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And cheri says stocking up on wine, cheese, and fuel to run my generator. should be a good time. make sure you re not operating the generator with wine. contessa brewer is now here to pick things up. i don t know about the wine and the generator combo. she made it sound like she was going to use the wine and cheese to fuel the generator as well as during the fuel. what about you, are you making preparations? i need to make plans later today. if you re in the path of irene anywhere on the eastern coastline, don t forget too about your paperwork action the documents you have, deed to your house, rental agreements, things like that, all very important to have. birth certificates, all very important. so 50 million people affected by this historic storm. we have you covered from the carolina coastline to new england. by the way, coming up next hour, rick perry catapulting to the top of the gop polls in just a week. does that put mitt romney on alert? just one phillips colon hea ....
Following it all. jen? hi, monita. it was a dangerous day wednesday across parts of the south. we re talking reportedly 151 reports of tornadoes and reportedly 279 reports of wind damage across region. this graphic gives you an idea of all that happened. we re talking about damage from texas all the way up along the eastern coastline. now, again, let s go back over to that tornado video coming out of alabama. this is out of tuscaloosa. this was take front university of alabama. as we show you this video, it will show you how the twister is going through in the path of destruction, hopefully we can pull that up for you. you can see the debris being kicked around. you can see the power lines and some of that popping there. reportedly we saw a path of destruction roughly about one mile or 1.6 kilometers. this was really monstrous storm system, very high up on the ef scale, based on looking at this. the national weather service will come out and survey the ....
Peninsula. but the two sides have agreed to hold talks about reuniting separated families. in sri lanka, heavy rains and major flooding have displaced nearly a million people. cnn s meteorologist, jennifer delgado, is at the world weather center with more. this has been a bad situation for sri lanka. they ve picked up three rounds of heavy rainfall over the last several weeks. and for the areas we re talking about, we re talking 375 millimeters of rainfall. that works out to 14 inches from february 2 to february 4. you compare that to 128 millimeters that they typically see a month. about five inches, that s well above average. as i show you on the satellite imagery, things have really improved over the last 24 hours. we are still seeing showers popping, and you see toward the columbo area. this low pressure is weakening, and that s great news. as we go through the next 24 hours, we are going to see the chance for a few showers to pop up across sri lanka toward the south and toward ....
Smoking just a few cigarettes a week could more harm to your health than you might think. researchers at cornell medical center found even the lowest level of cigarette smoke raises the risk of lung cancer and other serious lung diseases by affecting the cells that lighten airways. what a gorgeous sunrise on new york s long island this morning in what could be the calm before the storm. time lapse video shows that brilliant sky quickly tushing gray, as hurricane earl cuts its path along the eastern coastline. earl may spare much of the east coast a major hit but its outer bands could lash several states as it sweeps past north carolina. winds hitting tropical force speeds up to 75 mile percent hour. there are still big concerns in massachusetts where communities that depend on the ocean are the first to feel its effects. on martha s vineyard, last-minute preparations lasted well into the night. ....
Least into early friday. the good news is things should be improving across the carolinas at least as we head into friday morning. through the rest of the days winds will be picking up across coastal areas of long island, even into cape cod. they could be picking up tropical storm force winds as we go into friday afternoon. the worst for cape cod will be into friday night. that s when they could see heavy rain as well. localized areas could see 2 to 4 inches of rain just into friday night, likely to lead to some flooding. now back to you. all right, ava, thanks a lot. here s the rest of your friday forecast. wet from the great lakes down to texas with thunderstorms in detroit, cincinnati, and nashville. fall-like temperatures with light rain across minnesota and wisconsin. meanwhile, showers in south florida. and 91 in miami. 80s from baltimore to boston. just 62 in the twin cities. out west, 95 in sacramento. 86 in portland. 91 in boise. fema has prepared for ....