dive yates farther south, especially into southeast -- deviates farther south, especially into southeast p.a. say philadelphia, that would be really bad for us. if it goes up to new york like new york city, just some showers and clouds for us. each of those lines represent a computer model forecast. a couple of them take it harmlessly out to sea, but you can see some con fluents taking it north and west. remember we're four days out. we won't be able to pinpoint it just yet. this would be a disasterous track by philadelphia. anything north of new york would be pretty much their problem. it would be a big problem for new england tuesday and wednesday this. storm reminds us a little of the perfect storm. here's more on that with erica grow. >> it's a very rare movement for a tropical system called retrograde and it looks familiar to new englanders who survived the perfect storm of 1991. the storm was so destructive and unusual that a book was written about it followed by the release of a movie starring george clooney. the perfect storm happened right around halloween in 1991. it was the result

so if it goes into southeast p.a., we'll be in a world of hurt. we'll come back and talk more about the timetable and scenarios. >> we should note for you sandy is already blamed for two deaths, one in haiti, the other in jamaica. the outer bands of the hurricane are hitting florida's atlantic coast now with some powerful waves and gusty wins and heavy rain. streets are -- winds and heavy rain. streets are being flooded by miami and officials are warning surfers stay out of the water in ft. lauderdale. >> if is a washing machine out there. -- it is a washing machine out there. you just get toss around, really severe rip currents. >> up the coast in melbourne residents are preparing for tropical storm force winds and flooding as the offshore hurricane moves north tonight and into friday. >>> the region's utilities are kicking in their emergency plans and urging customers to get ready. scott broom is at pepco headquarters with the latest on what we can expect. >> reporter: a short while ago i spoke with marcus beale, the spokesman at pepco. he told

it comes into the delmarva into southeast p.a. and northeast maryland. now we have winds 40 to 70 miles an hour and rainfall up to 8 inches. that will building the worst case scenario. there are still plenty of models that have it doing something between scenario four and three. we'll keep you posted. it's only friday and it is kind of an evolving system. the reason why hurricanes are so hard to track is there's very little in terms of the steering currents. in the fall and summer it's not so strong. we have to watch it and see if it makes this extreme left turn as we get into monday and tuesday. the time frame is the same, monday night into tuesday bringing us the highest winds and heaviest rains. we'll come back, talk about some preps you can do and the weekend. you'll be able to do some stuff over the weekend. it's not chamber of commerce, but it's not a washout. >>> pepco says it's already put out the call to bring in 2,500 repairmen from other parts of the country in addition to an extra 400 tree trimmers. ken molestina is live in potomac maryland.

if it takes this turn into southeast p.a., we'll have a much larger impact of the storm. again this is a tuesday event. it will start to affect us monday night and could continue to affect us through the early part of halloween. live weather cam brought to you by michael and son, this is nice, all the color now, 70, skies actually pretty much clear for the time being, winds easterly at 7. dew point is high. that tells you it's staying warm tonight. 66 in laytonville, 71 in rockville, 68 great falls, 70 in burke, 67 in fairfax and 70 in college park. we're monitoring sandy. we'll be doing that for a while. the threat is next week, mild tonight. grab your umbrella tomorrow, not a lot of heavy activity and getting cooler as we go through the week into the weekend. temps will keep going down. next three days, our 9 weather alert, green, yellow and yellow, seasonal friday, 68, a couple sprinkles, a couple showers saturday and sunday, temps going down, mid-60s saturday, low 60s sun. i think the little league games will be made tomorrow. bundle up, parents and take your umbrella

southeast coast. we get into sunday and monday, it starts to turn and make essentially a left turn over the delmarva and back into south central p.a. this is not the worse case scenario, but it's a bad scenario because the wind fields are so large. even at 2:00 tuesday winds are 65 miles per hour. so again even though it becomes a cold core storm the pressure may be lower as it makes this landfall over the delmarva and it may actually be stronger than it is now. right now look at the wind fields. look how big they are, 39 to 58 mile-per-hour winds yellow, 58 to 73 in orange and into the red you've got hurricane force wind. we'll see some tropical storm force winds buffet hatteras and norfolk virginia beach sunday evening and also buffet much of the delmarva sunday night and mound essentially back to i-90 -- monday essentially back to i- 95. shenandoah, probably no big wins for you until monday -- winds for you until monday night and especially on tuesday, but for us we'll feel the effects sunday night into monday and the real big time effects monday night into tuesday. sandy prep, check your batteries and flashlights, charge your