Thats happening in the future but still hold on to those things that we love. Our parents albums, like that classic style of song writing but incorporating so many amaze thingses in s iin modern music electronic, huge influence, and also 70s pop. Is that a cumulation of your musical interests . I was trying all these Different Things i thought maybe i could incorporate to make the album feel more progressive but eventually we listened to a lot of hiphop and fell in love with that style. I said why fun period . They said because fun is already taken. Lets take you to washington and wolf blitzer. Happening now, a vatican bombshell felt around the world. The pope resigns. Life on high alert in Southern California right now where theres a Million Dollar reward for the exPolice Officer suspected of multiple murders. And stunning revelations about the death of Osama Bin Laden from the u. S. Navy s. E. A. L. Who took him out. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Captions by vitac www
Already boarding up and sandbagging getting ready for what sandy just might bring. So, further south now, North Carolina, also gearing up for sa sandy. A total of 40 counties are under a state of emergency. George howell joins us from kill devil hills. Sandy is quite a few miles offshore. We mentioned its about 355 miles offshore from charleston, South Carolina, but making it to your way. We can see the surface kicked up and lots of wind. What kind of preparations are under way there, george . Fredricka, we are definitely feeling the winds pick up here. Were watching people as they, you know, prepare for whatever the storm has to bring. People are, you know, some people have decided to ride this storm out. A lot of people weve seen here. So the storm is slowly but surely moving this way and were getting these off and on rain showers, not the heavy stuff yet. Thats yet to come. But the situation out here definitely deteriorating hour by hour. Now this area here along the outer banks rem
West. Im sorry, from the east, the north and then from the west as this storm continues to pass through this area, don. Hey, george, standby. Lets talk to chad really quick. Well go out to you in a bit. Hes getting pelted there and it is moving through. Whats happening where he is right now . 300 miles from the center. Really . Thats what hes feeling. Thats the problem with this storm. You cant focus on the eye because it does not have an eye. You focus on the width of the wind and 300 miles on either side of the center of this hurricane with winds or Tropical Storm force or greater. Thats a 600mile swath of damage. George, do you feel it intensifying, like from your last live shot, do you feel it continuing to the shot is dark, its okay, we can still go to him. Do you feel it there . Okay, we lost the shot because of the weather. Lets go to sandra endo now in ocean city. Shes about 200 miles north of where george is. What are you seeing there as you talk to me and chad myers . Reporte
Because they are going to be providing you with the best advice in terms of how to deal with this storm over the coming days. We just had an excellent meeting with the fema team here, the various agencies that are in charge, including the department of defense, department of energy and others that are going to need to respond very quickly. Under craig fugates leadership here at fema, weve had a chance to talk to the region al officials as well, and i had talks with governors of various states as well as other leaders. Everyone is confident that the staging process, the prepositioning of equipment that will be needed to respond to the storm are in place. But as craig has emphasized, this hasnt hit landfall yet, so we dont yet know where its going to hit, where were going to see the biggest impacts, and thats exactly why its so important for us to respond big and respond fast as local information starts coming in. I want to thank all the members of the team for the outstanding work that
Youll have to check your listings locally and Port Authority says train stations will be closing at midnight, and Public Schools in new york city will be closed tomorrow. Lets move on to now the state of new jersey where a state of emergency has already been declar declared. Mandatory evacuations in parts of the state are already under way, and many of the tolls are suspended in the garden state area so that people are able to safely and slowly evacuate. Buses are being sent to Atlantic City and other lowlying areas to help out in the evacuation. And now we move even further south to the state of maryland where that, too, that state has been declared a state of emergency. Voluntary evacuations are already under way in lowlying areas and mandatory evacuations taking place on the coast there in ocean city. And in d. C. , Public Schools have been canceled for tomorrow. So youve got to check your local listings to make sure youre up to speed on all the cancellations involving your transit,