Good evening. Tonight much of the east coast is on high alert and sitting on a slow motion collision course with what forecasters are calling a storm of historic dimensions. At its heart Hurricane Sandy, a sprawling system more than 800 miles wide. Capturing these amazing images from space. After killing more than 50 people and causing heavy flooding in the caribbean sandy tonight is tracking parallel along the u. S. Coast toward a rare and fateful rendezvous monday with two other potent weather systems. Call it a hybrid storm. It is expected to send sandy inland with damaging winds and torrential rain. The storm will impact some 64 million people. Tonight, eight states and the District Of Columbia are under states of emergency as officials brace for flooding and power outages. Some mandatory evacuations are already under way. Forecasters warning just how dangerous the storm is. Weve got our team in place to cover it all. Lets start in new york with Weather Channel meteorologist jim ca
Good evening. Tonight much of the east coast is on high alert and sitting on a slow motion collision course with what forecasters are calling a storm of historic dimensions. At its heart Hurricane Sandy, a sprawling system more than 800 miles wide. Capturing these amazing images from space. After killing more than 50 people and causing heavy flooding in the caribbean sandy tonight is tracking parallel along the u. S. Coast toward a rare and fateful rendezvous monday with two other potent weather systems. Call it a hybrid storm. It is expected to send sandy inland with damaging winds and torrential rain. The storm will impact some 64 million people. Tonight, eight states and the District Of Columbia are under states of emergency as officials brace for flooding and power outages. Some mandatory evacuations are already under way. Forecasters warning just how dangerous the storm is. Weve got our team in place to cover it all. Lets start in new york with Weather Channel meteorologist jim ca
New jersey. The president left the campaign trail today and returned to washington canceling Campaign Stops in florida and ohio and a rally planned for tomorrow in wisconsin. A little more than an hour ago, the president spoke at the White House Briefing room on preps in place to help the nearly 50 Million People who could be affected by this Natural Disaster. The president did answer one question about the storms impact on the race. Im worried about the impact on families and im worried about the impact on our First Responders. Im worried about the impact on our economy and on transportation. The election will take care of itself next week. As for governor romney, around noon eastern time today, the Romney Campaign announced it is canceled all planned events tomorrow in wisconsin and florida out of what it calls, quote, sensitivity for the millions of americans in the storms path. The governor did campaign in ohio this morning and will hold a rally in iowa later today. We have faced t
Marker. Their blood type, their d. O. B. , their social, in case the very worst happens. Thats how dire and how broad this storm is on the coast of texas. So obviously, over these next few hours, well be covering this. Were a bit hampered because communications right at this point, after landfall, can often enter into a kind of dark side of the moon phase. Some Satellite Television trucks because of rain fade and high winds lose their ability to broadcast a signal. Even some Satellite Phones cant work. Cellphone service is down along with power. So well bring you reporting from it from our friends at the Weather Channel, from our own meteorologist bill karins, when we can. Now to the other news that is happening tonight. Somewhat under the cover of the first Natural Disaster of his presidency, a category 4 Hurricane Making Landfall in the united states, the president and
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On monday with two other potent weather systems. Call it a hybrid storm. Its expected to send the full force of sandy careening somewhere in new york with damaging winds and torrential storms. The storm will impact some 64 Million People. Tonight, eight states and the District Of Columbia are under states of emergency as officials brace for severe flooding and prolonged power outages. Some mandatory evacuations are already under way. Forecasters sparing no words in warning just how dangerous this storm is. Weve got our team in place to cover it all. Lets start in new york with Weather Channel meteorologist jim cantore. Jim, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. More and more preparations under way. Then by the time tomorrow night rolls around, we will start to feel the impacts in earnest across much of the northeast. Lets talk about this and lay out the impacts of the storm. First of all, the satellite shows a hybrid transition you spoke of. You have a cloud canopy that stretche