ainsley: how cute is that dog? i want him. brian: very good shape. pete: very fast. brian: thank you very much, jillian. do you know who else is in good shape? janice dean? janice: hi did, you say i was in good shape? ainsley: you gave me an early copy of your book. i read it yesterday on the plane. i m not finished with it yet. it s so good. learning so much about you. janice: that s a good endorsement. that s coming up next tuesday by the way. mostly sunny will be in stores. brian said i was in good shape i don t know what i deserve that for but i will take it take a look at the maps real quick it is, look at this, this is incredible. look at all the wind reports we have received over the last 48 hours. the big story is the wind although we did have tornado reports across mississippi, alabama, parts of georgia. wind advisories over 60 miles per hour this morning on long island. 66 mile-per-hour winds. so that s going to be an issue over the next, say, 12 to 24 hours as this system is
this goes down in the history books. we have not yet assessed the damage that has yet to be determined from the storm. here is tropical storm michael, making landfall, it s quickly weakening but it s still carrying a punch. we could see the threat for tornadoes, heavy rainfall and strong winds as well, through parts of georgia and the carolinas, these areas, the carolinas were definitely hit hard by florence so flooding is going to be an issue once again. but it will move quickly. it s steered by a cold front, so the good news is it will be out of here by tomorrow. you can see the cold front steering it through we have the potential for heavy rainfall in its path over the next 12 to 24 hours and then the cold front will bump temperatures down certainly across the east coast. there s the potential rainfall from this, from georgia all the way up towards new jersey and long island. we could definitely see several inches, some areas isolated 4 to
severe weather has just pummeled the south. tornados and violent storms tearing through several states. cnn s chad myers has the forecast. this weather is brought to you by humana. we think great things are ahead of you if your health is ready for it. more tornadoes in the future because dixie alley has its tornado season in the fall. and we saw dozens of tornadoes over this week. hard to say much about anything, how good this week could be other than the rain that came down with it. still, the death toll from the tornadoes over this week stands at five. we will see the rainfall, though, help the firefighters. this is one of the beneficial things that happened over the week. almost four inches of rain fell in the wildfire area there in tennessee, parts of georgia and
from around the houston area, certainly galveston, and the southern part of louisiana, stretched around parts of mississippi. that will be the target. we will continue to see tornado threats throughout much of the afternoon. the system does pull off to the east. and less in intensity. we re not going to see much of a severe threat. certainly very heavy rain across the panhandle of florida, parts of georgia and alabama where we might see 3 to 5 inches of rain by the end of the day on sunday. elizabeth. thank you so much, rick. the obama administration now said they would spend an additional $100 million to support the syrian opposition in that country s civil war. almost weekly we are now hearing about the failure of one u.s. policy in syria and the drastic change to another. mission creep occurs when the mission changes. when the mission expands. when the mission becomes
russia, a de facto influence on the surrounding companies? what would the map of that part of the world look like ten years from now if he gets what he wants? he wants to take the countries that are bordering his western flank and basically prevent them from becoming saddled up with the european union, parts of georgia, which is already more or less annexed, he wants to prevent nato from being directly on mother russia s border, that s what he wants and he also wants to reexert influence on sizable russian populations. are we on the aggressive side coming from in from the west, are we pushing for nato membership? we have the baltic states, we don t want more, do we? that s one of the reasons why putin has been able to rear this nationalistic outcry in russia