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Providence is nbc news s ron mott where things are picking up wind-wise, ron. reporter: wind-wise indeed, alex. good saturday to you. we re starting to see a lot more people come out of their apartments here downtown. i m assuming there s a little cabin fever setting in for a lot of folks. it s only 1:00. but granted they want to get out and get a little bit of daylight before the light goes away here in four or five hours. 19 1/2 inches. as you mentioned, we think most of the snow is probably done here in providence, which is great news. but obviously as you can see, alex, there s a lot of snow on the roadways down here. some of the streets have been cleared out downtown. for all practical purposes it s a ghost town down here. and one of the things you mentioned, there is an active ban on travel throughout the state of rhode island. a friend of mine used to say that 10% never gets the word. we ve seen a lot of the 10% out here. a lot of folks out joy riding. one guy stopped here at ....
Atmosphere but also have to keep in mind we can potentially track it and we could see, say, possibly some of that radiation working up toward the aleutian islands. the threat it to make its way towards the east we need something for it to get higher in the atmosphere. we are talking dealing with leaks right now. we need something along the lines of an ejection that is certainly what we don t want right now. things are looking favorable and not expecting it to make its way over the pacific right now. the environment we re talking wind wise is looking pretty good. lack over to you. thank you, jennifer. in the meantime, turning to libya. the tide could turn there this morning. new reports of gunfire and explosions in ben ghazi and rebels is preparing for a last stand. ....
That s no joke either. you re on the dirty side of the storm. the winds coming off the ocean. you re still going to get nailed. it s not like you re getting out of this. you just may not go through the eye of the storm. let me end with this and tell everyone what it would look like wind-wise to go through that eye. here as we go through the timeline, this is during the day tomorrow. hurricane-force winds arrive during the afternoon in the keys. this is worst-case scenario for all our friends from key largo to marathon to key west. this is going to be one of the worst storms in their history. by the time we get to sunday morning, there s the eye. there s the 130-mile-per-hour gusts. that arrives in marco island in naples as we go throughout sunday afternoon and evening. this would be right in the center of the storm. notice it s not like it s a picnic over here in areas of miami. we re still going to have winds gusting to 100 miles an hour. that s still a ton of damage a lot of power ou ....