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as you can see from the international space station, isaac has certainly grown. natasha barrett has more from our satellite center. >> they are better prepared to sustain a hurricane but the people there are anxious as isaac prepares to come to shore, aiming straight at the city. isaac is not a category one hurricane, with its eyes set on lo families are packing up and getting out. >> everybody. >> bars and restaurants in the french quarter are boarded up. >> you never know. >> parts o...

which brings the storm inland over the next 6 to 12 hours right over new orleans, potentially as a category 1 hurricane. were talking about temperatures or winds upwards of 80 to even 90 mile per hour right around the city of new orleans. were watching this one very, very closely but a long duration event, biggest threat is going to be the wind and, veronica, were talking about the winds out there right now, not just the wind, but the biggest threat, the rain and slow-moving storm syst...

white house at 10:00. tucker barnes has more coming up on the storm. >> we have an update at 8:00 this morning. they are trying to get eye wall going. see it at the top of the screen. storm surge at 6 to 12 feet, 15 to 20 feet across southeast louisiana and mississippi over the next couple of days. the other information, movement north and west at 7 miles per hour so moving very slowly. unfortunately the effects across the northern gulf will last for the next 24 to 48 hours. so slow-...

are advising residents to be ready for heavy rain, flooding, and power outages. president obama told people to in effect, listen up. >> as we prepare for isaac to hit, i want to encourage all residents of the gulf coast to listen to your local officials and follow their directions. now is not the time to temp fate. now is not the time to dismiss official warnings. you need to take this seriously. >> as wednesday marks the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. mitch warned residents...

trouble in the tropics, the latest on isaacs projected path and the storm preparations underway in the caribbean, in florida and at the republican national convention. we begin with police officers swooping into a prince georges county neighborhood searching for witnesses and evidence that could help lead to a killer. thanks for joining us tonight. im will thomas. >> im laura evans. visitors are hoping someone has information that will lead them to the person who shot amber stanley i...

life earlier this month. attacked by a group of men on a dark and lonely street in waldorf in the middle of the night. >> i felt that my head was a punching bag then. >> john is telling us about the night he was nearly killed. beaten and robbed on this street in ryan woods, a town home community in waldorf around 2:40 in the morning sunday, august 5. while delivering newspapers for the washington post. >> it was like a football -- they grabbed me around the middle and forced me down an...

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c>> he spoke to us from his phone from his hospital room where he is recovering from a gunshot wound to the arm. yesterday he said corkins came into the conservative lobbying group and said he was there to apply for an internship. without warning he pulled out a gun and fired. >>johnson says he jumped on the gun man and wrestled him to the floor in the lobby in the building. other guards called 911. afterwards johnson said corkins said to him, it is not about you, it is about the organ...

d.c.s mayor. the metropolitan washington air force authority has an awesome job. managing the operations of reagan national airport and dulles airport, along with the dulles toll road and the on going construction of metro rail silver line. but an audit showing some board members were reimbursed $4800 for three meals and another paid more than $9,000 for air fare to perugie at the last minute has been a distraction. >> anyone in a private organization that conducted themselves like the...

barnes and see if the forecast is look be good. are you sure -- you have a desk right close to tony. >> tony thinks he is the only one with a key to the dis. >> oh, great. [ laughter ] >> well talk more about that later. lets see your forecast. it looks fine today. clouds moving through at the movement. temperatures right now in the upper 60s mid-70s here in town but afternoon highs back about where they should be upper 80s to 90. 75 in washington. comfortable overnight back in the 70s...