. >> host: marguerite, you talk about one young man named noaa pierce you talk about noaa in the story and why you got so involved with this case. >> guest: i'm a writer and i sometimes write short stories as well as poems and a half a story in a magazine and i see a couple of poems by a soldier who committed suicide and it just blew me away, a soldier is committing suicide? i thought about it and i asked the editor, could you put me in touch with his mother and he said not really. i said please, well i finally got in touch with his stepmother who put me in touch with his real mother and i called her and we talked a lot. she is a wonderful woman, a wonderful woman. so i decided to write an article about her. after i wrote the article, i was really unnerved i thinking of the young man who had done a wonderful job as a soldier. >> host: two tours of duty in iraq. >> guest: yes, two tours in afghanistan and i wanted to know more. no more. i did a lot of research because one of my passions is, and in many ways this is a human rights book so i started with a tremendous amount of research in

analysis from noaa, says roughly 10 inches of rain.icane irene dumped a lot of water on new jersey, vermont, new hampshire. there is severe flooding. that is what they expect this time around. fema is on the call. they are moving emergency response people into position in the atlantic states but until they know where the storm will make landfall they don't want to pin anyone down. back to you liz. david: liz has a house on hudson river and i have one on cape cod. >> can join me. david: i think we'll all be camping there. a homeless man spent two decades staying in hotel rooms and visiting disney 26 times, not legal of course. find out how he did it and if you want to break the law how he could do it. liz: what you need to make it big next week. find out here next on fox business. ♪ [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare? that's a good thing, but doesn't cover everything. only about 80% of your part b medical expses. the rest is up to you. soonsider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance comp

and then we turn to noaa's analysis in 2011 of what the cuts would do. they say without data from the satellite closest to the end of its shelf life, the accuracy of its forecasts for major storms like blizzards and hurricanes would be decreased by approximately 50%. and that's not just hey i can't tell what the weather's going to be like or i can't exactly tell where the storm's going to hit. it has ramifications. not only for people's lives and their health and well-being but also financial ramifications. for every mile of evacuation, we spend a million dollars. so if we're off by 50% we may spend hundreds of millions of dollars we don't have to spend. that's knuckleheaded conservative thinking. i'm going to cut that. oh damn, so much more money. that's the problem. if you don't want to run government, then don't run for government. get out of the way! now, finally amazing moment when danny golden who is a nasa administrator was in front of congress and a g.o.p. congressman asked him "why are we building meteorological satellites when we have the weath

noaa flight meteorologist ian sears is onboard that flight right now. hopefully you can hear me.you seeing there? >> hi. good evening. here southwest of hurricane sandy at 20,000 feet, and 20 or 30 minutes ago, we were experiencing pretty good turbulence southwest of hurricane sandy. we see the field is expanding and the central pressure is down 950 millibars. we are southwest of hurricane sandy, and dropping instruments, and keeping temperature and speed direction and beginning to give that information tho national hurricane center so they can properly warn and forecast the storm to all of the folks in the mid-atlantic and new england. we know it is a big storm with high impact, and we hope that we can get all of the information so that everybody can stay safe. >> thank you, ian sears. i hope you get all of the information and stay safe as well. technology, isn't that amazing from the live of the middle off a hurricane and doing a live broadcast. he is in a hurricane hunter aircraft, and again, a mete meteorologist with the noaa flight institute. a meteorologist there. and imagi

noaa cougar town there were some showers. it's beautiful right now at beach, a live shot.nother shot in fairfax shows skies over st. leo the looking good. some members in the '70s. not much rain. the rain really confined to the easternxon lin washington county, berkeley up a little moisture. limited moisture across the area. approaching 70 degrees downtown national, 73 in gaithersburg. 56 degrees in hagerstown, 59 in martinsburg, 74 in lexington park. a warm front listing across the area. high-pressure is parked overhead for the next couple days. nicell keep us in a pretty pattern, fairly mild conditions. not very cold at night. low 80's tomorrow. the high pressure moving a the north and east on thursday and friday. an eastget northeasterly wind. we could get a little more clouds back here and that could hold temperatures back a little. will break into sunshine. eventually the cold front will from the west and will possible links a hurricane off our coast. is churning down in the south of jamaica. a tropical storm with winds at 50 miles an hour. category oneme a storm late

south of the beltway and noaa of the beltway we have some areas of rain. 66 from a markehaymarket to the beltway as well. it's 46 degrees in leesburg. highs near 60 degrees today. it will be tough to have much sunshine today. we will see a few sunny breaks. the nationals back in town tomorrow, 70, partly cloudy. now to angela. >> off to an excellent start even with light rain falling. just one accident reported on 66 inbound near glebe road. we don't have a shot of it, but it's on the shoulder. it should not slow you down much because there's light volume. 395 is moving well. 95 still has an active work zone northbound approaching thornburg, two lanes closed with overnight roadwork. back to you. >> thank you. our top story sentencing for the man at the center of the child sex abuse scandal at penn state. former assistant football coach jerry sandusky and some of his victims planning to address the judge in court today. >> this is one day after he spoke to a radio station and insisted. insisted. t.j. winnick has more. >> jerry sandusky regrets not taking the stand in his own defense a

. >> and this weekend one of our own got a chance to fly along with noaa scientists. abc 7's chris van cleve was the only washington reporter on the plane in a story only on 7. >> reporter: here onboard a noaa p-3, they call it herman. the flight deck, focused on getting us in and out of hurricane sandy. right up here behind the pilots. sits the flight director. she's a meteorologist, and she's looking at all the data that's coming in, everything that this airplane is gathering, and it's a lot. back behind us is where the real science is going on. this is information that's being gathered, that can only be gathered by flying into the hurricane. this airplane has a doppler radar in the tail. what the doppler's picking up is showing up right here on these screens. they can then build a model of the storm, analyze the data. it gives us a sense if sandy is getting stronger or weaker, if the winds are getting more intense. we're onboard the hurricane hunter, herman. chris van clees, abc 7. >> a bird's-eye view of what is coming. all right. keep it here on abc for continuou

today, the folks at noaa released their annual winter outlook, predicting it will be warmer than average in the central u.s., and in the west this winter, colder than normal. and in florida, it is also expected to be a drier than normal winter. sadly, that means the drought could keep going, spreading worse in the west and northwest. and in europe, the wine lovers may have a problem with the grapes, the worst in 50 years. it is due to drought and frost >>> and google caught up in a big mistake today. the earning numbers came out early, they were supposed to wait until the market closed. while they blame the company that prints the financial documents for them, the numbers in the report was real, the news was bad. so alarmed investors sold off a lot of google stock, trading was stopped until the afternoon, but as you see the damage was done. when it was all over, the stock had plunged more than $60, down 8% on the day. also an off day for all the markets overall. all three major indexes were down. >>> and still ahead as we continue today. a part of america where suddenly a lot of people a

. >> we are here at the brand-new noaa center for weather and climate prediction, one of the biggest forecast coming out yet from this huge facility. we are here with the the deputy director of the climate prediction center. worldwide teleconference just finishing. what can d.c. expect for christmas, mike? >> the question on everybody's mind. the outlook covers much more general terms than that, but i will tell you the d.c. area has already in less than a 10% chance of a white christmas. i will have to say, no snowfall this year. >> that was in jest. it's what it's fairly general in the way they give the forecasts for above average temperatures precipitation, so really boiling down to what you just told us will it be drier than normal? >> in the d.c. area, we are not able to pin it down. this is one of the more challenging forecasts we have had to issue in the last few years for winter. with an el ne-yino that not seem to want to go away. the official forecast for the d.c. area is equal chances for either wetter or drier conditions as well as warmer or colder. pretty much, choose you

noaa issued a brand-new hurricane update. our chad myers had that for you just a moment ago and he is going to update you in just a moment. first, let's get to the outer banks of north carolina. that is where cnn's george howell has been watching conditions deteriorate all day long. george? >> reporter: don, the strong winds have picked up again here at kill devil hills, north carolina. that heavy rain we have seen throughout date has subsided a bit, from time to time, we do still get those gusts that come and go, gusts anywhere from 40 to 50 miles per hour, sometimes mixed with sand. a good end cation of how close this storm is to us as it continues to track northward and then inland to those major metropolitan areas, new york city philadelphia, just north of washington, d.c. and then merges with that cold front. the big of the storm surge, on the atlantic side, from four to six feet that could cause flooding in several areas. the south side you can the other south side of the outer banks, the storm continues to change direc

so the noaa will tell us. today the agency will announce predictions for u.s. temperature and precipitation this winter. >>> well, there's going to be a whole lot of shaking going on this afternoon and all over the world. more than 14 million people, mostly in california, have registered to take part in the great shakeout, the world's largest ever earthquake drill. >>> and happy birthday to rock and roll hall of famer chuck berry. he turns 86 today. >>> all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight, be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." >>> and finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. in a "rock center" exclusive, an inside look at designer tory burch and how she balances a fashion empire and family time. and coach of "the voice" cee lo green talks about contestant standouts, season steals and his new feathery companion. >>> now, here it here for weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry and this is "early today," just y

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noaa is going to relice the prediction for the numbers, what they see coming based on models. they call that science lynette. what they're expecting for the winter of 2012 and 2013. we got a bit of a reprieve last winter. but could we be in for another 2010? that's later. hold on now. check this out. a sight that caught people by attention in the san francisco bay area. some residents say the homes shook making them think it was an earthquake. turns out it was a meteor streaking across the sign and it was roughly the size of a car. now, you want to talk about the meteor or do you want to talk about the snow? >> about the snow. i think that we're doing to get some snow in here. not going to be what we had last season at all. but for today no type of snow whatsoever. we are dealing with temperatures in the 50s basically from kent island to baltimore even bel air this morning. let's take you outside in bel air. you can see what's going on. well, we have some clouds out there and also some clear skies so that sun/cloud mix will continue as we go throughout the day. so if prepared

and, so, in this case noaa had a product called the emergency management response application which was very nascent. i told dp, i need everything to get this live within 72 hours. they came up with $200 million and it went live. if i had to bid that through, you know, through our channels, i might see it five years from today. but now we've run the slide. and on the first day that irma was in social media, we had 250,000 hits. on the second day it was over 3 million. and people could actually navigate through this tool. and what i was saying, they could validate using gps encrypted photographs where the response was. but it helped close that public trust gap and that's really where being able to move as much information as we can out into the public domain as we talk about cop. and obviously we need to look about cyber concerns as well. but certainly there is a responsibility to share, and especially with the general public because those are the ones that are going to say yea or nay in terms of how we're responding to an event. >> in the service of managing information during a disaste

encouraging this, but also reaching out to seniors, immigrant, and then also usf in my district, i noaa round many of the colleges and city college that it makes sense to have it around the key spots where younger people who might not have cars might have that need. >> so, the outreach funding that we have for supporting the commuter benefits program particularly for employers and city employees is limited. so, i would say we have not expanded to other target audiences like seniors who are in categories we have funding to support, but certainly we would be open to expanding that with additional resources. >> thank you. and i'm noticing i think it's a new york times article from 2010 stating that there are a limited number of car-share vehicles at that time. i'm guessing it is this matter exploded into areas like san francisco. but i'd just like to know at some later time what numbers we think -- how many people are actually using it. and as we expand to clement, for example, or spots in supervisor cohen's district, is it really meeting a demand that's there or are we kind of making sure

yesterday, noaa released a winter outlook.y put the mid atlantic with the weaker -- chances of having in dryer, wetter or average winter. ele nino -- el nino, we thought it would emerge this fall and it has not been doing so. we will have to watch closely to see what happens. temperature wise? about the same period equal chances. does that help us that much. but that it will be a little cooler -- but they think it will be a little cooler. afternoon temperatures today between 68 and 75 degrees. tonight, 43 to 51. beautiful weekend. highs in the middle-upper 60's. 70's back for the and the week. let's check on traffic. >> good morning. we have been looking around on a traffic jam us for things. slick roadways is what he would deal with this morning. a couple of incidents to tell you about. northbound on the george washington parkway, the crash occurred just after memorial bridge. left lane blocks. heavy delays with that one. montgomery county police say an overturned vehicle crashed on 108, east of georgia avenue. the big storie

joining us by phone a flight meteorologist with with noaa.aul, what do we know about the strength and intensity of what we are likely to experience here on the east coast? >> thank you for having us on again. what i just heard is really what we want to emphasize, such a large area that can be affected by this storm. we want to make sure everyone is getting the message. it does seem like everyone is paying attention and listening to this storm because of its uniqueness. what we are seeing from the air is -- at the moment what we are expecting is weakening slightly. and it's expanding its field. that makes sense because it has more atmosphere to spin sow it weakens. that doesn't mean it's losing energy. it just means it's expanding that energy outward causing a larger area to be affected. that's why we are having watches and warnings from southern florida, bermuda and trying to get people to keep a heads up. this is a very, very large storm. megyn: a meteorologist in maryland said we are seeing a storm of the intensity we have not seen in this

consider the simulation done by noaa, showing what a category 2 hurricane could -- donald with the army corps of engineers mapped out some worst-case scenarios, a category 1 hurricane could flood the subway station at the. >> if the storm were to occur, could be catastrophic given the population density in the northeast. >> reporter: high winds are also a concern. and city officials have evacuation plans at the ready. despite all the preparations, koch says it's not the hurricane he's most worried about. >> what's your biggest person? >> the new yorker. >> why? >> because they don't listen. you can always tell a new yorker, but you can't tell them very much. >> new jersey nnl of course bracing for this storm, we're going to check in with our allison cossack where there are in some cases long lines for gas, long lines to get out. now, thaa test drive.ll silverado! the most dependable, longest lasting, full-size pickups on the road. so, what do you think? [ engine revs ] i'll take it. [ male announcer ] it's chevy truck month. just announced additional $750 bonus cash on a 2012 chevy silv

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years ago, i invested in a noaa radio. it is not hand cranked like this. how important is it?> this is a critical piece of this preparedness. we encourage folks to have the hand-crank or a battery-operated radio. make sure have you extra batteries. very important, if have you power outages, you are not able to turn the tv on, the radio is a very essential tool to get the communication that you need. >> jamie: clearly, you recommend snacks and food and probably a lot of us will end up eating halloween candy. but i thought this was great. i have never seen this. emergency drinking water. viseen the pellets that you can put in to purify water, after a tsunami. but where do you get this? do you buy this now? >> right now, we recommend going to your local super store, local gas station, local food market, buy as much water as possible. >> jamie: how much do you recommend? >> one gallon per person, for day. so if you have a family, plan appropriately. very important to have that water because you don't know if you are going to be able to have water for brushing your teeth and other

we have drop sons out of noaa weather radio. here it is, category 1, about an 80-mile-per-hour storm, right now as it makes landfall tomorrow night. and if there's any change to the forecast at all, i would say that's a little bit faster. the numbers bring in landfall the eye, but don't focus on 8:00, because a lot of the storm will be onshore, half of it will be onshore, even before the eye gets there, wherever it gets. you have to understand that things are going to start to go bad from here. this is how good it's going to get for the next 36 hours. no matter where with we are in here, this sides of it is so dangerous because the wins are coming in here. on up here into period of time. all the way here into tom's river and all of this has wind this way, the winds in washington, d.c. will be 55 or 60-mile-per-hour. but in the opposite direction. and it interacts with the next storm system, there's a low here, when those two actually combine, then we'll start to see the snow on this side, because it's cold over here, the snow wi

it was hidden in bags of plastic scrap and a container labeled bones and shipments from tanza noaa and kenya. authorities arrested seven people in the case and under hong kong's law, victims will face up to two years in jail and a huge fine. >>> sports is up next, the terrapins suffer another loss at quarterback. >> lindsay murphy has all of the highlights coming up next in sports. >> and we had a great weekend so far. -- so far. all of the clouds will be out of the way. i will have the details in the full forecast coming up.  . >>> all right, talking football with lindsay murphy and maryland playing today and there is good and bad in the situation. >> and wind is hard to -- wins are hard to come by. >> the other good news, they're two wins from being bowl eligible. >> oh. >>> going to be tough count stretch. >> yeah. >> and another quarterback is hurt. >> oh, boy. >> they have had some bad luck with quarterbacks. the maryland football team is not going to catch any breaks at the quarterback position. danny o'brien wants want -- wants the acc ricci-of-the-year transferred. brown

for example right now they are trying to move some of noaa. there is a wet noaa and a dry noaa. they are trying to again make some changes there. but bob mccloskey has some facilities in her district. somebody also something somewhere else. so it is not much of an executive fiat. so as much as needs to be done, it will be difficult to do it that way. you almost have to take the structure that you have. then again, we'll have to be one minded on two or three different issues and you have to bring the cabinet together because much of it is not just one area. is more than one bureau or agency there. you really have to have the cabinet working as a team on two or three issues and driving it down, just driven it right down all in seeing. and you can only do that on just a few issues. >> i don't disagree with that. on a much smaller level, having reorganize government as a governor, when people say can be done. when is the last family to president actually stand up and say that part of government, i'm going to be organized the following way for the following reason. i've worked for th

. >> we are joined by noaa molotch, a professor of geography at the university of colorado.e are also joined by clearly be. her district includes denver. welcome to the show. state representative levy comet explain the process and why the university of colorado is changing their lot? >> it 2003, the state legislature changed a lot to preempt all local control over where a person can carry a concealed weapon. there was some ambiguity about whether it included college campuses. the university of colorado challenged that law because they felt they should have control over weapons on their campus. in march, the colorado supreme court ruled that they were printed, that they could not make own rules, and there for concealed weapons would be allowed on any public diversity or college in colorado. my legislation would put the decision back in the hands of the people who are responsible for the safety of students and faculty on their campuses. >> why do you say universities should be exempt from the state law? if >> they are responsible for the safety of the students, college campuse

noaa reports that when she hits the east coast, it could hit with an early winter storm and arctic air on the night before halloween during a full moon. good grief! gale force winds flooding and heavy rain and snow are all possible in the northeast part of the united states between sunday and wednesday. an expert predicts a massive storm. one so big that folks from florida to maine and inland as ohio could feel it. wow! franken something or other. frankenstorm. rick: the billion dollar storm is very accurate right now it is category to storm across the bahamas and close to air florida area and florida will be feeling the first impact from it tonight into tomorrow. we have tropical storm warnings in affect from daytona beach to the keys and watches in effect toward parts of georgia so we are going to be dealing with the impact of strong wind and a lot of beach erosion and heavy surf from florida to the carolinas tomorrow into saturday morning. >>shepard: it is moving to the northeast. but the water is cold. rick: the water is five degreer warmer than normal but we are not talking about

let's talk about the winter forecast which was unveiled by noaa late yesterday.gly difficult to really pinpoint and have some confidence. but for temperature anomalies, what we expect are temperatures to be basically above normal across the inner mountain west and four corners. and below normal across the florida peninsula. eastern half on both coasts maybe equal chances of seeing either one of those. precipitation, both rain and snow, below normal across parts of the northwest. the western great lakes. possibly above normal across the southeast. and equal chances of being above or below normal across the northeast. so -- breaking news. i'm hearing in central park right now, actually, squirrels are gathering nuts feverishly. so throw all this out the window. >> rob marciano. the latest from the squirrels in central park. >> all right, so you know how they say that money can't buy you love, right? but it can buy you some sweet revenge. that's 22-year-old sandeep singh. the cape cod man just claimed his $35 million share of tuesday's mega millions jackpot. a few da

jessica williams on the noaa b-3 orion 800. we're exiting the nostorm environment from the northwest. >> jessica, what are you seeing inside the hurricane? >> on the northwest of the storm, we are in a lot of turbulence right now, occasional, moderate turbulence. there are spiral bands of precipitation around the northwest of the storm. it's still a very tropical storm in the center but on the northwest, it has more cold front features to it. >> what does that mean for the intensity of this storm from what you're witnessing on the northwest side? does that mean it's going to make it more powerful? >> i couldn't really understand your question. >> okay. >> but i believe what you're asking is being a tropical storm becoming more subtropical, the wind speed is spreading out. there's a higher wind speed that will affect the larger area. highest wind speeds we found 105 miles out from the storm. >> okay, jessica williams, thank you very much. she's on board a plane right now going through the storm. and obviously she's witnessing so

on the phone with me now a noaa flight meteorologist ian sears. of people about this hurricane, the biggest fear is some of the potential record breaking storm surges. do you agree? >> absolutely. storm surge is a big concern and inland flooding is also a big concern. we picked the storm up in the bahamas and started flying missions around the clock on friday. what we were seeing is kind of a disorganized storm that started to grow in size as it came up the east coast of the united states there. and we were making sure that we're getting all the information to the national hurricane center, the modeling center, the emergency managers, so that they can use that information to warn the folks that are in the path of those hazards that you ear talking about like inland flooding and storm surge. >> it's chad myers. i want to talk about the flight you had last night and how you watched the storm intensify over the gulf stream. when you're flying these migs, you also fly away from the eye to see how big the wind field is. nassau county, suffolk county up

the latest update from noaa says heavy rains and flooding is forecast in the mid-atlantic states but high winds could be felt from the carolinas all the way up through new england. corporate america's prepping to serve both customers and protect its employees in light of this storm. at lowe's, a 24-hour command center tracks the storm while it shipped generators, batteries, chainsaws and other items in high demand after the storm to northeast markets expected to be impacted by sandy. as for the power provider, citi noting four with big exposure to the mid-atlantic and pennsylvania areas where the heaviest rains and flooding are forecast. banks saying any earnings risks for these companies lie in prolonged outages. farther north in the tri-state region where heavy wind could cause outages, utilities building on lessons learned from last year's hurricane irene. more using soesh media to keep customers informed and calling for reinforcements early on. insurance slightly lowered today with few major storms recently. they're pretty well reserved for sandy. of course, estimating any potent

there's an issue, do you what ryan and romney want to do, you won't have money for noaa, for weather research, for climate research. >> you know the federal government and so does joy. the governor gets on the phone. who does he call? >> he calls the president. >> and he asks for can you get me some help from knee fema. then i was working on this project back in the carter administration when we created fema. do you know why we created it? so this would be handled by one federal unit. along the way, joy, this is purely partisan observation, w, president george w. bush, did not take this job seriously. not just going into iraq which was wrong. he created a federal agency and turned it into run by what was that guys name? michael brown. >> it was brown. >> brownie. >> alba was the other guy. michael brown, you're doing a great job brownie. a guy from the arabian horse ration association and put him on charge showing how much focus he had on this kind of disaster situation. >> he turned it into a patronage job and republicans like to claim democrats basically use government for patronag

ourselves and noaa, they use p3-orion, so they're turbo prop type aircraft.of people ask us why don't you use jets? typically jets tend to fly a little bit too fast, and we want to go slow to reduce the majority of the turbulence as much as possible. >> greta: colonel, thank you, sir. >> you're welcome. >> >> greta: coming up, some people choosing not to evacuate oceanfront homes. what are they dealing with tonight? we'll find out next in our live coverage of this monster storm. we're tracking hurricane sandy. she's on the move, and she is no longer a hurricane, but she'll hurt some more. stay with us. [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. it put me at ease that you could smoke on the first week. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after

before we get to tucker with the weather, tucker, we pulled this especially for you, this is from noaathis is from space and it's a view of hurricane sandy as it came ashore in southern new jersey. it's time -- it's a time-lapsed issue from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. it was collected every minute as it made its way from the caribbean sea up towards the east coast. the storm stretched out about 1,000 miles. >> yeah, just amazing. you can still see that this morning on our radar picture. you know, i didn't mention all morning, i meant to, that in baltimore, lowest barometric pressure ever recorded with this storm last night about 6:00 p.m. >> let me tell ya, i know a lot of people are feeling like, okay, we got through this, which is good, there is a lot of damage out there, perhaps not as much as we may have thought here, but up to the north in new york city -- >> or that we'll find out. >> right. and this storm is going to be studied because it's really without precedent and there's going to be a rot of talk about, you know, does this mean anything for our fut

director of noaa's centers for environment prediction. what is the worst case scenario for you?nfident now that this storm even it if tracks to the northeast for a while that this storm will start curving back towards the coast. that's a bad situation for a landfalling storm for the bays along the coast. we'll have strong storm surges. >> surges, rain, wind, everyone the fact that it will hit during a full moon when tides are at their peak combine to make this a storm of historic proportions. we got access to noaa's center for weather and climate prediction, a brand new state-of-the-art center. this is the nerve center. from here experts track hurricanes once they make landfall but also pretty much every major precipitation event inside the united states. not only how strong they are and where they're going, but how long they'll stick around. this model tracks hurricane sandy four or five days from when it hits land. and look it shows it still lingering over the northeastern united states. there could be a billion dollars worth of damage with downed power lines and other destruc