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Jon: gail force winds already hamming parts of the east coast. the worst is yet to come. already more than a million customers have been left without power, especially in virginia. a number of power outages there. joining us on the phone from richmond, virginia, the communications director for the virginia department of emergency management. power outages, bob, is that the worst of your problems right now? >> well the power outage numbers are definitely going up. for us, we're still looking at the some of the storm surge. we have 28 shelters opened up across the commonwealth. we're watching th...

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Relief. that criteria is gail force winds. we want them to continue drilling those relief wells. if they get gail force winds predicted, they have to evacuate the workers, that takes five days to get them back. regardless, we have this storm out there. at this point, it's not very powerful, just very large. the bright red is where the thunderstorms are. they cover honduras, belize and all the way up to cancun. thankfully, it will go over land tonight. that's the yuk can, so the land will weaken in. then, it will go to the southern gulf of mexico. there, the water is warm and it will take two o...

Next 72 to 96 hours. it has to make that transition across the yucatan, and this is the first recon information that we have gotten that suggests that it is strengthening as it moves toward the west/northwest, and they will continue to send the flights out. this is a critical situation, suzanne, because we have never seen anything like this before with a spill of this magnitude in such a critical area, and as it makes its way possibly into the gulf of mexico. i think that we will see in the next several days just what we have to worry about as we go into the next five to seven days or so. >> k...

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