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Hit this area. the first one coming around 11:00. so we have seen the water rise over and over again. we were here before a few years ago, we saw the water rise within a half hour, just really quickly. in the last 20 minutes or so, the water here had dramatically changed in the parking lot area. but what we do know is they're already opened the high school to make sure that people want to evacuate their homes, they can. we talked to some people who waited until the last minute to get their sandbags and put it in the back of their homes. some people said they would wait this out. it is the thre...

Areas susceptible to the elements. the main concern, we know rain going to be in the forecast. perhaps snow showers. windy conditions and also very, very cool temperatures. you take a look at this. the setup in place here. that's the frontal feature working across the sea of japan and approaching the area within sendai within the next 6 to 12 hours we'll see temperatures going down, 10 to 15 coolers. so, we're talking about, say, 41, 42 degrees fahrenheit when we have been in the mid-50s fahrenheit in the last couple of days. wind component going to be a primary ingredient. southerly wind help...

The sun and the heating of the day on the japanese island here and then the cooler waters. that creates more of a wind during the afternoon. but at this point, it has diminished. earlier reports in sendai airport, the predominant wind direction today has been out of the west, northwest and west-southwest. that is key because the main wind component there being westerly, that means it is an off-shore wind. any leaked radioactive material across this region would be pushed away from the population center. now, we don't know how much has leaked. we don't, of course, can't say whether there's been...

The urge will be for the slick to head towards land. at least today they are lighter and with that lighter seas they may be able to get the skimmers out to help sweep up some of the oil later today. >> rob, you mentioned a couple times lighter winds. does that make it more likely that perhaps we'll get back to attempting those controlled burns? >> reporter: yes, but the direction is the problem. the controlled burns work best when you have light winds or a northerly wind component so the smoke from the burn doesn't come onshore. that's been the big issue. we haven't had north winds in four or ...

Soon. better weather today, new york, philadelphia, d.c., the wind component has really backed off. still some showers around. the real issue is going to be in southern new england, the boston het tro area and count on delays at logan international. yesterday they were diverting planes into logan today it's probably going to be the other way around because the airports for the south will have less wind and less of an issue trying to get planes in and out. >> i've spent a lot of time on the cape and they have a lot of issues with wind normally. can you put it into some kind of perspective for u...