Focus on those cities. Does it make that turn left in time . It didnt going left right now, and sometimes they wait. Sometimes computers arent perfe perfect, and why arent they perfect . The Atlantic Ocean is a fast space, we dont have weather balloons out there. We have drop sons out of noaa weather radio. Here it is, category 1, about an 80mileperhour storm, right now as it makes landfall tomorrow night. And if theres any change to the forecast at all, i would say thats a little bit faster. The numbers bring in landfall the eye, but dont focus on 8 00, because a lot of the storm will be onshore, half of it will be onshore, even before the eye gets there, wherever it gets. You have to understand that things are going to start to go bad from here. This is how good its going to get for the next 36 hours. No matter where with we are in here, this sides of it is so dangerous because the wins are coming in here. On up here into period of time. All the way here into toms river and all of this has wind this way, the winds in washington, d. C. Will be 55 or 60mileperhour. But in the opposite direction. And it interacts with the next storm system, theres a low here, when those two actually combine, then well start to see the snow on this side, because its cold over here, the snow will come in, and this will wrap up. For anymore, this will not feel a hurricane. When its a hurricane, it feels like its 72, its tropical. Its going to be cold, wet, and temperatures are going to be 45 or 50. This is going to be a brutal storm to be out in. Youre saying noreaster like . Thats what this storm is going to turn into. This is like the perfect storm back in 1991. Which caused billions and billions of dollars of damage, and it stayed out in the ocean. This storm does make landfall, it does make coastal surge. Meantime a big warning coming from the president of the United States. He made a visit to fema headquarters and he said the resources are in place to deal with the storm and he expects Fast Response to any damage once that storm does hit. But he added, people really need to be prepared. You need to take this very seriously, and follow the instructions of your state and local officials because they are going to be providing you with the best advise in terms of how to deal with this storm over the coming days. The president also held a Conference Call will governors and mayors that are in the storms path. So Emergency Management officials, cnns george how well is on the outer banks right now. Youre feeling the effects of that storm in kill devil hills, george . Were also keeping in close contact with Emergency Management officials in their county. The latest from them. Obviously the winds are strong out here. Were talking wind gusts from 40mileperhour and i can tell you the plus is in effect right now. These wind gusts if youre not careful will not be back. Also when you look at whats happening out on the atlantic right now, very rough waters, they are keeping a close eye on that, on this side, as long as the winds continue to come from the west to the north, theyre worried about storm surge on this side or as we speak on the south side, they are worried about that the winds are shifting, moving water around and then pushing it back out on to the sound, on the north, on the northern side of the outer banks, theyre looking at three to fivefoot storm surge. Thats what theyre watching out for along the outer banks and we also know that they cancelled Ferry Services have been cancelled in several different places, highway 12, the only way in and out of the outer banks, there is overwash in several places which means people are holed up until the storm passes through. Appreciate that from kill devil hills, the rain is coming down pretty aggressively. So the delmarva peninsula which is parts of maryland, delaware, virginia. Parts of ocean city, maryland are already under a mandatory evacuation order. Its picturesque because youve got some enormous surf picking up . You can see the waves picking up behind me. Its not even high tide, but thats what officials here are worried about, when that high tide affects sandy. The combination between those two means storm surge. The storm surge from Hurricane Sandy could rival hurricane gloria which destroyed and damaged the boardwalk here in ocean city. So thats something officials will be keeping an eye on. The mandatory residents have about a couple of hours to get out of town and the deadline remains in effect. And clearly this is a very rough area right now, already, were feeling the winds, were feeling the rain and theres also a voluntary evacuation for local lying areas as well. Theyre telling all visitors to get out of ocean city, they have closed down route 50 coming into ocean city already. So theyre very prepared for this, but, wroum, talking to the mayor, he says that every storm is different and the personality is one that this storm is going to hover and linger for a long time and thats a real concern here. Sandra endo thanks so much from oceans city. The hurricane coverage continues as the storm surges. It is going to be a very long night tonight for many people along the eastern seaboard. The worry now is what happens if power goes out in a very big way . It happened just a year ago, leaving millions in the dark. If we want to improve our schools. What should we invest in . Maybe New Buildings . What about updated equipment . They can help, but recent research shows. Nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. Lets build a strong foundation. Lets invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. Lets solve this. All right, Hurricane Sandy continues to barrel its way along the east coast, threatening the delmarva peninsula in particular which includes maryland, virginia, delaware, that could be hit especially hard by this storm that threatens to promote quite the storm surge. Joining me on the phone, delaware governor, jack mar quell, i understand that you are under the boardwalk at rohobas beach, what is it like there . The center of it is still hours away, its rough even like it is at the height of the storm. We are concerned and the message is if you live in an evacuation area, the time to live the is now. The problem is if you stay, you could very well be cut off. You put yourself in harms way, you could put others in harms way as well. So were really recommending people get out. So in many cases you have hoes we havent for people who want to leave duey and Bethany Beach that one is closed so there are other evacuation routes for people, but now is really the time. We have already seen some flooding, but still quite pertinent, right . Were seeing more flooding than we normally would. We have opened several shelters across the state. Providing that and theyre already starting to get people there which is good. Businesses in the evacuation area have to close by 6 00 p. M. Tonight, but bottom line, again, people in the evacuation areas, its time to get out. And what kinds of pieces i cant quite here you but there are some essential businesses that are staying open, but for the most part the businesses in the evacuation area are closing and people are leaving. And given that its fall, its kind of your offpeak season. Governor jack mar kell, appreciate your time and stay safe. People along the east coast did brace for the hurricane surge, but the Utility Companies are trying to get ready. Last year millions lost power and preparations are under way just in days theres a repeat. In that time thereve been some good days. And some difficult ones. 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If you for example compared it to hurricane ike, when we had over 50,000 workers that were there to restore power, were going to have far more than that, we have people come in as far west as california and in fact we are flying in personnel from those regions, because we think that this storm has great severity and were very, very concerned. We have not probably experienced anything like this. They say this is a storm for 100 years and were certainly prepared to deal with it in that context . I also understand from canada and even mexico. From canada, from mexico, from texas. We mobilize together as an industry in order to bring electric confidence back to our customers. This partnership has existed since 1955 and were dedicated to the safety of our customers and restoring power to them. And this is a major undertaking because of what we just saw this past summer, the people in the midatlantic area were without power for a very long time because of a storm and it was just last year with hurricane irene that brought a lot of Power Outages for a very lengthy time to the state of connecticut. Thats right, i would contrast this storm from the deratio we experienced this summer, where it same upon us all at once, we didnt have the time to stage our crews. This time we have several days warning, were staging our crews, but again, this is going to be a very, very severe storm. Mr. Owens, meteorologist chad myers has a question for you. This is going to be one of those big storms, its going to be windy for a long time and people are going to lose power at the beginning and are going to be very impatient in the beginning, and you wont put crews out there until what purpose . Youre obviously not going to put men in bucks at 60 . Yes, well wait until the wind dies down. So obviously, were only going to have those crews seek to restore service. You first have to assess the damage and we believe that there will be substantial physical destruction of our infrastructure, were going to have to assess that damage, were going to have to bring energy back to our essential facilities facilities, our transmission lines, we have to bring back our critical loads, our hospitals, our police, our fire departments, our main arteries where people can shop, can get food and other essentials. So we have experienced storms in the past, but this is going to be a storm of tremendous punch, of tremendous magnitude. When you talk about assessing the damage, youre talking about assessment that doesnt take just hours, sometimes that takes days as well. It certainly does. David owens, executive Vice President of the electrical institute. Thank you for taking time to come on. This is likely to be a historic storm. 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Were only showing thatborouthat bur bourough threw, theres going to be evacuations from new jersey as well. We just dont have them plotted on there. If you know that you live less than 10 feet above sea level in the new york metro area, connecticut, long island, new york city, hoboken, you need us to get out of there. Its just that simple. Because thats how high the water is going to be. That Staten Island ferry stops at 8 00. So you better have a contingency plan. People are going to be stranded in places that they dont want to be. But you wanted to be on the 8 00 train to new york,itis not going to be there for you. The transportation night marry that continues. Then youre going to be in places, or youre going to be stuck in places where you dont know the topography. All these people, are going to be trance planted in places they dont want to be, they think theyre going to be there, and theyre starting to hunker down in the next 24 hours. Were talking about the storm surge in large part that are threatening these lowlying areas. And the surge is going to start into cape may as the water runs up the river. But you start and you take a look at the right side of where the eye makes landfall and youre going to see anywhere from wild wood, northward, all the way up to sea bury, those barrier islands, all those islands are going to be overwashed with water, if youre not on stilts, some of those homes are going to go away. I think it was really telling, i wasnt here for the interview, but when you talked to the mayor of rohoboth . Yes, it was the mayor of rohoboth. I wanted to ask him, was it storm surge from the ocean, was it rain water frolooding . But it doesnt matter, youre in trouble if youre there. Theres so many parts to this. I want to talk to you about what happens in boston, what happens in connecticut, what happens in long island, what happens along Long Island Sound. Every place will be different. What happens in wilkesbury is not going to be the same as what happens in boston. Its going to be different debah pending on how warm it is on one side and how cold it is on the other side. Your local National WeatherService Office will be able to tell you more about your local area than i can. I cant tell you the overall scope. I can try to do that in five minutes. I cant go state by state, city by city, it would just take too long. And your local authorities know everything about where you live and the local conditions are going to be. Its really going to be a transportation nightmare as well. You talk about the storm surge and it also means that railways are not going to be working like people want them to. Roadways, we fwoe theres an awful lot of Flight Cancellations as well. You see us bank on busier highways. On once empty fields. Everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bank are helping grow our economy. 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Thats when it will be colliding with a cold front, virginia, connecticut, sometime tomorrow night and thousands of people in the lowlying areas are already evacuating from North Carolina all the way up to maine. Stocking up on supplies, for widespread Power Outages as well that could last days. So new york, already updates now that the subway and Commuter Train Service has been suspended beginning tonight at 7 00, mandatory evacuations of lowlying areas are in place. The Stock Exchange will remain open, but only electronic trades, nothing in person. We want to update you because i actually think thats not correct, thats going to be closed as far as we know. Broadway performances have also been cancelled. Then on to new jersey where a state of emergency is already underway, mandatory evacuations are in place in parts of the state. All state offices are closed tomorrow and the new Jersey Transit is shutting down at 4 00. And in virginia, we understand that schools are being transferred