don t wait. don t delay. for the if, time ever, new york city is shutting down its mass transit system, all new york area airports will be closed and more than 300,000 people have been ordered to leave. nobody s going to get fined, nobody s going to go to jail but if you don t follow this, people might die. we will take a look at the preparations, the evacuations and the path of the monster storm that is irene, early this saturday morning, august 27th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the early show, everyone on what is a very busy news morning. i m jeff glor. good morning, everyone. i m betty nguyen. you all stocked up? you have your bottled water, food. the batteries, all that stuff and ready. we re all ready. a lot of people are stranded trying to get a flight out. yes. a lot going on here. the hurricane weakened overnight to a category 1, winds of 90 miles an hour right now but the bigger concern with irene is the enormous size and dur
people have been ordered to leave. nobody s going to get fined, nobody s going to go to jail but if you don t follow this people might die. we will take a look at the preparations, the evacuations and the path of the monster storm that is irene, early this saturday morning, august 27th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the early show, everyone on what is a very busy news morning. i m jeff glor. good morning, everyone. i m betty nguyen. you all stocked up? you have your bottled water, food. the batteries, all that stuff and ready. we re all ready. a lot of people are stranded trying to get a flight out. yes. a lot going on here. the hurricane weakened overnight to a category 1, winds of 90 miles an hour right now but the bigger concern with irene is the enormous size and duration makes it worrisome. hurricane irene hit the coast of north carolina, more than 90,000 people have lost power, more than 2 million people along the eastern seaboard h