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mary, thanks. this is cnn's breaking news coverage of hurricane irene. i'm martin savidge at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. >> i'm keira phillips. thanks for staying with us for the hurricane coverage. a massive category 1 storm is what we're talking about, slowly churning up the east coast. it it's large, dangerous and relent areless. at least nine deaths are now blamed on this hurricane, more than 1 million customers have lost power. >> right now irene is closing in on ocean city, maryland. like every other beach resort along the mid-atlantic, it is just about deserted. w...

Happening in houston. our storm system here as you see is tracking off to the east, bringing heavy rain and we will start to see that change over to snow. this is a fast-mover. this is flight explorer. dallas love field has been closed all day. allegedly they are back open. we found one plane trying to fly there compared to 75 trying to get into dfw right now. planes are moving a little but it's slow to recover. >> thank you, jacqui. we're staying on top of developments in egypt's tahrir square. live pictures you are seeing here of the tens of thousands of anti-government protesters. they ha...

Nope, easy does it. of you can't get so big, because i'm in your way. and look it at this. i just want to point this out. this is flight explorer, 70 planes in the air out of miami right now, so like whatever. 40 miles per hour, we can handle this, this isn't even a employee blow. so we're getting over it. south florida getting over it now. it will eventually get into the gulf of mexico. it is hauling. we just weren't joking that it's probably moving faster than its winds are blowing. >> right. that's good for a storm. the faster it moves means less time for it to sit and churn and get big. >>...

We're ready to go. >> we are looking a the possibility of flight delays in other places today because of stormy weather. the good news is those storms would help break the heat. let's talk about what we can expect today. we are anticipating powerful thunderstorms that are going to roll through the northeast. now, here's the good news. this is what you've been wait for because these storms are going to break the heat. to give you the heads up, big line of storms. this is flight explorer. we have 1400 planes in the air right now. those flights leaving new york, philadelphia, washington, you may ...

Something we're probably going to talk about for a little bit. again, this isn't the first time this has happened. as more details come to us about what's happened with this particular product we'll certainly bring them to you. back to you. all right. thanks a lot, sanjay. chad is following weather and, of course, the biggest story that's affecting a lot of people on both sides of the atlantic ocean, this volcanic ash and the flights. definitely look to be more flight on that screen than we saw yesterday. >> no question about it. and there are clusters of flights. and that tells us that cert...