hour with gusts. located 50 miles south of cape lookout, north carolina. continuing to move towards the coast. is it possible to take a look at i mean, this hurricane moves through the bahamas and puerto rico, is it possible to take a look at what she did there to get a sense of what could be in store as she gets closer to the mid-atlantic states? well, i think irene has grown. so you are dealing with a much larger storm than you had when it was in the bahamas and in puerto rico. so, some of the effects are going to be different. however, those areas didn t see the same very heavy rain that you are going to see in the northeast. rick: talk to us about how it s grown. how wide is irene at this point? well, right now tropical storm force winds extend up to 290 miles from the center. and hurricane force winds extend up to 90 miles from the center. rick: i had somebody writing, in david, asking if the eye wall
let me show you what s going on right now. you saw ocean city, maryland, is just getting pounded. that s up here. norfolk in the tidewater area, a tornado went through there, as well, doing damage. all part of this band now. it s already reached richmond. winds are very high in richmond. they are just going to continue to get higher through this entire region as the hurricane moves north. kerry sanders was down here on the southern part of cape hatteras, which just coincidentally the which the architecture and dry air is wrapped in here will probably have the best weather of the hurricane for folks on the east coast. it s going to be the northern part of cape hatteras that will get water piled on the back end of that and all through pimlico sound, high water and damage there we are at low tide. the effects going on right now with the tide are minimized. this is the minimum we are going to see.
already up the chesapeake, we have four-foot high water at yorktown. the tide, just the tide, even if the hurricane doesn t add more will come up another three feet. all of this area in the chesapeake now subject to flooding as the hurricane moves north. it s got about five, six hours yet to get up to norfolk. then north beyond that you have delaware bay and new york city also coming in tomorrow morning at high tide. the way this is going to work for folks is whether you re at the coast or whether you re inland, you re going to get a wave coming through. it s going to be bad. then it s going to let up. then another one is going to come. it s going to just get stronger and stronger until this center goes on by and each pulse will be stronger and it s those pulses of wind that suddenly come in that snap those trees. that s what we think will happen, unfortunately, all the way through new england as this moves by. bryan, thank you.
not the person that i met and married. denise richards. her life, her loves. oh, i had many loves. and of course her charlie. i m way too old for him now. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. anybody watching the debt vote in the house monday night had to have been extraordinarily moved by that remarkable emotional moment when congresswoman gabrielle giffords walked out on the floor to cast her first vote since an assassination attempt nearly killed her back in january. joining me now is a man who s had his own brush with death, abc news s bob woodruff. he s got a primetime nightline special on her and other near death experiences tonight at 10:00 eastern. bob, it must have been a pretty moving moment for you particularly watching gabby giffords given what you had been through yourself. you know, i think all of us i m sure you re the same. you re pretty stunned and shocked that she showed up like that suddenly right there on the floor of congress. h
be a worse-case scenario. a large spill of oil and then a hurricane moving somewhere in the vicinity. now, the question is, where does a potential hurricane go in relation to the spill? if the hurricane moves to the right of the spill, then you could actually see the winds of the hurricane blow the spill to the south, that means it could interact with the loop current and push the spill under the floor, through the straights and up the east coast and potentially affecting the carolinas. probably not the northeast. if the hurricane goes to the west of the spill, then the counterclockwise winds would blow the spill inland to places like biloxi, mobile and perhaps pensacola, an area that is still recovering from the effects of hurricane katrina. the last thing they need is an oilcane. a hurricane combine would the oil. we see the huge sprays that come when the water and the