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don't wait. don't delay. >> for the if, time ever, new york city is shutting down its mass transit system, all new york area airports will be closed and more than 300,000 people have been ordered to leave. >> nobody's going to get fined, nobody's going to go to jail but if you don't follow this, people might die. >> we will take a look at the preparations, the evacuations and the path of the monster storm that is irene, "early" this saturday morning, august 27th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and welcome to "the early show," everyone on what is a very busy news morning. i'm jeff glor. >> good morning, everyone. i'm betty nguyen. you all stocked up? you have your bottled water, food. >> the batteries, all that stuff and ready. >> we're all ready. a lot of people are stranded trying to get a flight out. >> yes. >> a lot going on here. >> the hurricane weakened overnight to a category 1, winds of 90 miles an hour right now but the bigger concern with irene is the enormous size and duration makes it worrisome. hurricane irene hit the coast of north carolina, more than 90,000 people have lost power, more than 2 million people along the eastern seaboard have moved to safer ground. hurricane warnings are posted from north carolina to new york, travel is affected nationwide because of flight cancellations. we have team coverage from north carolina to long island, new york, and we begin this morning with mark strassmann in the heart of the storm in kill devil hills, north carolina. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. for all the talk the storm is getting, it is getting stronger as the eye of irene is getting stronger, just a couple of hours away here. we're already seeing and feeling 50-mile-an-hour wind gusts, the outer banks could get a foot of rain and toppled trees have knocked out power to 90,000 people already. with promised menace irene lashed the outer banks with whipping winds, sheets of rain and a fury that will build for hours. for some families, this emergency shelter was their irene refuge. >> her first hurricane. >> reporter: daphne brought her 5-month-old michaela. james took their dog and fled their mobile home. >> they're comparing this to katrina and we all know what damage katrina caused. we'd rather be safe than sorry. >> is that understood? >> reporter: the state positioned these national guardsmen, iraq veterans on the side. >> we've handled this before. >> reporter: the outer banks have handled countless hurricanes before but irene strikes everyone as one they'll long remember. all the way up the east coast to southern new england people are watching what happens here to get a sense of what they can possibly expect. ten states have already declared an emergency. they have a disaster plan in place. now they're just waiting to see whether they have a disaster. >> mark strassmann in kill devil hills, north carolina, thank you. as we reported hurricane irene is expected to make landfall in morehead, city, north carolina, where the power is already out. joining us is jerry jones, mayor of morehead, city. mr. mayor, good morning to you. >> good morning, good morning to all. >> what is it like there now? >> i'm looking out my front door window and i live downtown morehead in the streets, probably three to four feet of water in my street and another foot or two and it will be in my house. hopefully the storm will quit rising here soon. >> morehead city is the only town in carter county where you live that hasn't been evacuated. why is that? >> well that is correct, morehead city is the upper carter county. all of the other cities the evacuate route goes through morehead city. we keep it open so people can get out and plus it's the highest ground in the county. >> what percentage of the town is left? >> probably the percentage about 75%. >> 75% of the town has left -- >> no, about 25 left. >> 75 stayed. your concern is the wind, the rain, which one? >> the flooding is the biggest problem right now. we've had constant winds all night long between 60 and 80-mile-an-hour, higher gusts and i know there will be structural damage. carter county our average elevations is about 12 feet so six to eight-foot storm surge there will be a lot of flooding, damage. >> mayor, have you been told when you think you may be clear, out of the main danger? >> we are forecasted for the eye to go over morehead right at high tide, we're very unfortunate that we're getting that hurricane to cross over at high tide. the last time we had a direct hit in morehead city was donna, and donna did a lot of extensive damage because of that also. >> mayor jerry jones from morehead city, hunker down, sir, we appreciate you joining us. i know you're also doing double duty since you run a construction company. i imagine with duties as mayor and building homes you'll be quite busy in the days after irene. appreciate your time. jerry jones, mayor of morehead city. for the latest on the path of hurricane irene let's go to hurricane consultant and meteorologist david bernard at wfor in miami. good morning to you. a lot of people want to know where is the path of this storm going in. >> let's start off by taking a look at our doppler radar out of north carolina and again, morehead city right in the thick of it, same with wilmington and particularly cape hatteras, the highest wind gusts since midnight, gust of 66 at wilmington, cape hatteras a gust to 84 miles per hour. here's how it looks on radar, intense bands moving across eastern north carolina and now moo southeastern vrng, coastal delaware, near dover. the heavy rain bands beginning, d.c., philadelphia, atlantic city, that's coming up later this afternoon. this is where the storm is right now, again it's about 95 miles southwest of cape hatteras, moving north-northeast at 14, 90-mile-per-hour category 1 but don't focus on the category 1 so much because this is the wind field, the yellow area are tropical storm force, red are hurricane force winds. look at the real estate it covers. put this along the track, tomorrow morning, the storm covers most of the northeast gusts in the new york city area and most of coastal long island and sunday night into monday as the storm weakens and moves inland tropical storm force winds spreading across most of the state of maine, reinforces how large the storm is and the probability of seeing tropical storm force winds are high to likely for all of the northeast, and that would mean winds between 40 and 74 miles per hour, again some areas could see some hurricane force gusts as well. >> this is just a massive storm. david bernard thank you for that. the threat of irene forced thousands of people to cut short their beach vacations including the first family. officials are not mincing words about the danger from such a storm. cbs news national correspondent chip reid is in ocean city, maryland, with the latest. good morning, chip. >> good morning, betty. officials from the lowest level to the highest level are sounding the alarm, telling people here on the coast to get out while you still can. >> i cannot stress this highly enough, if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don't wait. don't delay. we all hope for the best but we have to be prepared for the worst. >> reporter: late last night, president obama returned from his family vacation in martha's vineyard to help coordinate the federal response to hurricane irene. in what could turn out to be a fortunate coincidence two years ago, the president participated in a federal disaster exercise that focused on a category 3 hurricane hitting new york city. but before irene gets to new york on its path up the east coast it will roar through ocean city, maryland, where deserted beaches show the president isn't the only one cutting short a vacation. >> ocean city is a ghost town. >> reporter: on the bay seafood owner robert wine says it will pack a financial wallop because it's hitting on one of the busiest weekends of the year. hurricane force winds are expected to hit the maryland and delaware coast saturday evening and could last a terrifying eight hours, causing severe flooding and major damage. in alexandria, virginia, they're hoping sandbags will be worth their weight in gold while across the river in washington they're giving them away. >> sandbags to keep the water from coming into my house. >> reporter: and here in ocean city, officials are so worried they are asking people who refuse to leave for the names and phone numbers of their next of kin just in case. betty? >> its that he serious. chip reid in ocean state, maryland, thank you. hurricane irene is expected to strike million-dollar md just about six hours now and joining us on the phone is that state's governor, martin o'malley, in annapolis, the capital. governor, good morning. >> good morning. >> you had harsh comments, you were frustrated. "it's the height of stupidity and selfishness for any citizen to stay in ocean city now. do you get the sense overnight that people got that message? >> oh, i absolutely do. in fact i'm not frustrated. i was trying to speak clearly about the real and deadly danger that this storm poses and as you can see from that last piece, people listened, and people got out of ocean citynd the evacuation was handled very, very well so i'm proud of the merit there and the first responders and also citizens for listening. the most important thing you can do is take charge of your own family, for the first 72 hours you're on your own. the first 72 are on you and lots of people are heeding the warnings and getting out of the low-lying areas which is what we want. >> what are you anticipating there in the next 24 to 48 hours? >> the first indications of how bad this will be i think will come to us from north carolina and virginia, but i anticipate a lot of property damage. i anticipate some pretty high storm surge. always a very tricky thing to predict in the chesapeake bay and the tidal waters but this is still a very, very strong and powerful and potentially deadly storm so we are preparing for the worst. >> do you feel like you got out in front of this as best you can in. >> i feel like we did. i think the president's messaging and i think the new professionalism at fema, i mean all of those things working in conjunction with the state and the city and countyy officials, all of that has worked very well in this preparation phase, but we really haven't accomplished anything -- well that's not true. we've gotten a lot of people out of the way but the real test is going to come now in the impact of this thing and then in the recovery of getting recognize trickity back on. >> not only impact. safety is the biggest concern. one of the impacts for you is obviously the tourism business. >> well, that certainly is going to hurt us this weekend. the good news is we've had a better summer, this summer than we had last summer and the economy appears to be performing a little better but this is going to hurt a lot of businesses and we're counting on this but the main thing all of us need to focus on is protecting life. this is a category 1 and not a category 2, but that's still a deadly category and people need to be respectful of the impact that this can have and the lives that are poeshlg potentially at here. >> governor, thank you so much. >> thank you. the massive storm is expected to hit new jersey and new york later today and continue through tomorrow. correspondent bigad shaban is in ventnor city, new jersey. how are they preparing for the storm there? >> reporter: we are starting to see light rain. the governor ordered the casinos shut down by noon. area hotels are closed and residents and tourists are being turned away as the area expressway and routes are closed by law enforcement all in anticipation of hurricane irene. >> we are working on making shoo you are that we have appropriate evacuations for folks who can't evacuate themselves. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie ordered evacuations, people are listening but tensions are running high. long lines in cape may county led to confrontations but the packed gas stations are a sign coastal residents are evacuations before it's too late. store owners in atlantic city are covering up their windows with plywood trying to limit the damage from hurricane irene's vicious winds. even the coast guard is abandoned, its windows boreded up. officials warning emergency response for people who stay behind will be limited. >> if it continues on the current track from a flooding perspective this could be a 100-year event. >> reporter: the garden parkway is closed southbound to the beach. new jersey transit is suspending commuter rail service at noon, buses and other service by 6:00 p.m. and gamblers hoping to ride out the storm in the casinos are out of luck. this is only the third time in 33 years atlantic city casinos have been ordered to close and betty we're waiting for the next step here in ventnor. >> i think we all are. thank you for that. elaine quijano is in long beach, new york which could be hit hard later today. good morning, elaine. >> reporter: good morning to you, betty. most new yorkers have never seen a hurricane pass over or even near them. so with irene bearing town, people throughout the region are taking historic precautions. no long island's waterfront towns there's no calm before this storm. people are packing their bags, boarding uhm windows and scurrying to stock up on supplies like water that are quickly running out. >> every place i've driven by the parking lots are full. let me get it today because there won't be any tomorrow. >> reporter: communities across barrier island are forced to flee ahead of the storm and potential 12-foot surges. long island watts last hit by hurricane gloria in 1985, but it's a repeat of the long island express from 1938 that everyone here hopes to avoid. more than 550 people died and thousands lost their homes. 20 miles away new york city has never been hit by the big one but officials want to be ready if irene races up the hudson. at noon, the nation's largest transportation system, new york city buses, subways, trains and planes, are all grinding to a halt in anticipation of irene's arrival, and on friday, more than 300,000 new york city residents were told to evacuate, before irene barrels into the big apple on sunday. >> i packed a few things and i put it in my bag. i practice i to god everything works out. >> reporter: hospitals and nursing homes in the storm's projected path were emptied of patients who can only hope they'll be able to go back. >> i have a lot of friends here. i want to come back here, i want the building to be here. i want to come back. >> reporter: and here in long beach, where the waves are already churning behind me, residents have been ordered to evacuate by 5:00 p.m. and new york governor andrew cuomo ordered 230 soldiers tool long island by tonight. >> elaine quijano thank you for that. time to check in with lonnie quinn to get the latest on this storm. >> so lon, down to a category 1 overnight which is less serious but as we've been saying still on guard. >> we were talking earlier, this is not a storm where you focus on the winds. even the northeast you will have experienced stronger winds in the past. it's the fact you're catching all of this rain for a long period of time. you've got a storm between 500 and 600 miles wide. for the northeast this is a rare event and here's the reason why. the northeast has a number of what i'm calling hurricane protectors. first, you've got a pretty strong westerly wind, that's your jet stream, flows from west to east, helps to steer hurricanes away. we've also got cold fronts that drop to the northeast every three to four days, it's a brick wall to a hurricane, and look out to the ocean, sea surface temperatures cooler. you need 80 degrees or warmer. we don't get that for the northeast. here's what's in place, however. the prevailing westerly winds, this time we have a low pressure system set up off to our west, so it's actually giving that counterclockwise flow pulling the hurricane inland. second thing i want to point out, that strong brick wall that cold front i was talking about replaced by very weak stationary front not doing its job. biggest thing that hurts the situation is this big high pressure system, this is a blocking high, meaning even if irene wanted to curve out to sea right now it can't, because that prevents it from doing such and consequently a picture like this on your satellite and radar with the counterclockwise spin, about 60 miles to the south of cape hatteras, we'll wait for landfall we think sometime between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. this morning. back to you guys. a closer look at the weather for the weekend. >> all right, everybody, that's a quick look on the weather situation. jeff, betty, over to you guys. >> thank you very much. we want to get the latest on the rest of the news today, we go to correspondent terrell brown at the news desk. we go to libya, no sign of moammar gadhafi still, but in tripoli, a post-gadhafi era is under way. they claim they cleared the capital of gadhafi loyalists. the freedom comes at a price. cbs news correspondent barry petersen reports. >> reporter: good stocks are disappearing fast and worse the water is shut down. >> no water. >> reporter: people are waiting and hoping for water deliveries. the streets littered with garbage in a city without basic urban services but with a few willing people like this traffic cop, back at work. and it's hard to move around, rebels have checkpoints, sometimes less than a block apart, solidifying their hold on the capital. gadhafi is nowhere to be found, but his propaganda machine is still churning out adoration. a new syrian based satellite tv channel is devoted to gadhafi and claimed this was a live report about people in the city's main square gathered to worship their leader. this is the reality, the square was taken the first night the rebels moved into the city. now it's a focal point to celebrate gadhafi's downfall. no gadhafi supporter would dare show up in this place. the civil war began on february 17th, a day now enshrined in libyan history. proud neighbored are sweeping away the history. >> now we change it to 17th. >> reporter: sweeping away old street names in favor of this new era. barry petersen, cbs news, tripoli, libya. >> federal safety and aviation inspectors are expected to travel to missouri today, want to know why a medical helicopter crashes, all four people on board were killed. the helicopter went down in a field northwest of kansas city late friday, wasn't far from an airport scheduled toñi refuel. three crew members on board and a patient were also on board that helicopter. wall street is expected to open for business as usual monday morning despite hurricane irene. the dow closed up almost 135 points on friday in late trading, the first weekly gain in more than a month. investors were cheered by fed chairman ben bernanke's remarks that u.s. economic growth looks promising over the long-term. a federal judge ruled prison doctors can continue to forcibly medicate jared loughner. the anti-psychotic medication was temporarily stopped on the demand of his lawyers. prison officials said his condition deteriorated. the judge ruled in may loughner he is unfit to stay trial. a brown cloud in may in phoen phoenix, the temperature was 117 degrees. >> 117 degrees, or a hurricane, what do you prefer. neither one. terrell, thank you very much. coming up here, a huge challenge, how to protect a big city from an urban hurricane like irene. an equally hard task, getting around during irene, flights are canceled, advice on how and when you can get to where you are going. man: we need a good night's sleep. woman: 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[ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't... multigrain cheerios has five whole grains and 110 lightly sweetened calories per serving... more grains. less you! multigrain cheerios. you are looking at a live picture of ocean city, maryland, and still a bit of a calm before the storm but the waefds ves pi up a little bit. >> a little bit of surf, don't get used to it, things are about to change but rapidly this afternoon. welcome back to "the early show." i'm betty nguyen. >> i'm jeff glor, as we watch what happens to irene. >> a large part of the east coast is coming to a standstill, planes and trains are canceled, stranding thousands. the latest on how and when you're likely to get to where you're going. >> you need essentials, water, battery and flashlights, impossible to find in stores. it's not too late to find some useful supplies right around your own house. we'll tell you what to do right now to hurricane proof your house. danny lipford, some today information coming up. first we get this city ready for a dangerous storm has turned out to be an historic undertaking. >> reporter: as you can see behind me in times square, it's an eerie, empty calm, make no mistake, danger lurks on every street. new york city is home to what its buildings commissioner says are 100 large open construction sites, potential launching pads for cranes, steel, wood and debris, when caught up in the fury surrounding hurricanes, like irene. >> we're here to make sure that the contractor does all the right things, tying down material, getting rid of it so it doesn't become a projectile, making sure equipment like a tower crane is secured specifically for a hurricane. >> reporter: and it's not just construction sites. everywhere you look from restaurant awnings to soaring walls of glass you see urban architecture turned into potential lethal weapons, blasted by hurricane force winds. >> we're staying inside, renting movies from the library and just riding it out. >> reporter: mayor michael bloomberg is taking no chances. yesterday he ordered the first mandatory evacuation in city history. an estimated 300,000 residents in low lying coastal areas displaced from places like coney island, brooklyn, and rockaway queens. >> nobody's going to get fined, nobody's going to go to jail but if you don't follow this, people might die. >> reporter: times square, the proverbial crossroads of the world, is the potential ground zero really for all these problems, all these lights, all these buildings, normally on a saturday, even this early, jeff, it would be teeming with people, that would not be the case today. >> armen keteyian, thank you. it has been how long since new york has seen something like this in. >> quite a few years. this is the replay of the hurricane that hit new york city in 1821 and it literally hit every city that time on the way up. i never thought that would happen again. when it hit new york city the tide rose 13 feet in one hour. >> the predicted models were slightly less accurate in 1831. >> right. >> what do we have to do now? >> stay away from the water and get yourself in a wind-resistant building. >> there's been a lot of talk about the buildings, people living in the 20th floor of a high-rise building are very concerned. what are the issues and concerns there? >> the wind velocity will increase with the highest stories, and if you experience trouble get away from the windows, put as many walls between you and the windows if possible and if necessary get into an interior stairwell with new york city code has to be concrete. >> if it is tropical storm storm force winds at ground level it's possible it could basically be hurricane force winds. >> absolutely. it's not possible. it's going to happen because the wind speed increases as you get away from the frictional effects. >> you're dealing with potentially shattered glass, construction sites? >> somebody was mentioning hurricane ike. the streets of houston were littered with broken glass sucked out of the windows. >> and we have to watch out for all of that. >> that's right. >> we've seen workers trying to secure some of it but there's so much construction going on, obviously in big cities like new york. >> one of the things i've seen in looking at the aftermath of hurricane damages that the debris does more damage sometimes than the wind or the water. >> and stay off the streets. >> that's right. >> let's talk about the surge as well. wind is one thing, the storm surge and flooding is another. >> freshwater flooding is another. two kinds of flooding. everyone's been concentrating on the saltwater flooding. freshwater flooding. we have rock and cement and there's no place for the water to go. the first phase is flash flooding, probably before the surge starts. >> looking at the the map of the zones in manhattan, what areas are most susceptible. some of the areas are cleared out already. >> right. >> what do you tell people beyond getting you the, are there preparations they can do before leaving? >> sure, secure pets but i understand the new york city evacuation plan is unique in that it allows for pets in the shelters, so that helps out a lot. >> storm surge, wind in a place like new york, what may be the biggest threat, what is the bigger threat? >> well, surge along the coast is the bigger threat because new york is unique in having a right angle between the new jersey and long island, and when the water at the front of the hurricane, the winds are blowing from the east to the west. if you see that graphic there, it's pushing all the water into the right angle. you can't push water into a right angle without it rising abnormally so we're unique in new york city in having added surge, because of that. >> at the very least this is going to be a water-logged city tomorrow. >> it's carrying a tremendous amount of moisture, this system, and we're going to have a lot -- freshwater flooding, saltwater flooding and wind effects in the skyscrapers. >> less wind in the south but more dangerous a storm in the south? >> we're dealing with a northern hurricane which is very different. as a hurricane moves north, it gets affected by the westerly winds at these latitudes, and that pushes it forward faster, and increases the speed on the right side. it also enlarges it. the thought of this hurricane enlarging any more than it is with the 300 to 400-mile wind field is scary. >> dr. nicholas k.coch, thank you for your time. fascinating information but a little frightening. lonnie, let's head over to you. >> dr. coch right on top of everything. i'll add a little bit to that. here is why it's such a problem pushing into the new york city area. all right, new york city is a dead end for storm surge. this is what dr. coch was talking about, the right angle. water has nowhere to go, flooding the hudson river and the east river. the southern tip of manhattan will flood. bad timing. the storm surge hitting at the precise time they have their high tide and it's an astronomical high tide so that adds to the amount of water being pushed onshore and look at this, it is already the second wettest august in the history of new york city, a quarter inch more of water, the wettest august ever, trust me you're getting more than a quarter inch of water out of this. you'll probably be picking up close to five, maybe ten inches of rain, flooding is a huge concern with this issue. let's look now at the weather for your weekend. >> just to give you a quick update this came out at 5:00 in the morning, the eye of the storm is 68 miles from cape hatteras, we think between account and 11:00 is when we'll have landfall. betty? 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for a long time along the eastern seaboard. >> got sheared off overnight. >> whenever it encounters opposing winds it loses speed. when you have a spinning top and you touch it with your hands. it will emerge from the outer banks back out to relatively warm water. it will hold on to strength. once it moves north of the outer banks the storms typically cannot get stronger. you don't have the fuel for it but it can maintain itself and that's the difference this time. usually the water is too cool and they start to downgrade. i think it will hold on to category 1 status as it approaches the new york city tristate area. >> the problem is it's a massive storm. >> right, you've been talking before not necessarily the wind being the big deal. it's the storm surge so how does that affect new york city. what are we going to see? >> new york city has nowhere for the storm surge to go. you were talking about that, nowhere for the water that's surging into the city to go. that's going to flood, 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with cbs news correspondent mark sprasman in the heart of the storm in kill devil hills, north carolina. it looks like the winds have started to pick up out there. >> no question, betty. good morning. just in the last half hour or so this really started to feel like a hurricane and of course there's a good reason for that, irene has now arrived. the landfall was about 110 miles south of here but now this massive storm is churning its way up the outer banks and to points further ñinorth. right now there are, we are feeling pelting, stinging rain. we've had wind gusts of 50 miles an hour. the gusts feel stronger than that and of course it is only going to get worse as irene moves further north. there are no, there's no damage here yet. there is, are some reports of damage further south. a couple hundred thousand folks are without power. that of course brings up the good piece of news here, most folks here did heed the evacuation warnings and have gone inland. there are holdouts but there are not a ton of them. the other thing that is happening, up and down the east coast, betty, people are watching what is happening here to get a sense of what they can expect through the course of the day. >> no doubt. all right, mark strassmann in kill devil hills, north carolina, thank you for that. joining us on the phone from morehead, city cit city, new yo exchange, neil and trudy gilbert, north carolina, decided to ride out the storm. >> good morning. >> neil, looking behind you it doesn't look so bad at this point. where are you when it comes to the storm? >> we are on a balcony in a condo unit right in front of the sound there, so no, it doesn't look as bad as we thought it might have been as forecasted. >> what have you experienced so far? >> lots of rain, wind shears, and then the storm surge here and a couple of houses and boats that are flooded behind us. >> trudy, you're staying at a friend's condo which is about two miles from your home. why did you guys decide to stay? >> well, we were worried about our house and it's so sentimental to us, lots of family items in it, and we just love our house so we wanted to be here to see what happened to it after it's over. >> are you nervous that you could possibly be putting yourself in danger by staying? >> well, it's not as bad as i thought it was going to be so i don't feel quite as nervous. i was more nervous riding down here yesterday thinking we were crazy to do this, but we're here and it's okay. >> so far so good. all right, neil -- >> so far so good. >> neil, you've lived through several of these so you're a little bit experienced when it comes to this. what are you expecting with this storm? >> well, hopefully as the eye passes and we catch the back end of it, it goes away and tomorrow it's supposed to be sunshiny, so we'll go and see if there's any damage to the house and really start cleaning up the yard and doing any repair that needs to be done at that point, just keep going. >> hopefully it's not going to be too bad when it comes to the damages. trudy, this is your fourth hurricane in 13 years. ever think about moving? >> no. i'm not ever moving. >> we wish the best of luck to you both. so far you managed to ride it out. take care and stay safe. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> all right, neil and trudy gilbert we appreciate them being with us today. now here's jeff. >> hardy souls. good for them. david bernard at with,for in miami is watching irene for us once again this morning. good morning to you. irene lost a little bit of steam overnight here but the bigger concern now is the size of irene? >> that's really the big story here, jeff. absolutely right. we just have new information in from the hurricane center as of 8:00, the winds down a little bit more to 85 miles per hour, but that pressure holding steady, and again the wind field is very large, so we're going to have these 80, 85, 90-mile-per-hour winds spreading up the entire east coast during the day today and tomorrow. the position is 60 miles best is of cape hatteras in north carolina. look at the radar this morning and we can see the center located just in this area right here but tremendous amounts of rain sweeping into eastern north carolina, southeast virginia and now it's just south of atlantic city, some of those bands will be making it as far west as washington, d.c., later on this morning, and also during the afternoon hours, some of the wind gusts we've seen since mid night, 84 at cape hatteras, income n, 66 at wilmington, not too much in ocean city, maryland as really the core of the hurricane is located right in there, places like norfolk the worst of it is yet to come over the next few hours. we've had dry air eating into the southwest side of this storm, that's what's largely responsible for the weakening and also what's helping to propel the storm further to the north and east so we still think that track into the new york city tristate area looks good for later tonight and tomorrow, when the worst weather will be. i think the biggest concern in the big cities will be areas where there's some storm surge potential especially around new york city an the harbor and also the wind gusts particularly in high-rise buildings and the power station i think that's going to be one of the big stories, how many people without power i think you were reporting 200,000 people are ready in the carolinas, imagine when those winds hit the highly populated area. >> david, thanks for saving the worst for us here in new york city. david bernard, we'll talk to you again very soon. david just mentioned the hurricane is heading up the coast right now toward maryland actually. we'll go to cbs news national correspondent chip reid in ocean city. good morning to you. what's the latest there in. >> reporter: jeff the latest is we are feeling the effects and seeing the effects of hurricane irene, certainly the surf is much rougher than it was yesterday. we're getting rain, the wind is increasing, we're told by local officials to expect gale force winds later this morning and hurricane force winds alater ths evening. the hurricane force winds could last as long as eight hours and that could push an enormous storm surge on to the barrier island and flood it a number of feet deep. the police as they urge people to leave are telling people who refuse to leave they need contact information for their next of kin just in case. >> chip reid in ocean city thanks. later today irene will hit new york later tonight where major preparations have been under way. armen keteyian, good morning to you. >> reporter: mayor michael bloomberg is due to address the city in 50 minutes providing another update on plans to evacuate and prepare the city in the face of irene. the city has already, mayor bloomberg has already set up a mandatory evacuation for some 300,000 people, the first time that's ever happened, sending those people to higher ground. the mass transit system is due to be shut down at noon today, that's the first time that's ever happened. neighborhood stores are already out of the basic necessities like water and food and flashlights. the city has set up 91 emergency facilities around the area, evacuation centers and shelters in the five burroughs, moves patients out of five hospitals sending them to higher ground. interestingly yesterday mayor bloomberg joked this might be a good time to visit the long lost cousin overnight in another state but seriously, jeff, looks like a lot of people have taken his advice. times square is virtually empty and coming here early, new york city looked like a ghost town. >> yes, good idea. visit the cousin if you can leave right now. armen keteyian thank you very much. nine minutes past the hour. >> good thing new york city looks like a ghost town. you don't want people out there on the street. >> at least we can finally find parking. >> if your car survives hurricane irene. lonnie, how are we looking? >> dealing still with a category 1 system. headlines here, irene as a category 1 made landfall right around cape lookout, north carolina. we are watching the jet stream as far as where this will be steering next, currently moving facing to the north-northeast. i think it will be picking up more of an easterly component making new york city the next stop. if you take a look at the satellite and radar picture for irene, there's your eye. that's cape lookout right there, there's your eye, the northern wall just skimming cape lookout, pushing north-northeast, maximum sustained winds down to 85, dropped each and every moment the storm interacts with land the friction weakens, pushing in the direction of new york city, we will be planning on new york city's toughest time period from about late tonight through about 3:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, this is the track we think as it approaches the tristate area of new york city, the country's biggest city of all, looking at a category 1 hurricane, making a 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>> nine months after that night, a much more personal and stunning tragedy in town. >> a man walked into the parkersburg high school weight room and shot thomas multiple times. ed thomas, age 58, died a short time later at a waterloo hospital. >> reporter: a troubled former player, mark becker, murdered coach thomas in front of 20 students. >> we find the defendant guilty of murder. >> reporter: following a swift trial becker was convicted of murder and ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars. in 34 seasons, coach thomas had 292 victories, won two state championships, and sent four players to the nfl. >> we're not trying to just teach science and math and history and how to play the game of football. they're trying to in some way make a difference in their life. that's why i do what i do today. >> reporter: he was more than a coach. he was an icon. >> ed thomas was one of my heroes. >> reporter: remembered for his impact on his students and the community. >> the reason i respected him so much because of what he did for all of his players and that's teach them not only the game of football but teach them the game of life. >> the thomas family recently co-wrote a book called "the sacred acre" the ed thomas family. joining us with mark becker's family. thank you for being here. it's not easy but we appreciate you joining us. you all watch the story again, you certainly heard this many more times than you ever want to. jan, let me start with you. two years later now, when you watch him coach, still watch and inspire the kids you still think about him. >> i think about him every day. >> remember the great times? >> yes. >> aaron, two years later? you look at your father as a hero and inspiration? >> 100%. i think you know that hasn't changed in third grade, i wanted to go into education, i saw the impact had on young people, knew that's what i wanted to do, i went in the same profession, as an athletic director and coach and now going back to ap, taking my father's job, it's a chance for me every day to try to continue what he started and hopefully to carry forward what he was all about. >> when did you decide you wanted to put this book out? >> i think for us, it was more we hadn't really thought about it but people continue to come up and ask us, and people were interested in my dad's story and who he was, so at that point, i think we decided we can, some good can come out of this terrible event that's happened. if a guy in a town of 2,000 people in the middle of iowa can have such an impact, maybe we can challenge other people to hopefully see how they're living their lives, see who they can possibly influence. >> this was a tragedy that in many cases would separate two families for life, and you would never talk again. mark's parents are here as well. what made you want to work on this book, work with them, bring this town together? >> i shared this with my wife here, a few meetings ago coach was this humble man, incredible encourager, motivator and i can remember in the practices back when i played for coach, you were tired and thirsty, he could convince you there's victory, there was something good going to come out of this hard work and so when i was asked to come along, i decided something good can come out of this story and that's why it's not easy but we're helping all we can. >> this town came together, still comes together. >> absolutely. >> what do you hope people take from this book and your story? >> i would like to say that i think all of us could agree on this coach that with faith, all things are possible. and that even though you can go through a tragedy such as our families have gone through, you do not, you do not give up on god, and you do not quit working together to make it a better place and make it better for everyone. >> it's an extraordinary story, we thank you all for joining us this morning, if you get a chance to look at this book i would encourage everyone to do so. you all are -- as we talk about that book a little bit here, is it something that you hope people, obviously not just in your town but all across the country end up looking at? soon enough? >> yes, i would love people to realize how this humble man who walked the walk could influence kids, motivate kids to 100% of their abilities, and incredible mentor of mine, coach was. >> how is mark doing? >> doing well. he's getting the medication and the counseling that he needs, we constantly monitor him to keep that medication level. it's an illness that will never leave our son, and it's a tough thing because it's a very serious illness they don't have a lot of answers for, but he has a quality of life. >> thank you all again very much. the book is out now, still ahead, much more on hurricane irene. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. we have a little more time here to talk about the book. and about the legend and the inspiration that what coach thomas, maybe, aaron you can talk about your role a little bit now and the job you've stepped into. >> i was at a neighboring school, 15 miles away from parkersburg athletic director and after my dad was killed, coaches who were long time assistants with my dad, said would you have any interest in coming back, they had a meeting with the superintendent the school board a couple days after my dad was killed. it was a tough decision to decide, too, but at the same time i knew that was the right thing to do. it was great to be back close to mom and for me parkersburg has been a special place and the opportunity to return home, while i left a great school i could carry on what my dad was about and make sure what he found was important stayed nice. >> and jan, for you, watching him in this job now, it must be -- >> it's a deja vu, strong resemblance to his dad and i think that's what draws people to aaron, like it did ed. >> the same inspirational qualities? >> yes. >> he can rally the troops? >> yes. >> you think you got the same thing? >> i try. >> jan, did you ever think you'd be sitting on the same couch, the four of you? >> yes. >> immediately after you knew? >> pretty much, yes. >> forgiveness? and faith? >> and i think, you know, we both know that dave and joan, the last thing they wanted for this, you saw the respect dave has for dad and the last thing they want is for their son to do something like that, so i think they want is for their son to do something like that, so i think anybody wh[ man ] i got, if we,, this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. 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>> but the size of the system, if it was just a tropical storm and 400, 500 miles wide we would still have to heed the warnings. here is the situation currently, in north carolina, irene made landfall at 8:00 a.m. at cape lookout as a category 1, the worst conditions will be taking place shortly in cape hatteras because cape hatteras is in the northeast quadrant. the southern half of irene not nearly as bad as the northern half. you can see on the radar signature, spinning around, that would be cape hatteras, the brighter corners on the northern half. cut it into quarters, the northeast quarter where cape hatteras is located the toughest winds and the biggest brunt of the storm. that's the current situation with hurricane irene. here is a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >> again right now we have irene around the outer banks of north carolina with more on all of that, here is betty. >> hurricane irene is hammering the barrier islands off of north carolina, and it is moving inland. joining us now from raleigh with how her state is handling the earlier effects of the storm in north carolina is the governor bev perdue. thanks for being with us. >> good morning, betty. we are being hammered right now, the eye has just passed over cape lookout as you're reporting, the winds are about 90 miles an hour. we've got flooding and surges have crossed the eastern part of the state and our residents are battered down. >> i imagine so, and i also understand that 160,000 people there in your state are without power. how prepared is north carolina for a storm and as we look at the satellite picture of this size and magnitude? >> well as you know we're known as hurricane alley, and we have consistent hurricanes every season, up to about 200,000 plus homes without power now. we have a system in place that's fabulous, because of our experience. we started the county office and go through the state and then with fema, we don't exchange business cards during the hurricane we know each other and as a result our preparations have been really intense and robust. we're right now in the middle of the storm and later this afternoon, we'll begin our response and recovery, and our citizens and tourists have listened to us and doing what we've asked them to do. at the end of the day this is a storm that you have to respect, but we're very hopeful that she's not doing the damage she could have done. >> you must respect it, you are bearing the brunt of it right now. do you think the people in your state heeded the warnings and evacuated as they were asked to? >> the tourists did a thorough evacuation, they heeded the warnings and we had people going around actually knocking on hotel and motel doors. some citizens as it's happening all over the east coast just decided to stay and baton down the hatches and endure it. as the reports i'm getting last night and early this morning, even those citizens who have stayed in the eye of the storm understand the danger, and we've had no reports of anybody out walking around or taking pictures or doing things that just lack common sense, so we feel very hopeful that we'll have minimal physical loss of life or actual damage as a result of people from the storm. >> we hope so, too. what kind of challenges do you think you'll be facing? what do you think is the biggest challenge? >> well the biggest challenge for us is the recovery. we're in the height of agricultural season and the east is full of animals and farmland products getting ready to be picked and so we are concerned about the flooding and the surges, we're obviously looking at cape hatteras and a breach there, and so as we're in the middle of the onslaught of the storm we're hoping and praying for the best >> we wish the best to all of you. stay safe in north carolina. governor bev perdue thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> now here's jeff. thank you very much. as hurricane irene barrels up the east coast leaving a path of destruction, there will be stories of people battling the odds and doing something heroic like the people of indiana who helped rush and lift the stage after the collapse a couple of weeks ago or oscar winner kate winslet who pulled richard branson's 90-year-old mother from a house fire. are some people born with a hero gene? j. dr dr. jennifer hart stein, are they? >> yes and no. there's a little bit of it nature and some of it nurture. there's little research done on the hero gene, a lot done on the evil side of the same coin. there's little done on whether or not you can be born. you're born with the predisposition to want to help, maybe have a stronger moral compass to jump in and do and at the same time the environment nurtures that to happen. more encouraged to look at other people not only at yourself. >> we call it the hero gene. is there a more scientific way? >> it is really a certain makeup. we haven't been able to pinpoint to make someone more likely to do it than someone else. >> are we talking about choices on instinctual reaction? >> oftentimes it's instinctual. certain people will stop, see what they can do and maybe they're not going to run into the stage collapse but they're going to do something on the outside. there are a lot of too emwho jump in and are the heroes. there are a lot of us that are these reluctant heroes. we want to do something but there is that moment of pause and we're not sure, do we fight or run? we have to figure that part out and if we can build people to go and run in, maybe we might get more help with it. >> you work with a lot of kids. >> yep. >> almost 2-year-old now. can we teach him to step up in situations? >> we can teach kids to be brave and tackle the things that make them nervous and teach kids to be more focused on other people less than themselves. if we can do that they may be more likely to help. we certainly don't want them to run into danger automatically. that's not helpful, because then there are more victims. what can i do, how can i make that happen. >> if you're teaching kids to be more compassionate, sharing more, everything else that may translate into -- >> teaching compassion, teaching some sort of altruism will help people want to jump in and be helpful to other people, and that's really at the core what hero is, they're running, not think being themselves, not motivated for themselves, running in to see what they can do to make something better for them. >> thanks for heroically waking up and being here. >> thank you, it was fabulous. i might need a hero gene right about now. what does a rah soon, armadillo like this little thing right here and a massive python all have in common? 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