juliet: hurricane irene is in north carolina and rick is following this. wreck rick: this picture from nasa shows you the size of the storm. it is such a large storm which is a big concern. it is not impacting just a couple of people but a very big area. and because it is such a large storm the energy of the storm surge is very large and very wide. that is why this is concerning. the satellite images we have been saying, you can see weakening, back here on the southwest quadrant and that is the case as it interacts with land but the energy to the northeast continues to bring all this wind action toward the coast so at the love water will be pushed into the chesapeake