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tonight about 65 million people from north carolina to new england are in the path of hurricane irene. ten governors declared states of emerge system new york city officials ordered the first mandatory evacuations in city history, but along the jersey shore, drivers can testify trying to get out of harm's way is a slow nerve-racking process. the hurricane isn't waiting. right now, the storm, a category 2 with 100 mile-an-hour sustained winds is heading for the north carolina coast. our coverage starts with john in north carolina. we probably don't need to ask you to set the scene for...

Winds or the heavier outer rain bands until sometime tomorrow. what kind of impact will that have on the oil slick? take a look at the location of the storm compared to the oil. it is very far away from there. however, indirectly we are still going to see the influence, strong easter lynn winds push in over this area and push that oil spill potentially farther inland and potentially farther off to the west. we have coastal flood advisories in effect here along the texas coast and louisiana coast and even into mississippi. ties are expected to be between about one and four feet above average. t...

And the wind is a real concern for the rescue efforts. how bad could it get? >> reporter: john, they're displaced well from the center of this projected path, they're not even in the path from the national hurricane center with tropical storm elsa. however, it has the potential to bring these feeder bands, these outer rain bands that can change the weather so quickly. so rain can pick up, the wind can be sustained at 35 miles per hour. in a worst case scenario, we don't want to see this, but with the approaching squall line like we've got off the coast now, it could spin up a short-lived water...

If you need help, you're going to be on your own. back to you. steve: that's exactly right. todd, thank you very much. mean while janice dean has been tracking this storm. she is here nut studio and conditions are going to start to deteriorate today. lisa: yep, absolutely. i know a lot of folks are concentrated on the fact that it was downgraded to a 2. it's one mile shy of a major hurricane. the results are going to be the same as they were yesterday when it was a 4. that means 20 to 40 inches of rain. someone is going to get that along the coast of north carolina. a catastrophic storm surge ...

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