and how about this, magenta, we call it. magenta and what give white? green. green. that's right. here's an interesting thing. can you do algebra? white take away red equals what? three. [laughs] white take away red... cyan. gives cyan. shall i do that again? yeah. there's your white. now, i'm gonna take the red away from it. watch where my finger is. i'll take the red away. whoops. [laughter] and what's it turned into? cyan. cyan. did you ever wonder why the sea water is a cyan color? it's green and blue. how many people have never wondered that? "so, well, it's cyan--" no, no, no, no, there's a reason why it had to be a cyan. can we have the lights please, ted? sure. -- it turns out that seawater, any kind of water, absorbs, like mad, infrared. in fact, if you take an infrared light and shine it on water, it'll heat up very, very quickly. and it also absorbs a lot of red. so when the sunlight comes down, all the colors, yeah, hits the water. guess what color gets absorbed more than any other. red. no. no, not green. okay. let's try-- let me give you a hint then. begins with r, e

six to nine feet in that magenta color.ou could have beach erosion, major waves. 10-foot to 20-foot waves, even. and finally, i have to leave you with the rainfall because the rainfall is so important. you've got some coastal flooding. and you add up to a foot locally in some places falling. so, washington, d.c., to even southern parts of new jersey, seeing that red bull's eye of 8 to 12 inches. it's not just rain, either. this whole thing is going to mix in with cold air. and that means, on the backside, it's snow. i'll talk more about that, coming up in the nation's weather. now, back to briana. >> all right, ginger. thank you. we'll see you in a few minutes. >>> meantime, this extremely dangerous superstorm has the potential to shut down new york and other major cities up and down the east coast. emergency officials are scrambling to make sure preparations are in place for whatever happens with this storm in the next few days. and abc's john schriffen has that part of the story from lower manhattan, where he has been cov

start with the color magenta, a burning asphalt, of beach ball sighing out its life, a garden grown onccident after accident, add a father painting shelves on the cove, a pinch of guilt, statues of isabella butter flisse -- butterflies, and extinct alpha betts, a teaspoon of autumn leaves, a shepard playing with the winds, some animal begging for snow. mix vigorously like the mountain mixes up its slopes. preheat the bed of a star to -- 240 light-years away. thank you. and next is -- [cheers and applause] >> next is robin black. >> hi, robin! >> oh, ok. i had to know. this is called "eviction notice." the police turned us away. 11 years old eating baby food. days warm like the occasional free matsoff from next door. no plates the cups were yoplaits. i stepped on a nail taking my sister through the yard the drinking from beer bottles that tasted like warm quarters the i caught fleas from cookie puss sleeping on my stomk keeping us both warms. at that age i lost the comfort from lies. stranded on a crescent move, floating in a sea of ash littered with diamonds the i swallowed past lives

what i want to draw your attention to now is you see the area of magenta at highway 101 and 152 that is the epicenter. that is the highest intensity you get on that rain scale. another indication of how strong that super cell thunderstorm was. earlier today we had the quarter sized hail that covered the roads, the street and the lawns and cars across gill roy. we are not finding any of that right now on the radar. we are still tracking more moderate and a few pockets of heavier rainfall into the north bay and some of our first fall rain continues to come down there. we will have details on how long this lasts and if there is severe weather in the forecast coming up. >>> new details on a 24-year-old missing person case. a possible break in the disappearance of a nine-year-old who disappeared in 1988. tonight authorities confirmed they are testing a three inch bone fragment indetermine if it belongs to the missing girl. the well is believed to have been the dumping girl for the killers in the 1980s. they were convicted of four murders and were suspects in many more. >>> cops say they e

magenta. this saturday night, when you take your bath, use some soap. in fact, splurge. use bubble bath. get a whole lot of bubbles in your bathtub. now, you're taking your bath and your light up above, there's an incandescent lamp, white light, okay? white light shining down on the bubbles. take a look at those bubbles closely. guess what, gang? the highlights ain't white. the highlights are all different... - colors. - hue. how many have noticed that already? how many people have taken baths year after year after year and never looked at the bubbles? look at the bubbles on saturday night, and see if you don't be seeing the bubbles got different colors. and your friends say, "how come the different colors?" and you say, "that's an example of?" physics. begin with i. interference. interference. interference, that's right. you got a bubble like this, maybe you got the white light up above, okay? okay. and the white light coming down-- here's your eye right here. light come down, hit the bubble, bounced to your eye, yeah? but some of that light bounces from the bottom surf

see a little magenta there and in parts of west virginia. a little bit of wet snow. certainly a chilly air mass across the eastern sea board. we have light activity south of town. we'll show you doppler radar and we can see activity down toward southern maryland. it moved across the bay. but by and large, the heaviest and most consistent rain fall will be hagerstown to winchester. if you are walking the dog, you need a coat. back to cumberland, there's some rain. martinsburg, west virginia, up into hagerstown, that's where the heaviest rain fall can be found. temperatures right now, 49 in laithensville. 49 in rockville. 50 in vienna. 49 in fairfax. 53 downtown. 52 over in bowie. so, cool and unsettled. keep the umbrella handy tonight. chilly again tonight. need your jacket on tuesday. good news, improving on wednesday. all right, for tonight then, mostly cloudy, chilly, light rain. lows in the 40s and then for tomorrow morning, we're looking at some left over showers, 40s and 50s. south and east of town. by afternoon, we'll say variable clouds and cool. a few showers

four to ax in that magenta area. in the blue, you got all of that coming from the southeast to the northwest. let me show you the wind forecast, because sam showed you how big and how many people will be involved in this, but look at how high those wind speeds go. pittsburgh, d.c., new york city and boston, in that red zone, and of course, it extends all of the way back to the eastern great lakes. we'll be watching this storm not only from here but along the coast. i have a winter coat on under the extreme team jacket to cover a hurricane. >> i'm layered up as well, ginger. you got hurricane-force winds, very, very cold temperatures, ginger, something else that i want to talk about this morning, before we get to the preps of new york city making, you think of new york city and the entire east coast, these big sky high line, just big, big buildings just along here. that's all a real problem for 77 mile per hour winds. blowing things off the buildings. in this area, you don't need to be walking around because debris wi

that's that deep, magenta color. and sandy's not the only story across the nation.at in the southwest. we need to look at that because other people dealing with things here. 91 los angeles today. 82 san diego. 89 palm springs. i'll leave you with the national outlook. >> we talk about some of the worst tomorrows in history, dan and i, pretty often. and i think this could become one. i'll have more coming up in the next half hour. for now, we get back to the studio. >> thank you, ginger. stay safe out there. >>> switching gears. something we've been thinking about here at the office. do you ever notice that when we cover stories about bank robbers the suspects always have interesting, sometimes creative names. >> i'm going to list some of my favorites. the balding bandit. the mid life crisis bandit. and i love this, the sweaty back bandit. it turns out, there's one guy behind all of this creativity. and we met him. almost every day, the fbi, police and banks are plastering another grainy surveillance picture and a catchy nickname all over billboards, wanted posters a

you exactly what to expect here. 6 to 9 feet in that red area or 4 to 8 feet, excuse me, in that magenta area and then the blue still, you've got a 1 to 3-foot surge and all coming from the southeast end to the northwest. let me show you the wind forecast, because sam showed you how big and how many people will be involved in this. but look at how high those wind speeds go, 60 to 80 miles per hour, pittsburgh, d.c., new york city and boston in that red zone, and, of course, it extends all the way back to the eastern great lakes too. we'll watch the storm not only here from atlantic city but all across the eastern seaboard and i'll have much more coming up. by the way, this storm different because i have a winter coat on under the extreme team jacket to cover a hurricane. >> yeah, it's funny, because i'm layered up, as well, ginger, and this one has that cold air pulling into it so hurricane-force winds, very, very cold temperatures. ginger, something else i want to talk about that we haven't talked a lot about this morning before we even get to the preps new york city is making. you thin

that's that deep, magenta color. and sandy's not the only story across the nation.in the southwest. other people dealing with things here. 91 los angeles today. 82 san diego. 89 palm good morning, ashington. forecaster dave zahran here. very mild start to the some chalnging . ys ahead to ratur in the mid and very light out there. going to chan as storm s sandy, , now a ropical storm, downwn from a wayp the makes i its seaard. problems for us today, to ngs will start deteriorate. timele, hthe projected landfall we think around on tutuesday. >> we talk about some of the worst storms in history. and i think this could become one. i'll have more coming up in the next half hour. for now, we get back to the stood joe. >> thank you, ginger. stay safe out there. >>> switching gears. something we've been thinking about here at the office. do you notice when we cover stories about bank robbers the suspects always have interesting, sometimes creative names. >> i'm going to list some of my favorites. the mid life crisis bandit. and i love this. the sweaty back bandit. there's o