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And then the inland flooding. many spots over 8 inches. anywhere in the dark green here, cities like baltimore, washington, d.c., philadelphia, widespread flooding and then the gusty winds. widespread tropical storm force winds. if not higher -- spots, 50, 60 miles an hour. that's going to bring down a lot of trees and cause widespread power outages. >> that's what folks are fearing, jim. i lived in new orleans for ten years. i have been through many of these storms before. one of the lessons you learn when you go through a lot of them is that that northeast quadrant of the storm, that's the t...

Now, this is a big question here in the weather office today. why only 50? this is the warmest water that you could possibly find. well, because there is a little bit of wind out, there and not the big high pressure sitting above it so that the hurricane has nothing to fight. there is a battle between the wind speeds here, that would keep the hurricane or the tropical storm from becoming a hurricane at 50 miles per hour. if the wind goes away, this thing could be much bigger and a much bigger problem than it looks like right now. >> but even a 50-mile-an-hour wind will force a lot of the work ...