whether channel meteorologist jim cantore is in bermuda and he has got the very latest. jim. >> reporter: conditions with bill have been getting worse all afternoon. a steady rain and gusty wind have been moving into the area. tropical storm winds are now sustained here on bermuda. some of the higher hills are seeing winds over 55 miles an hour. all of these areas are going to get worse as we go through tonight and on into tomorrow morning. but the biggest threat continues to be from the wave action. we have had huge surf come crashing into bermuda today along the beach shores. we have high tide tonight and again tomorrow morning to get through. perhaps at the time of the storm's closest point to bermuda which will be less than 200 miles now we think due to a northward jog today. it is going to be a rough night. we think there will be loss of power. but as we get into saturday and sunday conditions will improve and in some cases rapidly sunday as bill accelerates northward toward canadian maritimes. david, back to you. >>> jim cantore in bermuda for us tonight, thanks. >>

and jim cantore of the weather channel is in bermuda for us. y, jim. >> reporter: good evening, ann, if you look at bermuda it is 20 square miles. shaped like a small j with a dot on the top of it. the dot is where the airport is. getting from the main island to the airport will be nearly impossible tomorrow. already within 48 hours of its closest point you can see some of the huge waves that are already coming in and running up the beach and beginning the erosion process. the beach i am standing on here will not be here when the storm goes by. the evacuation process here is basically for people that want to leave the island. the airport is going to be shut down. when we get aircraft in tomorrow. once it leaves that will be it friday afternoon. two cruise ships supposed to leave saturday are leaving a day early. vacationers coming to bermuda are getting their vacation cut short. these waves are heading to the east coast. back to you. >> thank you for the warning. jim cantore with more on that. something to keep in mind this hurricane season. the

the weather channel's jim cantore, what's the latest? >> reporter: well, lester, we've gotting a four feet less of the beach complicates of the wave action last night. another high tide cycle coming up at 10:30. amazing. look offshore here. we've got about 12 to 15-foot waves breaking and the tide's only coming up going through the morning. reports here on the island are obviously preliminary. we've had a lot of light debris that's come down. palm froms have come down. coconuts, things like that, a lot of leaf debris. thing us would expect. no type of structure damage what we expected. 95 miles an hour winds, bermuda made up of a lot of hills. the airport closed as was the causeway bridge. we expect that to preliminary open at 2:00 this afternoon, if they can get aircraft in. right now, no aircraft obviously here on the tine island of bermuda. the worst is past. we'll see the sun. the worst results, of course, the wave that comes in with the next high tide. that will be the memory of bill. the loss of beach, because of the waves. back to

we'll be checking in with jim c cantore. here's a look at check, today into tomorrowly, substantial effects on the beaches. rip current risks and waves upwards around 12 feet, potentially high of across the new jersey shoreline. something to keep in mind. stay out of the water with the system, you're likely to be all set across the area. we are looking at high surf advisory extending from south of jacksonville, florida, across the carolinas, outer banks one spot that could pick up upwards, 15 foot waves if not higher. tropical storm warning that is going to start to take effect late night tonight into early tomorrow morning again for winds out of the cape, nantucket, martha's vineyard. for the rest of massachusetts and southern new england looking good. >> thank you, todd santos. >>> let's go to the field and weather channel meteorologist mike seidel in jones beach, new york. what's the situation there? >> reporter: well, it's a slow morning so far because we've been pounded by heavy rain. that's going to be the weather stor

. >>> but first another check of the weather with weather channel's jim cantore. >> we're out here withom st. petersburg sleeping, enjoying time in new york. did you know we have a new tropical depression forming? >> i did not know this morning. >> you got to go back to -- >> rain and weather. >> no, it will head to the northeast. busy time in the tropics. we have all sorts of action going on, ana, we've got bill, there's a disturbance behind that. t.d. number 4, which f it is named it will be named claudette which is what the hurricane center is going to do with it, moving in possibly 450 45 miles an hour. around fort wellton and destine get ready for a soaking. a small, compact storm, with it 5 to 8 inches of rain especially if it slows down as it makes its way toward the coastline. back here to the states a wet start up in chaska, minnesota, the final round of the pga but the weather should move through ando?ao?ao?ao?ao?ao?ao?ao?aoe >>> there is the 90 showing up in boston, and 91 in new york. we have 72 in casper, and 68 degrees out there in boise for you, and 100 in the big d in

with us jim cantore joining us from bermuda. jim, we were able to see you earlier.ell us why is it you're not able to get in front of the camera this hour. >> reporter: the sea assault. with a storm like this and all the wave action that's going out out there, you got a ton of salt spray and that tends to cause proble problems. it's our own worst enemy. >> reporter: we're going to get through this high tide okay. that was really the biggest concern. the problem is we've already lost three, four, five feet of beach in some places, and that, you know, will happen. >> other question was, okay, for the people that have been stuck on bermuda, when are they going to be able to get out? the first place is across st. george harbor. that has now been opened within the hour. people can go off of st. george harbor or across st. george harbor in either direction if they want to. the next question is can the airport become operational and get aircraft in here? that's what they're assessing right now. it's tentative to open up at 2:00 this afternoon and hopefully that will be som

jim cantore, thank you.et the latest minute by minute news on hurricane bill from the weather channel at weather.com. >>> to politics now. health care reform, fact versus fiction. today the republican party says president obama's playing fast and loose with the facts on health care. this, as the president and leading democrats reportedly consider pushing through a partisan plan. i'm joined live from washington by anne kornblut reporter for "the washington post." good morning. >> good to see you. >> in this republican response, anne, the gop says you will be forced to give up your private health care in certain situations. the president is saying that is a myth. you will be able to keep your private health insurance if you wish. what is truth here? is there one yet? >> well, getting to the bottom of it is obviously difficult. there is not a single truth at this point because there's not a single bill. all of the indications i've gotten from people looking at bill is that people would not actually be forces of

the weather channel's jim cantore is there.od morning with you. >> reporter: good morning, to you, matt. with each high tide we lose more of the beach. that's amazing, because the storm is over 4000 miles away. at its closest, 220 miles away at 8:00 saturday morning. we have a lot of tide cycles between then and a lot of beach we're going to lose. residents not too worried. winds will not be hurricane force but we expect tropical storm force and that means some power outages but this is an area where airplanes do not get a chance to sit on the ground during a storm like this so all aircraft will have to be off the island and we're expecting that to be done later on this afternoon. most vacationers who wanted to get off will. some, however, will have to ride out the storm. matt, back to you. >> jim cantore from the weather channel, thank you very much. >> al is tracking the hurricane, good morning. >> good morning. 425 miles south of bermuda, 8 to 165 miles south of cape hatteras, category 3 storm, disorganized, a little, the pa

the weather channel's jim cantore joins us from chatham, massachusetts with more. od morning, jim. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, melissa. it was a rough day for surf yesterday. the outer banks of north carolina. surfer, a great thing, you're out in the water. a beachgoer, a lousy weekend complements of the second named storm in so many weeks here. once again in massachusetts beaches closed down. certainly on a day when we remember when the worst hurricane to ever hit the united states, danny, will never get a chance to reach that status. reporting from the southeastern part of massachusetts, that's rather wet and cold this morning, jim cantore. back to you. >> thanks. >>> danny's rough surf along the north carolina coast have wes cuers searching for a 12-year-old boy body boarding just before disappearing in the water. waves only about five feet tall but the undertow was very strong. >>> on friday the l.a. coroner's office officially declared michael jackson's death a homicide. the autopsy revealed jackson had a legal cocktail of six different drugs in his body w

the weather channel's jim cantore is live on the scene. >> reporter: good morning, matt. as quick as this thing came in yesterday, it is moving on out. when we started the weekend we were thinking, we'll have to deal with ana or bill. but no, it actually was claudette developing yesterday morning and moving right in last night. near ft. walton beach. behind me the beaches look pretty good. as quick as the seas came up, they went down. 9,000 people lost power in panama city but since then power's been coming back on pretty quickly here. our focus will now turn out into the atlantic to see what's next in the pipeline as the forecast for ana eventually is very close to this area as we go toward friday night and the early part of the weekend. >> that is the weather channel's jim cantore, thank you very much. >>> there are other storms. let's bring in weather channel's stephanie abrams in for al this morning. good morning. >> good morning, ann and matt. here's a look at what's happening. right now throughout the panhandle of florida, we are seeing that rain coming in. it is ve

weather channel meteorologist, jim cantore, is out there. how is the surf looking out there? >> reporter: it's unbelievable. you have huge waves. and the furthest white cap out there, that's where the reef is. they will take more and more of the beach with each high tied. what was brought in to beef the beach up will be taken out. residents and visitors, those are the people that will be impacted. residents have been buying supplies. some -- most, actually, have not boarded up their windows because they are not worried about hurricane-force winds, but what we will see are waves, and those will be the big impacts here in bermuda and in the united states. the path is offshore, and that's where we think it will stay, probably 245 to the west about 8:30 saturday morning. back to you. >> jim, thank you very much. dylan, we will keep the eye on the progress as bill gets closer and closer with the surf there. >>> much more ahead on the "morning meeting," on what some are calling the sickening sight. a hero's welcome, complete with confetti. in libya, and what if anything can the uni

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the weather channel's jim cantore has more on that. jim? >> we're up here in new england where they've been hit by tropical storms and hurricanes. interesting, as danny has weakened from tropical status it's become more of a nor'easter for new england. we had a storm july 23rd like this that looked more like a nor'easter. we had wind and rain and trees and power lines down in the cape. this will be a similar scenario coming up on saturday. of course, all eyes are certainly on paying their respects for senator kennedy and what's going on businesswise, what has been an abysmal summer across many of the east coast beaches, will continue to be this weekend with whatever this is, tropical storm danny or the nor'easter. so the problems currently right now aren't too bad. it's a beautiful day. it's expected to continue to be that way. as we go into tonight and tomorrow, heavy rain, wind, and another battering for the beaches expected here on coastal massachusetts. back to you, melissa? >> all right. >>> on the auto front, the automakers say it san