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Be. at a very significant hurricane pace. and then, maybe a second potential landfall still in the cone, somewhere around the cape, and maybe cape cod area, and maybe the eastern sections of long island and still in the cone. notice how it has shifted back off to the left to, the west, at 105 miles per hour, and that is a significant impact. far enough away from new york city to make rain showers in the outer bands, but this is still a big storm, and upgraded to category 4 just about an hour ago...

In the cone of possibility lies north carolina, even up farther north to the cape, it could be nasty. weve got to watch it. >> coming up on a holiday weekend, everyone has big plans. celebrating the end of summer. well have thorough coverage on this show and on "good morning america" later on today. good morning, everyone, im rob nelson. >> im mike marusarz. vinita nair is on vacation. defense secretary robert gates arrived in iraq this morning as u.s. troops are marking a major milestone. >> ...

There to cape cod come friday night. heres a little closer view. you can see that cone of uncertainty includes boston and cape cod and providence. youre not out of the woods in eastern new england. hurricane bob in 1991 did make landfall. it caused $3 billion of damage. it killed 18 people. if this storm veers a little bit it can do something similar. thats our concern. thats why were still watching this thing. again, all of our computers, we watch these spaghetti lines, most of them are all tre...

And homes to new orleans. five years after katrina, the city continues its rebirth, were seeing it everywhere. tonight, we want to show you one example with a nonprofit organization making a difference with neighborhoods devastated by the storm. heres tom foreman. >> reporter: when katrina hit new orleans, working-class neighborhoods took the worst of it. more fatalities, more flooding and less navigating to bewildering tide of expenses. in the ninth ward, florene jenkins felt it. did you have a...

America" report, bringing homes and homes to new orleans. five years after the city continues its rebirth, were seeing it everywhere. tonight, we want to show you one example with a nonprofit organization making a difference with neighborhoods devastated by the storm. heres tom foreman. >> reporter: when katrina hit new orleans, working place neighborhoods took the worst of it. more fatalities, more flooding and less navigating to be wildering tide of expenses. in the ninth ward, colleen jenkins...

And the east coast of the united states beyond new england bracing for the impact and it could bring flooding and nasty rip currents for the second half of the week but the damage depends on the path it takes. the chief meteorologist is in the weather center. we watched this cone of uncertainty and i hoped maybe they will, it will be more defined and we will know more today. >> it is spread. but the big problem on this, it jogged 30 miles one way or the other make as big difference. if it jogs t...

Perhaps further, closer to a category-5 storm and we havent seen a cat-5 in the atlantic basin since 2007. and, it is possible with the storm, and, the tropical storm watches for bahamas an turks and caicos and there is the path, guys, 11:00, new advisory comes out, a complete advisory and with each advisory we fine-tune the forecast and you can see, we are still in that cone of uncertainty. along the coastline and, if this storm comes close to the west earn border, of the cone, we will be deali...

Theres the track. we begin a new track at 11:00 and intermediate advisory at 9:00 so the advisories are coming in every two hours to make sure that people are aware of whats going on. and again, if you live anywhere from the outer banks, coastal maine, atlantic canada, you need to be monitoring the storm. still a category 3 storm and as i mentioned, this is what we call the cone of uncertainty because as we go further out in time, there is a lot of uncertainty. if this storm wobbles a little bit...

Earl jumped two categories in less than 24 hours as it slammed puerto rico and several islands in the caribbean and not far behind earl, guess what? we now have a tropical storm named fiona. janice dean is standing by in the weather center with the very latest. hey. >> were concerned about brians family on friday. youre not going to be here, right? so i need your wife and your kids phone numbers so i can make sure theyre ok. >> oh, really? >> put that on the air right now. >> you know what i was...

Coast of maine you need to know your hurricane plan. you need to know your zone. you knead to know how you are going to get out of dodge. there is a lot of uncertainty with this storm. there is a chance this could make landfall along the east coast. the next advisory will be at 3:00. 131 makes it a category 4 storms. parts of the u.s. virgin islands will get lashed with hurricane-force winds. we could see over a foot of rain in the mountains. there is the eye right there. parts of northern leewa...