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Weather channel meteorologist mike seidel joins me live from singer island, florida, whats the latest there? >> reporter: hey, good morning, chris. out here the beach is getting hit pretty hard. this was expected more of a coastal impact. a lot of wind erosion. let me show you the beach erosion before we get to where its going and what kind of impact it will have on the northeast and the mid-atlantic. as i jog down to the surfs here. the tide is going out. no issues there as the wind will be blo...

Bit now but were still looking at some squalls today and we could still get wind gusts 40 to 45 miles hour an hour, but really its been a coastal storm, the beach erosion and some wind erosion, but that is it. theres been no power outages. its a brush-by. the storm now, by the way, due east from here, same latitude, heading north. lets show you the satellite loop and the latest from the hurricane center, category 1, 80 miles an hour maximum sustained winds and it slowed down 6 miles an hour nort...

Will feel it from 6" to 12" to 18" to 20". but we will see rain in the drought stricken reasons. >>shepard: people are concerned the place it comes ashore because to the right of that is where it will be the worse. you cannot predict that but the satellite loop again, what do you think, as we watched it on the computer, does it appear to jog to the right as so many do and move east? i have to see more frames but that is something that we have to pay very close attention to because we have covere...

Now. all eyes on tropical storm isaac. the storm headed toward the gulf coast after lashing southern florida and its expected to get even stronger as the day rolls on. we have team coverage all morning long. steve brown is here in tampa. not far from us. we begin with phil keating who is live in key west, florida, where it looks bad, but phil, you say it was worst overnight. >> absolutely. yesterday as well. but overnight, this was the backside of tropical storm isaac. you can still see some of ...

good morning to you all. im t.j. holmes. welcome to our viewers watching us in the u.s. and around the world, as we continue to follow a category 1 storm, hurricane irene, that is threatening about 20% of the u.s. population. some 65 million people in its path. it has been hammering north carolina with heavy rains and fierce winds for past several hours. it was just a couple of hours ago that it officially made landfall in north carolina. more than 200,000 people are without power as w...

Mike, what is going on with this storm system? >> well, the storm, chris, is basically a life support like with bonnie, like with cauline, the systems have had a tough time remaining organized and this one may degenerate into an area of low pressure. hurricane hunter aircraft will go back out there early this afternoon. we had rain across southeast louisiana and parts of new orleans has been hit by heavy rain. that is going to be the real impact at this point. some heavy rain, three to five inch...

Breaking up, falling apart over the gulf. winds remain at about 30 miles per hour. forecasters say the storm is not going to be gaining strength. mike siedel is in dolphin island, alabama. good morning, mike. explain to us what caused it to fall apart. >> reporter: it didnt have much going for it. you know, its never looked like your classic, you know, when you look at the satellite loop and see a big blob spinning around, we never had that. it was all asymetrical. all the storms were on the nor...

An hour and several hours of heavy rain. more of basically a nuisance, veronica. it moved across the coast and weakened to a depression by 5:00 eastern yesterday. satellite loop this morning shows you whats left. a lot of wind sheer, a lot of wind aloft, theres dry air thrown in there. two big factors keeping the tropical system, bonnie from intensifying and also keeping it from being a hurricane. that was never the forecast. but it was a forecast of a tropical storm going over the oil spill, th...

Walking to the room. following a -- except her. following a search, police consider this a criminal case and have not called the stepmother a person of interest. reports say the hormans are separated and hes moved out of the house with his daughter. >> tropical storm alex poised to become the first atlantic hurricane. the national weather service reports the storm is 300 miles off the coast of texas. you see it there. can we go back to that? notice the difference in the satellite loop. now that ...

The thunderstorm activity and a little bit more organization. as the satellite loop plays you can see the thunderstorms fire up into the caribbean. and right now the national hurricane center says that 70%, 70% chance of this developing into a tropical cyclone, depression possibly, within the next 48 hours, that the numbers for the percentage have been going up. they started yesterday this time at 30%. now we are up to 70%. it seems even more likely that this will develop and hurricane hunter ai...