channel s jim cantore. jim what would be the best to hope for at this point? reporter: the best to hope for is a storm that does not go further and potentially weakens a bit before it gets here and also this is the key. this is why we add to the evacuation order issue, if we can get the storm surge in here at the time of low tide. all right. which would be sometime in the afternoon. not at 8:00 in the morning or:00 at night. that would be the best case scenario hier. that said, that does not take away all the issues. because this storm that is about 450 miles wide, you re going to have to push that whole wind field across the city. so a long duration wind event will batter these buildings. once you go up past ten stories you can almost add another category to the hurricane. category 1, for example, a category 2 up above ten stories. that means some of these buildings and certainly some of these windows will take a beating. it s going to be dangerous for
managers fear is where the eye of that storm goes. if it goes just to the west of us, blew pam lick coe sound, big trouble here s. let me explain. what the hurricane comes up on that path, the leading winds could push water from the atlantic on to the eastern side of the outer banks, and then as the hurricane passes through the hailing winds coming from the northwest could push all the water there on to the western shore of outer banks and affect sandwiches this area with water. that s the problem they re expecting, is a water event here, some wind. they re expecting damage to homes and to roads, and urging people that haven t left to do so now. there are some residents holding out. emergency managers say that s not a good idea. they want them to leave and get out now before getting trapped by the storm. are people listening to authorities about the intensity of the seriousness of all this or laggers who look like they re try and stay put and ride this out? reporter: a little bit o
it happens automatically in a crisis or disaster. there are not enough professionals to go around. it s your family members. the bystanders and strangers who have to come together to get you through all these. i don t want to go on irene. you called this closely. i want your opinion on this. seems to me as compared to katrina and a hell of a lot of other really big hurricanes that rumble around, this one is getting a ton more media attention because it s hitting the northeast. do you agree with that or am i wroever reacting? it is probably true. first one of the season almost always gets a lot of attention as well. you can see it, coverage of storm. the realish u, as we saw with the earthquake on tuesday, we are, haven t had one in a long time. over 100 years. new york has done exactly the wrong thing. they went outside. same nithing in washington. you re supposed to stay inside. we re out of practice. especially the bay area like
the potential that emergency services may not be provided due to the closing of bridges. bridges aren t going to fall down but there is a point where the winds get so strong that they close because cars and trucks could be blown off them. new york mayor michael bloomberg preparing for the worst but hoping for the best from hurricane irene. in addition to the bridges all of mass transit including new york subways shut down as of noon tomorrow. for the first time in the city s history parts of manhattan are actually being evacuated ahead of the storm. those in zone a, the areas shaded in orange, told to get out by tomorrow afternoon. the concern, these low-lying areas will find themselves under water as a result of 9 storm surge. weren t of those areas being evacuated is battery park city in low are manhattan. that s where we find the weather
running wild. now it s clean are and more free than the rock wellian 50s. many things have come to try to knock us down and prove our meddle. 9/11 showed me who new york is. stoic, not scared. took a blow to the state, fell down and got right back up. grieved for those we lost and vowed to build back up stronger than ever. anything a human can dish out, new york city can take. but a big, nasty storm? what are we supposed to do with that? how do we prepare? i had to call my friends in california. it, ask, what are we supposed to stockpile in case of a hurricane in new york city? i think of the hurricanes coming for the yankees. not a beatdown from a storm. you know what? it s just water and wind, people. a mean, angry storm, but it s just water and wind. start spreading the news, this, too, shall pass. my friend toure, you take the daily rant to a level of performance art.