jon: no surfing for you today! jenna: we re going to move up the east coast to massachusetts where folks are under a hurricane warning there, one tourist visiting cape cod has his priorities straight: we told the barnably inn to make sure they had plenty of alcohol for us! jen i wonder if peter doocy is staying at that same inn. we find him in chatham, massachusetts. the weather is pretty mild here, but earl is on its way. luckily, he s expected to get here around low tide so coastal flooding is not expected to be an issue, however, the forecast, we might get up to 6 inches of rain in just about six hours, a span of six hours, so urban flooding could cause significant problems and there s no evacuation order at this time but if the winds reach up to 70 miles an hour the army corps of engineers is going to close down the bridges to and from cape cod. nobody on, and nobody off. and for the most part, people are running out of time to decide if they re going to stay or leave, and
it sounds like many tough new englanders are going to ride it out here. listen: we re going to try to be open as much as possible for the convenience of people needing supplies. we re not leaving, because there hasn t been they haven t told us to leave. reporter: and jenna, no matter what ends up happening with this storm, earl has marked the unofficial end of summer for many boaters up here who have taken their vessels out of the water as a precaution and are very unlikely to put them back in this late in the season. jen that s probably pretty sad for them. peter, thank you very much, we ll be back with peter doocy as the storm develops. as piecer was mentioning, this storm is going to affect a lot of people before it s over, and some of you that are staying through this storm and have just kind of waited and watched, you ve been sending us amazing photos, like this one coming from one of our viewers named tee, a look at the surprise over east hampton, new york. earl is suppos
health.com, member of our medical a team and he joins us now. listen, everybody thinks that they can ride out a storm. you have to be prepared. look, one thing we learned from katrina, is that when people are not prepared it can be devastating. the first thing you have to think as earl is coming up the coast here, you have to have certain things in your house, especially if you re going to be there. but for me, if you re a senior, if you have medical disabilities or the authorities tell to you leave, leave. that s the safest thing, first. however, think of energy source. one of the things that s happening, the electricity goes out, so you have to have an energy source, whether it s batteries or a generator. if you have a generator, think of carbon monoxide poisoning. that s a big ticket item. think of water, water gets contaminated, the red cross recommends 1 gallon per person in your house. have water supply. that s vital. food. think about food, if you
in this gentleman s luggage. they opened it up, they found a canister, it looked suspicious. turns out the guy is a 70-year-old scientist. authorities are not saying exactly what it was that he had, but they say it was legitimate. they say he was cooperative throughout, and it turned out not to be a bomb. so all of the folks were eventually let back into the four concourses at mia. planes are flying again, and that scientist who carried the suspicious-looking canister in his luggage, he is free right now. jenna: all right. well, a story if there ever was one for going into a very busy holiday travel weekend. jon: leave the canisters home, folks. jenna: this hurricane s getting different nicknames. big, bad earl, i think that s what we re calling it now. we re going to show you the damage the storm s already done. plus, it s not that unusual for a fisherman to catch a shark, but where this shark was caught might shock you. it will shock you. we re going to talk with the
off of homes. we re going to get the latest, meteorologist janice dean has been living, literally, in the extreme weather center for the last three days. you know earl very well,. reporter: sleeping baggings, ham burger wrappers, but we do have our maps, and once we re done with earl, we re not done yet. we still have a couple weeks to go in this peak hurricane season. fiona behind that, that could brush bermuda this weekend, and gaston which is a remnant low right now, but we are expecting he could make a return and perhaps even become a hurricane next week. so here s the radar. big, bad earl moving north, north wees at 21 miles per hour. the storm is moving quickly and downgraded to just a category 1, 85 mile-per-hour sustained winds. still feeling the effects of the outer bands across portions of new england. we still have hurricane warnings