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has not seen as dramatic numbers as we expected. why is that? what's the explanation for what we're not seeing? >> that's a great question. this is going to be a little deceiving because, first of all, you look at an infrom red satellite imagery, it's not very well organized. it's quite ugly and ragged. this is where you have to beware. hurricanes dot the record books with extreme rain. however, every storm is different. yes, we have these dark colors over connecticut, massachusetts. that's the core of the winds. tropical storm force winds extend outward from the center 125 miles. so we still have a lot of terrible hours ahead of us. mainly, the big concern i think is of rain. now, it did make landfall as expected, about an hour ago i was on the air with you, expecting the national hurricane center would come out with a statement. at 12:15 in the afternoon, on
out. but this is where the brakes get put on. it's still a broad storm. nobody is going to know a difference between a 75-mile-per-hour hurricane and a 65 or 70. as it circulates counterclockwise, the concern is wrapping around to the south with the convergence to the south, we could see a 24-hour period at least of nothing but moderate to even heavy rain in areas. again, i cannot stress enough that the ground is taxed. it can't take any more. not only are the there going to be pout outages. the weakest of storms knock out power for weeks on end. this storm looks terrible on satellite imagery. it's the individual kind of microclimates that are really going to cause some harm. this is something not to take lightly. i know it's hard and we say that all the time. we're not trying to blow these systems up to something they