today with different messages. a few hours ago, alri tv broadcast a defiant audio message from saif gadhafi saying his father and closest followers are hiding in tripoli suburbs and their morale is high. listen. the leadership is fine. the leader is fine. and we are fighting and we are drinking tea and coffee and we are sitting with our families. saif gadhafi also had a message for people he calls his brethren in tripoli and alibya. reporter: we re saying to everyone move now. everyone has to move now to attack all these gangsters of the rats. the people he s calling rats are the rebels who drove the gadhafis from power. just a few hours before that fire and brim stone message, another of gadhafi s sons contacted cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson. nic joins us now from tripoli, a city, by the way, dangerously close to run out of water. nic, first, what was the message from the other gadhafi son? reporter: he was saying he is talking to the natio
if you re in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. 65 million people in danger. to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. you have to get out. we ve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldn t be doing it now if we didn t think this storm had the potential to be very serious. we re tracking this monster minute by minute and going live into the storm zone. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, we re covering every angle of hurricane irene tonight from north carolina, with landfalls expected in a matter of hours to new york city where unprecedented mandatory evacuations are under way. thousands of flights are cancelled on the east coast. jfk is closing to international arrivals tomorrow at noon. major highways are closing down as i speak. there are unprecedented shutdowns, transit system in new york and philadelphia. atl
horizon from us now. she s definitely a big storm and people in her way better banted down the hatches. slamming down into the east coast. i can t stress this highly enough. if you re in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. 65 million people in danger. to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. you have to get out. we ve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldn t be doing it now if we didn t think this storm had the potential to be very serious. we re tracking this monster minute by minute and going live into the storm zone. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, we re covering every angle of hurricane irene tonight from north carolina, with landfalls expected in a matter of hours to new york city where unprecedented mandatory evacuations are under way. thousands of flights are cancelled on the east coast. jfk is clo
hurricane winds and then for another six, eight hours on the back side of the storm we ll get this tropical storm force winds and the continuation of the rainfall. so, a long time yet to go before we see any clear skies here. anderson? i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. 65 million people at risk, the government possibly picking up the pieces after this massive mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. you have to get out. we ve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldn t be doing it now if we didn t think this storm had the potential to be very serious. we re tracking this monster minute by minute and going live into the storm zone. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, we re covering every angle of hurricane irene tonight from north carolina, with landfalls expected in a matter of hours to new york city where unprecedented mandatory evacuations are unde
we see any clear skies here. anderson. that s it for us on 360 . more hurricane coverage next. hi there. good morning, everybody, from the cnn center. this is your cnn start morning. coming to you an hour earlier today to cover this storm, hurricane irene that is actually putting about 20% of this country s population under threat of this storm. we re talking about 65 million people are in the path of this sucker. you see the line there. that s the cone of uncertainty they call it. but still they believe this is the path it s going to take, right up the east coast. and we re talking about some of this country s largest cities, most populus cities. these are cities that not often are tested for their hurricane preparedness. well, they will get a i test it appears here today and tomorrow through this weekend. we re talking about new york, washington, baltimore, boston, philly. all of those cities, just to name a few, all in the line of fire of this irene. it is tracking on