good morning to you all. welcome to this cnn sunday morning, a special edition here. suzanne malveaux joining me, t.j. holmes here with you. we have special coverage of hurricane irene which is getting closer and closer and closer to new york city. anderson cooper is live in greenwich village there. john king on long beach for us this morning as well. already what a morning it s already been. very well foreshadowing the day that s in store for new york and north. an incredibly massive hurricane, rain-making hurricane irene, continuing her trek up the eastern seaboard. take a look at this. still a category 1 storm, 75 mile-an-hour winds. take a look at these pictures, though, the eye could be moving over atlantic city, new jersey right about now. we are keeping a close eye on that. the current track has irene moving towards, of course, new york city. all eyes on new york. they ve seen some flooding in some areas already. a number of power outages at least, 400,000 reported
supplies. things you mentioned are exactly what you want to do. but you also want to make sure of things like your important papers, medication, things like that. so there is a little checklist. you don t have to buy everything. we talk about water. you don t have to go out and buy water. you can actually storm water. put in ziploc bags. freezer. fill up empty soda bottles. bathtub, fill it up with water in case you lose water pressure. use that water for sanitation. go to ready.gov, take those steps. look for things you already have. some of the simple things make sure you have a manual can opener. the power goes out without electricity you still want to get the canned goods. one other important step good for people to have family communication plan. preferably somebody who doesn t live in the hurricane area where people are going to hit surprisingly offensive times easier to make that one long distance phone call to somebody and let them tell the rest of the friends and family that y
supplies. things you mentioned are exactly what you want to do. but you also want to make sure of things like your important papers, medication, things like that. so there is a little checklist. you don t have to buy everything. we talk about water. you don t have to go out and buy water. you can actually storm water. put in ziploc bags. freezer. fill up empty soda bottles. bathtub, fill it up with water in case you lose water pressure. use that water for sanitation. go to ready.gov, take those steps. look for things you already have. some of the simple things make sure you have a manual can opener. the power goes out without electricity you still want to get the canned goods. one other important step good for people to have family communication plan. preferably somebody who doesn t live in the hurricane area where people are going to hit surprisingly offensive times easier to make that one long distance phone call to somebody and let them tell the rest of the friends and family that y
essentially, alex, the word resonating with everyone is isabel. that hurricane hit this area of 2003. people don t think of washington, d.c. or virginia as a hurricane area, but there is experience here. isabel caused a billion dollars of worth of damage. the mayor said when isabel came here it was dreadful, they had $2 million worth of damage in this area alone and muayed the water up to three blocks in the city. he said it wouldn t be impossible for that to happen today. the concern here in our area is power, flood and trees, specifically the flood we expect between 6 to 12 inches of rain here specifically in the d.c. met row area. there s a lot of trees and homes built around the trees not only in downtown areas of washington but in the suburbs. it s expected that if you live in this area, there s a good chance you will lose power, alex. there s mandatory evacuations for 11 loc 1 locality had virgi?
population of course with us in waikiki. that will be of primary concern as well. families here in hawaii try to practice disaster preparedness as much as possible. we live in a hurricane area, a constant watch for tsunamis as well. what are authorities telling tourists right now or is that up to the individual hotel or resort they may be residing in? sure. the siren would have been heard all the way through waikiki loud and clear, and that s ordering folks to go ahead and get those tvs on in their hotel rooms. if they have a mandatory evacuation of the beaches, they will go up and down the beaches, fire, lifeguards, fire rescue and such telling people to be sure to get off. and that will happen about two hours prior to? if they determine from the buoy readings, the wave readings, if they determine that s what needs to happen, yes. all right. sounds like things at least right now are under control there on hawaii. gina mangieri joining us from khon. thank you very much, gina.