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A quick check of the mornings weather forecast. rob marsian notice is here. hi, rob. what brings you here? has nothing to do with opening day for yankees? >> a combination of things. very important for me to be here today and tomorrow. now to florida, spring training is over but rough weather just begun. thunderstorms rumbling across central florida until 1:00 this afternoon. already rough weather in cape can na canaveral and rough thunder across parts of i-4 corridor. this produced tornado warnings, no significant damage today but damage yesterday. this will combine, a tail end of one front...

Windsurfer, rob, that i just saw you go by you here? at kill devil hills is where rob is in north carolina. you've got some surf and you've got people who are out and waiting to see what they can see of earl? >> yeah, well we're very close to where the wright brothers took their first flight, and the gentleman behind me doing his best get big surf in the winds that have kicked up. so wind-freshening and the clouds lowering and lifeguards have their hands full. it's supposed to be a no-swim zone. surfers and kiteboarders, they give a little more latitude to, but look at this, a little bit of su...

An explosion and a fire as we've had in this case, would you expect there to be some kind of oil spill, some kind of leak associated with this? >> caller: i don't, i wouldn't say spill yet. and i wouldn't even go to oil yet. my first suspicion would be gas. because generally when you have an explosion, it's driven by high pressure, which is usually natural gas as opposed to oil. so i mean, my suspicion would be that it was a natural gas well had blew out during a work-over. but once again, that's pure speculation on virtually no information on my part. >> well we're going to get more informati...

The storms parallel the coastline. when jog to left and we're in trouble. and things are starting to get a little more ominous for the first time since we've been down here, tony. >> when does mandatory not mean mandatory when you've got people there on boards? will you do me a favor and give me a little play by play. while you've been talking to us, we've been watching people ripping it up out there. will you turn around and take a look at what you're seeing? describe it for us, please? >> i didn't hear quite the last part of your question, let me make this point, this is america, right? you ...

North carolina. with tropical storm winds, extending some 200 miles away from the center. with hurricane-force winds extending 90 miles from the center. what that means, the outer banks is going to get blasted by some of the strongest winds. we've got tropical storm watches in effect, hurricane warnings in effect. you see them extending as far south as the carolina coast. as far north as maine. what we're going to see at a minimum is wind gusts of 80-plus miles per hour. waves from 25 to 30 feet by the evening hours. and the storm surge at two to three feet. but something else to mention, too,...