Here, 95, heavy rains, a tornado watch along coastal areas, goes for North Carolina, we are talking a lot of rain. This is one computer model. Norfolk by 9 00 tomorrow could pick up 8 inches of rain, as the storm moves to the mid atlantic, we are talking the whole mid Atlantic Beach coast, ocean city, dewey, talking those areas 68 inches, depending on the track of the storm. Tropical storm warnings are up the coast, sandy hook, 2 00, east of cape hatteras, over water, a chance to strengthen. Its a 50 Miles Per Hour storm nows i could approach hurricane strength, the problem is, if its 7 or 75, it 70 or 75, it stays off the coast for 23 days. They will get hit with the wave action for days and days, cag a storm surge and coastal flooding. 46 feet, locally higher than that. Heavy rains along the coast, fresh water flooding from that. Waves for days. Beach erosion, dune breaches are possible. With the winds , the high winds especially towards the coast, trees down some power outages. We w
You can see it right there swirling in the caribbean right now. Heading towards the bahamas. On the islands of the turks and caicos, the outer bands of joaquin bringing gusty heavy winds and rain. In the u. S. In virginia people already preparing. This a familiar scene as a hurricane approaches. Water flying off store shelves. A look further up the east coast on the jersey shore, crews preparing by making protective sand dunes. Well, a lot of people already taking precautions. Lets get the latest track from accuweathers justin povick. Hey, justin, good morning to you. Reena and kendis gibson, thanks and good morning to you. A whole lot has changed with regards to joaquin. This system has rapidly intensified all throughout the overnight. Were going to continue to see this intensifying throughout the daytime, as well, which could take it again to extremely dangerous levels. Movement off to the west and southwest going to make a big bend off to the north over time, again, that track windo
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Weather coming. We expect our High Temperature to be a bit cooler than normal. Typically we should be in the low 70s. But not today will be in the upper 60s but those are the warmer temperatures coming our way. By memorial day will be near 90 degrees in some areas. Pretty hot for your barbecue on that day. Today, sunshine back in the 60s upper 60s for most of the weekend. Near the lake is mid to upper 60s. We could be as warm as the mid 70s. A wide range across the region. Temperatures are cool and the north east keeping the school as a travel closer to the lake. 62 at the lakefront. 46 in joliet. 53 degrees in morris. Heres the satellite and radar showing we are dry through the morning and the afternoon. The highpressure means next chance of rain is not until the tail end of sunday into memorial day. As you can see, all that rain is having the ohio river valley and portions of missouri. We are expecting temperatures to rise over the next few days. Just south of 70 degrees tomorrow we
Hours assads forces fired nearly 30 rockets. Witnesses say the rockets were tipped with poisonous gas warheads and fired from government controlled areas. Medical centers were quickly created to treat the overwhelming number of wounded. Including children. Nbc news cannot verify the witness accounts and the u. S. And United Nations have not confirmed the use of chemical weapons in syria yesterday. Russian officials are accusing rebels of staging the attack as a, quote, preplanned provocation, end quote. However, the loss of life was significant by any measure. The white house said it was deeply concerned over the reports coming out of syria and called for an urgent investigation into yesterdays alleged chemical attack. Senator john mccain criticizing the lack of action on twitter writing no consequence for as sad oig using chemical weapons and crossing red line. We shouldnt be surprised hes using them again. We go to egypt where the man who ruled the country for 30 years will be releas