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Hit this area. the first one coming around 11:00. so we have seen the water rise over and over again. we were here before a few years ago, we saw the water rise within a half hour, just really quickly. in the last 20 minutes or so, the water here had dramatically changed in the parking lot area. but what we do know is theyre already opened the high school to make sure that people want to evacuate their homes, they can. we talked to some people who waited until the last minute to get their sandba...

Areas susceptible to the elements. the main concern, we know rain going to be in the forecast. perhaps snow showers. windy conditions and also very, very cool temperatures. you take a look at this. the setup in place here. thats the frontal feature working across the sea of japan and approaching the area within sendai within the next 6 to 12 hours well see temperatures going down, 10 to 15 coolers. so, were talking about, say, 41, 42 degrees fahrenheit when we have been in the mid-50s fahrenheit...

The sun and the heating of the day on the japanese island here and then the cooler waters. that creates more of a wind during the afternoon. but at this point, it has diminished. earlier reports in sendai airport, the predominant wind direction today has been out of the west, northwest and west-southwest. that is key because the main wind component there being westerly, that means it is an off-shore wind. any leaked radioactive material across this region would be pushed away from the population...

The urge will be for the slick to head towards land. at least today they are lighter and with that lighter seas they may be able to get the skimmers out to help sweep up some of the oil later today. >> rob, you mentioned a couple times lighter winds. does that make it more likely that perhaps well get back to attempting those controlled burns? >> reporter: yes, but the direction is the problem. the controlled burns work best when you have light winds or a northerly wind component so the smoke fr...

Soon. better weather today, new york, philadelphia, d.c., the wind component has really backed off. still some showers around. the real issue is going to be in southern new england, the boston het tro area and count on delays at logan international. yesterday they were diverting planes into logan today its probably going to be the other way around because the airports for the south will have less wind and less of an issue trying to get planes in and out. >> ive spent a lot of time on the cape an...

Information. >> no, sir. >> we dont have that information. >> can you tell the number of -- [ inaudible ]. >> on our numbers? >> the challenges are happening toe fast in and around the rain bands its hard to keep track. if i asked to report how many they were doing, it takes away from the rescues. well collect that information at the end of the evening. >> can you put this on a scale how this disaster compares to previously ones bottle nationally and then in texas? one of the worse? the worst? >...

Areas. some small ports, no big cities in the way. the storm surge of 12 feet has happened or is happening. but we havent heard a lot of ports about it. because it hasnt been populated areas. well find that out tomorrow. then the wind component of it will slowly weaken to tomorrow. by the time we get to saturday night, its all about the rainfall. theres the rainfall map behind us here. this is the one that the people from our federal government that do our forecasting say theyve never made a for...

North and east or heads off to the north and east on the backside of it, were going to get a northwesterly flow. any westerly wind component is what im looking here because it will push anything to the east. again, these are surface winds. wed have to have a breach of the core in that power plant to begin to talk about anything into the upper levels of the atmosphere, were nowhere near there. continuing coverage after the break. [ male announcer ] its 2011 and everything is different. different ...