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With troorm heres the accuweather.com forecast eye path for hurricane earl. increased wave activity across the southeast coast throughout the day today and itto make its closest appoachthe late tha i night, perhaps a cat 3 hurricane. there is a hurricane watch already in place north of sur city, north carolina/virginia border. its g northeasterly track as we head into the labor day weekend and perhaps impacting the new england coast by this labor day weekend with destructive waves. peak wind gus...

Be. at a very significant hurricane pace. and then, maybe a second potential landfall still in the cone, somewhere around the cape, and maybe cape cod area, and maybe the eastern sections of long island and still in the cone. notice how it has shifted back off to the left to, the west, at 105 miles per hour, and that is a significant impact. far enough away from new york city to make rain showers in the outer bands, but this is still a big storm, and upgraded to category 4 just about an hour ago...

Here comes hurricane earl. >> increased wave activity throughout the southeast today. >> warnings from the mid-atlantic to new england and evacuations have already been ordered. president obama says a promise about the war in iraq fulfilled. and more than seven years after it started, "operation iraqi freedom" is over. teen gambling. >> im trying to make a profit. i pay my rent, i pay my bills by playing poker. >> they are winning and losing lots of money. just guess where theyre learning al...

Coast in its sights. thats according to the national hurricane center. >> as we know, even a slight change in the storms track could make an enormous difference. >> with more on the possible path, were joined by accuweathers jeannette calle. good morning, jeannette. >> hey, there, rob and mike. the tropics active as we head into this first day of september. hurricane earl a major hurricane north of hispanola throughout the day today. its going to run east of the bahama islands. we do have fiona ...

Thousands of eggs about half of them have hatched. the adults are having to feed those young from fish from the oil slicks. i dont think its worth posing this kind of a risk to those precious environments that we all love. >> even greenpeace recognizes americans need to be energy dependent. steiner scoffs at conspiracy theories the obama administration was slow to respond because it secretly wanted to undermine offshore oil industry. >> i think thats kind of ludicrous. >> noah pleased a ban on f...

Thousands of eggs about half of them have hatched. the adults are having to feed those young from fish from the oil slicks. i dont think its worth posing this kind of a risk to those precious environments that we all love. >> even greenpeace recognizes americans need to be energy dependent. steiner scoffs at conspiracy theories the obama administration was slow to respond because it secretly wanted to undermine offshore oil industry. >> i think thats kind of ludicrous. >> noah pleased a ban on f...

There is an impending tragedy, when they think they can prepare for it people go to gas stations and grocery stores, and people saw lines with people stocking up on supplies. and there was no damage, and a little wave activity, and then things sort of tried quickly to return normal back on the island. dan simon, cnn, on highs big island. >> that is definitely good news. and all of the tsunami warnings have been canceled, and that happened a couple hours ago. >> amid the rubble in chile, a sacred...

For it. people started going to grocery stores and gas stations and stocking up on supplies. of course, the other day, you didnt really need to, no damage whatsoever, you had a little bit of wave activity, but things here on the island pretty much back to normal. don? >> going to ask you a quick question for you. we saw basically hawaii, the shores are empty. right now, back to normal, are people hanging out, going about their business? >> well, as you can see, see this gentleman walking -- wher...

Height in way wi. doesnt mean there will be nine meters of runup in hawaii. but it is showing that you the tsunami -- >> nine meters in english is -- >> about 27 feet. >> 27 feet. >> so were seeing a 27-foot drop in that area right there. >> thats right. and so this is recorded by a pressure censor on the bottom of the ocean that is attached to a bouie. so that pressure as the wave comes through, it sends a signal to this bouie which relays it to satellite. >> wouldnt it follow that -- follow th...

Intercoastal waterway. wash up here, inundate. talking five to ten feet above this level you see here, plus wave activity on top of that inundating here. if it indoundates here, certain it will over there. another big complication, wolf, securing and protecting elderly during this evacuation process. trying to get them off palm beach and into a special need shelter here in west palm and then elsewhere in palm beach county. a huge challenge. a lot of ederle people did not want to move. the ones t...