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Days. it's moving at a lazy walker's pace. it's going to be here for a while. because the storm is so big, north carolina is still feeling the worst of that northeastern quad ant that is slapping -- quadrant that is slapping communities that already felt some flooding, the rough winds, those downed trees, and of course the power lines. this is what north carolina's roy cooper said. >> this is unrelenting and slow. moving at three miles per hour. with every inch of rain that falls in our rivers, it's that much closer to significant inland flooding. we're still evacuating areas all along the riv...

But still, the storm blossomed in size. it went from having about 30 or 40 miles of a radius with hurricane-force winds to 80 miles. and the tropical storm force winds extend out 40 on miles. that just gives you perspective. the next people in line for this storm are georgia up through areas of northern florida into alabama and, again, the georgia/south carolina coastline where that water keeps piling on. remember, it's pouring rain, too. again, like what you saw in matthew -- remember, we had about 22 people killed in matthew, even though the storm didn't make landfall. that's the kind of sit...

Horizontally. it was a very close call. it happened to the nation's most congested skies served by three busy airports, laguardia, jfk, newark. a third of all usair traffic every day flies through, into or out of new york airspace. a week ago today, a very close call. delta flight 172, boeing 747 with more than 300 passengers on board was at the end of a 14-hour flight from tokyo preparing to land at new york's jfk airport. but as he approached run way # in rough winds, the pilot executed a missed approach, telling the tower he was going around. the tower issued instructions to climb and make ...

In advance of hurricane sandy's rough winds and high water. the weather channel's jim cantore is with us tonight from battery park, that's in lower manhattan at the very bottom. jim, i see the rough seas out there. this doesn't make any sense to me historically. i grew up in a country, philadelphia, where you had a certain number of snows every winter which were normal. you had your hurricane season around august/september and it was down south. now what is this? we're not getting involved in the big fight over global warming or climate change. what is going on? >> reporter: this is just a lat...

Dealing with. >> yeah, that's what just washed up on my feet. this is terrible, guys. >> reporter: over the july 4th holiday weekend lots of folks weren't able to use their beaches because of the oil. a health advisory was issued for pensacola beaches. an ireporter showed us this video of an oily tide coming in and staining the sand red. all of it has left people all along the gulf coast calling the last couple of days the lost 4th of july weekend. randi kaye, cnn, new orleans. >> a shift in weather patterns the next few days could send more oil toward louisiana and mississippi. rough winds si...