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the new york city area is expected to get hit sunday morning, and today mayor michael bloomberg ordered some 270,000 people to evacuate from low-lying areas. that's roughly the equivalents of evacuating buffalo, new york. president obama cut short his vacation and urged people in path of the storm to be prepared. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. we all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. >> okay. let's get right to it. joining us now, meteorolo...

North carolina. >> and it is just devastation and it's so dramatic to see it. the home behind me, it's remarkable to think that anybody would have survived inside that, because the tornado came right over the house here. they have calculated this early on as an ef-3, which means the winds were 165 miles per hour. here is the most amazing thing. some folks saw that tornado coming and they rushed into this home examiand all 11 inside mad out alive. unfortunately a short distance away, another person hid out in what was basically a mobile home. they did not survive. the home was destroyed. the go...

Fatalities. >> this store manager saved his workers and customers, insisting everyone move to the offices in the back of the store. more heavily fortified than the front. >> at that point, all i could think about was getting everybody to safety. >> when we hit the safe area and got down on the floor, we had about five seconds when the winds blew through the building. >> today, north carolina governor beth perdue is tour something of the storm-ravaged parts of her state. >> there are search and rescue working all over the east where the hit was the worst. >> and the weather channel's mike bette...

money for a giant's fan who was injured. patti lee has the story. >> reporter: officers and firefighters got together to raise money. whether they won -- or lost tonight. >> it's a charity game. let's go have some fun. keep it clean. >> reporter: didn't matter to this team. hockey players but also paramedics and emts who work with bryan stow at american response. >> these group of players have never played together before. they are all here to show their support for bryan today. >> reporter: today's match up was the brain child of san jose firefighters. >> when the call went out for ...

injured. patti lee has the story. >> reporter: officers and firefighters got together to raise money. whether they won -- or lost tonight. >> it's a charity game. let's go have some fun. keep it clean. >> reporter: didn't matter to this team. hockey players but also paramedics and emts who work with bryan stow at american response. >> these group of players have never played together before. they are all here to show their support for bryan today. >> reporter: today's match up was the brain child of san jose firefighters. >> when the call went out for helping bryan, the firefighters ...