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hunkered down for the weekend. about 14,000 active duty and national guard troops had been put on standby. that s the view of the storm from the white house. suzanne kennedy has a closer look to the folks who live in the district of columbia and the situation there. in fact, suzanne you ve moved since last we talked. where are you right now? this is 39th and edmonds. this is the first tree that fell. cnn sunday morning, coming to you early. suzanne malveaux joining us for this coverage of irene. thank you for our affiliate wjla there. we re picking it up and will be with you for the next several hours. hurricane irene continues its northern march up the eastern seaboard. irene is still a category 1 storm, pushing 75 miles an hour winds or so. the latest track has the eye of the hurricane 15 miles southeast of atlantic city, new jersey, heading toward new york metro area. very soon. in delaware at least 40,000 people are now without power. just this morning, presid ....
water. if another low-lying neighborhoods now under mandatory evacuation orders, mayor bloomberg tonight saying the city transportation system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports in danger of flooding. they re being closed arriving flights starting at noon. now this is what they re concerned about. pictures here of irene hitting the bahamas. new yorkers are used to seeing this on tv, not up close, though. but they might see a version of it in about 36 hours from now. all day today irene was making its way north. and as it did. emergency plans started kicking. in warnings went up. people boarded up, stocked up and either hunkered down or took off. in a moment we ll check in with anderson and our entire team on irene. first chad myers and that late bulletin from the national hurricane center. chad what s the latest? not much change in the forecast and not much change in the track, isha. we re still at 100 miles per hour. we re still forecast to get ....
here. we re standing, a lot of this was beach. we got here this morning. quickly it s already risen several feet. i was talking to the mayor. he said one of the big worries in this area is when you go past here, there s homes that s built on a cliff. at this point their worries not so much the wind, this is not going to be the kind of storm here where the wind is going to do catastrophic damage, but what they are worried about is, it s moving so slowly, and it s going to hit right before high tide which comes about 3:30 in the morning here, that they are worried that there may be so much water brought into the areas quickly that it could erode a lot of the soil that these homes are built on a cliff. so he s been going around today trying to make sure, you know, people have left their homes or if they haven t that they are at least aware of the risk that they are taking by staying inside. wolf? even though everyone was strongly urged to leave where you are as you say, ....
in tripoli as opposition forces continue their manhunt for the fugitive muammar gadhafi. and hurricane irene churning up the u.s. east coast. hundreds of thousands have already fled. 16 million americans are in the path of this monster storm. we ve got all the angles covered on both stories. right now on world report. it s early morning in tripoli where rebel forces control most but not all of the capital city. there s sporadic but fierce fighting in several parts of tripoli. cnn journalists report hearing a nearly constant chorus of gunfire as rebels root out gadhafi loyalists. that sets up gruesome scenes of bodies strewn across a field. no one knows which side is responsible for the killings. as for muammar gadhafi, nato announced it s helping in the hunt for the libyan leader. on thursday rebels said they thought they had him cornered but were wrong. he is still missing. but another audio recording has surfaced. listen. translator: do not leave tripoli for the ....
can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the cnn newsroom. jim, take it away. thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of miles across and even from space, it is a monster. an astronaut on the international space station called the view terrifying. we have crews deployed up and down the east coast. reynolds wolf is in kill dils hill, north carolina and john zarrella is north of there. then candy crowley in long island and mary snow and jacqui jeras. reynolds, they are bracing for a direct hit, aren t they? they certainly are. one of the most troubling things about this err area is the how it s susceptible ....