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heading back to washington, d.c. a day ahead of schedule. earlier he called irene a historic storm. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of the hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. we all hope for the best but have to be prepared for the worst. >> irene is on track to follow the northeast corridor right up to new england and beyond. cnn is there. reynold wolf is in new jersey, and athena jones is in annapolis, maryland. we will start here in the weather center with cnn meteorologist, chad meyers. chad, give us an idea of where irene is now. >> not too much changed overnight. the storm did get a little stronger, and as it got stronger, you could see the eye. at 2:00 in the morning, you could truly see the eye. now we don't see it anymore. that tells me the storm is being torn up by a little bit of sheer. it's still a 105-mile-per-hour storm. it will not say category 3 or 4 anymore, but don't let your guard down. if you think about what happened to andrew and hugo, they came straight in to the u.s. coast. straight in. there was nothing else affecting the storms, no wind or nothing to turn them. this storm was being pushed by wind the entire time it approached the u.s. east coast, and that caused the turn and a decrease in intensity of the wind and it caused the hurricane itself to be torn up a little bit. now the influence is over and it gets to go straight for a while. it has the potential to regain strength. by the time it hits north carolina, whether it's from almost wilmington, still offshore to cape hattious, see how the cone is getting closer, now north carolina you are in a small cone, and it looks somewhere between moorhead city, and atlantic beach, it's 105 miles per hour. and then if it's inland and it goes into the chesapeake bay, that could cause a surge into the bay, and then the track in the middle, looks like it will descend on the jersey shore, and straight on up and into the new york city area. to the east of there is where all the wind will be. that could be here, even though you may not get wind in massachusetts and connecticut, if it's further to the west, the spin is potentially making tornados for you which could cause just as much damage if not more than the hurricane itself. the storm has gone down a little bit. you will not see the 135 potential anymore, but don't let your guard down, think of what an 85-mile-per-hour storm would do over the city, and still has the potential to do a lot of damage monetarily and physically. >> and in the northeast corridor, we're talking about a lot more potential damage inland, not just hovering around the coast. >> that's correct. the tornados would be to the east of the eye, and back through here through the appellation chain, we could see 10 inches of rainfall in a come of five hours, and that could cause flooding along the western side of the eye as well. >> we will check back with you. let's see how people are bracing along the coastal cities. let's go to the barrier islands there where reynold wolf is. they are used to this kind of drill. what is different this time? >> reporter: at this point, you could not tell it's a bad time in terms of the rough weather. it looks like a tranquil day. a few white caps here and there, but most tranquil. if you pan around a little bit more in this direction, you see clear of the beach, not a soul. that's an amazing thing in itself, here we are in august on a great summer afternoon, and you would expect there would be all kinds of people out here. on any given day in august you have upwards of 250,000 people here, and on top of that you have 57,000 people who live here year round. a moment ago, you saw the flag that happened -- the red flag means no swimming. and one of the reasons why is the by products with one of the systems is you have the big rip currents, and that's going to intensify as the storm system gets closer. you don't see the signs of the rough weather here, look at the video we have of just yesterday. around town, a lot of things getting boarded up. a lot of national chains in terms of restaurants and super markets boarded up because they do indeed know what is coming. long history of storms through the outer banks. in just 2003, fredricka, another eye storm, and we're talking about isabel came through a few miles from the location that knocked down some 2,000 feet of the island and the channels were 15 feet deep in places. if this ends up being a category 2 hurricane, the storm surge could be 7 to 12 feet. and so it could be a pretty interesting scenario to say the least. with the atlantic here, it's warm and water coming on this side, and then the hotel on the other side of the outer banks, you have a series of bodies of water, and the sound and the part eer inner coastal waterway and a one-two punch expected. >> yeah, and it could be 8:00 p.m. saturday evening when they could be in the bullseye. and then on sunday, pleasant point beach. are people taking measures similar to that in bracing for irene? >> reporter: yes and no. we have evidence of folks taking their boats out of the water and boarding up windows. you can see some people are still not he heding the warning. they will see the mandatory evacuation going into effect later, but the out-of-towners coming out to enjoy the last minute of sun. we have some of them with us. we have this family, and all of these guys -- well, two young girls belong to her and the boys are nephews. you are from out of town? yes. >> reporter: you came down here any way. you would prefer, emergency officials, you are not here right now. >> i know. >> reporter: why are you here? >> i had to keep the kids busy. >> when will you head out? >> about 2:00. >> reporter: and officials don't want everybody to head out at the same time. is that something you are concerned about, the strain on the roadways? >> yes. >> reporter: people watching this would say there are so many other ways to entertain the family rather than bringing them out to a place like where we are right now when a hurricane is on its way. >> i didn't go to the beach and stayed on the boardwalk. i didn't want to take chances with them in the water. >> reporter: kids, how do you feel like coming down here on a day like today? >> it's scary, actually. we never really witnessed something like this, like a hurricane. it's beautiful out right now. >> reporter: that's the calm before the storm. >> it's stairy. >> reporter: what are your thoughts? >> not really worried, just wanted to have fun on the boardwalk. >> reporter: i hope you had your fun, and i hope after the live shot you will take the advice of the emergency officials and head out. are you going to do that? >> yes. >> reporter: colleen and her family will be heading out, and hopefully others will take the warnings issued. the governor said this will be a very dangerous storm, a storm that people have not seen here in a very, very long time, and he wants people to heed the warnings. people like colleen feel like they can come out to the beach and enjoy the sun, but once again you don't want everybody trying to leave at the same time and putting the strain on the transportation system. >> among those states preemptively declaring a state of emergency ahead of the storm, all right, thank you so much, jason carroll, from point pleasant, new jersey, and not far from where you are at beach, atlantic city coming from trump entertainment, asking all of the guests there in atlantic city to leave that entertainment. and now let's move to annapolis. a college town. that's where we find our athena jones. what is happening there in beautiful annapolis? >> reporter: well, hi, fredricka. the key word here is sandbags. we just got an update from the city officials that said they expect to see a storm surge of 3 feet, and this morning we heard two to three feet. so you have the businesses around downtown annapolis, and businesses that would have been under several feet of water back in the last serious storms, isabel, in 2003. it's a very low-lying flood-prone zone. we're talking six to eight inches of water of rain between saturday and sunday. we have businesses coming out, residents coming out, and piling sandbags after sandbags into their vehicles. their open bed trucks, when the trucks come up every few minutes, maybe 20 minutes or every half hour or so you see people waiting for the trucks, and rushing the sandbags, and rushing them and throwing the bags on to wheel bare ybarrows, some of them are breaking. one woman said her home flooded in isabel and she will not let it happen again. and one man said last time he did not stack the sandbags high enough, and this time he will get more. nobody wants to gamble. >> people taking irene very seriously. thank you so much. how prepared is the big apple, new york city, for hurricane irene? 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[ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down on drinking and riding. drive sober, or get pulled over. east coast cities praysing for hurricane irene. let's listen to d.c. mayor, vince vincent gray. >> we want to thank the president for his support in the impending weather event. first of all, we had an extensive weather briefing, and we can expect activity around the hurricane to really begin early saturday afternoon. and that would run into saturday -- sunday, excuse me, sunday afternoon. so roughly a period of 24 hours during which we would experience the conditions of a hurricane. there could be some flooding. we don't know the extent of that during this stage. the department of public works for the last 24 hours has been making sandbags available to people who would like to have them, to address their concerns about the possibility of flooding. we understand the rainfall could be two to four inches. that will not come into the district of columbia. rainfall could go higher, of course. that is still an unfolding situation. we should expect tropical winds, and that would be diminishing early sunday, perhaps winds of up to 50 miles per hour on sunday, and again maybe some flooding into sunday. we had quite an extensive discussion here today. the national guard was here with us, and fema was here with us, a and other federal partners, our utility partners and members of the private sector. the national guard will be at the ready in the event that we need to deploy them. general schwarz was here this afternoon and we worked with them to try and prepare the way for that as well as fema. we have pepco here with us, and i think i will call upon them to speak shortly. with respect to services in the city tomorrow, many of the services that would normally be open on saturday will be closed except for the libraries, and the libraries will be open tomorrow. they normally close around 5:00 or 5:30 or 6:00 on saturday, and whatever the normal closing hours are will be observed on saturday, and in addition to that, the dmv will be open tomorrow if that dmv happens to normally be open as well. they will be open on saturday until, i think, about 5:30. for people who are homeless, normally they would be out of the shelters at 7:00 a.m. on saturday morning. all the shelters will be open for the entire day tomorrow and into sunday through the duration of this hurricane so that people can have shelter available to them should they choose to. and we are also setting aside -- these will be run by dhs also, and we're setting aside for the department of parks and recreation facilities for residents finding themselves needing to vacate their own homes. and that's turkey thicken on 10th street northeast. the southeast tennison learning center, and then capital street northeast southeast, right on the line, and the national guard is making available to us the armory as well in the event we have extensive sheltering needs. i will ask millison west to come up and share with the public tips that would be germane for people to get through this. we also are extending our own communications efforts, beginning at 7:00 tomorrow morning, channel 16, which is one of our peg channels, will be on 24/7. it will be on live starting at 7:00 a.m., and through the duration of the hurricane, providing information to people in the district of columbia. also, we want to encourage people -- there are lots of phone numbers we could give out. we want to encourage people to use 311. 311 can connect people with anyone of the utilities, anyone of our agencies and makes it easier for people. they will be fully staffed here through the duration of the hurricane. all staff that works in the center will be here. jennifer green who is our new director will be available to be responsible for all of that. and also the mpd would have been fully staffed anyway, because of the martin luther king memorial events. they will remain in the same state of readiness because of the hurricane. again, i am sure everybody is aware that the dedication ceremony on sunday has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date, maybe a couple months. we don't have information on that at this stage. and the gala that was scheduled for saturday night has been cancelled as well. the national action network march that was being scheduled by reverend al sharpton has been cancelled, and i think many of you know we were planning a full democracy rally and march tomorrow, and that has been cancelled tomorrow as well and will be schedule for a later point. having that been said, i will ask pepco, because i know there will be questions with respect to pepco, i will ask the representative from pepco to come and speak about their preparation for this. they have brought in a number of additional crews, and increased their capacity tremendously, and we will ask the representative to speak to that. in addition to that, i will have th ramada speak as well. >> we have been preparing for the storms several days now. >> you have been listening to the measures that the district of columbia is taking in anticipation of the category 2 hurricane irene. and now we want to go up to madam speaker where the governor is speaking. let's listen in. >> we are expecting logan airport to remain open, but there will undoubtedly be disruptions in terms of delays or cancelations. as we althoul know mother natur unpredictable. we will monitor the storm and give updates as we get them as we go forward. people can check mass.govern fo updates, and you can dial 211, 211 for public information for resources and services statewide. there are over 30 different agencies coordinating here in preparation for the storm and in response to it over the course of the weekend. there are federal and state agencies. as i said, we're coordinating very closely with local responders as well. i want to thank all of them represented by many of the people here. i want to thank members of the cabinet for their activation of their teams as well, and i expect everybody is going to continue to work closely and well and in a highly coordinated fashion as we deal with the latest challenge. i want to turn it over now to kurt schwarz with my thanks, and i look forward to taking any questions after his presentation. >> you are listening to the updates from the various major cities along the east coast. massachusetts bracing for the hurricane. you are hearing from the governor there saying logan airport not likely to close down but flights will likely be disrupted, and then there was a potential for flooding and a number of the city services offered will be closed except for the homeless shelters. and michael bloomberg will talk about preparations for manhattan right after this. cities all along the east coast bracing for hurricane irene. mayor michael bloomberg will speak and when that happens we will take that live. the big ben bernanke big speech today, while he pledged to help the economy all he could, he put the onus on congress. poppy, what did bernanke have to say specifically? >> you are right. his message was directly to congress. very interestingly, this comes after the s&p downgrade of the u.s. standard & poor's told washington to get its act together. and bernanke said that i as the head of the federal reserve will do all i can to prop up the economy. monetary policy is limited, and the effectiveness of healing the economy at this time. want to show you the statement, and just to show you the strong words the fed chairman used. and it's not all up to the central bankers. the finances and the federal government will spiral out of control risking severe economic and financial damage. spiral out of control. this man chooses every single word he says or writes carefully. these are very severe words. what he is saying to congress is we need you to figure out a better plan to deal with the country's debt, a long-term that puts this country on the trajectory in an upbeat state. we did have the rough years from the crisis, and our economy is not permanently altered or scarred. what he is saying is if washington changes the way it feels with the debt and deficits, and if the fed is able to implement monetary policy tools that will work, we will get on solid ground again. he is saying for the first time, we cannot do it alone, as the fed in washington, and we need your help. that's the headline from this speech. >> thank you for that update. and let's look at headlines and other news you might have missed. we are tracking hurricane irene as it moves along the coast. it's brewing parallel to the south carolina coast right now. irene is expected to make landfall in north carolina by tomorrow morning, and here is the satellite image of this monster of a storm churning in the atlantic. tens of millions of people could be affected by its destructive fury. and the outer bands have stirred up high waves and drenching parts of the carolinas. much of the coast is bracing for a direct hit. and then maryland and new jersey and connecticut and north carolina have all declared states of emergency. a number of counties in north carolina are already under mandatory evacuation orders. a caravan of school buses left one coastal county this morning carrying evacuees to shelters far inland as raleigh. and residents are leaving low lying areas there ahead of what the governor called a dangerous and potentially deadly hurricane. residents were warned if they ignore the evacuation orders, police officers may forcibly remove them. and the u.s. military is also preparing. dozens of u.s. navy ships are being ordered out to sea, and military aircraft are being relocated ahead of irene. as preparations continue all up and down the east coast, fema has deployed teams along the coast and is warning of power outages that could last a week or more, especially in the big cities. >> the one thing we can change the outcome on is loss of life. that's why the evacuation orders being issued in the coastal areas are key, and people need to leave early. travel a safe distance and get somewhere safe. not wait for another forecast. and he is sure to offer serious gridlock in manhattan. this information just in. in new york city, the entire area having a system wide shutdown starting at 12:00 noon on saturday. we're also hearing from numerous city county and state leaders, and even president barack obama who is wrapping up his vacation at martha's vineyard a day early delivered this urgent message a couple hours ago. >> all indications point to this being a historic hurricane. although we can't predict with perfect certainty, the impact of irene overt next few days, the government has spent the better part of the last week to see to it that we are prepared. so now is the time for residents of these communications in the hours that remain to do the same. >> so just how prepared is the entire east coast in case of disaster? the answer from the latest cnn and opinion research corporation poll is a little unsettling, actually. half of those interviewed say they have made some preparations for emergencies, like a hurricane irene, but you can see right here the regions that are least prepared are the urban areas in the northeast, which are still in irene's direct path, only 36% of northeasterners say they have emergency supplies. those figures are highest in the south and west with hurricanes and earthquakes more frequent. people that live in rule areas are more prepared than those of us that live in the big cities. 42% of city dwellers are more prepared than those of rural residents. evacuations all along the north carolina coast and air and ground travel disrupted on the busy eastern corridor. we will have live reports coming up next. and we are awaiting new york mayor michael bloomberg again. metro transit in the new york area having a system shutdown starting at 12:00, noontime, tomorrow. ask me 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have a better signal of you now, and so give me an idea of what you are experiencing there? >> reporter: we have the first squall that came through a few minutes ago, and the winds are kicking up. this is atlantic beach, and it's a rare beach -- this is south. the storm is coming at us from the south and to the east out this way to the east is, you know, and a little to the north, it would be the outer banks. the storm could come up by us, and you can see what they have done. they put up the 2 x 4s, these barriers, and it's 150 yards to the beach, but all the wave action could very well traverse 150 yards, come here and overwash the area. you can see they sandbagged down here, and they have got the shutters, the plywood shutters put up, and they did not do the doors because it's double paned and they told everybody to get out, and now is the time to get out, we don't want you here longer, and they will not tolerate people on the street or vehicles moving. again, fredricka, we're beginning to feel the first affects from the outer bands of the storm. you can see up here some of the clouds, and you see the thunderstorms and the cloud bands starting to rotate around us here, as the storm approaches and getting closer and closer. we expect tropical storm force winds certainly by tonight and hurricane force winds by tomorrow. fredricka? >> john zarrella, thank you for checking in. and now on the phone with me now, mr. seneca from the north carolina emergency management. >> we have a major storm heading our way. the first affects are just happening. the outer bans are beginning to touch the southern part of the state. we think we will have a pretty significant hit here. >> what are your greatest concerns? >> the storm surge, to what degree that will come in. flooding, high winds, and we're projecting to get hurricane-force winds potentially all along the coast tomorrow. you know, again, rising waters. so those are serious concerns. >> are there any particular coastal cities you are most worried about, the people who don't want to leave their properties, how concerned are you about those areas that typically see this? >> well, we are concerned about the entire eastern half of the state, basically. this hurricane could potentially impact an area that imposes 20 counties and more than 3.5 million people. we have the evacuation orders in place for ten counties so far, and it's a combination of mandatory and involuntary evacuations. we're at the height of tourist season, and so many have gotten off the island and the outer banks and left. this is a serious situation and we want people to take it serious, too. >> thank you so much. of course, we continue to watch the entire east coast and various preparedness being displayed by various cities. we're also awaiting a press conference from the new york city mayor, michael bloomberg. as soon as that happens we'll bring that to you live. also, continued concerns overseas. where is moammar gadhafi. and here is 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from the coming storm. the evacuation plan we announced is working smoothly. i'll discuss it in detail in a minute. and because irene is now bearing down on us at a faster speed than it was yesterday, we are changing a few things. we are today issuing a mandatory, repeat the word mandatory, evacuation order for all new yorkers who live in the low-lying zone a coastal areas in all five boroughs at greatest risk of irene. we're adding the rest of the rock aways some of which are zone a and b. commissioner tom farley will work with seniors homes and nursing homes and the two hospitals that are in the zone b part of the rock aways to try to find alternative sites for their residents. people who live in private homes, we want to leave the area. this is due to the exposure of the ocean to the rock aways and emergency services may not be available. bridges won't fall down, but there is a point where the winds get so strong they close because cars and trucks could be blown off them. what we're concerned about there, unlike other parts of the city that may be in low-lying areas or slightly higher, if something were to happen and you needed emergency services in the rockaways. we're not sure in the worse case, we'd be able to get those services to you. that is something that's different than yesterday. we're also moving up the time that we want everybody out, and that is by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow, saturday. in a storm with wind in very high tides, there are risks that endanger public safety. i can't stress it enough. please, nature is a force more powerful than any of us. it really is better to be safe than sorry. now, the low-lying coastal areas that will be endangered most by storm surge, include coney island, manhattan beach. broad channel in queens, south beach, midland beach and other low-lying areas on staten island. battery park city in manhattan and small sections of the bronx. as i said before, we're also adding a full evacuation of all people living in private homes or apartments in the rockaways. in addition, you should know that mta services will begin to shut down tomorrow at noon and jay walleder will describe that and other measures in a moment. depending on the effect of the storm, let me caution you also in regards to the mta that service may or may not be restored in time for rush hour monday morning. i would urge employees check with their employers regarding business openings on monday. now, we've never done a mandatory evacuation before. and we wouldn't be doing it now if we didn't think this storm had the potential to be very serious. the best outcome could be in the storm veers off to the east and doesn't hit us, doesn't hit us hard. we can't depend on mother nature being so kind. we have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. just because this is the first time we've had a mandatory evacuation in any part of the city, i once again want to repeat, this is very serious. do not be fooled by the sun outside. that is the calm before the storm. and you just can't wait until gale force winds and driving rains arrive. it will be too late then. you have to start your preparations to leave -- you have to start your preparations to leave right now. keep in mind, after noon tomorrow, you are not going to have the vaadvantage of mass transit to help you do that. if you leave today, that would be very helpful. tomorrow if you call access a ride. they don't have the capacity to take large numbers of people in a short span of time in one day. inspite of the good weather, if you want to be safe, now is the time to start moving. we expect that most new yorkers affected by the evacuation order will find places to stay with relatives or friends who live in safer areas. however, as i said at the beginning of this evacuation centers and shelters for those who need it will be open by 4:00 p.m. this afternoon and they are staffed and equipped to accommodate the people that we expect. but if the capacity were to be much greater than we have planned for, we certainly have the capacity to expand very quickly. we'll say more in a few minutes about how this system will work. a system that we put a lot of thought and effort into developing to avoid the problems that occurred during hurricane katrina. let me first try to bring you up to date on the latest information on the strength and the path and where this hurricane is like tlly to arriv. the national weather service at moment and i keep remind you, this could change any time. the national weather service put the entire new york metropolitan area under a hurricane watch, which means that sustained winds of 74 miles per hour or more are forecast. for saturday evening, through sunday. at the moment, the strongest winds are expected to arrive early evening tomorrow and to continue into late afternoon on sunday. the current forecast is that irene will reach new york metropolitan area as a category 1 storm. the ground speed of the storm has accelerated, gale force winds of 40 miles an hour are the beginning of the storm and they will grow significantly. we don't know what they'll grow to, but the full brunt of the storm, if you're in its way, it's a lot more powerful than any of us. certainly, the worst case -- the best case scenario is very high wind and a lot of rain and very, very high tides. so those are the things you'll see. we want to give you some ideas as to how to stay safe. as i stressed yesterday, our first obligation is to protect new yorkers in zone a low-lying coastal areas. i want to bring you up to date on what we did yesterday. hospital patients, nursing homes, homes for the aged, other new yorkers who are in these homes, yesterday were directed to leave and by 8:00 last night, the -- or 8:00 today. these are -- that has been done. everybody has been moved. there were no exceptions made by tom farley. in all fairness, nobody even asked for exceptions. in the rest of the area, coney island hospital, both campuses of staten island, university hospital, veterans affairs hospital in manhattan, nyu medical center on the upper east side are evacuating their patient to other hospitals. yesterday's executive order also covered eight nursing homes, one psychiatric facility and eight adult care centers. all of those, as i said, have been or in the process of evacuating. most facilities are completing this process themselves. a lot of the facilities have contracted with people to help them. but in some cases, city ambulance crews have been called in to help. we're glad to provide that service. another vulnerable population we're concentrating on is the homeless. we have four homeless shelters for families and four shelters for single adults in zone a. the clients will be relocated to our bedford, atlantic shelter in brooklyn and the el camino in jamai jamaica, queens. we're moving clients out of the intake center at 30th street and first avenue. outreach teams are stepping up activity to bring homeless clients living on the streets indoors. we're also taking steps to help those who, because of age, illness or disability are homebound. home care providers are activating their emergency plans on a case by case basis. we will authorize sleep-in services for clients who have complex needs and no other support in the community. there are 15 foster care, residential shelters you should know in zone a or administration for children services is working with those agencies operating those programs to ensure that each facility has a safety plan in place for all children at those facilities. our other organizations are taking steps to keep their communities safe. for instance, many of our cities, universities, including ford ham, nyu, st. john's and columbia, postponing the move-in date for incoming freshmen from sunday to monday. so it's fun to move into college, it's an exciting time. but doing it in the middle of a hurricane probably would not be the best experience and ways to start your college education. i'm glad that they've seemed to move that. for some people, their port in the storm will be an emergency city shelter. developed the coastal storm plan in 2006 to prevent the kinds of problems we saw during katrina when some centers and shelters were overloaded and others were strikingly empty. we've put a lot of effort into designing a more efficient system so when we need it, such as now, all we have to do is implement a plan. not develop it from scratch. that's why we worked so hard when the weather is good to make sure when something goes wrong, we're ready. the shelters and centers are organized on what we call a solar system model. five to ten shelters are organized around each evacuation center with an initial intake process where the initial process would take place. the system is designed for efficiency and supplying and supporting the shelters and to eliminate any bottlenecks that may develop and each location has sufficient quantities of food, water, blankets and essential supplies. the shelters and centers will be staffed by city employees from nonfirst responder agencies. the first responders have plenty of other things to do. employees who have been designated by their agencies to staff emergency shelters should be reporting to their assignment locations today. the sites will be staffed by school safety agent and supplied with food from the department of education's office of school foods and security will, of course, be provided by the nypd. nyc.gov got overload unfortunately the system crashed a few times. it's currently experienced three times its average volume of traffic which has made access to the site problematic for some. yesterday, nyc.gov had 4.3 -- >> new york city mayor michael bloomberg under scoring a hurricane watch is in effect impacting the entire new york area. he's giving this reminder for new yorkers that you need to have a plan, evacuate the lowest-lying areas and he says, if you need public transportation, you have to take advantage of that before noon tomorrow, saturday. that's when that will be shutting down. right now, it is just after 2:00 eastern time. irene is getting closer by the minute. the outer bands of rain and gusty winds are coming on fast in the coastal carolinas. hurricane warnings are posted from the south carolina border to just south of new york city, new york, new jersey, philadelphia also spending public transportation and president barack obama is ending his martha's vineyard vacation one day early. late this morning, he called irene a historic storm. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. we all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. >> irene is on track to follow the northeast corridor to new england and beyond. cnn is there. reynolds wolf is live from kill devil hills, north carolina. jason carroll is at point pleasant beach, new jersey. athena jones in annapolis, maryland. we'll begin with meteorologist chad myers in the weather center. chad, give us an idea of what irene is doing right now. >> one of the first real warnings was just issued in parts of north carolina, south of myrtle beach. it's a flash flood woorng. there will be many flash flood warnings. if irene is known for anything 15 years from now, it will be about the flooding that irene caused. you have to understand in the northeast how much rainfall has already come down in august. it's completely saturated. then you get some wind and ten more inches of rainfall. you're going to knock down trees and significant flooding. charles to be ton, had a wind gust from wilmington into myrtle beach where the flooding is occurring right there near georgetown. keep watching that. something else i have been just watching is, i believe, no confirmation yet from the hurricane center, this is my eyeball looking at it from 27 years experience. this has picked up speed. you're going to wake up in north carolina and then get out, it's too late. if you're going to get out of north carolina for morehead, atlantic, ocracoke, you have to get out now. there will be no time tomorrow. the storm will be on top of you. even though it's forecast to be 8:00, 10:00, noon for landfall, it might be as early as 5:00 in the morning. it's going to be a quick mover now. it's being picked up by upper level winds that are much faster. it's going to shove this thing to the north. if you think it's going to be 8:00 or 10:00 or noon in new york city, got another thing coming on sunday. you need to be out of there. if you're going to be out, do everything on saturday. it's moving faster and it's going to be an 80 miles per hour storm in new york city. but it's going to move quicker, that means the right side of the eye, long island, connecticut, rhode island and massachusetts, you may have more of a storm surge because of the quick movement it has now. >> let's zero in on the north carolina coast. reynolds wolf is at kill devil hills. reynolds, what are you experiencing now from your vantage point. >> reporter: the latest are the winds hiking up quite a bit. few raindrops in the fray. few more interesting characters on the beach. we have looks like an emergency vehicle up here. then you also have, you'll notice, looks like a sail board. in gentleman was on the water a few moments ago. now he's out, maybe someone told him to get out. he's taking a break and had some pretty good height on some of those waves. why wouldn't he? my gosh, when you've got a massive system like irene stepping closer, you're going to see the conditions deteriorate. we talked about the raindrops coming in. if you look to the south, it's more gloomy back there. even then, the most alarming thing of all is the empty beaches. because this time of the year, you'd have up to 250,000 people along the outer banks enjoying the beauty of the water and the elements. but they have the evacuations starting yesterday in dare county. to the north, other counties have had evacuations. today they've had mandatory evacuations to the residents. the interesting thing is, even though it's a mandatory evacuation, it's not like they're going to go into the house and force you to leave and make you go out the door. if you want to stay, you can stay. they strongly advise to pick up and go inland. but for the people that do plan on sticking around, they give you every caution. this is going to be a heck of a storm. one thing chad mentioned, of course, a long duration of this strong winds, the heavy rainfall, the potential flooding and of course, the high storm surge. let's head back to you. >> thanks so much from kill devil hills. let's head to the north, new jersey, the coast there where we find jason carroll. point pleasant beach, it looks sunny and nice there. people are enjoying that calm before the storm, right? >> reporter: that's exactly what it is. you've heard the warnings coming in. everyone from new york city's mayor michael bloomberg, to the president. you've heard the warnings. if you're under a mandatory evacuation, you pay attention. frederick a, right now, point pleasant beach is under a mandatory evacuation for all of the tourists. if you look on the beach, we've seen and talked to some of them on the beach. we've seen them here on the boardwalk. some people out of town. i want to bring in a family quickly if i could. these are the webbs. they're from virginia, mark, robyn and madison. i know you're in from out of town. when are you planning to leave? >> tonight. >> so you are planning to leave tonight? >> yes. >> you heard about the warnings before. yet you still came down to the beach. tell me the decision-making process involved. >> i promised my daughter we would see a yankees game. that's what i wanted to do. that's what we did last night. >> what about the reports right now, any concerns about having enough time to get done what you immediate to get done? >> well, i would like to leave now, but he wants to stay until later tonight. we'll head out probably around 10:00. we'll see what happens. >> okay. you think you'll get home. >> you'll listen to your wife on this one. >> we'll get there in time. >> if you heard the warnings, to get out earlier it better. i think this time we should side with your wife. make it out safe and sound, right, madison. >> yes. once again, they're asking everyone to heed these warnings. actually, frederica an hour from now, there will be a meeting to determine whether or not that mandatory evacuation will extend to the residents here as wellment. >> thanks so much, jason carroll. let's head a little bit south. let's go to maryland. annapolis, maryland. athena jones. you talked about the sandbagging that people are doing. quite aggressively there. what else? >> reporter: well, you saw since early this morning people coming in and bringing their boats out from behind these slips. usually you would see it fall around now. people have been taking their boats out to find safer harbor. really the message is not to take any chances. we spoke with the mayor. they're expecting a three-foot storm surge. if you look at this area by the deck, it's a low-lying area. quite flood-prone. those are businesses that saw several feet of water after isabelle after 2003. you talk to the tourists, the mayor, they want people to be prepared. there's only a voluntary evacuation order for people in low-lying areas. we're talking about maybe 500 to a thousand homes that they'd like to see move to higher ground. back at the sandbagging issue, we talked earlier with a man who works at a restaurant just up the pier about how important it was to get sandbags. >> at the seafood, we got a vestibule. if we don't have about 60 bags to pile up about hip high, then it's not worth even doing. you have to have a nice high stack. isabelle came up to where we're standing here, waist high. this might be a little bit worse. >> reporter: and so we've been standing here. we've been here since early this morning. at the beginning of the day, we saw truck after truck coming with sandbags. maybe every 20 minutes or so. then we saw a lag time, maybe 40 minutes. we haven't see a truck in a little over an hour, hour and a half. just anecdotally, we talked to chuck basil, the man you just sawed in the sound bite. he said the last load that came through, they were running out of sandbags. they were only allowing individuals to take six at a time and business toss take ten. i've reached out to the city to find out what the latest is on the sandbag situation. it does show you the people are really trying to do all they can to protect homes and businesses. >> yes. six sandbags, ten, doesn't sound like a lot. i would understand why folks would try to take more than just that. athena jones, thank you so much. we'll check back to you. of course, we're tracking hurricane irene covering this monster of a storm from every angle. we'll be right back with more. and push janet who's 6 chapters ahead. ♪ [ male announcer ] with interactive learning solutions from dell, mrs. davis can make education a little more personal. so every student feels like her only student. dell. the power to do more. hurricane irene is project today hit the northeast in less than 48 hours. this is a major concern to the new york city area since the region is not accustomed to storms of this magnitude. new yorkers in low-lying areas are under a mandatory evacuation order. here are the top five dangers new york city would face if hurricane irene hits the area. first, storm surge. water pushing toward the shore by high winds. second, debris and lot of it. downed trees, power lines, cluttered streets, dangerous anyone trying to get out of harm's way. third, this is a big one. no subways. heavy rain and storm surge from irene would cause major flooding and potentially bring new york city's public transportation to a halt. fourth, 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what do you best advise? >> the main thing so make sure the essentials are available. in a situation like this, food and water for at least three days, some are recommending seven days. an important note. two things. one is to make sure if you are on a medication, if you have a medical problem that requires daily medication, make sure you have a sufficient supply of the medications so whatever illness you have does not get out of control. the second thing, if you have in your family or among your circle of people that you're caring for, children or senior citizens or people with disabilities, please -- people should make sure they have what they need to take care of the babies or grandma, whoever else might need special attention. including baby formula, diapers, things to occupy the children if the electricity is out and so forth. >> okay. talking about people with disabilities or if you're dealing with the young children or perhaps the families are kind of spread out, your recommend recommendation to get everyone under one roof? >> it might not be practical to get everyone under one roof. what you can do is make sure that wherever mom or dad or grandma is that there's somebody there to make sure that they have what they need or you should make sure yourself and go back to your own place if that's possible. those are the people that are going to be most vulnerable, the disabled, the elderly and kids. >> let's talk about sus tan ans, food, the things that people need to get. sometimes they aren't sure what to get. they start thinking about what you want to eat. but you have to prepare it, got to be able to open it with a can opener, not the electric kind. give kind of your recommended list of the kinds of food stuff that people need to get at this late notice. >> sure. let me just say first of all about water, staying hydrated is extraordinarily important and the recommendation is one gallon per day for every adult. less so obviously for children. as far as foods are concerned, you can keep bread, peanut butter, keep canned goods as long as you have a can opener. it's got to be, as you pointed out, very rightly, a manual old-fashioned type of can opener. you can open a can of tuna fish or sardines, vegetables, many, many things could be kept in cans and then opened when you need them. also things that are nonperishable inboxes. so cold cereal. even if you don't have milk or there's plenty of milk available, it doesn't need refrigeration. you want things that won't spoil, won't require electricity to get to. there's a wide range of choices like that. i think if we plan to be able to feed ourselves and family for three, four, five days, that would be more than enough. now, are there going to be situations where electricity may be out for seven days or longer, yes. but i think people need to do right now what's reasonable. when you're shopping, don't forget the batteries and don't forget that you may have to leave wherever you are. you may have to be evacuated. in which case, you'll need to have pre-thought. have thought about in advance what it is that you want to take with you. including not only some food and water and things that are essential for the family but maybe important papers you don't want to leave behind. >> if you have a car and that transportation is something you rely on, hopefully you fill up the gas tank today as well. back to the water. when you talk about the amount of water that each person should have for a period up to seven days, you best advise filling the freezer even if you lose power. at some point you may have cold items in your freezer. >> right. >> or fill up the bathtub or sinks with water, too? >> that's all doable. the one thing is that whatever happens, you want to keep the refrigerator and the freezer doors closed as much as possible. open it up, grab what you need and close it. actually, cold will be sustained for quite some time. but not forever. the freezer, of course, it's even colder. so food should actually stay pretty good in there for 24 to 48 hours if you're careful and judicious about opening the door for not too long a period of time. so there's lots of things that you can do. fill up any safe jugs with water, the bathtub with water is fine. and we're going to make it through this. i think a lot of is going to depend on all of us understanding our own personal role as the most important first responder. one of the things we found in our survey, for instance, is that there's a very unrealistic expectation that people have in major studies. you call 911 and a lot of people think that in an hour or two or three help will be at the door. that's not going to be the case. because systems get overwhelmed. >> people will have to remember that snowstorm in new york and how it took a long time to get that kind of response. dr. redliner, something tells me a lot of people will be visiting you the next few days knowing how prepared you'll be. thanks for your time. >> please don't give out my address. >> your friends know already. >> they already do. you're welcome, of course, to join us. >> thanks so much for the invitation. appreciate it. have a good one. appreciate it and stay safe this weekend. meantime, mandatory evacuations all up and down the east coast. states of emergency from new york to north carolina. leaders there are warning residents to simply get out. find higher ground. even the president of the united states has an urgent message about what he calls an historic hurricane. more updates straight ahead. and how one man turned a deadly diagnosis into a new mission helping haiti's poorest kids. this week's cnn hero after this. we were so blessed when we had triplets. if by blessed you mean freaked out about money. well, we suddenly noticed that everything was getting more expensive, so we switched to the bargain detergent, but i found myself using three times more than you're supposed to and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tide. so we're back to tide. they're cuter in clean clothes. 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[♪...] >> male announcer: now, for a limited time, your companion flies free, plus save up to 65%. call 1-800-sandals. conditions apply. we're tracking hurricane irene with reporters up and down the east coast. meteorologist alexandra steele is walking. john zarrella on the beach in north carolina where the storm preparations are in full swing there. let's look at the other cities, new york, boston, washington, philly. home to some of the busiest airports in the country. all could be i am packed by hurricane irene. cnn's alexandra steele here with the host of cancellations already, right? >> that's an understatement, the enormity of this incredible shutdown of so many mass transits really unbelievable. unprecedented. certainly historic. i want to reiterate some of the breaking news. you heard the mayor from new york city. system wide shutdown, meepg no buses, no trains, no subways. including long island railroad. for new york city, he wants you out. give you perspective. new york city half of the families that live in new york city don't have a car. they're really cutting off their legs. wanting them to get out of town. certainly not to ride those. also the first time they've ever offered mandatory evacuations. never been done before in new york city. low-lying areas, including zone a, which is coney island, battery park city. you know what else is zone a, two huge airports. kennedy and laguardia in zone a. the expectation, we could see the runways there underwater. that's how severe this could be. also, new jersey, road closures already. garden state parkway south of exit 98, closing at 8:00 tonight. there's also no eastern access into atlantic city beginning at 6:00 tonight. so it's getting serious. we're just beginning to watch these waves of cancellations and certainly will paralyze 65 million people potentially, frederica from new england to the mid-atlantic. >> thanks so much, alexandra. millions impacted, particularly in the north carolina coast where mandatory evacuations are in order. most people have heeded that. let's check in with john zarrella at atlantic beach where you're feeling the initial bands of the storm. it's raining and a little windy. it's starting to deteriorate, isn't it? >> reporter: you hit the nail on the head, frederica, that's exactly the situation. steady rain bands. pretty much light. we had a heavier squall come through about 45 minutes ago an hour ago. but we've seen the steady rain. you can see out there to the ocean is really starting to boil and the waves rolling in. this interesting beach here. this is an east-facing beach. so the storm is actually coming directly at us from the south. you see there are folks that are still here hanging out, coming down to kind of see the situation. see right behind him here, these boards that they've put up to keep the water from coming up from the ocean which is about a hundred, 150 yards away. but you could see storm surge come all the way up to here and overwash this entire area. i just talked to -- you were talking about tips a little while ago. some all state representatives were just here a little while ago. they said what they've gn doing is going to some of their customers ahead of time and telling them make sure you get your documents in order, have your papers ready in a safe place. because if, god forbid, you have a claim, you want to get your hands-on your papers. also, make sure you have a camera and take pictures of the house on the outside, making sure you have pictures of all your belongings on the inside. document those things in case you've got to have that insurance adjuster come. one other quick thing here. you can see the building here is boarded up already. they've got sandbags down here. they're ready here. the police just went by about an hour ago with bullhorns frederica and told people, no cars, no people after 8:00 p.m. tonight. they're going to shut this place down. because it is an island with just one bridge to get over here. after 8:00 tonight, mandatory curfew in effect here as well. they're shutting this place down. >> great reminders there, john, for any of those folks who were listening. other parts of east coast. you're going to evacuate. grab those important documents because if there is damage to your home, you want to be able to call your adjuster, have your policy number and those are things that people leave behind. then they get back there and find out their home was damaged or washed away. good advice. >> you know, during katrina, a lot of people had these saves with their paperwork in their saves. unfortunately, those saves went underwater and a lot of their documentation was lost. >> oh, my goodness. thanks so much. appreciate that. just how paranoid was moammar gadhafi? we're also still watching what's taking place overseas in libya. wait until you see new pictures of his vast underground city. a live report from tripoli after this. all right. some news you may have missed. a ceremony to dedicate the martin luther king memorial has been postponed because of hurricane irene. it's was planned to coincide with the march in washington when the reverend martin luther king, jr. delivered his i have a dream speech. it includes a 30-foot granite sculptor of the civil rights leader. there was not a new data nounsed yet. in southwestern nebraska today. the train with 178 people on board derailed. at least tleem were taken to a hospital. they're injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. the train was headed to chicago. first the question, is how prepared are we? the answer from the latest cnn and opinion research corporation poll is a little unsettling as it pertains to disasters. roughly half of those interviewed say they have made some preparations for an emergency like hurricane irene. but you can see right here, the regions that are least prepared are the urban areas, like in the northeast, which are still in irene's direct path. only 36% of northerners have emergency supplies. those figures are highest in the south and west which hurricanes and earthquakes are more frequent. also, people who live in rural areas are more prepared than those of us who live in big cities. 42% of city dwellers are prepared versus 51% of rural residents. so as we track hurricane irene, we're also following developments overseas in libya where the battle for tripoli isn't over by a long shot. the same can be said for the entire country. by all accounts, the rb else have the upper hand but fierce fighting continues to break out in some areas of the capital. tripoli's international airport is one hotspot. this burning plane was hit by loyalists fire yesterday. and to the east of tripoli, a battle rages for control of gadhafi's hometown of sert. british warplanes pounded a large loyalist headquarters bunker in the city overnight there. loyalists forces say the pictures show damage from nato air strikes on sunday. gadhafi developed sirte into a second capital and key military center. our sara sidner is there in libya. let's try to touch base with her. sara, you saw this underground city as well. it's been rumored for years. now it's clear, it is in existence. >> reporter: it exists. one of the issues is we could not get down all of these tunnels. some of them went so far back, you couldn't see the end of them. but it was so dark inside because all the lights had been cut that we couldn't see where we were going. the rebels who led us inside said they had not been able to sweep the whole area. they think it goes really really far into the city and out of the city. we don't know if that's true or not. but we can certainly tell that it's quite a larmg space in there. an amazing sort of labyrinth really of different little pods. there was a place that you could sleep. there was a place where gadhafi would sit and do his television broadcasts and record those. you could clearly see it was a television studio. there was a light and there was a whole library of tapes, professional videotapes. just a fascinating look into the life of a man who has been quite an interesting character, if you will. a lot of people wondering if he had built this to like a survival shelter. i think that's really what it was. if you look at the doors themselves, there are massive doors with these incredibly strong locks. nobody, you would think, would be able to breakthrough that. as we walked through the very beginning, we looked to the right and there was light coming in and we were trying to figure out what that was. it turned out, it was where nato had bombed the compound right near his tv studio. we remember there was a point in time when no one knew where gadhafi was. i think that may have been the time when that bomb hit, burned up the studio and had to find another place to send his messages. a very fascinating day for us to look into the inner sanctum of moammar gadhafi and his closest allies. >> very fascinating too, apparently you got a chance to see this villa, this location where one of his daughters once stayed. i would imagine any of the information from any of these locations that are related to gadhafi, this is information that the international tribunal, the hague would want to seize upon as evidence if indeed gadhafi is found alive, if indeed he were to go to trial. >> reporter: it's a little bit interesting. there were citizens that were wanting to go down and check out what was going on down there. it's not all that controlled to be honest. we went down with two rebels who were armed. we weren't sure what we were going to see. we knew it was dark. yeah, there are people sort of walking around in there. there are bits and pieces of information that are on the floor. we saw files on the floor inside these tunnels. so i'm sure there are pieces of information that certainly folks would want to look at. just a fascinating look into a world that people suspected was there and now we know is there. >> fascinating 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