a troubling new assessment. they are expecting the storm surge to flood the area with anywhere from six to 12 feet of water. other low lying neighborhoods on a mandatory evacuation orders. the mass transit system will shut down as of noon tomorrow. this is what they are concerned about. pictures of irene hit the bha mas. not much change in the forecast and not much change in the track. we are still at 100 miles per hour. still forecasting to get slightly weaker as we run the storm over north carolina and on up into the northeast. that is good news. i still think because of the size of this storm that that flooding po sensual in downtown new york in manhattan in even towards rockaway beach and long beach in new york still there as the waves will be pushing and the winds will be pushing water up against that shore for a very long time. here is what has happened to the storm as the turn happened. it was very low pressure. right now the pressure is low enough to make a catego
with mudslides and landslides, the grounded is so null verbal. this is going to be a dangerous situation because the grounded is so weak. if you add a bit more rainfall, we could see bad things happening across that region. the low will be shifting to the south. the bulk of the rainfall will be mainly down toward this area. roughly about an inch of rainfall as we go throughout next several days. that is the bright news. from south america, we go to north america. for california, we have a big wind event as the winds go down the canyons they ll be intensifies. what this means is we ll be dealing with wind gusts up to 150 kilometers per hour. that s hurricane strength winds. we re talking 85 miles per hour. for all the areas that you re seeing from los angeles as well as into long beach. these are the areas that will be under the gun. the potential today for downed
gasoline tank and it rolled this way. it lodged up against it and saved her life, keeping her from getting crushed. t.j., in the preliminary information from the national weather service, is that this tornado had winds of up to 175 miles per hour. that is well into a category 5 hurricane strength winds and this was a baptist church. you heard that man talk about how it was like a bomb going off. this is essentially the same thing that happened here. people described that pressure being so intense that like something was falling down upon you here and the walls just erupting and shattering. that s what you see behind me here. t.j. unbelievable. ed lavandera, we appreciate you. we will toin check in with you. let s turn over to rob marciano. i guess we are dealing with the aftermath of this storm. it is the same storm system that got other people under the gun. it is. it is so slow moving. this long track tornado really
the tab of steel in brady harvel s hands. your personal dog tags? yeah. the ones i deployed with. all burned now. reporter: wow. after i deployed, i gave them to my dad. he had them hanging in his man cave. reporter: it took him two hours of digging to find his most precious possession. you got goosebumps right now. yeah, i do. it s crazy. it s mind-blowing. so glad he found those tags. and matt with us live again tonight. and matt, there are now reports that downed power lines and exploding transformers are being investigated as one possible cause here for at least some of these fires? reporter: that s right, david. pg & e, that s the power company here, and you can see them behind me, reinstalling downed power lines. the company says in a statement that there were equipment issues at the time the fire here started, caused by, quote, hurricane-strength winds, but that s just one possible cause for the 22 fires burning in california right now. david? matt gutman leading
sara sidner, you are further north than we are here in daytona beach, and this is all headed your way as well. what s the situation there? we are about 64 miles from you. and we are getting those bands, as we ve been talking about, all night long. we are expecting to get them what you are getting there here just shortly. but it comes and goes. right now, it s okay. i mean, it s blowing and the trees are bending and there is a lot of wind. the rain is not pound like it does when those bands come in. but it has been sustained winds. i think we were probably at tropical storm winds at this point in time. you know, is there doing to be a lot of damage from these winds? no. when this gets bigger and fit gets closer and we start seeing hurricane strength winds, then, yes, and that s yes they have said, look, we are going to go ahead and put a curfew in place. one of the reasons for that is to make sure there is no one