cleared, so it's a poisonous cocktail of genuine issues and retaliation >> all right, ambassador norm eisen, thank you very much appreciate your time as always. >>> pivoting away politics for the moment, following breaking news along the gulf coast, hurricane sally now a category 1 storm is pounding the region with heavy rain and is expected to make landfall early tomorrow morning. the national hurricane center says that sally is expected to produce life-threatening storm surge, on high alert at this hour joining me now from gulf shores, alabama, is chris jansing, good to talk to you you're already seeing some rain, i should note, and wind from sally there in alabama, tell us about how the people there are preparing and does it seem as though people are staying in the area to ride out the storm or are they evacuating? >> reporter: yeah, it seems like they're having trouble getting a handle on exactly how many people are evacuating, in a normal hurricane situation, we would have folks going to shelters, they would have people checking and seeing where people are, but we're in a time of coron