. get everybody's antenna up. >> the intensity forecasts are never gr

a lot track it over eastern north carolina and avoid areas of new england. thomas, again, the worst effects, if we going to see the pictures, get damage from waves and wind, it will come about 10:00 p.m. thursday from wilmington to cape hatteras. >> from ocean city, maryland to connecticut, they are off. what are the chances of that changing? >> not a lot. the cold front gives severe storms today and tomorrow. it will push the storm out to sea. there's going to be a lot of big waves and dangerous rip current. stay out of the water from maryland to rhode island and long island. i wouldn't cancel your plans. >> good to know. thanks so much. the surge in children and families illegally entering the u.s. led to a stand off in california. hundreds of protesters forced a bus to turn around. the protesters blocked the entrance waving american flags and protest flags. it was to prevent overcrowding. the mayor urged people unhappy with the decision to protest the transfer. more than 52,0 0 unaccompanied kids illegally entered the u.s. >>> loved ones said good-bye to

i thought maybe they would nudge it a little bit closer on shore to eastern north carolina like some of the models. they're not jumping on quite yet. they have time to tweak it and adjust it. eastern north carolina in the cone of uncertainty anyway. notice much of new england is out of the cone of uncertainty. the exceptions being martha's van yard, nantucket, and cape cod. here is a category one hurricane thursday at 8 p.m. just off the coastline. just to the outside of wilmington south of the atlantic beach area. starting thursday afternoon evening the worst conditions arriving in eastern north carolina. it gives you until probably noon thursday for preparations there. either you prepare, get out of your house or stay in. friday 8:00 a.m. sunrise it's exiting the outer banks. the worst of it will be during the overnight hours. you'll be riding out the storm during the night thursday night into friday morning. during the day friday, the storm rockets out to sea. i mean, we won't see much impact at all for areas along i-95 including ocean city in new jersey. the exception is dealing w

thanks for the update. >>> north carolina governor pat mccrory will give a storm update at 9:30 easternry to bring it to you here on msnbc. hurricane arthur right now moving north. what it means for the rest of the east coast. the latest on the path of the storm from bill karins, next. >>> typically during a category 2 or better hurricane here, we not only would be out of power but you wouldn't be able to stand here right now. this is indicative of the fact that we probably did dodge a bullet pretty good. >> that was the mayor of wrightsville beach, north carolina, just south of the outer banks. water levels remain high along some portions of the coast but it certainly appears that things could have been far worse. let's get to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, which areas right now are feeling the worst of the storm? >> sound side flooding. the winds of really come down everywhere. there's no wind damage anymore but the sound side flooding. we have the radar source, the one that you just had up, i can show you the example of what sound side flooding is. it's when you get the winds c

the outer banks there in north carolina and watching as arthur moves away from the coastline there. thank you so much. >>> let's move to the residents along the easterneaboard farther north. they are bracing for the effects of hurricane arthur. as it moves north the category two storm climbing up the coast and making landfall as we have just been reporting in north carolina. the new york area, that is expected to dodge a direct hit. forecasters warn of dangerous curve and rip currents along the coastline areas and where nbc' ron allen is live in new york. you're not wearing your jacket at this hour at 6:40 in the morning but the concerns we just talked about. be careful of the currents. >> indeed. this beach is technically closed. the sign no swimming, water hazard. a lot of concern about rip currents but you can see out there perhaps the number of guys out on boards already surfing. this is a surfing mecca in this part of the country. they have been out there for the past hour and there are more guys coming trying to get out here before the rain starts. that's a concern that it's going to start raining at some point. the clouds are building and gett

north carolina. it will get out of here with the cold front clearing skies, drier cooler air overnight. but we have a severe watch in effect southside virginia through and ater, beach front eastern north carolina. a little earlier a tornado warning south of downtown richmond. 83 and 75 the high and low. four years ago today we had a record-setting 101 degrees in the nation as capital. the 70's, veryin comfortable given the average temperature this time of day is upper 80's. reagan national. 70 in fredericksburg with the rain. 79 in easton. as far as dew point temperatures that all important figure we use calculate the true amount of moisture in the air it is pretty comfortable. 50's and 60's for dew points but we have cooler temperatures. dew points,fortable warm temperatures and that means it will be comfortable outside with the sunshine. high pressure will build in, clear the skies overnight and beautiful day tomorrow, 85 with sun and low humidity but by saturday morning this high will the weekends and turn back to the south and heat and humidity build back and it july again.ke late tomorrow gorgeous. cool start. unny delightful friday with highs in the mid 80's. more heat and

eastern north carolina could get a district hit from a hurricane in 48 hours. the storm off the coast of florida. here is orlando. the center of the storm is due east. it looks like the eye. it's the most i believe pressive we've seen the system looking on the radar as we've been tracking it. we'll see if the thunderstorms can wrap around. they do so, the pressures will lower an the winds will go up. it's expected to strengthened from here on out. about 24 to 36-hours over warm water. slight shear and conditions to strengt streng strengthen. it should be a hurricane off the coast of the outer banks. it takes a little more of the hook to the sea. no have a scotia. we haven't ruled out cape cod. here is the specific on the land area. this was the official forecast from hurricane center at 5:00 a.m. they issue them every six hours. the next one is coming at the top of the hour. from the computer data, i've been looking at, i wouldn't doubt if it shifts a little bit closer and crossing over the outer banks. looks like a significant impact from a hurricane into the

very close to north carolina's outer banks, or even eastern north carolina.r everyone in new england, watch cape cod, possibly rhode island. but does look to miss i-95, and take the hook and go parallel to the coast. as you can see, beach plans, thursday, friday, up and down the east coast. a lot of rip currents, a lot of large waves. not ideal for the big holiday. we'll track this for you. >> it's going to be a real king in the plans for holiday travel, and if they want to enjoy the water a lot. did barnacle make fun of you? >> he -- >> under his breath? >> i said that he was a tropical depression. >> there's medication for that. >> there's a dispenser in the break room. >>> and coming up on morning joe, new reaction to the supreme court rulings, two of the top talk theis morning. and we are going to huddle around the water cooler on why forbes has crowned queen be, beyoncÉ, the most powerful celebrity on the earth. i kind of agree. beyoncÉ, queen. and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. find out why more than two million members count

north carolina looks like they escaped it. >> category 2, yeah. >> but nova scotia -- >> they're going to get hid. cape cod is going to get brushed. i'm very impressed with north carolina. eastern north carolina getting nailed by a category 2 and this is all the damage we have to show you? that's fantastic. only 40,000 people without power? they'll have most of those on by the end of the day today if not by tomorrow. wind gusts were high. it's not like it was a category 2 that didn't really produce winds that were of that nature. we saw numerous gusts about 80, 90, even 101-mile-per-hour wind gust in cape lookout. but again, things are well constructed there. if we had this storm making inlands in a lot of other areas of the coast we'd be talking about a lot of problems. eastern north carolina, it sticks out into the atlantic. you are used to these storms and you build to these storms. it's now cruise spog the atlantic at 24 miles per hour. it came off the coast of north carolina early this morning and now it's well off the coast. it's parallel pretty much to the maryland/delaware border and due south of long island at this time. this is the closest impact we'll see on the jers

new tornado warnings in three eastern north carolina counties now. reporters are scattered along the coast ready to bring every angel. we have rene marsh, joe jones in kill devil hills in the northern part of the coastline, chad myers, of course in the cnn severe weather center. we'll get the latest from all of them as the storm barrels north but of course, brooke. >> the other big story tonight, tapper, that staggering, staggering story. the details from the courtroom in georgia during the hearing. this is a probable cause hearing for the father. here he is, the father of this 22 month old toddler cooper died a couple weeks ago in the sweltering hot suv in a hot georgia summer day. the father is justin ross harris. judge denied bond today and ruled he will indeed stand trial on felony murder charges for leaving his 22 month old in that car, 90 something degree day in georgia in june. this lead police detective testified today that harris seated here in that orange jump suit was sexting with several women, one of whom was 17 years of age and not only

the biggest concern for damage from the storm itself is eastern north carolina. the hurricane center has it a category one hurricane. friday, 2:00 a.m., south here of atlantic beach. it's very close. has to be close enough for damage from a little bit of wind and the danger of surf. it parallels the coast. it does not affect new england. looks like the macy's fireworks friday will be fine. north carolina is going to take the worst of the storm. >> thank you, bill. >>> also this. caught on tape, a food truck explodes north of philadelphia injuring 12 people. a propane tank is to blame for that explosion. it sent flames flying into the air and reported by a nearby security camera. >>> a girl was walking by from the nail salon. he back got sprayed from debris. she was screaming up the street, i'm on fire, i want my mom, i want my mom. >> two people were inside the truck. all 12 people injured were taken to the hospital. last check, eight people were treated and released. four people remain hospitalized. there's no word on their condition. the philadelphia fire depar

north carolina. that's great. we don't have to deal with it in eastern north carolina. cape cod and nova scotia.oing to be pretty much ruined in new england. you're going to get a lot of the rain out of this, but they canceled all the fireworks. boston pops, they it last night, and they're doing a lot of the fireworks on saturday there. let me take you through the rest of the country. what you are going to daily with for your fourth of july plans. we're not going to do too bad here. we're going to see a few monsoonal afternoon showers and storms. tucson area. all the way through albuquerque and northern new mexico. a few of these storms. watching very warm conditions interior west. 97, salt lake city. there is hot stuff out there for the fourth. heading to the pool, would be a good day to do that. cooler temperatures in san francisco. whammer in l.a. as far as the rest of the country, if anyone is doing any travel out there, not seeing a lot of airport problems today or anywhere really for that matter. florida some afternoon storms. middle of the country is very warm. no problems in denver also

we could see it up to four feet in parts of eastern north carolina. that's a bit contingent on how strong that storm becomes. >>> in terms of rainfall, the final piece of this story, a heavy chain for rain, flash flooding. and into new england, most of that is coming on the fourth of july and has already canceled a lot of fourth of july fireworks. i'm meteorologist eric fesher for cbs news. >>> arthur is hitting on one of the busiest holiday seasons. craig boswell is in nags head. >> reporter: the winds and waves are picking up along the southeast coast. arthur is expected to move northward over the next two days drenching the eastern seaboard. what's worse, the cold front will move in soaking inland as well. the outer banks could feel the worst of arthur's punch. that's bad news for the 250,000 tourists. >> we have not decided what to do next. >> reporter: the elo family from dallas, pennsylvania, are here on vacation. >> we're going to ride it out tonight and see what happens come tomorrow morning and make our decision tomorrow. maybe try to hit the

it may clip eastern north carolina as a category one hurricane.his will not be a devastating storm, but with the fourth of july holiday, lots of people on vacation. not exactly ideal beach weather. we also had horatio, a windstorm that moved all the way from nebraska right through chicago into detroit last night. that did a ton of damage. more severe weather today from nashville to pittsburgh and buffalo. on the west coast we have our heat wave we're dealing with. it is spreading to the north. 111 in vegas. it's already 93 in vegas. how hot will we be today? let's go for 113 degrees. day of the summer. today should be the peek in many areas. we will slightly cool it off as we head towards the holiday. >> you seem very excited about the desert having desert temperatures. >> this is even hot for them. death valley could be 120 to 125. i mean, that's up there towards record territory. >> that is hot. thank you, bill karins. >>> canada's most famous crack-smoking mayor back at work. >>> swimming with the fishes takes on a whole new mining. "early toda

low lying area in eastern north carolina. one to two meters. it can cause significant flooding. as we look at friday and saturday good news is that this is getting caught up with the upper level jet. it will take off in speed and rapidly move off towards nova scotia and newfoundland. you'll be seeing rough weather downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical system but it will be potent with heavy rainfall and waves upwards of seven meters high off the coastline. up and down the eastern seaboard on friday this is going to be some foul weather. showers there in washington, d.c., new york city, back towards the west actually fair with this. because you have some cooler air drifting in and that's eventually going to work its way in behind the storm system. just wait for friday to pass if you're in boston, washington, d.c., because by saturday and sunday we're going to be looking at some much fair weather out here. have to get that storm system to head off towards the northeast. chicago seeing decent weather there on your friday and then in the southwest los angeles hot and dry there f

so tornado watches and warnings posted for eastern sections of north carolina and that system will continue to move just outside of our area staying offshore by two, 300 miles. so we're not anticipating tropical storm force winds or hurricane force winds out of this system. the main impacts are going to be perhaps couple of those spiral bands pivoting back toward some of the shore points friday morning with some gusty winds and heavy rainfall but it's going to be pulling away and we're looking at improving conditions really lucy for the fourth of july. >> pulling away -- if we can turn my mike on thank you and pulling away, because of the storm system that's walloping our area right now? >>> that's right. and we're watching that cold front. the cold front is actually going to help kick arthur back out to sea during the day tomorrow. so it's closest approach will be two, 300 miles to the shore. >> so let's fast forward even a little further, scott. talk about tomorrow afternoon. we know what your forecast is for the weekend beautiful hard to imagine right now we're in the middle of this. by

the best chance of getting significant damage from wind and waves will be eastern north carolina, thursday night into friday morning. after that it looks to miss new england, so if the macy's fireworks in new york city should be just fine. >>> thank you very much. caught on tape a food truck explodes injuring 12 people. investigators say a propane tank is to blame. the blast sent flames flying into the air recorded by a nearby security camera. >> a girl was walking by from the nail salon and her whole back got sprayed with debris and she was screaming all the way up the street, i'm on fire, i want my mom, i want my mom. >> two people believed to be a mother and daughter were inside the food truck at the time. all 12 injured were taken to the hospital. at last check 8 had been treated and released. no word on their conditions. the philadelphia fire marshal's office is investigating the explosion. >>> angry and passionate. protestors turn away more than 100 undocumented children and families from a u.s. border protection facility in southern california. three busses arrived in murrietta, cal

sgorj ga coastline up through much of south carolina, and the same type of surge here across eastern north carolina. people say sometimes it's only a category 1 storm, and scott we say don't focus on the category, focus on the impact. if a local official fells you you need to take action please listen to him and respect the nature. >> pelley: and hurricane status reached when its winds hit 58 miles an hour. eric, thanks very much. we learned late today that airline passengers headed to the united states will be seeing tighter security soon because of a rapidly emerging terrorist threat. potentially involving american terrorists. jeff pegues has details. intelligence sources say the increased security will be on flights from europe and the middle east to the united states. officials would not release specific details about the changes. in a statement homeland security secretary jeh johnson said aviation security includes a number of measures both seen and unseen. the threat is not based on specific intelligence. sources say it is the result of an overall evolving threat picture which includes concer

are the same and you can see the strong bands around that storm moving through portions of eastern north carolina interacting with front and that front what's been bringing most of the nasty weather to the northeast. you hear lot of people saying the hurricane is here. the hurricane is not here across the area this is a front end hasn'ted moisture from the storm and it has slowed the front down but that's what we're seeing here tonight you can see another round of storms lifting from portions of delaware into south jersey we are seeing heavy rain with that and even the potential for hail right now around dover this will move into portions of salem and comer land as well. showers and storms were pop up periodically through the course to have night. they're not severe but they do have heavy rain with them and also the threat for strong win winds. right now 76 at airport. 75 degrees in millville. we were in the 90s again today. meaning it's the first heat of the season. that's three straight days in the 90s this week. here's the latest on arthur now category two winds sustain at 100 miles an hour gu

the 95 corridor from new england right on down through new york, baltimore into eastern north carolina, an elevated flash flooding risk, also some isolated tornadoes and damaging winds in many of those storms. we will see more of the same on wednesday. now the tail end of all this colder air we look towards the four corners, and the monsoon season very busy, today, tomorrow, into wednesday, we'll see more areas of flash flooding, some isolated severe storms here. goes through wednesday and dryer for late week. scott, overall this pattern starts to run out of gas as we head toward friday. in fact, it may flip all together as we head into next week. >> pelley: eric fisher of wbz, eric, thanks very much. new evacuations have been ordered in northern california where a wildfire has been burning since friday. 18 buildings have been destroyed. the fire in shasta county has burned more than seven square miles and it's just 15% contained. investigators say it was sparked by truck exhaust at an illegal marijuana farm. the driver was arrested on saturday. today marks three months since the islam

flooding, more tomorrow, 95 corridor from new england down through new york, balts more into eastern north carolina and elevated flash flooding risk, isolated tornadoes and damaging winds. we will see more of the same on wednesday. on the tale end of-- tail end thfer colder air we look towards the four conners and the monsoon season busy, today, tomorrow, into wednesday, we'll see more areas of flash flooding, isolated severe storms here. go through wednesday and dryer for late week. scott overall this pattern starts to run out of gas as we head toward friday. in fact, it may flip all together as we head into next week. >> eric fisher of wbz, thanks very much. the army said today that former pow bowe bergdahl has returned to duty at a base in san antonia, texas. he has been given a desk job with two soldiers assigned to help him adjust. at some point investigators will question sergeant bergdahl about his disappea disappear-- disappearance in 2009 when he left his post in afghanistan and was captured by the taliban. he was released in may in exchange for five taliban could manners held at guantanam

forecast wind gusts we'll see the hurricane force winds across eastern north carolina. ake that approach to the eastern shores of massachusetts and then toward eastern canada. so for the most part, we'll be out of the woods and keeping a close eye on coastal massachusetts. they could experience the tropical storm force winds. they might have to wait until tomorrow for the picnic. >> everyone hanging on your every word this morning. we'll check back in. >>> our coverage continues in kill devil hills live with the latest on conditions there. hi, michelle. it looks pretty strong still. >> good morning. it is still pretty calm. the rain is picking up a little bit. the wind went down a little bit more. it's going to change soon, like janice said. that hurricane is going to start whipping around. we're going to get the back end of the storm pretty soon. and that is the cause of serious concern here on the island here. we're an island barrier in the outer banks of income. behind me it the eastern side of the island. this bank here, one of the sand dunes is protecting a lot of t

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the storm surge is forecasted to be up to five feet in eastern north carolina. while north carolina braces for impact, cities farther north are scrambling to change fourth of july plans. boston's fireworks display has been moved to tonight. portland, maine, will have fireworks on saturday. atlantic city pushed its fireworks to sunday. for the latest on hurricane arthur, stay tuned to msnbc. we'll be right back. discover card. hey, i heard you guys can help me with frog protection? yeah, we help with fraud protection. we monitor every purchase every day and alert you if anything looks unusual. wow! you're really looking out for us. we are. and if there are unauthorized purchases on your discover card, you're never held responsible. just to be clear, you are saying "frog protection" right? yeah, fraud protection. frog protection. fraud protection. frog. fraud. fro-g. frau-d. i think we're on the same page. we're totally on the same page. at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. fraud protection. get it at discover.com >>> we told you, mississippi tea party c

the hurricane watch was issued for eastern north carolina right along coastal areas.t is the area that could see land fall from this storm system. it is pretty compact off in the coast of florida. we are seeing showers moving on shore but overall most of the rain is remaining out over open waters. the big concern is going to be beach erosion and also very rough surf out here. we have tropical storm watches along melbourne and cape canaveral and fort pierce. we had tropical storm advisories for myrtle beach wilmington and nags head. we have the hurricane watch that has been issued. you are included. the track does take arthur over the next 24-hours could be a category 1 hurricane. the forecast is parallel to the coast of the southeastern united states. east of charleston east of jacksonville and friday 2:00 a.m. we could be looking at land fall across parts of the cape. eventually the storm accelerates and remains off of the coast of the northeast. we could see areas of rain thursday and friday for 4th of july along parts of the northeast. there is heavy rain out there

a 12-hour event for eastern and north carolina. if any damage, occur 4:00 p.m. this morning. the storm looks to be harmlessly off the coast of new england up into nova scotia who is dealing with a bad storm but it's a miss for arthur but a cold front going through. you felt it yesterday with the thunderstorms. risk of severe storms in the area today. a flood watch for the areas got the downpours and lightning yesterday. this front is going to stall and pick up some of the moisture from arthur. not the storm itself. so we are going to get the thunderstorms in new england area, i-95 a lot of airport delays later today just like yesterday. the dangerous lightning. as we go into the fourth, that front stalls from about new york city to hartford over to providence and boston and a slow go of it because of the rain. it will slowly clear from west-to-east during the day. new york city the rain ending about noon. hartford during the middle of the afternoon but boston and cape rocod, looks like a rainy fourth of july. it will ruin picnic plans and i know a lot of firewor

far northeastern corner of south carolina, much of eastern north carolina, and a chance for hurricane-force the other influence we will see from this the heavy rainfall could cause a few spots of flash flooding in eastern north carolina as well as southern new england. >> thank you. >>> another storm from the west hit new york city hard last night. lightning strikes created a brilliant show above the manhattan skyline but rain caused flooding in brooklyn and five people were hurt when a wall collapsed under the bridge. nobody was hurt. >>> new research calls into question the benefit of a routine back pain treatment. millions of americans receive steroid instructionsjectionsinjections. shots in your back sounds painful to me. what are they supposed to do? >> these shots in particular they looked for the shots in the spinal stenosis. about 10 million or 11 million of these shots are given every year, and they look at it for this one disorder and it happens when the open spaces of your spine charts to shut down. that leads to symptoms of pain in your arms and weakness tingling and if it's in

. >> we're in rural eastern north carolina, a small town. when this happened, it took every resource within our county. for the fire service, this is our world trade center. >> a little more than a year after the 9/11 attack, has small town kinston been the target? with 130 employees on site at the time of the accident, officials quickly rule out that an airplane is to blame. >> within the first hour of being on the scene and contacting the tower at the airport, no evidence of any plane striking the building was seen. so we ruled out a plane going into the building fairly early. >> officer woody spencer of the kinston police department documents the scene on video. >> it was total chaos. flames and smoke billowing from the building. when i started the videotape, there was a piece of wood impaled into the ground. the come bust of explosion was not as immense. >> 20 minutes after the blast, officials believe dozens of employees may still be trapped inside. firefighters search desperately in the thick, black smoke. and then a worker manages to

this is expected to intensify from now up to the point of coming close to land fall in eastern north carolinarly impressive on the satellite, but there are thunderstorms that just formed. 60-mile-per-hour winds, a decent sized tropical storm, moving to the north. it it's parallel and going to travel north and parallel the coast. georgia and south carolina, rip currents and large waves. you should be fine. you probably won't see much rain. north carolina is the nose of the country. it sticks well out into the atlantic. that's why this is going to be a very close call for you. you could get a hurricane land fall. right now, category one in areas of north carolina, especially the outer banks of cape hatteras. it's not out of the question to be a category two. there's a lot of tough questions for the emergency managers. are they going to ask for any non-voluntary or voluntary evacuations? are they going to tell the tourists to leave? are they going to stay and hunker down? those decisions will being made today. the money losses for the businesses, if they send people home on the fourth of july ho

arthur, warnings in effect across north carolina, rip currents are a problem from florida to north carolina. the tracking from the hurricane center, right over eastern north carolina with 85-mile an hour wind expected at the center which could happen anywhere in the red area. this will be a problem overnight and early tomorrow. you can see the forecast strengthening this storm through south carolina and north carolina. this is happening tonight pushing to the northeast by tomorrow morning. >> thank you very much. >> facebook is apologizing for that psychological experiment it conducted on users without their consent. in 2012, facebook manipulated the time lines of 700,000 users. some were shown only positive information, others given strictly negative updates. facebook's c.e.o. addressing the issue wednesday during a speaking engagement in india. >> this was part of an ongoing research companies do to test different products and that was what it was and it was just poorly communicated. we take privacy and security at facebook really seriously, because it's the thing that allows people to share. >> facebook's 2012 psychological experiment is now unde

let me go back out to -- the path through eastern north carolina. 100-mile-per-hour winds, so gradualensification continues. it should make landfall right around 10:00 p.m. oar so, maybe close to midnight. right around cape lookout. it jogged a little bit to the north during the past couple of hours, that means the forecast got a little bit worse for myrtle beach. about by 8:00 a.m., notice the storm, it's gone, it's off the coast, when you wake up tomorrow morning and turn on your tv, that storm is going to be out to sea, there won't be much left at all with it as far as the wind and the rain in the outer banks. at that point we'll start assessing how much damage was done. the bottom line we're watching a storm that continues to get stronger. we have 12 hours to go and hopefully it will level off and not get any stronger. the way it works, the stronger the winds get, exponentially the more damage is done. >> let's go now to kerry sanders, he's in kill devil hills where arthur could be coming to shore very soon. kerry, we see the winds picking up behind you. >> reporter: a lot of peop

north carolina/virginia coastline. this is where fourth is spoiled for the first part of the the day. as far down as south from virginia beach, norfolk and outer banks and eastern north carolina they saw a lot of rain yesterday, last night. they are seeing it last night ape right now coming in band on the northern flange of that. it is close bias this southern del marva tip. further northward, rain is a lot more scattered. it looks like towards our south. it looks like it will move right in our area for today but luckily arthur is still expect to take that eastward turn. that being said we have rain ourselves to deal work moving organized north and west. we are seeing showers from chester county, berks county, allentown, mount pocono, raining there seeing a break in the city but we have some showers down the shore and southern delaware. we will expect southern delaware and the the shore point along new jersey coastline to be affect the most with this rain as arthur takes its north east ward turn. as a result flash flood watches in effect until noon, the whole area, we are under the gun to see some rain. fox future cast by 7:00 a.m. heavy rain filling in parts o

those spiral bands feeder bands right now just lashing the coast of sections of eastern north carolina watch is also in effect there. let's talk about the tropical storm force hurricane force winds. they will stay toward the outerbanks of north carolina around cape hatteras by midnig midnight. feeling the brunt of that storm. but you can see as it moves up the eastern see bore, this system is going to stay two, 300 miles away from us. so we will not experience any of the tropical storm force or hurricane force winds. however, some rainfall, some of those bands could move a little farther inland down the shore tomorrow morning. high rip currents that will be the danger down the shore over the next several days. 92 degrees was the high temperature today. so it's official. three consecutive days with high temperatures at or above 90 degrees making eight heat wave across our area. so let's break down the fourth of july for the philadelphia area. by 7:00 in the morning clouds, some showers. leftover shower perhaps by lunch time but clearing, breezy, by i've 5:00 o'clock we're looking at tes

new tornado warnings in three eastern north carolina counties now.eady to bring every angel. we have rene marsh, joe jones in kill devil hills in the northern part of the coastline, chad

we had 100 miles per hour winds roar from eastern north carolina from midnight 4:00 a.m. it got in and out. a lot of people were hunkered down. the area gets hit by storms like this probably once every three or four years. they're built for storms like this. it's the category 4 is, you know -- god forbid an category 5 they would have trouble with. the winds didn't do a lot of damage in this portion of the country. the storm holding together. look at the eye moving into cooler waters off virginia beach and ocean city, maryland. it's close enough, there's a cold front over the northeast, it's sucking back some of that moisture. we have to deal with the rain and waves, but the wind is offshore now. the winds right now about 90 miles per hour. it's 100 miles away from ocean city, maryland. that's as close as it's going get. talking about the rainy day in store for the northeast. i was looking at pictures online, wildwood, new jersey located to the south of philadelphia. they are running a 5 k, as i speak. they said, let's go. they're doing it in the pouring rain! and the gust

hurricane watch issued for parts of north carolina as tropical storm arthur churns along the easternor millions. maria molina is tracking that storm, a live report ahead. >>> and fed up. >> go back! >> usa! usa! >> illegals dumped in towns across the country. but one california mayor is fighting back hard. his bold message for washington this hour. >>> and just call him mr. july. wait until you see which accused killer just made the florida gators' football calendar as mr. july. can't make it up. thank you for joining us on this wednesday morning because mornings are always better with friends like you. >> hey, everyone. it's time to get up with "fox & friends". >> welcome aboard, peter johnson in today for brian. >> happy to see you. >> always good to see you. thanks for being with us this hour. we are actually going to begin with an extreme weather alert for you. brand-new images of a monster storm strengthing off the coast of florida. >> yep. it is the first named storm and we start with a as in arthur. maria molina joins us live. this could be a real soaker and real wind maker fo

strong to severe thunderstorms across the southeast as a cold front marches from the coast of eastern north carolinaorleans. storms will bring gusty winds, large hail and torrential rain. a cool air mass settles into the ohio valley across the great lakes. many spots a good 10 to 15 degrees below average. this while temperatures are soaring across the west. widespread 90s and triple digits as moisture continues to be drawn into the four corners. and a round of widespread heavy thunderstorms is expected throughout the day. reena and devin, back to you. >> thanks so much, jim. >>> there's progress this morning against the nation's largest wildfire. the so-called buzzard complex fire in oregon is now 95% contained. but hot, dry conditions in california are fanning flames in that state, the sand fire. it's destroyed ten homes and forced hundreds of people to evacuate. crews there are facing another day of triple-digit temperatures and hot, dry winds. >>> meanwhile, fire investigators near boston are looking into what caused a nine-alarm fire early sunday it started in a vacant three-story building and q

in addition to that we have hurricane watches here shaded in orange for parts of eastern north carolina. stay tuned. back to you. >>> thank you very much. all right. dan leonard joins us. he's a senior energy meteorologist with weather services international. we like to call him wall street's weather guy. dan, what businesses and sectors do you think that we really need to focus on as arthur marches its way up the coast? >> yeah. this is entirely a tourism industry impact that we're looking at here. does not look like a major storm. this is certainly no irene. this is certainly no sandy. it has a big impact on tourism industry. let me give you an example. in 2011 when irene hit cape cod estimates they lost $35 million in revenue when irene hit. granted, that was a much bigger storm but it came on a nonholiday week end. there's a lot of tourism dollars at play. i'm guessing in the hundreds of millions range. then you compact that with the fact that we have a major holiday weekend on the east coast for tourism, the beaches. the first storm of the season and the first storm for the east co

dew points still closer to 70 in eastern north carolina upper 60s 234 norfolk where it's still a littleide. where it's drier it also can cool off more at -- cool off more at night and that's where we've got low 50s and even a few upper 40s in parts pennsylvania and even the high country in western maryland and west virginia. locally the cool spots in lovettsville at 54 and germantown at 55 and 56 in bowie. 58 waldorf and even in calvert county away from the bay, we're in the upper 50s at owings and to the west fairfax now at 59. and centreville and dulles both 58 degrees. a gorgeous morning in washington. on our michael & son weather camera. 65 degrees. sunny skies. that north northwesterly wind at 8 continues to keep us very comfortable today. dew points in the 50s. the high pressure is in control in ohio. the front is to the south. we have no weather concerns today. but the heat and humidity will return over the weekend. isolated storms tomorrow. scattered storms on sunday. highs both days 90 give or take. at the beach this weekend, upper 70s today at ocean city with 81 by saturday. c

. >> it looks like arthur might track pretty close if not over the outer banks of eastern north carolina on fourth of july and possibly as a low end hurricane with top winds around 75 miles per hour. >> bad news fourth of july travelers for the busiest week of the summer travel season. the busiest day is the thursday putting many on the road during the soggest stretch of the storm. >> they are potentially staring down the barrel of a loaded gun. it has the potential for cancellations and delays possibly if they're traveling by air and for rainy and slick road conditions if there's inclement weather and rain if they're traveling by car. >> the rain retentionly washing out sligs celebrations and fireworks perhaps up to boston where officials say they're not sure yet if the big show will go on. >> i think we're going to defer any conversation or decisions about the weather at least till tomorrow. >> it will likely clear out by the weekend. even when it does, the forecasters say you might not be i've to go into the beach water. >> horrible news for vacanciers on the southeast coast. thank yo

be a 75-mile-per-hour wind hurricane late thursday night into friday morning just off of eastern north carolinanorth carolina has been hit by many category 1 hurricanes and that would not be a devastating blow. the beaches from ocean city, maryland, virginia beach, the jersey shore and long island on the fourth you'll have rough seas no matter what and rip currents and breezy. most of the rain on the east side of the storm in a way. again, this is not what you wanted to see if you had beach plans out there. some areas probably won't let people in the water. always prepare for one category higher so for eastern north carolina could be a category 2. we will have more details on this as we go throughout the week ahead. you're watching "morning joe." we will be right back. you bring your banged up car to the repair shop. when you get it back, the paint job doesn't match. the guy who owns the shop says "looks fine to me". of course, he's wearing red pants with an orange shirt. his cashier says "if you squint you don't even notice it". what?! use a liberty mutual approved repair shop and all repairs

north carolina in this hurricane season since 1851. boy is it devil offing. >> it is having a devastating impact on several states up and along the northern seaboard. the easternhead and begin with hurricane arthur making landfall in north carolina's outer banks overnight. though earlier forecasters expected it would brush the coast. >> are thus strengthened to a category 2 storm, packing 100-mile-an-hour wind as it blew ashore near cape lookout. kirk hopkins is live in nags head. good morning. >> reporter: good morning from a wet and windy nags head. we have seen thunder, lightning, tornado warnings, high surf. just about all of it. because of all the conditions local county authority are restricting access to the entire outer banks region. sinister skies. rising tide. >> i think it messes up the holiday for everyone. >> reporter: already arthur is drenching north carolina wreaking havoc on the roads and making escape difficult for those fleeing his path. the hurricane is claiming vacations as casualties. >> we planned to go on a fishing trip today. unfortunately our trip was canceled at 5:00 a.m. this morning due to the weather. >> reporter: made landfall ne

numerous areas had wind gusts that would do significant damage anywhere else in the country, but eastern north carolina, you are storm tested. you get storms like this often. the structures are built better. that's why we're not hearing reports of a lot of damage. look at our storm, it's almost now parallel to ocean city, maryland. it still has a well-defined eye with it. it's starting to weaken slightly but you can clearly tell we have a hurricane just off the virginia coast this morning. right now winds are at 100, pressure at 976. it's racing to the northeast at 21 miles per hour. it was due east of virginia beach about an hour ago. now it looks like it's probably a little bit north-northeast of that location. and so here it is on radar and satellite. the great news for the north carolina region that got hit hard last night, we're returning to your beautiful carolina blue skies. we have quick clearing of the clouds and rain, and even our reporters out there in kill devil hills will shortly be in the sunshine along with just a nice breeze. now, there is still some problems to be had with this storm.

opened up food supply areas with water and supplies especially in any flooding occurs in eastern north carolina. we'll be making decisions tonight and each of the county officials will be making decisions tonight on whether to do mandatory or voluntary evacuation in the morning at the time of daylight. that most likely, if it does occur would occur most likely from all indicateds that the outer banks if that decision is made and we're also just warning people about getting their supplies ready and also, as i said earlier, don't put your stupid hat on and get in the water before the storm or during the storm just because there are good waves and don't get near high flooding or after the storm leaves if we have down power line, don't get near the power lines. that's usually with we have casualties right before or after the storm as opposed to during storms. very similar to the ice storms that we had this past win thor. >> let me ask you this because i'm hearing mixed messages and we're hearing from our severe weather expert chad myers. he's saying stay out of water because if there is a sandbar b

overnight arthur swept through eastern north carolina, strengthening into a category 2 hurricane. it is a devastating mix. winds gusting over 100 miles per hour, and torrential rains are pummeling the outer banks. late last night officials were tracking the storm, not expecting arthur to change course, putting thousands more in its destructive path. >> so most people that have been concerned have been directly on the coast. now we have concerns about people inland who may be impacted by potential flooding and rivers going over their banks. >> reporter: more than two dozen county are in a state of emergency. with a threat of serious floodi flooding, thousands have been forced to leave. many are set up in shelters waiting for the storm to pass. >> we didn't know what was going to happen on the beach. we didn't want to take any chances so we figured we'd just came here. >> as hurricane arthur is battling along the coast, people are encouraged to stay inside. >> this is a serious storm. please, be safe, be smart and enjoy the wonderful fourth of july holiday weekend. >> reporter: it m

eastern pummelling north carolina's outer banks with 100 mile-per-hour winds. >> incredible.urf conditions for those trying to enjoy this holiday at the shore going to be rough. in a few minutes janice dean will have the latest on the hurricane and where it's heading. first a warning for beach goers. get this. the hurricane expected to bring dangerous rip currents that could sweep even the strongest swimmers out the sea. that's the concern. >> we always hear about it. would you know what to do if you were actually caught in one? >> reporter: across america's beaches last year 30 drownings occurred due to swimmers getting caught up in rip currents. but it shouldn't stoup from having fun in the sun. >> a rip current is a flow of water from the shore line out into the ocean past the breaking waves and out past the breaking seas. >> reporter: there are ways you can spot a rip current with the naked eye. survey the beach from an elevated level. >> this is somewhat of a rip current. you see the difference in the coloration of the water. >> reporter: to give you a better visual when