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good morning to you all. i'm t.j. holmes. welcome to our viewers watching us in the u.s. and around the world, as we continue to follow a category 1 storm, hurricane irene, that is threatening about 20% of the u.s. population. some 65 million people in its path. it has been hammering north carolina with heavy rains and fierce winds for past several hours. it was just a couple of hours ago that it officially made landfall in north carolina. more than 200,000 people are without power as we speak, and the path of destruction is spreading as this storm continues to move north. major nort...

horizon from us now. she's definitely a big storm and people in her way better banted down the hatches. >> slamming down into the east coast. >> i can't stress this highly enough. if you're in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. >> 65 million people in danger. >> to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. >> mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. >> you have to get out. >> we've never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldn't be doing it now if we didn't think this storm had the potentia...

hurricane winds and then for another six, eight hours on the back side of the storm we'll get this tropical storm force winds and the continuation of the rainfall. so, a long time yet to go before we see any clear skies here. anderson? i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. 65 million people at risk, the government possibly picking up the pieces after this massive >> mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. >> you have to get out. >> we've never done a mandatory evacuation before and we woul...

Storms. we've been showing you video and pictures. i found another image. sometimes the video is overwhelming. this was video posted on the st. louis national weather service website. this was a house hit outside st. louis. if you look closely, there are policemen going through the house, looking for anyone injured. look at this, no roof on the house. there's a policeman walking up the stairs, going to the top. that was an incredible picture. and this is the only image i know of the storm as it approached st. louis. looks like that was what we call the wall cloud, then the tornado would have b...

Morning. they got some pretty significant winds in the midwest. >> and the winds that caused the damage across parts of oklahoma, wasn't even from thunderstorms. just a straight line winds from the actual mother storm itself, so to speak. gives you an idea how strong and large this system is. it's going to affect a lot of people from the mississippi river certainly to the ease coast over the next couple days and from the canadian border to the gulf of mexico and already we're looking at flight delays today. so, even if you're not living in this zone, if you're traveling today, we're going to h...