pakistan? several months. what is weird is when it comes to the indian ocean, it is almost like a conveyor belt of one storm after another after another after another. they do athave flooding there. what issi interesting is in another si of the world, off the coast of africa, it is a similar thing. we have one storm after another. but those come out and that s where you have the acti tropics. they re really cranking up rht now. is this dude going to be a problem, igor? igor/igor? it is going to be a tremendous storm. the way it looks now, it m become a category 4 storm, winds in exs cess of 135 miles hour. that s the bad news. the way it looks, it may be staying away from the u.s., may not make landfall whatsoever. let s walk over here and show you what we have in terms of the possibilities with the storm and many others like it. let s give you the big picture. man, do we have a lot to share with you. take a look at this. we have this one wave off thee african coast, one we re
area of concern that is now moving into parts of the caribbe caribbean. this area will become a named storm possibly by the end of this week. we have ree potential storms one is alrea a fairly strong storm, very strong category 1 with sustained winds of 75 miles an hour, gusting to 90. igor moving west at 17 miles per hour. notice the numbers nd a 4, expect it to be a category 4 storm by the time we get into wednesday evening. winds of 135, gusts of if160. if we extrapolate or extend this pa, i woul think there say good chancethe storm may turn well to the north and out of harm s way. but still it is ea rly. there is a lot of unknowns with this. quickly, national weather, what we can anticipate today, a frontal boundary on the eastern seaboard, we can expect scattered showers from maine southward on through the nation s capital, on the florida panhandle and in cenal texas. that s a quick snapshot of your forecast. unfortunately dry conditio continue in the rockies which means tough tim
the bad news about it is we expect the storm with maximum sustained winds to inteify over the coming days. the way it looks now through possibly well into next week, this thing may not affect the united states at all. at least it may affect it indirectly. might have some heavy surf along the coastline, but direct hit on the united states, or anyone, it looks like this may stay out to sea, which would be called a fish storm. there are areas of possible development we ll watch later on this morning. something else we re watching, a string of showers popping up along parts of the eastern seaboard this morning. a few of the places dealing with the heavy rainfall would be on the outer banks of north carolina, not far from charleston. we re seeing rain develop in there too. and the reason why we re seeing this beginning to pick is up pretty simple. we have a stationary front or an area of low pressure with that boundary that extends right across parts of the florida anhandle and along the
has been killed or wounded in spite of the frequent violence around schools. it is very unfortunate thatur o children nowadays have to live with this environment, says the school principal who fully supports the security training program. there was some controversy surrounding the program when the governor of the state of chihuahua where juarez is located said it sent the wrong message, but school officials said their priority is to keep children safe and this program may do just that if shooting erupts just outside the classroom. raphael romo, cnn, atlanta. goo morning. after canceling the release of one of three jailed americans, iran once again saying sarah shourd can go. but for a price. w> and igor, now at hurricane strength, we ll tell you where this storm is headed. hello to you all from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia,
this storm system is turning away. over the last couple of hours, you see it intensify, northeast quadrant of the storm, deep cothnvection there. with the storm, the intensification is expected to lead it off to the west, possibly becoming a category 3 storm monday evening. as we get to wednesday evening, winds of 135 miles per hour, gusts to 160, that is a catego 4 hurricane. they get as high as 5. a very good chance the storm may intensify. this is the eastern seaboard right here, you got bermuda right there. what we anticipate the storm doing is if we were to extrapolate is path, extend it further, it might go between bermuda and the eastern seaboard. that would be a great scenario. it would bring heavy surf action to the eastern seaboard but that s better than a direct hit. still there say lot that can change over the next 12 to 24 to 36 hours. the storm could get ch stronger, could get weaker, it may fade out altogether. that last option, let s lohope that plays out.