area of concern that is now moving into parts of the caribbe caribbean. this area will become a named storm possibly by the end of this week. we have ree potential storms one is alrea a fairly strong storm, very strong category 1 with sustained winds of 75 miles an hour, gusting to 90. igor moving west at 17 miles per hour. notice the numbers nd a 4, expect it to be a category 4 storm by the time we get into wednesday evening. winds of 135, gusts of if160. if we extrapolate or extend this pa, i woul think there say good chancethe storm may turn well to the north and out of harm s way. but still it is ea rly. there is a lot of unknowns with this. quickly, national weather, what we can anticipate today, a frontal boundary on the eastern seaboard, we can expect scattered showers from maine southward on through the nation s capital, on the florida panhandle and in cenal texas. that s a quick snapshot of your forecast. unfortunately dry conditio continue in the rockies which means tough tim
the bad news about it is we expect the storm with maximum sustained winds to inteify over the coming days. the way it looks now through possibly well into next week, this thing may not affect the united states at all. at least it may affect it indirectly. might have some heavy surf along the coastline, but direct hit on the united states, or anyone, it looks like this may stay out to sea, which would be called a fish storm. there are areas of possible development we ll watch later on this morning. something else we re watching, a string of showers popping up along parts of the eastern seaboard this morning. a few of the places dealing with the heavy rainfall would be on the outer banks of north carolina, not far from charleston. we re seeing rain develop in there too. and the reason why we re seeing this beginning to pick is up pretty simple. we have a stationary front or an area of low pressure with that boundary that extends right across parts of the florida anhandle and along the
california. all right. 35 past the hour now. want to bring injosh levs. josh, a lot of people, you sit in your neighborhood, you never think something like this could happen, but i found myself in my neighborhood sayme wow, could somethin g like that happen her? people don t realize just this network of pipelines that might be running right through your neighborhood. it huge. people don t realize it. it is pretty much everywhere. no matter where you are in this country, i ll ow you some that will help bring it home. look at this, let s zoom in. the blue lines, this is from the department of energy, these blue lines everywhere you see them, those are interstate pipelines in this country and the red lines are inside the state. they re absolutely everywhere. you got this huge mess of them, especially down here in the south, through texas, oklahoma and that region. all over the country, no matter where you are, you have a massive mess of lines. let megive you some statistics about them
22 minutes past the hour now. a look at some of the stories making headlines. mexican police on a nationwide manhunt today for 85 inmates who escaped from a prison in a border city of reynosa. the men used a ladder to clear a ll on friday and disappeared into the surrounding neighborhood or possibly crossed over the border into mcallen, texas. 44 corrects officers at the prison have been detained or suspended on suspicion of corruption. police consider many of the espees drug cartel members or hit men for drug ngangs. al in kentucky, a man shot and killed five people before killing himself there. and police say this all started as a domestic argumen the ap reporting that the man became enraged over the way his wife cooked his eggs. investigators idtified the shooter at stanley neace.
quarter past the hour. let me give you a look at some of the stories making headlines right now. mexican police on a nationwide manhunt today for 85 inmates who escaped from a prison in the border city of reynosa. the men used a ladder to clear a wall friday, then disappeared into the surrounding neighborhood or possibly crossed into t border city of an, texas. police consider many of the capees drug cartel or hit men for drug gangs. also, a man shot andfi kill five people in eastern kentucky before killing himself. police shis started as a domestic argument. ap is repting in fact that the man got enraged over the way his wife cooked his eggs at breakfast time. the man s name is s stanley nea, that s who the police identified the sothoer as. they say he shot and killed his wife, stepson and threers other.