there were taxis out yesterday, rob marciano, i think we made contact with rob in long beach. how is it there? >> i can finally hear you now. we've taken quite a beating the past couple of hours, anderson. our satellite truck had to be moved back away from the beach. the board walk has been taking some hits from the surf. we're aetch proing high tide. i'm not sure how much you can see. we're broadcasting via internet by the way. behind me is this board walk and beyond that are a series of 12 and 15-foot berms built up the past couple days in order to protect the town from getting an influx of water. also to protect the lifeguard headquarters of long beach which just in the last 20 minutes has been taken off its foundation and slammed into the board walk. the lifeguards and the police department have been out there to assess that situation. that is pinned right now against the board walk as the full force of the atlantic ocean is pounding the board walk here. i just stepped back on to the board walk, then you get a sense for the winds here on the coastline. we've had winds gust

. >>> to rob marciano live from atlanta. rob, any flight downgrades today? there may be flight downgrades today, that's for sure. in places that will see the thunderstorms pop up in the afternoon. take a look at the chart here that shows you if you are traveling, chicago's going to see some delays, minneapolis as well in the afternoon. some morning clouds in philly and new york city and continued on the muggy side until a little front comes through. san francisco, morning clouds and fog and thunderstorms scattered in the afternoon. atlanta and chicago. in boston. hazy, hot and humid conditions will persist across the midsection of the country. couple of fronts trying to make their way south. we're getting now into the middle of august, trying to be optimistic about cooler air, trying to push its way south. but it's still going to have a hard time doing that. heat indices from places like dallas to oklahoma city. i think dallas is day 38 of 100 plus degree heat. so hot in places sharks are jumping out. check this out. milton, new hampshire, six to eight-foot

. >> reporter: rob marciano, let's see if he can hear us. here's in long beach and they're seeing intense wave action. rob, can you tell us? >> reporter: i can't hear the program, so just tell me when to go. >> reporter: anderson, long beach, the winds remain the same and if anything have picked up. irene continues to roll this way. irene is still a hurricane, although you would describe it as a minimal hurricane. i have been in a lot of minimal hurricanes, and it's a still a hurricane. we're taking damage on the boardwalk right now as water continues to fall in. it's tough to see with the connection, but those winds are massive. that surf is pounding the shoreline and has completely wiped out the man made berm they put up to protect the hotel, the boardwalk and that town. and we'll walk this way and show you the lifeguard building, the headquarters there for i don't know how many years ripped away from the foundation and pinned down. that water is not supposed to be there. it's a good waist deep, and it's not supposed to be there. as far as

forecast in english. >> i have talked a lot about haboobs with rob marciano live in atlanta.was you who introduced me to the word, rob. it was unfamiliar to me at the time. emily is more familiar. >> it is. we try to give you descriptions of what's going on weatherwise. sometimes we have to use technical terms. haboob is one of them. tropical storm emily, as you mentioned, this has been on our radar screen for quite some time. this is just off the coast of the dominican republic and about 100 miles south of port-au-prince, haiti. it's been dousing hispaniola with heavy rains for 10 to 12 hours. in the mountainous areas they've probably already received eight or nine inches. it could be a dangerous situation for the folks in the bahamas and potentially florida. let's get to the forecast track now. as of 5:00 this morning, freshly updated. our models are all over the place once this thing gets over hispaniola. florida still in play, the southeast coast of the carolinas still in play as well. we'll give you another update at 11:00 when the new models come out. folks in the east

we're going to talk to rob marciano about that in just a few minutes. for those of you in florida, you may want to change some of your plans. the senate votes on the bills today with just a few sand granules left in the hourglass, and all the dithering and delaying didn't come for free. this might make you spit out your coffee or trip on your treadmill, so get ready for this. the price tag, more than 1 $.7 billion. that is how much extra interest the government will have to pay investors because it had to sell treasury bills to finance its operations in the middle of this mess. if the mess had been worked out even two weeks ago, that money would have been saved. now in the bizarre world of washington u you spend money to save money. here's some wisdom from gloria bo borger who is part of a panel. >> look. if you look at this down the road, we have some other landmarks that are coming up in november and again in december, and he said, look, this could frame the debate for the white house for 2012. if republicans are only for cuts and entitlements and not

dallas, 32nd day of triple digit temperatures. >> we're going to rob marciano now. >> rob, tell us aboutst gave the weather report. how did i do? >> very well. as little sleep as you've gotten, i'm impressed to your listening comprehension throughout the morning. just play the hits and pound it into them! >>> here is going on with tropical storm emily. we got reports from a hurricane hunter reconplane it hasn't strengthened that much. now 260 miles away from puerto rico. it's heading that way and still is the forecast track from the national hurricane center. getting into the southern bahamas. could scoot off on to sea or head to the gulf of mexico or head to florida and late friday night and over the weekend. a lot of uncertainty there. we will see if it develops into a hurricane. right now forecasts for it to remain a tropical storm. 111 in ft. smith, arkansas. we are expecting more in the way of heat today. these are the forecast highs with the anticipated records that may very well be broken. oklahoma city the record is 110 and record in dallas is 107. may break that. 32 days and cou

let's go to rob marciano. tell us where irene is right now. >> it's south of north carolina and heading to the north. basically it's going to run into north carolina. there's virtually no doubt about that right now, about 400 miles south-southwest of cape hatteras. switch to the watch and warnings, the biggest issue this morning has been that there have been new watches and warnings issued and warnings have now been extended northward and watches have been posted now, for the long island coastline, connecticut coastline, the rhode island coastline and parts of eastern new england coastline. hurricane conditions possible in the next 48 hours. but the hurricane warnings have been lifted northward to sandy hook, new jersey, meaning hurricane conditions likely in the next 36 hours. any preparations should be rushed to completion and in some cases there have been evacuation orders met. let's talk about the satellite picture where this thing is what kind of shape it's in. it has weakened a little bit, down to a cate

rob marciano in new york for us this morning. athena, let me start with you.t was supposed to be a big weekend. >> it was. they were supposed to dedicate the martin luther king jr. memorial tomorrow, it was going to be a big deal on the anniversary of this march on washington and his famous "i have a dream" speech, but that's been postponed. there's a state of emergency here in the city. we don't expect to see the strong winds and rain come until the afternoon, although the winds have picked up. but city officials here say that they are prepared. we spoke earlier with d.c. fire and ems chief kenneth ellerby and i asked him about the whole category 1 versus category 2 situation and whether people should still be concerned. let's listen to what he had to say, t.j.. >> even a tropical storm can do a lot of damage, so people need to be vigilant. we're prepared and we want them to rest assured that we're prepared for anything that comes up. >> reporter: so one of the ways that the city is helping residents prepare is by handing out sandbags. that's going on today.

we're going to talk more about it with rob marciano on the other side of this break. >>> the senate votes on the debt bill just in the nick of time. all that dikterring and delays has come with a hefty price. check it out. $1.7 billion is how much extra money they had to pain vesters in interest to sell treasury are bonds to finance its operation and if the me had been workses out even two weeks ago that money could have been saved. there could be prices from politicians too. he's some wisdom from cnn's gloria borger,part of a panel on anderson 360. >> i was talking to a senior white house official today who said, look, forecast you look at this down the road, we have other land mamarkses that are cp in november and again in december. he said, look, this could frame the debate for the white house for 2012. if the republicans are only for cuts and entitlements and not for any kind of revenue, that's something that our public opinion show the public duh not support. >> and by the way, i was on that panel. you probably saw me there late last night. i haven't slept all that much since then. i

we have rob marciano now.ny people who are not getting out. how much time do they have to get out of here? >> reporter: they have today. they have all day today. the winds and rains will start to encroach tonight. today is the day to head to higher ground. that is the technique on long island. if you asked everybody in the coastal areas to head for the mainland, you would talk about a serious traffic problem on the bridges. some people are doing that if they have friends and relatives inland. for the most part in the evacuation zone, in nassau and suffolk county, that is 300,000 people to evacuate. after 5:00 p.m., you will not get much help by officials. we have seen some of that. we saw some businesses boarding up here on long beach. even during a decent winter storm will flood. you get a hurricane and people are curious, if not concerned. they have taken precautions as the storm begins to approach. over my left shoulder, this is the beach. it is a flat beach. it is different from the ones you see down in th

for more on tropical storm emily, we're joined by rob marciano. ow is it looking and where is it going? >> it's not going anywhere right now. the latest advisory from the national hurricane center shows it to be stationery. at one point it was moving westerly at 16 miles per hour, just booking along in the eastern caribbean, and now it's hit the brakes. basically what's happening is the center is redeveloping in another spot. you're seeing quite a bit of convection, thunderstorms around the center there. so that would indicate strengthening, but the air kroft that has been flying in there all morning is not reporting any sort of good organization or strengthening as far as the winds are concerned. . but regardless , the rain will e a huge issue. here is the forecast tresk. we don't take to hurricane strength, as a matter of fact, it may have a hard time getting over the mountains of hispaniola, but what gives us because and uncertainty as we get towards friday and saturday, obviously the continental u.s., southern bahamas, potentially the southeast

. >>> let's go to rob marciano live from atlanta. good morning. >> good morning. we think he was wearing a tie. if he's a hijacker he should be well dressed. we're looking at flight delays out of atlanta and new york. thunderstorms could be strong. afternoon thunderstorms possible. or really evening in boston. d.c., philadelphia and some in orlando. july let's wrap it up, fourth warmest on record for the u.s.. average 24 hour temperature was 77 degrees. it did not cool off at night and that was really what hurt the most. 2.7 degrees above the average for the past 100 years. oklahoma and texas the warmest they've seen on record. exceptional drought, largest footprint for exceptional drought that we've seen since we had the trout monday for more the past 12 years. hot, hazy and humid across the southern plains including texas. thunderstorms in the eastern third of the country. the heat will continue in through dallas and oklahoma. you see that footprint starting to shrink just a little bit as we get closer to the weekend. they will break that long time record. also

everybody wanted him. >> rob marciano is here.teased heat advisory, hot weather in the midwest, rob is here to tell us what it means, hi, rob. >> good morning, again. we're looking at more heat across the southern plains. sounds like a broken record. they are tired of it for sure. places like texas through oklahoma in through kansas and remember don, we were talking about that for a few days, end of last week, completely died friday night and brought practically zero rain in texas. not only dealing with the heat, dealing with this ongoing drought as well with zero help from don. 103 in san antonio, 109 expected, the actual high temperature in dallas, doesn't include the humidity. goes up and over 110 easily. that's going to go on i think for the next couple days. as a matter of fact, it builds farther to the north where this front is not making very much progress to the south. that's where we're seeing thunderstorms pop up right now. and we'll see some thunderstorms later on in the day with a little weak front that's going to push

needs to be someone else who can swim from cuba to the florida keys and i think that person is rob marcianon do it, rob. >> he's going to the golf course instead. >> exactly. good morning. we are live from the pga championship at the atlanta athletic club in the backyard of cnn's worldwide headquarters. why not come here. it's on the cheap, right? they have new high-tech grasses using to battle the heat and lack of water the u.s. has been enduring across the south. we'll talk more about that in the next hour. meanwhile it was a rough night and afternoon across parts of the plains yesterday, especially in hitchcock county, nebraska. hail coming down. it was severe weather. bonanza that slid down across parts of oklahoma as well. some of the hail stones in spots up to golf ball size hail. dangerous stuff and compare that to a tennis ball approaching that as well. a bit more dangerous. nice to know. also knocked down some heat. 107. today will be day 40 of seeing 100 degree plus days in dallas. shreveport also seeing a record high of 106, austin 106 as well. there are only a couple counties th

. >>> rob marciano, what's going on in the tropics this morning? >> we've got action.ight with little fanfare or rainfall for texas. that didn't help the drought situation there. and this system which we think will become a tropical depression or storm here in the next day or two, aircraft en route to check it out, is just to the east of the -- of the windward and leeward islands, heading toward the northern caribbean. this will be a threat to places like puerto rico and the dominican republic and potentially the u.s., as well. if it becomes a tropical system, here's what our computer models are initially saying the track could be here over the next handful of days. that means that folks in the u.s., along the florida and carolina coastlines certainly want to keep an eye right here. we'll keep you updated as this thing continue to develop. its name would be emily. >>> the other big story is the heat continues to sizzle and bake the southern plains. temperatures well up over 100. with the humidities it will feel like 115 in spots like dallas and oklahoma city. they cont

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rob marciano is in the extreme weather center in atlanta. so, any end in sight? >> well, what we need is a tropical system to come onshore. that's what we were begging for last week in don, completely fizzled and brought virtually no rain to texas. that's strikeout number one. we're hoping emily can bring something to the southeast that can use the rain. tropical storm emily in the eastern caribbean, this larger dhan don but still has obstacles to undergo. islands that may get in the way of this thing. the forecast track, it will skim san juan, some rain there, maybe a little wind. get over hispaniola and that may tear it apart, at least limit its development because of the mountains there, and get somewhere into the southern bahamas, florida is in the realm of possibilities, as is the carolinas and georgia as we get towards the weekend. so this is going to be of great concern. if it develops stronger into a category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane wouldn't be good, but a weak tropical system we'll take that. here's your heed advisories all over. 109 in dallas, 111 in oklaho

. >> to rob marciano. always amazes me after the hurricane blows over, what a beautiful day arrives afterward. >> it can also be really, really hot when the sun comes out. it has been pleasant, dry and low levels of humidity, but the waters in many areas still rising. one such place the passaic river west of here in new jersey one of our affiliates wabc had their chopper up and showing some of the flooding and preparations. in boontown, about 20 miles west of manhattan. the suburbs here where they're making preparations for this river which is forecast to crest later this morning through this afternoon. you see some of the rushing waters there. a little bit ragged video but those were live, forgive us for that. passaic river expected to crest today. all the rivers in vermont have crested but the damage done there. and we still have flood warnings out down the connecticut river valley from massachusetts into connecticut proper as the water tries to evacuate out into long island sound. let's show you what's

we want to check in with our rob marciano.in new york on long beach in particular this morning. give our viewers an idea, maybe haven't been watching throughout the morning, but how things have progressed and changed there. the conditions have changed for you over the past several hours. >> well, we're in the in-between stage, t.j. about an hour ago, we had a pretty good squall come through. probably the first of many feeder bands that will spiral in. we've got a little front that will act to steer the storm a little bit and that will help intensify those bands as they come in. but right now, we're in a bit of a dry spot. but, there you go, the surfers are out there, the guys that want to get on tv are out there, and the waves roll in. big sets of them too. and the surfers out here have been takie ing advantage of it. this on any other day is a surfing community. as a matter of fact, they were going to have a huge surfing competition this coming weekend. that has since been canceled. this place, believe it or not, no stranger

let's go to rob marciano. what is happening in vermont? what should they expect? >> not going to get any more rain but their riskers in most cases are still rising, most of them will crest this afternoon or tonight, and that sort of terrain, they rise quickly as we've seen and also fall relatively quickly as well. the rainfall amounts we see here are tremendous for sure, but keep in mind a lot of these totals came in between 12 and 18 hours, that's a lot of rain over saturated ground in a short period of time. monroe, 9.26, newark, almost 8 inches, laguardia seeing over 5 inches as well. new hampshire and vermont, you get just a little further north and west of the coastline and that's where the most rain fell and we're seeing the most damage. elizabeth county, new hampshire, 6.6 inches, platsburg, 6.35, and milds bury and burlington, the biggest and largest cities in vermont, we're seeing over 6 inches of rain. marketville, new york, seeing a tremendous amount of rainfall. these are mountainous areas. these towns will see creeks and rivers rise quickly and barrel

rob marciano is on long island for us. had a picture of you a moment ago before we came to you during our tease into the break, and you were just kind of walking up and down the beach. is this a nice day to just go out for a stroll on the beach? >> reporter: it's starting to spin a little bit, winds picking up. it's cloudy so i wouldn't be out here just catching some rays for sure, but there are quite a few onlookers just coming to check out the surf. it's pretty impressive. check it out behind me. you know, as a kid i'd go to the beach quite a bit down the road at jones beach. i thought maybe one day i'd cover a hurricane out here. but i figured it would be closer to montauk. i never thought a potential had hurricane would get this close to new york city. nonetheless, this is it the spot where surfers hang out any day of the summer. but when you get big waves like this, they're coming out in masses. i'm told there's some force behind those waves and some don't all like riding in it. there's a dozen or so out there right n

rob marciano, you've got a move like that. >> i learned from jimmy super fly.he squirrel has a little more finesse involved and i do like it. speaking of finesse, trying to get this thing going and i say that again positively because we need rain not only texas, which we didn't get any with don, we could stand some in the southeast u.s. and tropical storm emily has a chance of getting there. but right now we're looking at a center that's right about there, about 260 miles to the southeast of san juan. and the latest aircraft recon has 40-mile-an-hour winds and slowly getting itself together. it has room to grow. we do expect heavier rains from san juan up through parts of hispaniola, but that's land tends to tear storms apart because of mountains. tropical storm getting over hispaniolale hispaniolale. friday and saturday morning, notice the column does include the entire peninsula of florida, also includes georgia and the carolinas. this is where things get very uncertain. days four and five. so just bear with us as we update that forecast tomorrow. but certain

rob marciano, setting records all over the place, aren't we? >> we may see another round of cheerleading late this week when emily gets a little closer to the u.s. a little bigger than don was. hope it holds together. it has obstacles to undergo. hurricane hunter aircraft will get there in the next hour or two to check it out, but right now winds 40 miles per hour, moving pretty rapidly to the west at 16 miles per hour. this is the forecast it will skim puerto rico, bring heavy rain there, get over hispaniola, pretty mountainous there, may knock down the intensity a little bit. here's the forecast track for the national hurricane center. brings it to the southern bahamas friday as a weak tropical storm and somewhere into southern florida or the carolina or georgia coastline over the weekend. some uncertainty as we get towards days four and five as always. be aware of that. if we can bring it onshore anywhere in florida or the carolinas or southeast as a weak tropical storm, we'll take it. we need the rain. it's always like playing with fire. sp

he doesn't own it. >> interesting. >>> rob marciano, one of his favorite songs, in the extreme weatherter. hello, rob. >> i always -- >> everybody likes it, everybody tells you they don't put it down on their list of favorite songs but it's like neil diamond and "abba," everybody's favorite. >> i never knew who the lead singer was. i thought maybe it was the indian chief, construction worker. >> i think that's what ali's favorite was, was the construction worker, right? >> i loved them all. i was equal opportunity. >> for halloween if you would be one of the four, which would it be? >> i'm not going to -- >> best you move on to weather. this conversation is going somewhere bad. >> what's going on in the caribbean south of key west, we've got a tropical wave that is moving quickly to the west. that's the good news, because the faster it moves and gets into the central america, the less time it has to develop. it's got some obstacles to get over before it develops. we're watching it closely and it may get into something more interesting over the next couple days. the guidance from our co

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rob marciano is in the extreme weather center. good morning, rob. >> good morning, guys. that heat and lack of rain, obviously, exacerbated the draught situation. we've been keeping what's called the drought monitor for about 12 years now and this deep, deep red that you see here that's what we call exceptional drought. that's the most extreme drought conditions and this is the largest footprint that we've ever seen encompassing a huge percentage of the lower 48. that gives you an idea of how much this heat has really affected the drought situation there. the heat continues although the footprint for the advisories and watches has shrunk a little bit. that's encouraging, although if you live in dallas, it's not all that encouraging. 108 is what we expect to see today for a high temperature. are we going to cool down, break that record of 42 days in a row of 100 degree plus days. tomorrow we're up to 106. do we cool down at all come thursday? not really. looks like we will especially as we get towards friday and saturday and next week we'll probably cool down a little bit.

we'll have the details coming up. >>> i'm rob marciano.florida, some visitors there grot a bit of a shock. lightning danger. we'll talk about that in the next hour. >>> i'm breanna keelor in atkinson, illinois, p population about 1100. and the residents here are lining up to ask president obama some questions in it a town hall meeting later today. what do they want to ask him about? jobs, of course. i'll have that coming up. >> thanks, guys. >>> also next hour, an iowa tea partier confronts president obama and the video goes viral. we'll talk with ryan rhodes about his chat with the commander in chief. ♪ [ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down on drinking and riding. drive sober, or get pulled over. but not in my neighborhood. ♪ [ female announcer ] we're throwing away misperceptions about natural gas vehicles. more of the vehicles that fuel our lives use clean american natural gas today. it costs about 40 percent less than gasoline, so why aren't we using it even more? start a conversation about us

rob marciano is in the weather center for us.weather going on across this country. >> state of texas would take a tropical system right now, as you mentioned record drought, record fire season, record heat and winds today are creating red flag warning and critical fire danger for those areas in oklahoma and texas dealing with the fires not to mention what's going on in the intermountain west. temperatures well into the 90s, some cases over 100, that doesn't help the folks there in texas. but there is something that's trying to develop in the gulf of mexico over the weekend, which may bring some rain to texas but then again may bring it to florida, we don't know yet. another quiet day across the northeast for the cleanup and recovery effort there. that's been the only bright spot in the past couple days. not so bright spot, tropical storm katia, this is almost a hurricane. winds now of 65 miles an hour. expected to become a hurricane in the next day or two. moving rapidly to the west/northwest at about 20 miles an hour. here's the

rob marciano in the extreme weather center.'t think there's anybody out there who can hear somebody stealing an air conditioner in times like this and the fatality of an elderly woman and scoundrels would make a horrible situation worse. we're going to have another hot day there, aren't we? >> we are. pow power plants at the brink, taking retired power plants and put them back on-line to give this area enough juice. they're going to need it another couple days. heat indices up. there's pockets especially north and east of nebraska where temperatures have subsided somewhat. but south of there, it's warm. wichita falls you continue your streak of 100 plus degree days. mcalister seeing 108, dallas, oklahoma and austin seeing record-breaking high temperatures again yesterday. we may see them again today. we don't cool down much. 108 in dallas. 110 in oklahoma city. these temperatures are not heat indexes. this is what's measured in the shade. doesn't include humidity. 107 in dallas. we cool down a degree maybe another degree on sun

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rob marciano, who i just heard says he's rolling with it, having a little issue with the maps.t this is all about. >> i love live tv. i want to show you this cool animation, describe for you what's going to be happening with the sun. a lot of you are familiar with the solar cycle. eleven-year minimum/max maugham. now we're approaching a maximum. there's reason to believe that this one may be fairly intense. we had a good solar flare and a coronal mass ejection over the weekend. if you live in the northern latitudes you saw the northern lights. magnetic forces in the sun get active and emote pro-trons and neutrons and send them towards the earth about 1 million miles an hour. two, three days later they get involved in the earth's magnetic field and eventually some of those particles make they're way into the upper atmosphere, and interact with that upper atmosphere and that's where you get the -- the aurora borealis. which is the good stuff. the bad stuff is, this can do damage, if it's strong enough, across -- across the -- the u.s., and the rest of the world, as fars the elect

rob marciano, poppy harlow and elizabeth cohen owl in new york. jason carroll is in atlantic city, jersey. let's get the latest on the path that irene is going to be taking away from north carolina. let's check in with jacqui jeras first in our hurricane headquarters. then we'll head up to new jersey. >> we'll go ahead and tell you where the storm is and where it's going to be going. it's in the pimlico sound right now. up through the cape area, towards new york city tomorrow, into boston by tomorrow afternoon. and then making its way all the way into canada. and it will be finally done with it here as we head into monday. there you can see some of those big waves which have been pushing into the area. we've also been seeing big rain amounts. in fact, flooding could ultimately end up being the biggest story for a lot of folks who live just a couple of miles inland. we're getting as much as 3 inches an hour in some of these areas and the threat of tornadoes. you can see the tornado watch which extends near philadelphia all the way down to virginia

rob marciano is in one spot where there's a lost concern. >> tell us what's going on there.f irene? >> absolutely. they're getting it right now. the wind is blowing this rain sideways. we've had winds gusting over 60 miles an hour. the center of this thing is still over 100 miles south of us. how do we know that? you point to left, that's where it is. it's heading in this direction. landfall expected sometime between 9:00 a.m. and noon. obviously the winds will be increasing as it does so. already it's taken down trees along long island. they are reporting over 180,000 poem without power at this time. less on the coastline. we have power here. shrubbery, trees lower and less, of course. the coast may have the power outages later on today. we have huge waves. as the sun comes up, you'll be able to see just exactly what i'm talking about. yesterday we were talking show you protective berms that have been built up 12, 15 feet high. many of those have already been breached. we're still over two hours away from high tide, water beginning to fill underneath this board walk and int

and rob marciano is on long island. we'll check in with all of them. north carolina's outer banks are getting battered by irene's fury. gusty winds and rain are hammering kill devil hills. we have david mattingly getting whipped up by the storm right now. >> every hurricane that comes through is unique. it has its own special qualities and always remembered by certain things. this storm is going to be remembered by its size and its duration. right now, we have now been rained on for about 22 straight hours. about 20 straight hours of tropical storm force winds. now i'm feeling some strongest winds of this storm yet. this hurricane is not done with the outer banks and north carolina by any stretch of the imagination. we have been watching the surf all day long. there hasn't been that much of a problem with storm surge from the atlantic ocean. but what he wiwe are bracing fo what we have seen to the south of here is when this storm moves out, and all these strong winds that you see around me right now, it is going to shift and it is going to pull and pus

you heard rob marciano mention it across new york city and long island. there's really no time left for you to get out of the way. let's talk a little bit about impact and how strong these winds are. the tropical storm force winds extend out 260 miles from the center of the storm. so as we take a look at this map, this shows you who's going to be impacted. we're talking about 40 million people in the u.s. are going to be impacted by 50-mile-per-hour winds or greater. we'll zoom in, there you can see the strongest of winds are expected into the eastern carolinas, and then as we head on into the northeast, you can see a couple of those peak areas where they're going to get a little bit stronger, and then we're going to see it here. and this is all based upon the current forecast track, which, by the way, has been looking very good so far. it's really following what we thought it was going to do, at least over the last 24 to 48 hours. so there you can see, through connecticut, just west of providence, through massachusetts, just east of the boston area, on u

i know rob marciano because i like to stump the weather man every morning, you know all about this. >the shark -- i just know you should stay away from the sharks. and i -- >> pretty much what you need to know. >> problems last time she tried this was the amount of waves and strong current that goes through the florida straits. that may be a bigger issue. i don't think there's any way to stop that. it can go two, three, four miles an hour at times. she will be traversing this area and this thing is going to want to scoot it off to the east. what temperatures are probably might prefer it to be cooler, they will be 85, 86, even 87 degrees in this area. so, that is certainly on the realms of bath water. hazy, hot and humid continues across parts of texas. day 38 of 100 degree plus temperatures expected and dallas and severe thunderstorms some of which are popping across the midwest. 108 yesterday in little rock. keeps our -- joplin, 107 and texarkana seeing similar numbers and heat advisories for dallas and oklahoma city and back to the same spot. the heat wave continues. it will be 106

. >>> rob marciano is joining us again.d, baby. >> reporter: they started off strong, guys. he was looking sharp. he got out on the course and got it to 2 or 3 under quickly. then he said he started relying on his feeler, going out and forget about mechanics. he said maybe he's not at that point yet. we'll see what he does today. the other news is rory mcilroy injured his wrist earlier and managed to tough it out. he plans to be on the range in a few minutes. tee-off time is at 8:30. we'll see if that wrist is aaffected and if he'll even go out and play. we talked about the greens. there was slight damage to 14 and 17. ken magnum spoke with the media yesterday and addressed that issue. >> everything's fixed, everything is fine. it will not bother the tournament this week. it's like cutting yourself with a razor on your wedding day. >> reporter: their hearts were in it as well. it's going to be ground repair which does affect play. if your ball is near or in in that area you can move it somewhere else on the green so that ma

>>> rob marciano is in the extreme weather center. rob, you a beer man, wine man? times, i like to drink the good stuff but in the morning it's coffee. at least it was yesterday. check out the numbers right now as far as day time totals for rainfall we saw yesterday. that had drive you to drink! willow, with the rain across the northeast and another is damp and dreary day. parts of connecticut seeing almost 5 inches and northern new england also getting into the record books with 24-hour day time records. rotating around this area of low pressure is way up here is the moisture that has been peppering much of upstate new york throughout the past couple of days and spin down into the more populated areas and eventually spin out but it will hang around good enough time for today. severely thunderstorms possible in the spots we saw them yesterday except further east. bismarck got hit with high winds and heavy rain. quiet across the south with the exception of thunderstorm that will see thunderstorms at times. may delay you flying out of miami and orlando. low clouds an

five people died and more than 50 others hurt. >>> rob marciano in the extreme weather center. gust. >> clearly the stage set up and safety people aren't talking to each other on the other side of the pond here. to have those two incidents to happen within a week of each other. >>> ill defined fronts are hanging around and those are the focal point for thunderstorms popping up from time to time. not quite as strong as what we saw last night. first off the thunderstorms that you saw that you're seeing right now to the east of philadelphia those are moving offshore. a couple of sprinkles in new york city. severe thunderstorm through pittsburgh and complex that moved through omaha last night. that's now moving south of st. louis. also weakening. we had record highs over a hundred degrees in phoenix. you would expect that but 112 this time of year when you get the monsoon that is weird and temperatures up well over a hundred degrees yesterday in dallas, texas, houston, and also southern parts of louisiana. 107 the expected high temperature in dallas today. so we're back on the train

let's head to the weather center now and check in with rob marciano.this tropical storm right now? >> we have go two things to be concerned with the heat for one. more heat advisories out today again. a slew of states and counties under the gun over 20% of the u.s. will see temperatures that will exceed over a hundred as far as the heat indexes go. these are the records from yeerday. little rock, arkansas, 114 as ed mentioned. tulsa 113. 15 records tied yesterday and 147 broken of unreal heat. are we going to see a break? not today. 110 expected in dallas. tomorrow, cool down to 10. how about saturday? not much better. there are indications that next week, this hot ridge will begin to break down but until then, three, four, maybe another five days of the heat. here you go. tropical storm emily. nearly stationary as of 8:00 advisory about a hundred miles south of port au prince haiti. a tremendous amount of rain in the mountainous areas and they don't need and prompt mudslides and dangerous situation and suffering country for sure. here is the forecast

rob marciano, we better figure out ways to live with it. >> we're into august now and august especially as we get in the next couple weeks is cooler than july. folks across the northeast, you're done with the heat at least. folks who live in atlanta, it's not quite done yet. we're not out of the heat advisories that have been plaguing much of the south. that has been reserved for folks who live dallas to oklahoma city where temperatures right now feel like they're well up over 90 degrees. but they'll get into the 100s easily. wichita falls have had a streak of 100s. these are some of the more populated areas. we'll probably see similar numbers. may cool down a touch. 10 108 expected high in dallas. tomorrow we cool it down to 107. keep in mind these temperatures are measured in the shade. and these don't and you can about humidity. 106 expected in dallas. the longer term effects here, try to break down the ridge. we'll do that a little bit as we get towards next week. the northeast will see the cool air, the western great lakes, as well, and we'll try to squash it. that enmoose the temp

we'll check in with rob marciano for the latest on this storm's track. [ male announcer ] this is coachn-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ >>> tropical storm emily is raising a lot of concerns, particularly in haiti because it's already unleashing heavy rain there. hundreds of thousands of haitians are still living in tents and makeshift shelters after last year's earthquake. on the phone with us right now, journalist ito gown, give me an idea of what you're seeing and experiencing. >> reporter: so far everything is quiet, as of yesterday when people expected the storm to hit, the stores closed early and markets did open a little later, so a lot of people did stock up. but as of yesterday afternoon and into late last night into early this morning, so far nothing, so we're just bracing for the worst or whatever's coming. >> so no rain as of yet? the biggest fears are with people living still in tents, still living really in dire straits, is a large concern

we check in with rob marciano. tell me this is not happening, really, really? >> not only do we have to deal with katia but potentially another system closer to home. >> hitting the u.s.? >> potentially. tropical storm katia, 65-mile-an-hour winds, it's been organizing in the past day, increasing in intensity up until the last advisory where it's been held below tropical storm strength but it's pretty far away from the lee ward islands, about 1,000 miles from the land mass. that's the the good news. the bad news it's heading in our direction. it does become a tropical, a hurricane strength 1, category 2 on friday, category 3 over the weekend and maybe making a northerly jog, couple decent cold fronts coming away from the u.s., it may steer it away from the u.s. but it's way too early. be on your guard east coast for the potential of katia. this thing getting into the gulf of mexico this ek would understand. some of the models taking it away from etexas, some of it bringing it spin sunday, monday or tuesday as a stronger storm, maybe even a hurricane potentially

cnn meteorologist rob marciano joins us live. rob, any news on when it will dry out up there?today, more so tomorrow, then a bit more rain. the problem is here, a lot of these spots got two months' worth of rain in one day, hemp p stead, long island, saw a tremendous amount of rainfall, backed yards, driveways, secondary streets flooded. also down in baltimore, they had problems, the baltimore d.c. parkway seeing some issues, amtrak shut down for a time. and this is from the rainfall from yesterday morning, doesn't include what happened the day before that. and a sinkhole from sunday's rain in staten island, concord, staten island. there's the sinkhole because the water around the sewer pipes was leaking, causing problems there. all sorts of issues with the rainfall that's been around the northeast. these are the latest totals just from sunday to monday, jfk, 7.8 inches of rainfall, laguardia -- remember, august gets about 3.6 for the whole month. there you go, two months' worth of rain in just one day. what are we seeing now? little bit of rotation around the back side of thi

our own rob marciano who is a golfer, but shouldn't be golfing in this weather, i suppose. >> you canetup indoors. >> we were just talking about this last week, when will it end? >> yeah. >> we were hoping this week we would see the ridge break down and see temperatures cooler than they are, but not a whole lot. not certainly enough to brag about. little rock records, 108. that broke the 106. joplin. springfield, and everyone up and over 100. dallas is at day 37 and today would be the 38th day in a row of seeing 100-degree plus and now there's a suburb outside of dallas that their small reservoir has completely run dry. so this has turned into a serious situation. heat indices, of course, in the orange and pink highlighted areas and that's where you can see temperatures that will feel like they're well up over 110 and 115. when you talk about the forecast high temperature for dallas today that doesn't include humidity, 106 and we don't get cooler tomorrow. it doesn't look like it until we get later in the week and toward the weekend and even through wednesday it looked like dallas wou

i talked to rob marciano on the tweet he said maybe iceland. they can keep turning to the right. you get up here to georgia and the carolinas, the wind aloft is from the west so that's why it keeps wanting to turn to the right because the wind comes from the west. if you've been to the british virgin islands the wind is from the east that's why hurricanes come from the wind, the trade winds.

canceleded thousands of flights to kind of, you know, catch up from that, and in fact, our own rob marcianoere for you tomorrow, and it might be me once again, because he can't get a flight back. so there you go. and san francisco i mentioned and miami and denver, and also expecting some delays because of that, and something to think about as you are traveling across the roadways, there is a lot of water out there, and a lot of the roads have been washed out and bridges have been washed out. this impacts the i-95 corridor all throughout the interior. so if you are trying to travel a across the country, call ahead. at love t t lot love -- a lot o have 511 number to call, because there are issues on the roadways. major flooding going on across a dozen states here from north carolina all of the way throughout new england, and a lot of the rivers have crested and a few haven't, and that is going to happen this afternoon, and the flash flooding e haven't has started to go down, but the cleanup is a long time, too. and kyra, something else to think about, there are power lines that are down and b

you guys might be stuck with me again tomorrow, because rob marciano can't make his way from new york city back to atlanta, so it's affecting all of us. >> i wouldn't say stuck. and maybe some people are taking the train. how is that looking? >> everything is moving for most of the trains, and the subway system is back open and operational, and making a lot of progress. there are a lot of trees that came down. you can see power lines that came down, so it will take a couple of days for some of the lines to open back up, and it's my understanding most of the majors are back up and moving. >> good to see them making progress there. jacqui jeras, thank you very much. >>> and folks just like you sending in pictures. log on to cnn.com for more information and images on irene's impact. you can find it all at cnn.com. >>> here are some of the other stories we're keeping an eye on today. remember the cash for clunkers program? the guy behind that idea is alan krueger, he would replace austin goolsbee who decided to leave in june. >>> and then good news for the economy. a new report says perso

. >>> and we want to go to rob marciano, who is dealing with all of this extreme heat, and are we going to cool down at all? >> well, you know, we're almost done with august. that would help. >> as far as the heat is concerned the other town that's dealing with heat-related drought is kemp, texas, which doesn't have water because of the drought. and, because their pipes are so stressed and old, that they've got a leak. so what little water they have, they're not being able to tap, and so, this has happened before in years past. now they're breaking out the bottled water. so the hits just keep on coming for our friends in texas. and this is the latest. oklahoma and texas was the warmest month on record with the month of july. and for the u.s., it was the fourth hottest july on record. averaging 77 degrees across the country for a 24-hour period. that means we were not warming down -- or cooling down very much during the nighttime hours. that really is what puts the most stress on the body. dallas, oklahoma city, east to parts of southwestern arkansas, heat advisories again today. we're g