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im christine romans. hurricane forecasters feeling the heat because the wrath of irene didnt live up to all that hype. and im carol costello. like a hurricane, rick perry stormed to the front of the gop presidential pack. the latest cnn polling gives him a double-digit lead over mitt romney. is the texas governor built for the long run? well, good morning. it is tuesday, august 30th. we are still dealing with the after effects of this hurricane. things for a lot of people starting ...

proves me wrong. its unpredictable. you dont want to come out in there. theres the big gust. you dont want to come out in this. we saw people walking around and driving around. its not a good idea. stay home. stay inside. dont come outside. when you do, when the sun does come up, be careful driving around. there are so many trees down in this area. you never know when there will be a live power line involved with a tree being toppled. >> indeed. driving around may be severely compromis...

Making it the snowiest one so far. another perspective to show you, 22,000 miles above the earth we are tracking pictures from nasa showing us the tornado outbreak as the satellite takes the temperature of the high cloud tops, why its bright white here, see the sharp contrast of air. theres the tornadoes ripping across alabama, mississippi into tennessee. a different perspective from space, but it really does show you how intense these storms were. t.j. >> bonnie schneider keeping an eye on thin...

That was very good. lets get the latest on this storm from reynolds wolf, who is in our hurricane headquarters. >> great stuff. i wish we had some better news to share with you. but were seeing a few things right now that are kind of favorable. lets take you frame by frame of the image that we have. you see the areas shaded in the blues and reds, the spots where you have the coldest cloud tops, indicating some of the heaviest rainfall. as we fast-forward, one frame after another, theres a little...

Janice dean is live for us in the extreme weather center tracking this storm. is the extreme weather center different from the regular weather center? >> it is hyped up. we are amped up for the storm. you know during the election time, they call tsay too close call. we dont know where its going. we know its going to come very close to the northeast and mid-atlantic coast line. but we dont have an exact landfall. if its going to make landfall at all. it could actually just hug that coastline and ...

Prosecuted while other cases remain in limbo. and one person is dead, 42 hurt in a train crash in switzerland. three train cars on the glacier express came off the tracks two, flipped over. there were 210 passengers on board the train, it is the height of the tourist season. were tracking bonnie right now, the tropical storm expected to hit the area of the gulf oil spill this weekend. but already, cleanup crews getting ready to leave are experiencing some winds and choppy waters. chris warre...

Getting new information that the storm has been strengthening a bit. first off you can see on our satellite perspective here is alex. notice the flare-up of thunderstorms. the brighter purples and oranges are the highest cloud tops where we have the strongest thunderstorms. this tropical storm has winds of 45 miles per hour. its a strong tropical storm that is working its way into the yucatan now and certainly into the evening. the forecast track shows that it will likely develop to hurricane st...

Northwest. tom saida is quote keeping a very close eye on hurricane irma. tom, what is the very latest? >> we have been able to kind of take a step back and look at the latest advisory. it happened -- all of us got to watch it together when the graphics came up. its about what i expected. there was a western shift in that track. lets break it down. this is critical for a lot of folks here. a couple of miles here and there means everything. first of all with the infrared imagery what you want to ...

Meteorologist raphael miranda who i saw a few minutes ago studying the latest on hurricane irma. >> there have been significant changes through the overnight, even right now, this is turning into an hour by hour now casting situation. irma is looking much less healthy. ill show you how the storm is looking. you can see on the satellite picture doesnt take a trained meteorologist to understand this. when you see the reds, those are the coldest cloud tops, the more powerful thunderstorms look at t...

Bill karins joins us now. give us the latest. >> the headline is the new update from the nshl hurricane center have this making landfall as a category three hurricane tomorrow night. sandy had the storm surge but it was only a category one. what happened overnight. this is the advicible imagery, these are every one minute getting these in. you can see the bubbling cloud tops and thunderstorm updrafts throwing moisture up into the atmosphere. thats the top of the clouds. if you look in here, that...