you will see patio furniture. it really stood out to me because in covering other hurricanes and other storms, you see people boardinghouse, leaving. you don t get that feeling and a lot of parts of jacksonville. what s interesting. a major hurricane hasn t impacted this area i understand for i think more than a hundred years. the mayor ordered evacuations in the beach areas in the afternoon. but if people have experienced major hurricanes like this in their lifetimes they are less likely to heed the warning reporter: no, you are absolutely right. and from talking to some officials here, they are very worried about people in the beach areas, because all of that area is expected to have a storm surge of up to 11 feet. and there are people who decided to hunker down and not leave.
lost power and was taking on water. a captain with the united states coast guard is outfront. thank you for coming on with us. 33 people, 28 americans obviously desperately trying to get help. you re searching for them. what is the latest? the latest today is the strength of the hurricane hasn t been moving as quickly as we thought it might. so we were pushing it as close as we could. hurricane hunters normally fly at 20,000 feet. we pushed our aircraft down to 2,000 feet to get the possible chance of identifying the vessel or any survivors life craft but we haven t been able to locate the vessel yet. oh, my gosh, 2,000 feet, just
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