seaboard. cat 3 or 4? in the next couple of days. the official forecast takes it to a cat 3 storm within a couple of days. two different scenarios, one, bermuda scenario, that s what we re hoping for. another pulls it in towards the west. these are the models. you hear about the euro and the gfs models. they are split. the euro is a really reliable model. we don t want to discount that one. i m feeling it. hopefully we all are. but this model pulls it in somewhere around virginia, north carolina, maybe up toward the chesapeake bay area. anything to break this up? there s no big land mass here to blaek it up. we re either talking about a fish storm or we re talking about possibility likely, if we see an eastern seaboard here, a very legit storm. the center of this track, we don t want to focus on. the reason it s splitting it,
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surge for parts of north carolina will cause major problems for them. then 4-8 foot storm surge for the chesapeake bay area and for the jersey shoreline anywhere from 3-6 feet. and depending on the tide and when the storm passes, we ll have waves on top of that. so flooding is going to be a huge concern, and the rainfall again for this area we have seen record-breaking rain. the rain will have nowhere to go. the ground is already saturated so we ll be dealing with a dire situation. gregg: multiple problems on top of problems. janice dean, thank you very much. martha: boat owners in north carolina are busy making preparations before the full force of this storm arrives. they are taking them out of the water which is what most folks are doing. it s almost the even of the summer so a good time to get that boat out of the water so it
good morning. it is friday, august 26th. welcome to american morning. it s all about the hurricane today. i wish i could say happy friday, happy friday for those not living along the northeast coast. and whom it hasn t reached yet. exactly. let s talk about hurricane irene. now said to be a massive and powerful category 2 storm sitting just off the east coast. 50 million people could feel its force by this weekend. new hurricane warnings are now up, they stretch from north carolina to new jersey. states of emergency have been declared as far north as new england. irene totally hammered the bahamas yesterday with torrential rain, 115-mile-per-hour winds, north carolina like i is next. in atlantic beach a surf shop boarding up, mandatory evacuations under way along the outer banks and could be the biggest storm to hit new york in decades. people all the way up the coast are being asked to leave or to get ready. i understand sometimes folks think that people overreac
hurricane watch now, the navy as well getting ready. they are moving a destroyer out to calmer waters right outer loop p trying to get out of earl s way. rob marciano is there for news virginia beach for us now. rob, tell us the best you can tell us about when it might get to where you are and other people are along the coast and are we talking about a direct hit just yet? well, that s a possibility. it has been possibility the whole time, t.j. what we have been hoping for really hasn t happened. we have been hoping for more easterly progression of the forecast track. it keeps getting shifted to the west ask that means that north carolina, virginia, and the delmarva, and the northeast haven t been taken out of that forecasting margin of error, cone of uncertainty. it is a possibility to get a direct hit. even if that major hurricane gets within 50 miles of the coastline, or 100 miles of the coastline, that s going to put some hurt on virginia and chesapeake bay area and certainly the