and the bahamas. that's going to be the trick, where does it go at the very end of the forecast? does it move up to the north towards new england, maybe nova scotia or hook back out to sea? as of now five days from now all land areas are safe, but the swells from that begin to arrive on the east coast. we're staring at our computer models and we like what we see at the end, alex. the trend over the last 24 hours is to take this hurricane away from the east coast, which is good. we see large waves, but it does not look like a direct hit at in the time. >> we're going to see power utages. about 35,000 customers already without power from tropical storm lee resulting in that. it's there in the louisiana coastal area. thank you for that, bill. to politics now. in less than half an hour a tea party rally kicks off in iowa where sarah palin will speak. she made a surprise stop at an iowa restaurant last night where a conservatives for palin meeting was under way.