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welcome back to the newsroom where the news unfold live this saturday, august 27th. im fredricka whitfield. we continue to watch hurricane irene and all that it is doing and wreaking havoc along the east coast. right now, live coverage from our affiliate out of norfolk, virginia, wavy, wayv vy as it i referred to. sure talking about a child that might be trapped. lets listen in. >> two people and their cat rescued after their boat was anchored and they got caught in some vicious water ...

good morning. it is friday, august 26th. welcome to "american morning." its all about the hurricane today. >> i wish i could say happy friday, happy friday for those not living along the northeast coast. >> and whom it hasnt reached yet. >> exactly. lets talk about hurricane irene. now said to be a massive and powerful category 2 storm sitting just off the east coast. 50 million people could feel its force by this weekend. new hurricane warnings are now up, they stretch from north caro...

rockaways. in addition, you should know that mta service, including subways, buses and railroads will begin to shut down tomorrow at noon. well discuss that and other measures in a moment depending on the effect of the storm, let me caution you in regards to the mta that service may or may not be restored in time for rush hour monday morning. i would urge employees checking with their employers regarding business openings on monday. >> cnns reporters are showing us some of the stormy s...

thank you for being with us today. lets start with the story that seems to have come to some kind of an end. this is casey anthony leaving jail 12 days after being found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter. she walked out the front door, which was a surprise to many. anthony was found guilty of lying to police, and that got her a four--year-sentence, and you factor in time served and good behavior, and shes out. this comes three years and a day after she was first arrested on...

>> that is an amazing sight. he certainly said that the levee seems to be holding. there he? sign of leakage, martin, at all or they look like theyre in pretty good shape? >> no, weve grown accustomed now to look for the telltale signs of weakness. you arent seeing any sort of water on the other side of the levee, or sand boils which would be an indication of some kind of break-through. theyve got plastic down on the side of the levee here. the only thing i think you have to worry about, there i...

necessarily pointed to something specific. what they found was, last year, they got some intelligence that al qaeda was targeting these oil and natural gas installations in the united states. what theyre saying is, some of the information that they just got shows that al qaeda still has a continuing interest right now in going after some of those targets. >> where is this intel coming from? >> its coming from that treasure trove of information that those s.e.a.l. teams hauled out of os...

You. is that because more water is being flushed into the waterway behind you? >> reporter: we think the biggest problem, alex, is really the wind, which is what has picked up and has created a lot of wave action on this side of the spillway. this is where the water from the mississippi river comes, and then on the other side it goes out, and thats the water that is going into a rural area of louisiana that could affect 25,000 louisianans. a dramatic torrent of white water signaled the opening o...

Chile quake, 8.8. we had the first tsunami advisories along the west coast of the united states. youre talking about another adviso advisory, a far larger threat. crescent city, the issue is with the wave heights, harbors reported, some damage there, some of the boats docked in place. this color shows the wave energy along the coast of japan. follow this. kind of see a plume of it that comes up and orange line, that deflects toward crescent city. one of the islands out here outside of the hawaii...

Meteorologist chad myers. chad? >> you need to be impressed at how much force water has. >> yeah. >> i also think you need to be impressed at how much force it must take to move that water in the first place. that happens with an earthquake under water. you have a subduction zone or area of the crust going below another area of the crust. we call it a fault. all of a sudden that fault decides to release. that releasing motion, moving earth, that earthquake because its underground, moves the wate...

American coast. it was directed farther down into the southern pacific ocean, but well, right there, that is hawaii right there. it got hit by that eight-foot, seven-foot up and down wave. but i dont believe we will see that wave action in america, but it is the same story, stay off of the beach. this is not going to devastate north america, but you need to stay off of the beach, because if there is a three-foot wave, you cant get out of the way and all of the sudden, it is three-feet high and t...