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>> dylan drier, you're very busy. thank you for spending some of your time with us. we will continue to monitor the weather on the eastern sea board tonight, which is happening just before the finish line of a presidential campaign marathon. plenty of news about that. please stay with us.
Transportation system will begin shutting down for prep president obama called big, serious and slow moving. i want to bring the latest from dylan drier. not a lot of changes. nothing is happening. it's a massive, big and lumbering. >> that's the problem because it is so massive and big and lumbering, as you called it, the storm, no matter where it goes is going to wreak havoc. we have been talking about this storm, putting it in terms of unprecedented, historic, something we have never seen before. there are quite a quu factors of why we can say that with a definitive stance on it. here it is...
Injections are thought to be in danger. more news later for you. let's send it back to craig melvin in miami. >> thank you, sir. appreciate you, richard lui. all eyes on hurricane sandy. the east coast bracing for a direct hit. the storm already being felt off the north carolina coast. let's check in with nbc meteorologist dylan drier who is tracking the storm's whereabouts right now. what can you tell us? >> this is still a category 1 hurricane. it has winds right now up to about 75 miles per hour. it's all about the direction. right now it's moving to the northeast, but it is still going to ...
Breaking news. sandy, which was earlier downgraded to a tropical storm has strengthened again to hurricane status. and the threat remains to the u.s., and it's five states and the district of columbia that have declared a state of emergency. nbc meteorologist dylan drier has the forecast. >> it has been reup greated to a category 1. it will likely downgrade to a tropical storm and back up to a category 1 hurricane. it's not so much the strength of the storm. it's the sheer size of the storm. tropical storm force winds extend about 450 miles away from the center of the storm. notice right now i...
>> i think it's crazy, zany splendiferous and wonderful. >> where would you wrather be right now? >> guam hawaii han lulu, anywhere. >> we'll have reports from dylan drier and bill karins but first let's begin with carrie sanders in texas. good morning. >> tornado just hit our town! >> reporter: more than two dozen people were injured and some homes were fully destroyed after a severe storm struck the small town of van in northeast, texas. >> this is something you only see in movies seeing where these homes stoods and they're not there anymore. >> reporter: and there was no letup in lake city ...