what we want to do today is give you an opportunity to see the museum as a work in progress. about 40% of all the exhibitions are now complete and we are working to make sure we will be very ready on september 24. the reality of this is simple. 11 years ago we began with a staff of two. we had no idea where the building would be, no sense at all of any of the collections. not a single object in the collection. we knew we had to raise a lot of money. we had no money in the bank. now, as a result of some the gifted staff you will meet and thousands of people, we have raised enough money to complete the building and by september, we will be over our target number. we have collected nearly 40,000 artifacts of which 4000 will be in this museum. instead of two people, there are 200 people working to build this museum. let me ask my staff to introduce themselves. i am the associate director. can afternoon. my name is mary elliott and i am a museum specialist. had the pleasure of
chatum is moving its way over to hyannis. as far as the inland locations are concerned, we may not get much rain out of this whole thing. winds, look at that. nantucket, 52 mile an hour wind. that s the strongest wind we have seen all day. we will talk more about the winds and any damage reports and when you can expect the sunshine to return to the forecast. that s in a few moments. ben: now to the wind is moving through and beach erosion is also a concern. david is in chattum. reporter: we are waiting for the heavy band mike was talking about. so far the story is the wind and far from chasing people off the cape hermine is drawing a crowd. reporter: wind snapped the no swimming flag and several how far have you been able to lean back? maybe 10 degrees. reporter: tourists struggled as they made their way from shop to shop. how is the rain gear holding up? oh, fine. so you are dry under there? i m fine. perfectly dry? you wanna check? reporter: they report bu
hour but on the islands when gusts much stronger. on the boy, 64 on the wind gust recorder. here is hermine as it moves at seven miles per hour. a lot of the energy making its way finally toward the coast. what will happen tomorrow as it drifts closer to us? it may lose a little bit of its punch and start a right-hand turn possibly passing nantucket and moving on to quickly. what we are dealing with is a lot of northeasterly winds especially over the cape and islands and we are dealing with rain. a few scattered showers to the north but near the canal and over toward sandwich, a good downpour. there is some downpours taking place. lesser amounts as we look out to the outer part of the cape. we will be dealing with some wins out there must winds are sustained at 45 miles per hour maria: the cape getting hit i hermine, rain and wind right now. ben: david bienick joins us now. david: as mike was saying the counterclockwise winds are coming at us from the north-northeast and so f
winds at nantucket over 60 miles per hour offshore. now we are seeing basically 20 s and 30 s. inland a breezy evening and settling back a little bit. things will settle down somewhat. the rain has pushed its way down the coast and we are left with scattered showers. the wind driven drizzle. occasionally a shower he were there. we will see more of that going on tonight and a t be some scattered showers. we will be talking about the shower threat to my when the winds will ramp up and when this clears out and we start talking about summer heat. all that in a few moments. then: the strongest winds are in the southern part of the state. people are feeling some impact. mary saladna in new bedford. mary: some is an understatement. i am holding onto my hat. we are afraid everything is going to blow away. they are significant. it has been this way here in new bedford and on the islands most of the evening. a damon to celebrate american workers, a holiday weekend cut short by the slow
cindy fitzgibbon. windy when we came in and just a drizzle, like a wind-blown kind of a raw september feel out there. we re still dealing with lingering effects of hermine. we ll have wind today. the sustained winds with hermine are up around 65 miles per hour right now as it moves to the west about 100 miles south of our coastline. so the impacts are lessening overall, but around it, we re talking about thesend and drizzle that are still pivoting through the area and kind of what you see is what you get today. this is going to be the story throughout the day, periods of mist and drizzle. the winds are gusting, but 20 to 30 miles an hour instead of winds gusting over 40 miles per hour that we had yesterday. and those winds even up on the north shore gusting to 26 miles per hour. also some fog if you re heading out the door. that may slow you down. visibility about a mile and a three miles in boston. look at these raw temperatures. upper 50 s worcester. lower 60s boston. a