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A good cause. part of the problem here, jeff, frankly, that people were watching yesterday. saw category 3. now looking at category 1. how bad can it be? okay. that s a great point and everything, but you know, with this particular storm system we re talking about tens of millions of people in these concentrated areas that if they needed to get out, there s just not going to be enough time. not only that, but we re also talking about a storm with hurricane force winds that stretch out over 90 miles. so it s a strong storm if you look at that wind field perspective and that s the thing i think that a lot of people, local emergency officials are so concerned about. you know, sometimes you can get a category 1 storm and the wind field is only ten miles out from the center of the form with the hurricane force winds. that s why we are still so concerned about this large storm. all right. jeff, thanks so much. well, mandatory evacuation orders have been put in place for cape may, new ....
To storm to make impact and early in the morning hours. we re rapidly moving to prepare to be ready to respond after the storm makes landfall. the former hurricane center director, the legendary max mayfield, told the a.p., this quote read a million times today. unbelievable. max said, one of my greatest nightmares was having a major hurricane go up the whole northeast coast. so what are you going to do? how are you feeling about making sure that this which clearly is a massive storm and has the potential to wreak so much devastation is going to be minimized as much as is humily possible? humanly possible? i don t think you can minimize damages. even with a good team it won t prevent damages. we can reduce loss of life if people hield evacuation orders. it s not just fema. you ve got a lot of officials at the local level. governors have called out national guard. ....
We ve gone through that and rain off the windows as we move through those areas. it s cloudy but comparatively smooth a we re in one of those now. how many people are on that flight? we have 17 with us tonight including the air crew and the electronics tech. the flight engineers as well as predominantly the scientists monitoring several radars, working with the drop zone. we have a probe on the wings that takes specific measurements about the clouds themselves, again, to better understand the details and internal structure of the storm and refine the physics we have in our models. 17, probably i d estimate 10 to 11 of those are scientific party and the rest of air crew. and for you, katherine sullivan, i assume the adventure ....
Likely that the plane is at the bottom of the sea. here s what we do know. 5:35 sunday morning the airbus plane took off from indonesia s second largest city surabaya, for singapore. only the course change was approved. at 6:17 42 minutes into the flight contact was lost. no distress call was ever received. there was severe weather at the time in the area including high winds, thunderstorms, and lightning. those conditions mean the flight likely encountered severe turbulence not just within the thunderstorm but possibly for several miles beyond the storm. airline officials say the pilot of the plane had more than 20,000 hours of flying experience and the plane made more than 13,000 trips. let s get right to nbc news correspondent katie tur live in singapore. what s the latest in that area? ....
Karat karat coastline. sustained winds at 35 miles per hour north of charleston, near jacksonville. winds near 45 miles an hour. take you in. heavier rain bands are starting to lash the outer banks of the carolinas. near cape hatteras, definitely battening down and we have evacuations that have been ordered and that are currently in place. so let s get you the latest here. hurricane warning remains in effect here from basically south carolina all the way up into central new jersey. that s where some of those mandatory evacuations are in place. the reason why a lot of those are in place, because it s coastline, it s so intricate. the way the water interacts with it is very different for each different section of coastline. that s why it is so urgent if you are under emergency evacuation, to get out. even experts don t know exactly how this storm will interact with the coastline. again, up in new york city. look at this. the newest update issued here. ....