Hills. You can see the damage from homes by a torpid that was whipped up by arthur. The hurricane reach add category 2 status. Winds of 100 Miles Per Hour last night and 22 thousand ,000 people right now are still without power. The storm is moving northeast after turning slightly west yesterday. Were going to have a live report in North Carolina in 15 minutes. Erica kato tracking the storms path. Lets look at it on radar imagery. You see it has made its way through North Carolina. The eye shrank which indicates an increase in wind speeds. It will continue to peril the coastline. Were going to continue with hurricane watches an warning. This has been downgraded to a category 1. It should die out by saturday morning. Heres a look at our satellite and radar. Patchy fog along the coastline. Its a little gray out here at the golden gate braj but were going to see warmer and sunny conditions later in the afternoon. Im going to give you a full forecast coming up in 15 inmanies. Were monitori
Im suzanne malveaux. Cnn newsroom continues now with Brooke Baldwin. Happy friday. I woke up in mobile, alabama, talking to Cruise Ship Passengers and right now i am back at cnn World Headquarters in atlanta because if you watch the show enough you know i am a space geek and we are minutes away from this flyby that will make space history. This is the first time an asteroid of this size will get this close to earth. So watch the clock with me. Im talking eastern time. It is supposed to happen at 2 25 p. M. To be precise. As we know, scientists are Scientists Say at this time it will be no closer than 17,200 miles from earth. I know, you hear 17,200, yes that is considered close. I know it sounds like a long way away, but in space terms, thats actually a razor thin distance and this video actually shows the asteroid, it is the bright white dot, i know there are a couple on your screen, but the main one moving around in the center, up close. It is actually bigger than a space shuttle, to
Dale was born in the hospital in Wahpeton, ND to Ed and Celia Mattson on March 5, 1934. They lived in Tintah, MN for the first year of Dale’s life, and then the three of them moved to Detroit Lakes, where they lived on the north side of the tracks on Washington Avenue. He was an only child. Dale’s dad was a barber and his mom was a homemaker. When not playing with the Thomas boys on the north side, Dale spent a lot of his childhood in his dad’s shop, where he shined shoes.
buddhist ceremony z thousands of white crosses on a hillside have taken on new meaning over the years. what began as a protest now morphed into a powerful memorial. laura anthon gee live with the story. laura? hi. carolyn. seven years of the exist yens crosses have gone from controversy to a relatively accepted institution. but what is next? one founder has his own idea. we want to feel like we want to do something mere it s been seven years since the first seft white crosses were placed on the hillside. an action he says was meant as a protest against war. we gemt expressing anger towards us but i think people should be accepting of the crosses and do realize our hearts nrt plate rite place. today, crosses are seen as a proper place to remember, and pay resfokts those lost in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. now the wars are winding down heaton has a new vision for the hillside. what we re focusing on now is a veteran recovering center and housing. he s hearing
earth. still, you cannot ignore the buzz around this out of this world event. so we have this whole team of reporters for you and analysts to bring you this historic moment. we have a so-called asteroid hunter, former astronaut, coming on live this hour and next to talk about really what will be a historic moment as 2012 da-14 brushes by us earthlings. that will start just about ten minutes from now. right now, i want to go straight to casey wian, live in pasadena, california, nasa s jet propulsion laboratory. and i imagine the excitement is palpable. they re tracking the asteroid. tell me where it is now. reporter: well, it is over australia, brooke. they are very excited here at jpl. it is a very, very big day. they have been tracking this asteroid for nearly a year. today is the day it is going to get closest it is going to come to the earth as you mentioned, 17,200 miles. and right now, it is coming from the southern hemisphere, approaching the earth, basically from the