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hurricane irene is driving to the coast today with 110-mile-an-hour winds. the storm will go on a climb up the east coast impacting, perhaps, one-fifth of the nation's population. north carolina's outer banks will feel irene's winds by nightfall. the full fury will bear down by saturday evening. >> the window for preparation is quickly closing. if you are in the projected path of the storm, please listen to your state or local officials. please listen to emergency radio or television. if you are told to evacuate, please do so. >> irene could make a direct hit on new york city. alread...

Lots and lots of fuel there. warm water, up to a category 3, maybe nearly a category 4 hurricane heading for north carolina, and arriving there overnight tomorrow night into early on saturday as the weather starts to go downhill. now, is it going to be a direct hit? almost worst case, eastern north carolina, or will it go a little offshore? impossible to say at this time, in either case it will be a hard hit on the eastern part of that state. and then points north, and the converge, of the computer projections unfortunately is one of the worst case scenarios we've talked about. how the textboo...

what they was a taped message from the dictator. in it he vowed martyrdom or victory. he said the repeat from his compound was in his words a tactical move. his spokesman promising to turn libya into volcanics and fire. he claims that tribes loyal gadhafi are making their way to tripoli to liberate the city. at the gadhafi compound loyalist gunmen trying to take it back from the opposition who captured it today. our sara sidner was there when it all happen. >> reporter: we're having to run out of the compound now. we see gunfire coming from outside the compound. in and it's getting -...

or victory. the words he said were it was a tactical move. he also claims that tribes, loyal to gadhafi are making their way toward tripoli to liberate the city. that claim has been made before. at the gadhafi compound as the sun went down, there was new fighting. loyalists, gunmen trying to take it back from the opposition who captured it today. sara sidner was there when it all happened. >> let's go. come on, sara. come on, sara. >> having to run out of the compound now. we see gunfire coming from outside o the compound. it's getting too close. so we're leaving. we're not going to ...

in it he vowed martyrdom or victory. he said the repeat from his compound was in his words a tactical move. his spokesman promising to turn libya into volcanics and fire. he claims that tribes loyal gadhafi are making their way to tripoli to liberate the city. at the gadhafi compound loyalist gunmen trying to take it back from the opposition who captured it today. our sara sidner was there when it all. >> reporter: we're having to run out of the compound now. we see gunfire coming from outside the compound. in and it's getting -- it's getting too close. so we're leaving. we're not go...