. >> Éste es noticiero un >> en moorehead city se empiezan a sentir los fuertes vientos. a recabar mÁs temprano las calles y varios condados aledaÑos y lo que encontramos es que no habÍa unaorden de evacuaciÓn obligatoria para todas las Áreas. una zona que segÚn los expertos va a ser castigado duramente por el huracÁn irene. lo que encontramos es que las islas conocidas como los outer baks, ahÍ sí se ordenÓ la evacuaciÓn obligatoria pero en el interior es voluntaria. las personas que viven en Áreas bajas porque necesitan atenciÓn mÉdica, y también los que habitan en parques de casas mÓviles. hemos revisado los medios de comunicaciÓn local y hay un aviso de encorvado hasta maÑana en las horas de la maÑana. aÚn asÍ todavía no hemos visto que haya una ordende evacuaciÓn obligatoria para absolutamente toda la zona. vamos a seguir por supuesto pendientes. al toque de queda desde las ocho de la noche. las autoridades no van a permitir absolutamente a nadie en la calle a partir las ocho. esto para facilitar un poco mÁs la seguridad de los habitantes. voy con la que rusia estÁ co

. >>> hurricane irene is projected to make landfall near moorehead city, north carolina. at this hour the streets of moorehead city are completely empty, a ghost town, as they prepare for a storm surge up to 11 feet as maria was telling us. jennifer davis filed this report from the coastal sfi. >> waves crashing into this pier in atlantic beach. it was some of the first signs that irene is just around the corner. earlier in the day it was still sunny, and many people took advantage of the clear skies to prepare for the powerful storm's arrival. ray jordan was one of the many people pulling their boats from the nearby marina. >> there are two boats in there and the owners were getting them out. they said they won't be there in an hour or so. >> much of the area was boarded up and emptied out. but folks left messages. one list smeftd storms that struck north carolina in recent years. they say you have to dig deep into history to find a storm similar to irene. >> you have to go to september of 1960, hurricane donna striking this beach as a hurricane 3 to find a storm of comp

between moorehead city and cape hatteras, as a major category 3 hurricane.nds potentially up to and over 115 miles per hour, 120 miles per hour. and rolling through to new england. the impact friday night, making landfall along new engla. major flooding from the storm surge, along with torrential rainfall. then the storm moves over the outebanks, towards delmarva and into the northeast and new england, bringing massive flooding here, including for new york city. rob and tanya, back to you. >> jim, thank you. >>> now, to an amazing view, showing the vast scope of the storm. this is what irene currently looks like from the international space station. it is an enormous mass. the clouds stretching more than 1,000 miles at its widest point. the hurricane is kicking up the surf along the atlantic coast, all the way from south florida, to new jersey. people are being warned to stay out of the water because of dangerous rip currents and to avoid the beaches altogether. but some have ignored those warnings. at least eight people were injured and one nearly drowned i

but quite clearly, right here where we are in the moorehead city, atlantic beach area, we're likely to be the first ones along the north carolina coast to feel the effects from the hurricane and we could very well be in that eye wall or at least on the left side of that eye wall as it moves up towards the outer banks, which are just up the road from here. ali? >> john, i know you and your team are very experienced at staying save, so i won't tell you about that. you'll be watching it closely and we'll check with you. >> we talked about what if. we could find out what will happen if a hurricane made a direct hit on new york city. it could happen sunday afternoon. as you can see on this google map, the worst case scenario has the storm surge pushing into places like wall street and world trade center site and that's what the city is getting ready for right now. it's talking about a total mass transit shutdown. mayor bloomberg announced the evacuation of the most vulnerable new yorkers, hospital patients and those in nursing homes and people confined to their homes who live in low-lying a

in moorehead city people are taking this storm very seriously and packing up. something they haven't done in a while. >> we live in a stucco home so it's stable. short of a roof blow, i should be in just fine shape. >> reporter: the local lowe's hardware store has been extremely busy all day long. >> we will stay open as late as we possibly can. we just have to play that by ear and obviously we have to keep our residents safe. >> reporter: residents will start evacuating friday morning. still some are trying to fit in one last minute a beach time. >> they ask if we wanted to leave today and we said no. it's just too beautiful today. you would never know a storm is coming. >> reporter: it's not just north carolina that's preparing. irene is expected to make her way all the way up the east coast so everybody is on alert. >> there's an element of unpredictability when it comes to the weather so we hope for the best but prepare for the worse. >> reporter: we're expecting the worse of the storm about saturday some time. but they are planning ahead. but the governors

it's going right into moorehead city, category 3 storm with faster than 150 mile-an-hour winds then heads up the peninsula tomorrow night and goes through new york sunday morning and heads for boston sunday afternoon into the evening hours. check out these rain totals. this is what we want to look at. you start to see the yellows, that is around nine to ten inches. 14 inches possible in north carolina, nearly nine inches of rain in new york. that is why we're really worried about flooding out of this system, probably more than anything else. beach erosion and winds will be pretty bad. storm surge probably is not what we call the fresh water range that will cause the flooding there. >> back here at home. things are quiet. high pressure down to the south and east that volcano in right now. kind of slowing down the sea breeze just a little bit. clouds and drizzle this morning and cooler conditions when you step outside. by the time we head to the afternoon hours, take the 50s and 60s and turn them into a at 50s at the coast, upper 70s around the bay and low 90s inland and even warmer weather

>> i think moorehead city is a good bet. the low country of north carolina is going to get hit hard. what surprising when you look back at hurricane history, it's been over ten years since north carolina got hit by a major storm. and it's been almost six years since we have seen a major storm hit the u.s. and this is not a major storm technical right now. it's got winds of 110. we need winds of 111. talking about splitting hairs right there. don't worry about that and don't so much worry about the track because it's close enough to the coatline once it gets past north carolina everybody across the chesapeake and new jersey and new england coastline will be affected and a large storm with a big circulation and surge on top of high tides as well. exactly how much surge you get in your neighborhood will determine by the track and where you exactly live. not necessarily the elevation. it's going to be interesting and it will be historic. just try to prepare as best you can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. >> we

. >>> a live look at moorehead city, north carolina. it is official.ne made landfall about 20 minutes ago not far from cape lookout, north carolina. folks are handling things there, as folks prepare up and down the seaboard. we have you chord from maryland and new jersey. we have tom costello, and nbc's michelle franzen in asbury park for us. tom, we'll start with you. how does it look there. >> it's starting to rain here, and it has been doing so for a couple of hours. about an hour ago we had high tide, but the sea has been churning and churning, and we are expecting the whole force of this hurricane to come ashore here on the outer bank, if you will, on the barrier island of the delmarva peninsula. sometime in the overnight hours. probably 9:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. they're talking about ten to 12 inches of rain here, and especially here in ocean city where we have had a mass exodus. 200,000 people evacuated ocean city yesterday after a mandatory order for evacuation came to the police department. the police department also then went door to door to doo

hurricane irene has brought winds and rains ashore in moorehead city, north carolina as well. l be shut down. all the trains in new york, philadelphia, and new jersey closed because of this storm. flights around the five main new york city area airports. let's go right to nbc kerry sanders, who is in atlantic weech, mcincome, with a good morning to you. last hour we spoke to you, kerry. we had part of a pier that had been shorn off. >> month more of the pier is gone, but if you are looking at me right now, you are saying what's going on? well, it's really calm here because we're in the n what is the eye. it's really ill defined. what's interesting is i'm going to take you up in the camera here, and as can you see some n certain areas it looks almost like blue sky there, and then as you look way out there you can see those really dark clouds. well, they're heading towards us. that's the eye wall that is heading this direction. of course, as you know, the eye wall is where the most powerful winds with the hurricane are. they'll be getting here. we imagine within about the next ho

now, the salvation army has shall terrifies open just over the bridge in moorehead city and salvation army started to serve meals at the three shelters there at 8:00 p.m. a lot of people told us throughout the day they were going stay and the ride this out. but an equal number if not more said you know what? we're not taking any chance with this. this could be the worst storm here since the 1950s when hurricane hazel came through. a lot of older folks who know what can happen from a major hurricane decided they were going to get out. anderson? >> yeah. there's nothing like that experience having gone through it to bring the reality of it home which is something folks in new york have not experienced firsthand. john we'll continue to check with you. ed rappaport joins us from miami. how does this hurricane compare to others that we've seen? >> what's different about this hurricane is that the forecast track which is pretty much locked in nuclear program at least through north carolina, the eastern part of the state is going to be a little bit further to the west than what we've seen fo

let me move you up to saturday, a very close approach to cape hatteras and moorehead city and that's of the question, and the scariest part is if we take it further up to sunday, it could hit new york city and it could hit boston. think about the 25, 25, 25 miles, there's a big turn to the left, a big turn to the right, it misses everything, but there's a lot of people in this corridor right there, at least 30 million people will have to be at least watching this all weekend long, candy? >> you're one of them, thanks very much, chad myers. appreciate it. talk to you tomorrow. >>> all the projected paths for the hurricane take it very near, if not over north carolina's fragile outer banks. tonight evacuations are under way. we have north carolina governor bev perdue on the phone. thank you for being with us. what are you doing to get residents ready and out or hunkered down? >> and thank you, candy, you all are doing the best job by reporting it and getting people to realize that this may be a very big storm. we are planning for the worst and we are praying for the best. that's how we

also getting reports at moorehead city. some of the roads are impassable with five to seven inches of water on some of those streets, so these are the reports we're going to continue to see not only here, but as this maintains the same -- about the same exact strength right off the coastline. now you can also see we do have a tornado watch up here for virginia beach. we did have news there of a tornado in columbia, north carolina. just outside of nags head. two homes have also been reportedly destroyed, and there's also been some minor injuries just beginning here of what could be quite a bit of damage for the atlantic seaboard. look how powerful this is. already spiralling and a ton of rainfall into the mid-atlantic states where we could see six to eight inches. hurricane warnings still in place. no change there. now look at this, alex. rain starting to move right into the delmarva peninsula. maryland, delaware, also near new york city already starting to feel some of these outer rain bands. >> yeah. we certainly are. okay

the issue across freeport and the carolinas is a direct landfall somewhere near possibly moorehead city. it could be right on the outer banks. with a wind speed of 120 and waves at 8 feet tall and even some spots 10 feet tall overwashing that barrier island, some of that island may go away. you don't want to be on that island. you do not want to be on the outer banks at all. then, this is worst case snaka- scenar scenario. i guess this storm if you follow the stre, if it follows the center and runs up the hudson, new york city is in a world of heart. power out for days and subways maybe flooded in some spots. we have a long wait for that, but you need to know that's possible and you need to start thinking about what you would do if that would happen. >> a lot could change. good warning, chad. we heard you with that one. >> you're welcome. >>> to libya now where the battle for tripoli and the hunt for moammar gadhafi are converging. two days after they took over the compound, they say he and some of ms. sons may be pinned down in a cluster of apartment buildings nearby. they're fighting

category two making landfall, our best guest mitt right now, around moorehead city and a second landfalls wen new york on -- western new york on sunday morning. rick, back to you. rick: all right, janice, thank you very much. jenna? jenna: well, rick, the governor of maryland declaring a state of emergency warning folks to get ready for this storm. >> in conjunction with the mayor of ocean city, we are ordering a mandatory evacuation of the barrier island of ocean city. it is our goal to make sure that ocean city is evacuated by 5 p.m. on friday. so people should not waste time. this is not a time to get out the camera and sit on the beach and take pictures of the waves. jenna: well, a lot of folks are already heeding that warning as this large hurricane takes aim at the maryland shore. our very own doug mckelway has not taken that warning, he's there with a camera, aren't you, doug? waiting and watching to see what's going to happen. and what is the latest at ocean city? >> i'm breaking up a little bit, jenna, but i think i heard what you said. right now it's just as calm as it could po

this is moorehead city.t is my understanding and we have been able to get estimates of damage for insurance lots. they have these agencies that come in and rate the losses for the insurance company. eqecac, one of the ratings agencies, north carolina suffered insurance covered lots, 200 $200 to $400 million in the carolinas and, say the bulk of losses from north carolina and estimates only covered the carolinas, north carolina and south carolina was mostly spared and we have estimates from the governor of new jersey who said roughly billions of dollars in the state of new jersey, as much as $10 billion or tens of billions according to the governor and we can only hope he's on the high side of things, tens of billions of dollars, rick reichmuth would be a horrible hit to a mightily struggling economy. >> rick: and you have to wonder the end of summer will they recoup so people get back next weekend for the labor day last go at it? that will be a big question, maybe people will say, yes, one last week and we h

we believe it will come in somewhere in moorehead city, in the midst of north carolina's coast.vernor mcconnell is concerned, as is governor haley. this is a whole coastal event. you never know where it's going to hit until it hits. so the three states are fully prepared and then the northeast is beginning to make those same kind of preparations. she is a big girl and nobody can take away from the fact that if a storm with this big, some damage will be done. >> brian: is the message you got to take personal responsibility? you've already outlined, haven't you, the evacuation zones and you're telling people who should leave and where to go. it's really up to the people in north carolina to be responsible at this point. >> this is a big tourist state, too. so we have a huge number of folks who don't live in north carolina along our coast. we started asking them to leave on tuesday. we told them they had to leave yesterday. and today that we have people going door to door demanding they leave. as for the residents, we have hundreds of thousands of people on the road getting off the

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