hurricane with wind speeds at 105 miles per hour. the problem with this system it's so large that those swells and that surge will be rolling in. we'll see a high tide saturday night and another high tide saturday morning and that would probably be the worst of it. >> adam, thank you for the update. i just received a note that president obama is going to leave martha's vineyard tonight. he's cutting short his vacation buzz of a hurricane. that's the only detail we're getting. we'll keep you updated on the president's plans. let's go back to long island now where mike is. mike, we just heard from jeff that it looks like long island will get a direct hit from hurricane irene. what are the preparations? the preparations are considerable but not as though people here feel or are acting as if they're in the middle of a bulls eye. i went to a general store, there's plenty of water, batteries, there's not a run on