an update from the national hurricane center and it looks like tropical storm earl has come the closest that it s going to come to the coastal sections of mats mass. it s been within about 80 to 90 miles. it is still lashing the coast right around the cape cod area, also the islands. one of the highest wind gusts report in the past hour is about 40 miles an hour. but there s still lots of debris, still lots of water, heavy rainfall has been reported. probably going to be some power outages here but this system is moving very quickly off toward happens the northeast. now has picked up speed. to about 30 miles an hour. so its progression is to the northeast at 30 miles an hour, and it looks like by saturday morning, it s going to be hovering right around this halifax and cape saybel area and nova scotia, and also near the gulf of maine. so in the coastal areas right around maine, we ll see some gusty winds, but the bier