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Non-essential workers out of a couple of rigs in the gulf that, sounded like the worst but still these were non-essential workers. where is alex now? is it going to affect the oil spill disaster area. >> it might in terms of bringing enhanced wave action but having an absolute direct effect the effect is minimal. alex is rattling parts of the yucatan like a jackhammer, its obscuring the entire peninsula. hard to see with the enhanced satellite. the areas with the bright purple and the reds, the ...

This section. the northeast quadrant of this storm its not getting weaker but rather stronger. look at the explosion in the last couple of frames, poom, right there. notice a little bit of that purple and red coming up, thats deep convection were seeing as this thing is crossing the we anyone la. if it were to move over open water would perhaps get much stronger becoming a hurricane. the national hurricane center shows it restrengthening over the warm water, coming onshore 2:00 in the afternoon ...

On the gulf coast everyone took a break to watch the game as well but back to the reality, day 69 of the gulf oil disaster. we saw yesterday the first named storm developed, first named storm of the atlantic hurricane season, tropical storm alex. dont exactly know for sure where its going. were starting to see more computer models give us a better idea maybe. were continuing to learn more over the next 24/48 hours and these things can turn on a dime. were wondering how this could affect the oil ...

Enough of a threat theyre pulling their workers way from the area. bp and shell pulled non-essentials off of the rigs as a precaution. the storm could intensify at some point later into this week, could become a hurricane at some point. we dont exactly know how that will affect the oil. bp it was important for them to note, to tell us, in fact, they had not pulled anyone away from the deepwater horizon well area, so the disaster relieve efforts have not been hampered. none of the people working ...

You see some of the video here, we told you about yesterday and talked to one of the organizers live. they gathered people all over the place on the beaches to hold hands to really take a stand against offshore drilling and trying to push for more clean energy. let me turn to reynolds wolf, were learning more and more these forecast models i guess as far as the oil goes, starting to look a little more favorable possibly but still these things are by their nature unpredictable. >> absolutely. the...

Siphoning of the oil. remind us what a gale force wind is >> basically some of the same specifications along the intercoastal waterway. if winds exceed 39 miles per hour, they dont allow traffic to go across to the barrier islands. its a threshold, around 39 but its different depending on the size and type of craft. whatever the specifications are of that specific oil platform there will be a threshold for each of those that is the limitation what have it can withstand in terms of winds. probabl...

Model showed the storm going towards tampa bay and the last second, made a quick right unexpected toward punta gorda, not expected but it happens and these things happen with the spinning storms. right now the storm basically obscuring all of the yucatan peninsula, landfall near belize and the latest forecast we have from the national hurricane center indicates the storm should actually maintain its intensity, winds around 40 miles per hour, gusting to 50, passing over the bay into the bay of ca...