most of the buildings were up on stilts so the water flowed under. really, this was a lucky hit. for the best possible scenario for where it would have gone other than kill devil hills and nags head. 90 miles per hour, to the east of about ocean city maryland, right there, getting a small eye about to lose a lot of its integrity here because it s getting into colder water. this thing needs warm water to survive and it doesn t have any more warm water. the storm doesn t look very good. there s the center of the rain. we still have rain now for parts of new york, parts of new jersey. very rough surf conditions. also from long island sound, back to nantucket, all the way into boston harbor, could see some very rough weather today, also even into maine. there goes the storm right now. it s going to be a quick mover. it s going to move quickly over here. there will be tropical storm conditions for the cape, for nantucket and the islands there and also into halifax, bay of
look at that enhancement, that very heavy rainfall over the past couple hours from boston and southward. here you go, look at some of the pictures there, still from arthur, the waves will be the problem this weekend, and i know we re talking about it being almost over, but the waves are still out there. those waves will still crash onshore and there will still by significant undertow, all along the jersey shores, the delmarva, and then right along the long island parkway very heavy undertow and rip currents this weekend. the storm is really long gone, moving into the bay of fundy, and eventually way out almost over to greenland and make some rain showers over in london in the next couple days. still a tropical storm for barnstable and into halifax. i know i just haired rene marsh talked about the sand piled up.
that north carolina coast. the southeast carolina coast. by morning, now we re talking again, parts of the east here, we re talking nagshead and that little peninsula we talk about, called the outer banks. that s not until tomorrow morning. so now we still have at least 12 hours of pounding surf in these regions before it heads up to atlantic canada, maybe even getting towards the bay of fundy, up into nova scotia and newfoundland. there s the storm on the satellite. it s still gaining strength. usually when they get close to shore, they start to die off. this one, not so much. still very warm water where it s at right now. and you mentioned alina who is in wrightsville beach, near wilmington. alina, tell us what you re seeing. reporter: as you can see, it is very, very windy here. and this is what we have been seeing now for several hours. it started off slow here, but right now, the wind, the wind
make no mistake, this is not a vacation. also a new list of seven natural wonders of the world revealed? but what do you think is missing? maybe you think something is missing from that list. welcome to you all from the cnn center in atlanta. this is cnn saturday morning. we are glad you are right here. let s start on the campus of penn state university. look at this. this happened last night. students, thousands of them, came out for a candlelight vigil to support the victims of the sex abuse scandal. this is the same place where students rioted in support of fired football coach joe paterno just two days ago. we are hearing from joe paterno from his son which says my father is experiencing a range of powerful emotions. he is absolutely distract over what happened to the children and their families. he also wants to very much to speak publicly and answer questions. at this stage, however, he has no choice but to be patient and defer to the legal process. he also said the
haven t. one gentleman earlier today who just went fishing this morning says he prefers the stormy weather to fish. the rougher it gets, the better the fishing gets. reporter: why is that? i don t know. anybody that says they know, they re lying. reporter: he did pretty well this morning. he caught five striped bass but they were all smaller than the legal limit of 28 inches. had to throw them back in. the fishing apparently is pretty good, but on a serious note, people are definitely getting prepared here although i mentioned there are others who are being very nonchalant about it. reynolds? great report as always. be safe. we ll check back in with you very soon. folks, let me show you something else that is just a tremendous concern to us. let s say this storm moves out to sea, just goes right by and goes deeper into the bay of