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local station wact reporting that authorities are using a reverse 911 system, calling local homes, warning anyone who answers to leave. covering it all for us, chad myers tracking the storm, rob marciano in kill devil hills, north carolina, and also tonight on cape cod where the storm is expected tomorrow, susan candiotti. a lot of plans for this labor day weekend could be upset. chad myers, where is it? how bad is it? >> it is off the coast of north carolina. it would be almost due ea...

earl has not weakened. it hasnt gained intensity eat. it has remained pretty much the same. the central pressure has come up. we talk about that sort of thing. that tells us it may be loosening its grip. not so fast though. it is at its closest point to the united states or the north carolina coast right here. this is cape hatteras. only about 85 miles to the east southeast of cape raths. it is on a trek moving toward the north northeast and we know in the next 24, possibly 36 hours, i...

Winds to be about 110 miles per hour. still a very big storm. and then another approach to land. not north carolina but the cape, cape cod, that will happen late tomorrow night, as an 85-mile-per-hour storm. still waiting for that slow turn to the right. theres the storm right there on radar. theres cape hatteras, more head city, the eye of the storm on doppler radar. were watching it move to the north and the northeast. we have rob marciano here. well be watching it all night long, john. >> app...

Its something we have talked about over the years, which is that older people dont want to change anything about social security, younger people who want to have it for their own retirement are willing to do things like look at raising the retirement deficit commission and all the rest. but i do think people dont want to get rid of it. hes going to give the republican leaders the establishment republicans, real trouble in washington, if he starts talking about this -- >> one guy who has no probl...

heading directly here in a northward path at 8 miles an hour. storms with 150 mar. it has shrunk a little bit, such that the hurricane-forced winds will go out 70 miles from the center. if this thing gets within 50 or 60 miles of the coastline, then well get at least category one strength winds. thats the main concern here. what kind of winds are we going to get? well get into the core of the western eye. if it stays on track, well be sp spared a little bit. this ocean will roll in wit...

Interview. you love muslims, hate islams. bryan fischer, well keep tabs on you and see how things are going. thanks for joining us. >> thank you, dr. gupta. i want to come back to the politics. the whole things pretty fascinating. so close to midterm elections. 9.5% unemployment. yet all you seem to hear about is the islamic center. whether its newt gingrich talking or harry reid or president obama. a lot of democrats incidentally unhappy with the president for speaking out. in a column today,...

Want to offend anybodys sensibilities, except the people who dont want the mosque built at ground zero. >> to be clear again, were calling an islamic center. thats the term. this 125 15-story building. i know, eric. were going to have to live it there. you started off saying this whole thing has become absurd. and people watching are parsing out various degrees of absurdity. thank you very much. >> thank you. up next, how todays court ruling on same sex marriage could do a lot more than simply...

so fast, no marriages yet. all of a sudden, last weeks ruling allowing weddings wednesday, seems so last week. some researchers went way o the grid to find out is technology messing with your mind? youll see what they zosherred about how technology could be changing the way we think. were digging deeper. first tonight, growing political fallout over that islamic center in lower manhattan. and another count of fallout as well. opposition to any mosque anywhere, from manhattan to mur...

the leadership, this is not sustainable. not just in africa, but in asia as well, there are some who are becoming quite wealthy in one respect of of natal resources. yet you e very little of the money going into health. at some point, which is really the underlying what the global health initiative is attempting to do, we have to tell countries we cannot help them any more than they are willing to help themselves. maybe their help is just getting the right people appointed to the right...

being arrested or killed by the former regime, it was the women in our society that had to raise the families. there were the breadwinners. there were the ones raising their homes and building society. kurdish women are very strong. there are strong-willed. they are opinionated. that makes them very effective. i think we need to do more as a culture, as a society, to allow women to integrate more into politics. we have now 30% of our parliament made up of women. but i would like to see...