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from the fox weather center as she has been now for days. j.d., what do we know? >> reporter: well, we know this is a category two storm, but the takeaway message remains the same as yesterday as a category three storm. it's still going to create a lot of problems up and down the northeast corridor. the storm the right now, again, 105 mile-per-hour sustained winds, but we do have maximum winds of 120 miles per hour within the core of this storm. we're going to see the potential for up to a foot of rain, very strong storm surge. we could have power outages not only for days, for weeks...

will have an update on its strength and path, but north carolina is bracing for the first impact. warnings of power outages that could last for days, flash flooding and strong winds. some 80 million people up and down the eastern seaboard are on high alert, and america's largest city, new york, is right in this thing's path. thousands in coastal areas being told to pack up and go, meteorologist janice dean tracking how hard irene will hit from the fox weather center as she has been now for days. j.d., what do we know? >> reporter: well, we know this is a category two storm, but the t...

force winds that stretch out over 70 miles from the center of this storm system. tropical force storm winds that are still wide reaching stretching out literally some 300 mimes. this is a strong, intense storm even though we've seen it waiver a little bit in its strength. right now on the satellite loop it's getting very, very close to north carolina where we do expect that first landfall. take a look at this, i wanted to show you and start off a little bit backwards with the come computer models. this has not waivered at all, with the latest update we have this going up into the nor...

residents and vacationers have been streeping inland and more than 50 shelters on are standby waiting for those evacuees. pennsylvania governor just redlared a state of emergency there as hurricane irene approaches. msnbc meteorologist jeff is tracking this storm for us. age lot of people said it went from a three to a two it isn't so bad, wrong. >> exactly. we're talking about hurricane force winds that stretch out over 70 miles from the center of this storm system. tropical force storm winds that are still wide reaching stretching out literally some 300 mimes. this is a strong, int...

rebels have put $1.5 million bounty on gadhafi. he is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged war crimes. moammar gadhafi's son, wants a cease-fire to stop the bloodshed in tripoli. saadi contacted nic robertson by e-mail. >> reporter: he said he wants to negotiate a cease-fire. he doesn't want it to be syria. he wants help in the negotiations. he says he has reached out to washington and reached out to nato. he wants help in doing this. >> rebels claim they captured three of gadhafi's sons this week, including saadi. but saadi's status is not clear. the number of am...