we also have three emergency shelters set up throughout the southern maryland area. specifically at area high schools. one of those lobbyings will also -- that's something else. they're right behind me in chesapeake bay, and we're we're expecting 6 to 8 feet in waves that may come up here along with a 3-feet storm surge along want chesapeake bay. this is going to be my right, and then to the left side of me is actually the patuxen. we're surrounded by a lot of water down here, and calvert county is the last county in the state of maryland that has only volunteer emts and firefighters. so anyone that comes out to help you in this area, all volunteer. we'll be here and responding to your calls. >> okay. michelle, thank you for giving us as the latest as a voluntary firefighter in princeton, maryland. look at noshgdz city right now, where you're looking at the harbor and lady liberty. they are feeling a bit of the rain there. it started in the area lightly. new york city is under a hurricane watch right now. we'll have more on that. we'll talk to christine quinn with an

the other thing is that while isabel was really centered along the western shore of the bay, southern maryland and the baltimore and washington metro areas, the real wrath of this storm was on the eastern shore, not to downplay what we're getting on this side of the bay but it's more sparsely populated over there. there's less raw numbers of customers to knock out over there. while we're certainly getting our share of damage over here, i think the fact that the highest winds and the highest floodwaters were over on the eastern shore means that perhaps we'll escape with a few less customer outages this time than we had back in 2003. >> we've been sort of talking about the power, the outward visible signs of things. what else do we know, ed? are you hearing from places particularly on delmarva about physical damage? buildings being knocked down, that sort of thing? >> we're hearing some reports -- most of the damage we're hearing is trees down into houses. there was a woman who was killed unfortunately in queen ann's county late last night when a tree crashed down into her home and apparently to

what is happening as far as the winds are concerned here with north carolina and extending into southern maryland and also philadelphia, we have heard a lot of reports of high wind gusts. and remember, that the hurricane is situated right down here, so we have a whiches to go, hours in fact, early morning hours before this system travels up the i-95 corridor, but we are seeing the winds coming in off of the atlantic, and the east/northea east/northeasternly fashion, and more toward boston we will see the winds out of the west/southwest, and the areas in the back bay will be in danger, too. and there are two parts of the hurricane, and i will show you one other thing right now, and that is we think as it moves an pulls away, here are the time lines we are looking at. right around, just off of washington, baltimore, towards atlantic city, we go towards 5:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m., in the vicinity of philadelphia. and towards new york city. heading on then to the south of bos ton going into sunday about midday, but what is in particular very interesting about this is that where you see the orange shaded are

so we hope they're out there being safe and we know the people in southern maryland appreciate all their efforts to get their power restored for sure. we'll talk to you in a bit. thanks, tom. >> bye-bye tom. over to jessica at rfk stadium where they brought out sandbags earlier today. a precious commodity in a lot of parts of our area. >> indeed. good afternoon to you both. it has been primetime here at lot 7 at rfk stadium. if you're looking for a sandbag, we have fresh information to bring you now. william howlland is the director of d.c. department of public work and you have new information for us. what is that in. >> we shut down the line for the sandbags. anyone waiting, we want to make sure they get through the line and get their five sandbags. we think the line, that will exhaust our supply. >> how long do you think it will take for the line of existing folks to get their sandbags and get home and sandbag the property they're concerned about? >> maybe an hour, maybe a little more than. >> this is a concern today, sandbagging for flooding. what about other concerns you have lookin

now, in southern maryland, a little harder hit than we had anticipated, and we're going to be digging out for a while. >> governor, i'm looking at some of the data here, expecting about 12 inches of rain when it's all said and done, and you've got nearly 800,000 people without power. at's it going to take in terms of how long before you get that power restored? >> well, we don't have an estimate on that yet, but i can tell you this, david, before the big snowstorm, snowmageddon, we had -- or rather, at the peak of it, we had about 300,000 people out of electricity. today, as it stands right now, we have 800,000 out. so, this is going to be a long effort, and we're just going to need to keep working at it. i do want to say, though, that craig fugate and the people at fema, secretary napolitano and president obama, they have been excellent. they have been with since day one, and actually, before the stm arrived, they were here, and it's worked really, really well. this is a much better fema than the olden days. >> all right. and the olden days not that old, only about six yrs ago. gover

the favorite track is right along the jersey and maryland coastline and up into southern new england. that would bring the storm surge over the top of southern new england in a significant way come early sunday morning into sunday afternoon. and as far as our forecast, this is just one of our computer models. there is the storm down here, and we can track it up the coast. you can kind of see how our many computers are projecting it with the center right along the jersey shore as we go throughout sunday morning. this is a storm system that will be affecting just millions of people on i-95 and knocking power out to thousands, if not millions, as we go throughout this storm. so as far as the last, one last little map here to show you where the computer models are. we still have a track far to the east as boston and providence, and as far west as the chesapeake, that's why the hurricane center right now has it many coming over long island. we're still three days away. as we get closer, we'll narrow this area of impact, but you need to be preparing now from midatlantic up to new england. p

on msnbc and the weather channel, the rain started here, where we are, on the very southern tip of the eastern maryland shore, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 11:00 in the morning, maybe 10:00 a.m. and it was just relentless all day. and until probably like i said, 3:30 in the morning and now we've just got a little bit of spitting action at us. but it is a very slow-moving storm. so as it now parks itself over new york and new england, it's going to be a long 24 hours of just sustained heavy rain. >> how about folks that tried to ride that out in ocean city? did you have many people that were defying evacuation orders? and anybody looking back thinking, oh, god, i shouldn't have done that? >> you know, honestly, it's been a ghost town. we've seen no one here. now the police tell us that three people in the greater area, decided to weather it and stay the course. but we haven't seen them. i mean it has been absolutely empty here. one tow truck driver drove by last night looking at the damage. i wonder why he was on the streets, because the police were not on the streets, they had been ordered of

underachieved with the wind gusts it was windy in eastern north carolina, as it went up the maryland, jersey coast, southern new england, we have not seen the winds forecasted. if you averaged it all out it was a slightly underachieving hurricane. some people didn't have the power go out and have a tree fall on their house, but that neighbor who saw their house smashed probably thinks it's the worst storm ever. >> you got that right. thank you very much. let's head out to long beach, long island. peter alexander is driving through that area. he's on the phone with us. peter what are you seeing there? >>> we've been driving for most of the last hour. we spent our morning at coney island where the eye came over us, for the last hour or so we've been driving 18 miles to the east to scan out and give you a perspective of what the rest of this area looks like. long beach, you should know, is one of the outer islands, barrier islands for long island here in new york. to be honest with you, we have seen scattered trees down over the course of the day, but in the last hour or so we have not seen much damage, which

and you can see some clouds starting to reach the southern portions of jersey and spreading through portions of maryland. we have storm surge and flooding rains and there is the threat with this storm system for some tornados. some of the outer rain bands could produce some tornados of some of the -- as some of the thunderstorms rotate. virginia beach is currently under a tornado watch. this watch is in affect until 11:00 a.m. this morning. we have another watch across the eastern portions of north carolina. that is in affect until 5:00 a.m. this morning. and there is currently a tornado warning across portions of north carolina. i do want to point out some tornados have touched down. one in beuford county and there was a preliminary report that there were injuries with that one. we will keep you updated on that. sustained winds at 90 miles an hour. the forecast track, not that many changes. we are still looking at rainfall across the outer banks. as we head to 9:00 a.m., so still six more hours to go. reports out of eastern north carolina of as much as six inches. we are talking total accumulations up

i am hole would nup my home in southern new hampshire and steady rain and waiting for this thing to pass. you know from maryland on up in that area, as you said. they had a crack four feet long in the washington monument and sealing it up thursday and friday. >> national cag cath to protect it during this. >> this is new york city which is usually, on a saturday night and sunday. even all night long it is bustling with people. times square is fill now a ghost town. >> i live on the other side of the river in jersey. i am always missing out on the city life. for a city that is never sleeping, it is eeriely sleepy quiet. the winds are stiff. the mayor said it is not the time to evacuate. >> it is only going to get worse. >> we'll take a quick break. we are tracking hurricane irene all night long and in the morning. we'll bring you all of the latest updates on the winds and rains and tornados and yes, the twisters as the storm continues to sourge and vice admiral parker will join us. atlantic admiral for the coast guard and we'll get more information from him when we come back. ural gas, whether it can be done saf

rain and that is happening across much of the eastern part of the maryland and pushing toward philadelphia and northern half of the southern new jersey. now we've seen the first bands moving toward long island and right here, we're starting to see another one and more and more as times goes on. flash flooding in boston because it had some big -- first bands moving through. we've been talking about models, latest runs are coming in kind of separating into two camps but two camps close together here. once again, explain the difference of it. far western areas of long island by the time it makes the land fall tomorrow morning. >>> you are thinking east of the city? >> i think it will be just barely east of the city. if not the city. even brooklyn or something like that, j.f.k. could see the center come on shore. that is a real possibility. western long island or the city. >> shep: we'll keep watching you we expected an update from the hurricane center, rick riechmuth fox news chief meteorologist. we're working 18-hour shifts today. diabetes testing? what else is new? you get the blood, hope it's enough, it's-- what's this? fr

southern california. my dad took a job with government back in maryland. we settled in utah. pretty normal upbringing. >> the bit i like about your early background which is not commonly known, is that you dropped out of high school to be a rock star. to be the next freddie mercury. that alone dispels all sports of rumors. >> as you can see it didn't work out so well. i did have the platform shoes and a lot of other things that show that we gave it best efforts. >> what was the name of your band? >> well, we had a lot of bands. but the last one, the good one was wizard. you laugh. >> well, there's another wizard of course. you had a competitor out there with a better name that had already been there. >> well, we tried. it was during that period of art rock, you know, classical rock, the days of emerson, lake and palmer. you know those bands well. wakeman was my hero, keith emerson was my hero and i was always raised to follow your dreams. go for it, go for the roses, be the best that you can be. i thought that we could make it in the music business. >> i wouldn't say that the

southerners who agreed with thexrights of the confederate. >> reporter: throughout the war, the symbols were displayed separately. >> and it wasn't until after cefb]j when marylandor$ the spanish-american war that mary landers felt like there was @hey had healed the wounds s civilrib war and part, seeing the image of their flag, with thecolors all together again, that helped bring those people back together. >> reporter: reunified flag was officially adopted by maryland in 1904. it's remained unchanged ever since. with flag facts, i'm kristen. to show you how to hand-stitch a baseball glove. >> i'm mike. >> i'm sienna. >> nice to meet you. >> how many piece rossin the table? >> there's 2 3 2 pieces that go into one glove. there's probably 16 that go on the outer portion and then on the inside there's a whole another 15. >> that doesn't look like it would fit my hand. >> well it will, eventually. i promise. and is the bottom part. this is where your hand goes into, so your hand would sit right like that when you're gonna catch a ball. >> high five. so what is the difference between a glove and a mitt? >> the major difference is the mitts are larger and they fit m

southern bucks county in outheast pennsylvania. and montgomery county. there is a lot of rotation. there could be a tornado on the ground. it is located cent miles from the south of ocean city marylandto track that center and it is located on the ocean. current temperatures are not warming up to be good for rapid intense casication . right fow in the 70s. it doesn't mean like it will not warm up rapidly. and because irene is a large hurricane, we are not expecting weakening. and as far save as cape hatteras. scen miles per hour. and north as philadelphia in the international airport. 52 miles per hour was reported. that is a large area to experience tropical storm force meisture. we had 14 inches of rain in north carolina. and all the way up to the southern portions of canada. it will cause all kinds of problems with flooding and the track of the storm system is expected to track in a north, northeast ward direction at cane miles per hour. it could be a landfall in western porgs of long island. and i think rainfall will be around 10 or 12 p.m. and that will o.k. cellerate northbound. and still a significant tropical storm. and heads to the new england. and 8:00 p.m. sunday and then

we're still thinking off ocean city, maryland, we're going to have 100 mile an hour winds. that's more than they're used to, in southern new jersey too. let me break down the timing. that's what everyone is wondering, what should i be doing what when? when do i need to get my supplies? first of all is the tropical storm force winds. once those are near you is when you stop doing what you're doing. tomorrow evening is when the storm force winds move through wilmington. saturday at 6:00 a.m., the area of red is the storm force winds. southern portions of north carolina, even south carolina, by saturday morning it's too late. you should be in your safe room and not moving anywhere. as we watch the landfall through saturday afternoon, eastern north carolina will be the worst of it. look how far to the north. by saturday evening southern new jersey could get tropical storm force winds. this is a huge storm. it's not intense like katrina was or rita or even andrew, but it's a huge storm size-wise, and that's why new york city you'll wake up sunday morning to tropical storm force winds while the hurricane is just off the coas

southern in that new hampshire, and pretty soon will be near burlington, vermont. on the back side, we're still watching tropical storm force winds capable through the chesapeake, maryland and areas of new jersey. that's why they're telling people to still stay inside. the storm itself is moving northward. what we're watching for is the yellow and orange bands. that's the greatest potential for falling trees and damage. let me get a closer view of that. you can see this band right here head fog man chester, new hampshire, that's where you could see power outages. that's probably the worst of is it as far as the winds. here's the winds. you're on the back side of this storm. you just gusted to 54 on the back side. that's pretty incredible stuff. 43 in boston. out of any big city, far away from the center, far away from the ocean, albany, new york, i'm sure we're losing viewers in the albany, schenectady area, and they pictures continue to come in. these boats are facing into the wind and waves for a reason. hopefully they can just ride this out. we are looking toward the tide going toward low tide. we had high tide from 7:00 to 9:00 this morning, and then we'll go back t

it will not weak fast enough to not do damage, it goes to the beaches of maryland and delaware and all of long island and southerncane, it will be very significant, a lot of water and a lot of rain and waves will do damage in the days ahead. the time to prepare is now and midday saturday, after that it will be too late. major rainstorm, and the biggest story will be the extreme tree damage and a lot of power outages that will last well into next week. there's a shot of what's coming our way. right now the worst is heading to nassau in the bahamas. you're watching "morning joe," brewed by starbucks. as much as i can about a company before i invest in it. that's why i like fidelity. they give me tools and research i can't get anywhere else. their stock screener lets me search for stocks with more than 140 criteria. i can see what their experts are thinking and even call them to bounce an idea off of one of their investment professionals. a good strategy relies on good insight. if you wanted to learn more about a company, i think you'd actually have to be there. ♪ >>> the first bank said, well, harry, you know, we h

house of a maryland confederate sympathizer who was the judge who was literally dragged off the bench in his courtroom, beaten bloody and uncshes by lincoln's goons for expressing his pro-southernentiments, thrown into fort mchenry, bun of these people without habeas corpus, writing letters to lincoln begging to know the charges against him and gets no reply at all, so, yeah, suscession presentation did happen in brutal ways, and it happened because lincoln was very aware that the capitol, the city of washington, could not be cut off. if that happened, it might really be game over for the north, and the very beginning of the war in the first weeks of the war, pro-confederate marylanders made a very concerted and very nearly successful effort to cut off washington in exactly that way, and i do think that lincoln's -- i don't hold lincoln up as a demagogue, but i think that his suspension of habeas corpus can be argued today, but i think he felt he had good reasons for doing what he did. >> thanks. >> i'll stay on this side and then come back over here. >> thank you. if you look into the heart and minds of the average american, not the studied historian, the average guy or gal wh

jersey, long island, new york city, southern parts of connecticut, though it is still windy, no more significant rainfall. last band of rain moving across parts of marylandof pennsylvania. we are about to be done with that. still significant flooding concerns. flooding pictures coming in have been dramatic that is going to continue. some of the rivers across areas of new jersey and upstate new york, parts of pennsylvania are going to be cresting near record levels. a lot of flooding across rivers especially in the springtime. we are going to be dealing with those kinds of situations across interior sections from so much rain. >> shepard: rick reichmuth, thanks. i was getting pictures in. it is my understanding from wsb, is that who this is from? marion, massachusetts, rick, maybe 10, 15 minutes ago this looked much worst. is the storm getting past in? >> the storm is well west of what you are seeing here. probably i would say 150 miles to the west of it. so much energy from such a big storm, we've been saying there would be storm surge not just right along island but up to narragansett bay, buzzard's bay, a lot of that energy move into the boston harbor

southern branch is the longer and the deeper, that should be the boundary. but his surveyors surveyed the northern branch, they made virginia bigger than the charter really stipulated. one of those -- and maryland challenged it. lord baltimore heard about this, challenged it. number of things delayed the challenge, and then we come to after the revolution, and now it's states going back and forth. but maryland face add problem after the revolution -- faced a problem after the revolution with challenging it because one of the surveyors many years back was a teenager really named george washington. [laughter] and george washington was the one mediating the dispute. [laughter] other things were disputed too, and so maryland said let's not do this part of the dispute right now. and so they didn't bring it up in front of george washington. then they tried bringing it up later, but, you know, by then it was too late because land had been deeded and sold by virginia along the north branch of the potomac. and once that starts happening, it's very difficult to get the supreme court to say, no, you're right, you know? all you people, you're in maryland now. so that in a nutshell is lord fairfax. yes, sir

looking in the southern part of aruba where robyn gardner's traveling companion said she disappeared. police say they didn't find anything in the new search. 35-year-old gardner of marylandseen on august 2nd. her companion, gary giordano is still in custody on suspicion of involvement in her presumed death. he says he's done nothing wrong. >>> serious violence at a football game. have you seen this video? >> san francisco 49ers fans and oakland raiders fans beating each other up. throwing fists back and forth in the stands. this was at a pre-season game this past saturday. candlestick park. it gets worse. two men were shot and wounded in the parking lot after the game. football here. one of the men being treated for life-threatening injuries, a police sergeant told local papers that the man was wearing a t-shirt with a derogatory comment about the 49ers. the second man suffered less serious wounds we're told and another ban beaten unconscious in a stadium mens room. police are investigating whether team rivalry is to blame for the incidents. >>> after a week of total volatility on the stock markets, stocks pushed higher today. let's take a look at all that green. that's

house of a maryland confederate sympathizer with a judge who was literally dragged off the bench in the courtroom, beaten bloody and unconscious by lincoln's kunes for expressing his pro southern sentiments come from and to fort mchenry, one of these people without habeas corpus writing letters to lyndon begging at least to know the charges are against him and he gets no reply at all. so yes, the suppression did happen with some very brutal ways, and it happened because lincoln was very aware that the capitol, the city of washington couldn't be cut off. if that happened it might really sort of be the game over for the north and the very beginning of the of war in those first weeks pro confederate maryland made a very concerted and jerry nearly successful effort to cut off washington and exactly in that way. i do think that lincoln -- i don't hold him up as a demagogue. i think that his suspension of habeas corpus can be argued about today but he certainly felt he had good reasons for doing what he did. >> i'm going to stay on this side because people have been lined up and then i will come back over here. >> thank you. >> if you look into the hearts and minds of the average am

house of a maryland confederate sympathizer with a judge who was literally dragged off the bench in the courtroom, beaten bloody and unconscious by lincoln's kunes for expressing his pro southern sentiments come from and to fort mchenry, one of these people without habeas corpus writing letters to lyndon begging at least to know the charges are against him and he gets no reply at all. so yes, the suppression did happen with some very brutal ways, and it happened because lincoln was very aware that the capitol, the city of washington couldn't be cut off. if that happened it might really sort of be the game over for the north and the very beginning of the of war in those first weeks pro confederate maryland made a very concerted and jerry nearly successful effort to cut off washington and exactly in that way. i do think that lincoln -- i don't hold him up as a demagogue. i think that his suspension of habeas corpus can be argued about today but he certainly felt he had good reasons for doing what he did. >> i'm going to stay on this side because people have been lined up and then i will come back over here. >> thank you. >> if you look into the hearts and minds of the average am

house of a maryland confederate sympathizer with a judge who was literally dragged off the bench in the courtroom, beaten bloody and unconscious by lincoln's kunes for expressing his pro southern sentiments come from and to fort mchenry, one of these people without habeas corpus writing letters to lyndon begging at least to know the charges are against him and he gets no reply at all. so yes, the suppression did happen with some very brutal ways, and it happened because lincoln was very aware that the capitol, the city of washington couldn't be cut off. if that happened it might really sort of be the game over for the north and the very beginning of the of war in those first weeks pro confederate maryland made a very concerted and jerry nearly successful effort to cut off washington and exactly in that way. i do think that lincoln -- i don't hold him up as a demagogue. i think that his suspension of habeas corpus can be argued about today but he certainly felt he had good reasons for doing what he did. >> i'm going to stay on this side because people have been lined up and then i will come back over here. >> thank you. >> if you look into the hearts and minds of the average am