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Ashore. i expect the new jersey shore, coney island, some of the places you wont recognize them at the end of this. boardwalks will be torn up and houses knocked down. 1944, that storm destroyed every boardwalk up and down the mid-atlantic coast. this storm will do the same thing. >> neil: extend it to atlantic city? >> guest: i think atlantic city boardwalk will suffer the same fate as 44. the 44 hurricane drove some of the boardwalk to back bay town. they found the boardwalk across the bay. >>...

Unprecedented. what do you do? later later it is unprecedented. this is the first time in american history that two hurricanes have affected a presidential contest in the same year. the first hurricane obviously being the one that cut a day off the republican convention. so, it is really unusual and, re, who would have thought that the october surprise was a hurricane? that mother nature would be the one generating the october surprise? look, there are lots of things that you can do if polling p...

To a lot of people getting very, very unfriendly with one another because when it is scarce, people are desperate, and they will do strange things. so, this is not a good scene. >>neil: it is not, thank you, john, for those just tuning in, we can tell you we waiting for the arrival of hurricane sandy in and around the atlantic city, new jersey, area, and it could be up to an hour from now and it could be sooner. the storm is moving faster than they thought and whether that is good or bad remains...

Stupid acts from the governor of new jersey who is saying that obligates personnel to come to their rescue and risk their lives. now, janice dean, what are we seeing? >> it is moving quicker and now we will see advisories every hour. and i expect landfall in the next hour or so, so, maybe during the slow and well bring you the latest. we have a new traffic before 5:00 p.m., but still moving quickly at 28 miles per hour to the northwest so it will make a quicker landfall than expected. 55 miles p...

Are worried about the crane collapsing and they have cleared an area about five blocks and janice dean was updating me on this and we hope to hear from her shortly. the bottom line is they have cleared that area of any traffic and now pedestrian traffic and the buildings in the area of a like height, are urged to evacuate the upper floors. this is some of the most pricey rally on planet with a penthouse in that building costing $100 million and the average unit costs $10 million. that is prime r...

Pleasant point not so pleasant. what makes hurricane sandy so unique, and it is that it is a perfect storm, it is colliding with a winter storm that is moving in from the west and, then, the cold air streaming from the north. people who are expert at this, folks like my buddy janice dean, remind me it combines for up to a foot of rain in some areas but in west virginia, a couple of feet of snow and that could go well beyond just the immediate regions. and now, one of the we storm chasers we hear...

And it will change over here, over in elkins, west virginia, with white out conditions and 3 to 4 feet of snow, and likely thunderstorms, too, it will be insane. >>neil: what makes this unique, it is just hanging there. it is not leaving although it is making landfall sooner than most people thought. so, this thing is, really, just not moving and it just dumps more and more and more snow. >>guest: the jet stream is a stagnant pattern and the hurricane is a ridge to the northeast and the upper le...

And the center is right there, east of cape may, we think the center will come on shore in the next hour or so, with landfall in the 5:00 p.m. hour as a category one hurricane and the north side of the storm is what will pile up all the water, the storm surge which is a mound of water coming in from the ocean and could devastate highly populated areas and the winds are going to be relentless anywhere from 80 to 90 to 100 miles per hour over populated areas and we will see millions and maybe tens...