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Power lines down and looking at power outages for millions of people. many cities will be impacted including places in the carolinas. people like d.c., boston, philadelphia and also new york city. a large area impacted. as we head into sunday, we'll start on see the rain picking up in massachusetts, down three portions of virginia. wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour along with beach erosion. by monday, that is when we expecting the center to make landfall. heavy rain gusts up to 60 mile-an-hour as well as coastal flooding and cold air is going to wrap in on the backside of the storm system. ver...

Are picking up ahead of a massive system. it's just the beginning of what some forecasters are calling a serious and potentially deadly storm. elizabeth pran is live where folks are preparing for sandy's arrival. tell us more. >> reporter: that is right. officials tell us if folks are not prepared as of right now, it's officially too late. the conditions are going to deteriorate as far as tuesday. we're getting pelted with sideways rain. it feels like hail when it hits junior jacket. surf is getting pretty angry out there. waves between four to six feet. surf is coming up. high tide coming aro...

Center of sandy, and we are you can taying -- we are talking a wind span of a thousand miles wide. a very large system. you can see it here on the satellite-radar image. you can see the rain moving on shore across portions of the eastern carolinas. something little to note from the advisory it is still a hurricane and has maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. regardless of whether sandy is a hurricane or not when it does reach the mid-atlantic coast as we head to monday night it will be producing many impacts including wind, storm surge and flooding. not just along the coast, but flood...

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Setting down for the next several hours. under voluntary evacuation and others under mandatory evacuation. we have seen people here doing everything they can to prepare. some leaving and some deciding to stay. families buying plywood. people in line for bread and water, flashlights. camping gear. try to get through this anyway they can. the real danger is going to be over the next 4-5 days. we could seize 30 inches of rai. that's about a year's worth worth of rain in just a couple of days. it could be a 12-foot storm surge. while the winds and distractions will get a lot of headlines, it could...