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Band that has just come in. one of our meteorologist at fox weather in new york alerted me that this was coming and, boy, was he right. because this is coming in. counterclock wizard of oz. you see the wind, you feel the rain. the water inundating these streets. this water is acting like it should be here. like it owns the street. like it s a river. they expected this surge to come in into clearwater beach. that is why mandatory evacs went into place in pinellas county the last day or so. they began the evacs on sunday. let s hope everyone went out. all we have seen this morning a few official vehicles. pinal laths county vehicle and clearwater beach high water vehicle run through here. nobody else has been here. hopefully everyone has listen to the those evacuation orders as we are seeing an imminent landfall within the next hour of this hurricane, a cat 4 up in ....
so 60 miles out from the center for hurricane force winds. tropical storm force winds 175 miles. and that counterclock weiwise f. as that water is piled up, we re going to see that. we then move into tomorrow afternoon. charleston is seeing it into wednesday night. we move into thursday into the early morning hours. wilmington, myrtle beach, charleston again. then into friday, we re getting up look at this. norfolk. you know there hampton bay area, they could see some storm surge as well. and look at how tight the hurricane force winds are. right there. again, thaez are serious winds that regular folks we don t typically most days get over 25 mile-an-hour. we re talking about sustained winds. and then of course as we talked about, the storm surge. ....
Rotation of the wind moving through the region. i want you to take note of the direction the city is facing again, an easterly city and with winds rotating in a cote counterclock wise direction. high tied, 4:47 in the evening, roughly two hours from now. what we ll see is the onshore wind coinciding with the high tide, only exacerbating the problem there. look out for the waves, if you re near the coast get to higher ground immediately. this is the latest satellite information we can pass along to you. winds at the moment, 100 miles an hour for our domestic viewers. about 160 miles an hour, equivalent to a category 2 hurricane. we re focusing our attention now as it moves away, eventually within the next six hours from ....
Expect several storm systems to move into the region. saturday night into early sunday morning, that s when the next storm system is forecast to move on in. that one quickly exits. but then again come 3:00 p.m. eastern time on monday, another storm system will be there. we do have very small windows of time where we have relatively quiet conditions. you can see the winds with these storm systems are going to be very strong, gusting up to 50 miles per hour at times out here. by monday, that next system also producing strong winds of 30 to 50 miles per hour. so that is going to make it very tough. we do expect very rough conditions in the ocean, high waves, poor victim and a loft cloud cover, as well as strong winds. the depth, very deep out here. 8 to 12,000 feet is the average depth out here. we do have deeper areas and, of course, something else to consider is prevailing ocean currents where we generally have a counterclock wise flow around the indian ocean. in that red dot, that s th ....
Notice in order to get personnel and ships away from the drill site, which is about 50 miles off the coast here in venice, louisiana. there are about 1500 personnel working on the rig. they would have to be evacuated and admiral allen said it would take about five days to do so. none of the vessels are capable of handling a hurricane-type situation. that s a criteria. if the winds get above 46 miles an hour, they would have to abandon it and they need five days notice to do that. ground support operations. how much might they be affected? reporter: here s the concern. as the storm moves towards texas, it has counterclock wise winds which will shoef the sea water into the other direct and with that, would be the oil on the surface. that s the concern for folks in alabama, mississippi and ....