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It was interacting with a cold canadian storm and becoming that superstorm. very rare meteorological event. this is historic. we never had something like this making landfall. the national hurricane center was saying scientifically it is not a hurricane so we can't in good faith issue hurricane watches and warnings. jenna: let me stop you there because you're one weather forecaster, the best weather forecaster by the way in the entire country. i'm a little biased let's say that. there are thousands of weather forecasters up and along the east coast getting messages every half an hour, an hour,...

Intelligence reports suggests otherwise. this bloody conflict, jon, seems to be entering a new phase where we don't really know what will happen. jon: ominous developments there. conor powell, thank you. jenna: well, it was a storm for the record books. superstorm sandy devastating parts of the east coast. it may have been just a category 1 hurricane, just a category 1 but remember, remember this warning from our very own janice dean? >> a million people could be affected by this storm. so people like, oh, it is a northeast storm. only a category 1. what is the big deal? no, this is an impress...

Issue their own warnings. but they couldn't issue hurricane watches and warnings. jenna: why not? >> because the national hurricane center are only ones that can issue hurricane watches and warnings. the northeast was issuing gail warnings, flood warnings something you typically see with a nor'easter. this was unprecedented. they did that as the storm was making landfall with 90 mile-per-hour winds and 10-foot storm surge we were jumping up and down why aren't you saying there needs to be hurricane watches an warnings? from my perspective, from a lot of meteorologists perspective maybe people ...

Transition to a nor'easter type storm. so they will still be able to issue hurricane watches and warnings even if scientifically it's not a hurricane. jenna, i think mixed messages might been the problem here with mayor bloomberg. two days before this storm hit, two days, it was still technically a hurricane, he was saying it will not be that bad. it will not be as bad as irene. i think we have a clip from mayor bloomberg. >> we are not ordering evacuations as of this time for any parts of the city. we're making that decision based on the nature of this storm. although we're expecting a large ...

I have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. jenna: right now sandy is a category 1 hurricane as it approaches the east coast but the storm is expected to morph into more of a nor'easter with high winds and driving rains as it guesses closer to land. landfall is projected sometime tonight but someone who knows better about all this is meteorologist maria molina. she has the latest on sandy's path. >> jenna, thanks. that's right, we're expecting sandy to become nonhurricane but more of a post-tropical hurricane. pretty much that doesn't mean many changes as far as the forec...