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>> there are areas that have been impacted by the storm surge. it is not going to relax very much and the tidal impacts are pretty minimal for those portions of the pamlico sound because it is not going to allow it to go back out through the inlets on the east. for the ocean side, we're worried about what is going on, especially on the eastern and south-facing beaches of carteret and in the outer bank areas, but though areas are still in -- i believe we're going with seven to 11-foot of storm surge possible. as the storm meanders slowly to the west and southwest, the strongest part of the wind...

That means it will rain and rain and rain and it will never try out wherever that system is so wherever it is sitting the rain continues and you get these numbers that seem hard to believe until you think about a hurricane hitting a place for four or five days and they become believable. here are the numbers getting up to 50-55 inches, in some cases, it's locally widespread in areas getting 230 inches. that is running up to your chest and that's in a flat, open fields. anything with low, it will be flooded like that. this is widespread. it runs all the way up to houston is perhaps as much as 2...

international gathering and that means protesters. groups or individuals with something to say always seek out these events and the television cameras that cover them. we want to go straight now to chicago. paul, tell me about this domestic terrorist sceting that netted some potential troublemakers? >> reporter: what happened was authorities here in chicago have arrested three young suspects, all of them 20-somethings. they brought them into court today after arresting them wednesday and they're accusing them of a vast conspiracy. in fact, they say they were going to get molotov cock...

plane headed into this thing. they are calling it a tropical disturbance for now just to see if it's serious enough to name it a tropical storm possibly in the next couple of hours. keep in mind we're also learning major oil companies are not taking any chances with this disturbance. evacuations have begun just in case and the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu, he'll be holding a news conference as they are all watching this disturbance as well heading precariously closely to their government line. we'll keep an eye on all of it and let's move on to some other news. moammar gadhaf...