and it will slow down but, hopefully, advance thursday through friday through areas that need the rain. that s the silver lining but of course the bad thursday is we will be dealing with a prolonged hurricane event as of the latest advisory. neil: thank you very much, janice dean, keeping track of the storm. it will be a big test not levees in new orleans. , the test is on and on now with more from tampa right after this. it doesn t get any better than endless shrimp at red lobster. with a wide variety, you can mix and match all day. scampi, grilled, the fried there s nothing better. [ male announcer ] at last, red lobster s endlesshrimp is back, but only for a limid time, for just $1. try as much as you like, any way you like, like new parmesan crusted srimp or new teriyaki grilled shrimp, all with salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits,
a large fire came in key west and burned down the factoris and there was an opportunity to relocate. city father in tampa put together nice incentatives to draw it here. steve: you not only tell the history of tampa but the area as well the reason we are inside and not outside in our tent because of what looked like a hurricane bearing down . luckily it is in the gulf and hopefully it slows down before it hit in the gulf. but you highlight tampa and hurricane. we have three on floors of exhibits and we talked about the last big hurricane event to hit in 1921. steve: one of the thing fist you come down to florida and my family and i have for many years. everything seems brand new. but in fact there were people living in florida arey i years ago long before columbus and the may flower.
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if you haven t got out of new york city yet or found your safe spot, you better do it soon. the subways, trains and buses will close, departing flights close at 9:00 p.m. tonight and incoming flights stop an hour from now. we get a sense this is the beginning of what is described as a very wet hurricane event. it s possible we have tropical storm-force winds here in manhattan and in new york city for 20, maybe 24 hours straight. tropical storm-force winds. that could be 30 to 70 miles per hour, alex. all right, peter. we look at a split screen here. we look at all the sandbagging being down there in lower manhattan and elsewhere because there are 370,000 people in the low-lying areas, that would include all the rockaways. eve been told you have to get out, and you make that point they have to do it within the next hour at the latest. reporter: that s right. it s not just the rain that s going fob a problem.
the island, go to their ferries earlier than expected. they say this is becoming a regular occurrence here every summer when the president comes. take a listen. we go through this once or twice a season. there seems to always be a hurricane event around this time of year. in the last 10 years it seems every time the president is here we have some hurricane scare towards the end of his time on the vineyard. reporter: the reason why folks are running to the ferries around here to get off of the island is that we are being told if you don t get onsomeone of these ferries by say early to mid-day saturday a bunch of them will be shutting down and you will be stuck here until tuesday or wedday of next week. the president has air force one. he s still planning to depart saturday. as for me, there are worse things than being stuck at martha s vineyard. megyn: but it won t be sunsets