volunteerflorida.org to sign up for volunteer opportunities. volunteers make a huge difference and help with shelter, feud distribution. please volunteer. regarding school closures, to find out if your local school district is closing, please visit the florida to parent of education website and fld.o.e..org or call your superintendent. state offices and monroe county are close until further notice. closures and all other counties will follow county officials and will be announced as they are determined. i ve directed state offices and all 67 counties be closed on friday. every family needs to have a plan. have a disaster kit and be ready today. do not sit and wait, prepare right now. for details on how to greet a personalized plan, visit floridadisaster.org/get a plan. if need to fill your purse written, do today.
jack russell. very good. we re talking about hurricane season and need to be prepare not only as adults and parents and all of that, but for our pets, too. so let s talk about the microchip. very important. and the american humane association are embarking on a tour with the red star rescue vehicle, to raise awareness and education about what people can do. most important thing is to microchip. a smile chip the size of a rice granule inserted under the shoulder. show me how you find out basically, you just scan, press the button, and gives you the information. comes up on the screen. says his name and the number to call. so a pet can be reunited with its owner in case it s lost. you don t think about putting together a disaster kit for your pet but a you say that is crucial. what would you put in that bag? absolutely crucial. the commotion of the storm preparation, it s easy to forget our pets. better to have a week supply of
those warnings and practice those drills. reporter: officials say those drills should include a plan for where to go when a tornado hits, packing a disaster kit, and how to contact family after a tornado passes. all things experts say can save lives. clayton sandell, abc news, creston, iowa. the worst devastation came in a small town of woodward, oklahoma. that s where five people, including a father and both of his daughters died. dozens of homes and several businesses were destroyed. forecasters say the deadly twister was likely an ef-3 which means winds of up to 165 miles an hour. classes are canceled today as the town, of course, recovers from the disaster. what images. conditions could be right again today for more extreme weather as this storm system blows east. our coverage continues with accuweather meteorologist andrew baglini. good morning. good morning, rob and tanya. unfortunately, a very destructive weekend. thankfully, not quite as potent heading into the week o
can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the cnn newsroom. jim, take it away. thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of miles across and even from space, it is a monster. an astronaut on the international space station called the view terrifying. we have crews deployed up and down the east coast. reynolds wolf is in kill dils hill, north carolina and john zarrella is north of there. then candy crowley in long island and mary snow and jacqui jeras. reynolds, they are bracing for a direct hit, aren t they? they certainly are. one of the most troubling things about this err area is the how it s susceptible to the
gallons. it s not as good as the life straw, but this will get the job done. people need clean water right after a disaster. so there are items one can put in their disaster kit which in california, having a disaster kit is very common. it s important. aton, stand by. i want to get over to simon winchester right now, also with us. simon, it s not only the san andreas fault. there is also a fault in the northwest. yes. that s the one that isn t talked about nearly as much, largely because it s invisible and it hasn t been active for about 250 years. that s known as the cascadeia fault. it is the reason that there s the line of volcanoes in the northwest united states. mt. st. hell evens and all of that. that s under water, runs for about 1300 miles i think from the northern tip of vancouver island to northern california. well, the feeling is that