before, it laid a hand on maryland and other parts in between. maria molina has been working through the night back at the weather board for us right now. maria, what is the status of sandy at the moment? >> right now sandy does have maximum sustained winds of 65 miles an hour, and the center of it, is 90 miles or 100 miles to the west of philadelphia, pennsylvania. it is very large storm system. as we know the center of the storm doesn't really matter where the center is because many people feel the impacts. you're in ohio, you've been dealing with a lot of heavy rain and strong winds. people west of chicago dealing with wind gusts in excess of 40 miles an hour early this morning. the strong winds kicking up waves across portions of the great lakes, lake michigan seeing wave heights from 20 feet. incredible stuff from sandy did. we saw strong winds yesterday from overnight hours. we have wind reports of over 90 maup winds across parts of long island and center of