lawyers for sandusky say they plan to appeal. now for an extreme weather alert for you because the gulf coast is bracing for heavy wind and rain as the tropical storm system is swirling in the gulf of mexico. debbie is her name. and she ll be the fourth named storm of the atlantic hurricane season. for more on that, let s go to maria in the extreme weather center. what do we know? good morning. good to see you. it s not named debbie just yet. it s an area of low pressure, showers and thunderstorms across the gulf of mexico so the center of the storm system is still over open water but the issue here is that winds are very conducive for this storm to continue to develop and intensify. and the warm water of the gulf will help it intensify as well. you can see the center of the storm system or what appears to be the center of it basically slowly spinning across the gulf of mexico blowing up a lot of showers and thunderstorms across western portions of cuba and also to the west
winds. and because this is such a large storm that s why you see such a high storm surge prediction. and once it passes through and it starts coming through the new york city area and then heads into new england, it looks like the path i have seen projected really has it moving more inland. is that right? that s right. we do expect it to move farther inland once it reaches the new york area. david zalinsky is live where they are expecting to release a new update in a couple minutes from now. we will have that for you here on fox. david, good work down there. thanks for the information. my pleasure. and we want to hear from you. are you riding out the storm? are you racing out of town 1234 do you have a plan? do you have any questions about what to do next? you can send us your thoughts. you can tweet me directly and you can tweet maria malina.
category two? category three? and we have a brand-new update coming out at 3:00 a.m. we are now talking a category one. that is good news. we want it to weaken and hopefully push out to sea, but that s no what that s not what the models are pointing to. right now sustained winds are 90 miles an hour. swree hurricane warnings in affect stretching from wilmington, north carolina all the way up to portions of new england. martha s vineyard is under a hurricane warning. new york city, atlantic city and to virginia beach and now we are looking at a category 1 storm. this storm has just weakened, so there is good news for us. a category one storm. everybody needs to stay alert. it is not so much the strength of the winds with the storm system, but the size of it. it is a very large storm system. it is 90 miles out from the center of the storm. and tropical storm-force winds extending 290 miles out from the center of the storm. it is very large, impacting many areas, raleigh, no
category two hurricane is hugging the coast of north carolina and getting very close and packing winds of up to 100 miles per hour. states of emergency are definitely in affect from north carolina all the way up to maine. hurricane irene is currently at a category two strength. but how different is that from a category three? and where is irene heading now? our meteorologist is live in the fox extreme weather center. what are we talking about category two? category three? and we have a brand-new update coming out at 3:00 a.m. we are now talking a category one. that is good news. we want it to weaken and hopefully push out to sea, but that s no what that s not what the models are pointing to. right now sustained winds are 90 miles an hour. swree hurricane warnings in affect stretching from wilmington, north carolina all the way up to portions of new england. martha s vineyard is under a hurricane warning. new york city, atlantic city and to virginia beach and now we are
otherwise, as you head northward, that s where we re seeing some of the heavier snow. we re expecting significant accumulation throughout the rest of the day. otherwise, current temperatures across the area in the 20 s and they re going to be staying like that here in the northeast. growing up on the east and maria is right. not good snowball making weather because you have you have to pack it when it gets a little moist. you have to wait until it warms up a little. best snow balls to throw at your sister. maria invited you guys outside to check it out. that s a good idea. perhaps you should do that right now before i do the headlines. good luck. let s go to the rest of the headlines. fox news alert for you. because there s check out this brand new video that s dominating the air waves in north korea at christmas weekend. north korean tv today all about kim jong-il and his heir apparent. north korea s state tv is showing this newly edited propaganda video featuring the father