karen mcginnis is in the cnn headquarters and what is the latest on the dam, too, threatened in marylandm in sitting at the peninsula at the mouth of the chesapeake bay, and we will zoom in, and this is where washington, d.c. is located and st. mary's is right down here. they are saying it is a code red. they are stare saying that the y overflow, but it is not going to burst, but there are some families that could be downstream from this, if it should receive more rainfall, and there has already been 7 inches, so that the dam is filling up, but they are saying that there is no danger of the dam bursting, but certainly the people could have some effect from the flooding associated with overflow from the dam. the other thing is that we are just about ready to receive from the national hurricane center an yu date update regarding irene. all right. we have seen the winds associated with this at 80 miles per hour, and it is category 1, and where susan candiotti is located, it is still 200 miles away. it is moving to the north, northeast at 16 miles an hour. so she is getting bands of rainfall