Hurricane sandy is starting to look like a perfect storm, as berman was predicting, from new england to virginia and as far inland as ohio. Everyone is being warned to prepare to take action because of a rare and complex atmospheric setup. Sandy could collide with the east coast early next week as a super storm. Sandy has already done plenty of damage. 11 people are dead in cuba. The hurricane ripping roofs off some homes and flattening others. Sandy killed one person in jamaica, 10 more people in haiti. That is 22 people total killed by this storm already. Heavy rains from the storms outer bands causing flooding as well. Even though its several days away, the sand bagging has already started as far north as new jersey. Meteorologist rob marciano is tracking sandys every move, joiping us live from the extreme Weather Center in atlanta. What is the latest on this . Still a category 1 storm as you mentioned, deadly affects across the caribbean islands, battering the bahamas right now. Ab
Reporter florida is feeling the effects of hurricane sandy. Strong winds are whipping the surf into foam. The waves and heavy rain are flooding the streets near miami. The storm is still hundreds of miles away. Sandy raged over the bahamas thursday after tearing through cuba and haiti as a category 2 hurricane. Florida residents are not taking this storm in stride. As were speaking im filling sand bags. Reporter the center of sandy is expected to pass just off of floridas east coast friday afternoon, but forecasters say the worst of it may be four days and several hundred miles away. Thats because there is a High Pressure system blocking the easterly path, hurricanes usually follow into the open atlantic. Sandy is expected to head up the coast then turn west, making landfall near new jersey on tuesday. Thats where it could combine with a winter storm and cold arctic air. That means theres the possibility of storm force winds, major coastal flooding, power outages, and then inland areas
Little later. Maybe in about 15 minutes or so right now we go to monika samtani. Shes got timesaver traffic. I do im happy to say ive had good news all around. Ill leave all the bad news to howard this morning. If youre planning to head around town, no problems to report in from manassas to centreville and over to fairfax. Were looking great. No problems to report. Shoe be on time to work if youre leaving right now. Lets take a live look. If yre planning to head over here on the beltway at connecticut avenue, were looking good on the north side of town between 95 and bethesda, even over to 270. Back over to our maps. This time were going to take a look at the beltway north of town coming into the beltway from aspen hill, wheaton, bethesda, burtonsville. Youre fine. No problems if baltimore and 270 in frederick. One last look this time on the south side of town at the wilson bridge. No issues to report here across the river. Ill be back with more traffic at 6 11. Back to you guys. As ho
First we have to get you through this morning. It is foggy outside and a little mist could affect the morning commute. We could get breaks in the clouds by this afternoon like yesterday. 68 by noon, 70 by 5 00. Back to you. Thank you. Local Utility Companies continue preparing ahead of sandy. This morning bge employees will stock their vehicles with power restoration manuals. Pepco officials this afternoon will provide information to the public on how to prepare. Some experts predict the storm could leave at least 1 billion in damage. Local residents are doing what they can to prepare for every brings. Autria godfrey has more. Crashing into the caribbean Hurricane Sandy and toppling trees and pulling down power lines and leaving thousands stranded. The storm that is threatening to slam into the d. C. Region is a bad weather behemoth thats estimated to cause 1 billion in damages. No stranger to preparing for the worst, the manager at a restaurant in old town has sandbags on standby at t
Just 11 days to go until the election. You will not believe how far one man will go to snag world series tickets. Neighbors feel his offer has a major catch. Good morning washington at 5 00 a. M. Begins right now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning, washington. Its friday, october 26. I am steve chenevey. I am cynne simpson. Good morning. Now to jacqui jeras. A big storm dubbed frankenstorm because it is a freaky storm. Right now its a hurricane, but it is expected to look up with a cold front that is producing rain in the great lakes so it is kind of rare to see Something Like this coming together, like it did almost back in 1991 with a perfect storm. In the meantime we have tranquil weather today. Its foggy. 63 at reagan national, 62 at dulles at this hour. Sandy is a category one hurricane with winds at 80 miles an hour, moving through the northwestern bomb was northwestern bahamas. 62 degrees at 9 00. Mostly cloudy by noon, 68. 70 by 5 00 wi