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Advisory on Hurrican Irene. We want to go to rob marciano who will tell us what this latest advisory is about. Its frightening, up to 85mileanhour wind now. Theres a possibility from reading some nuggets from the National Hurricane center that it could strengthen some more. We knew we had that possibility. Still over the gulf stream where waters are still warm enough to sustain a hurricane. Also getting into an environment where it favored strengthening. Thats what weve seen. Here it is in the satellite picture. 85mileanhour winds. Thats a moderate strength category one storm with possible strengthening as we go through time. About 380 miles south of new york city its movement has picked up northerly about 15 miles an hour and we still expect that turn toward the west later on. This is huge. Reading some technical stuff, the Tropical Storm force winds, diameter nearly 800 miles wide. That is huge. The second largest tropical system weve seen in the last few decades. Hurricane force win

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