supplies. things you mentioned are exactly what you want to do. but you also want to make sure of things like your important papers, medication, things like that. so there is a little checklist. you don t have to buy everything. we talk about water. you don t have to go out and buy water. you can actually storm water. put in ziploc bags. freezer. fill up empty soda bottles. bathtub, fill it up with water in case you lose water pressure. use that water for sanitation. go to ready.gov, take those steps. look for things you already have. some of the simple things make sure you have a manual can opener. the power goes out without electricity you still want to get the canned goods. one other important step good for people to have family communication plan. preferably somebody who doesn t live in the hurricane area where people are going to hit surprisingly offensive times easier to make that one long distance phone call to somebody and let them tell the rest of the friends and family that y
group out to sea to avoid this storm yesterday, so if you re in the way of this hurricane you should be preparing now. if you aren t sure how to prepare your families, or your home, or your business for a hurricane, or any other emergency then you can visit ready.gov. that s ready.gov, or listo.gov. now since last weekend fema has been deploying its incident management assistance teams to staging areas and communities up and down the coast. fema has millions of liters of water, millions of meals and cots and blankets along with other supplies prepositioned across the eastern she board. the american red cross has begun preparing shelters in california and other states. this is being coordinated with our state and local partners and they stand ready to be deployed
it. just to underscore this point, we ordered an aircraft carrier group out to sea to avoid this storm yesterday. so if you re in the way of the hurricane, you should be preparing now. if you aren t sure how to prepare your families or your home or your business for a hurricane or any other emergency, then you can visit ready.gov, that s ready.gov or listo.gov. now, since last weekend, fema has been deploying its teams to staging areas and communities up and down the coast. fema has millions of liters of water, millions of meals and tens of thousands of cots and blankets along with other supplies prepositioned along the eastern seaboard. the american red cross has already begun preparing shelters in north carolina and other states.
just to underscore this point, we ordered an aircraft carrier group out to sea to avoid this storm yesterday. so if you re in the way of this hurricane, you should be preparing now. if you aren t sure how to prepare your families or your home or your business for a hurricane, or any other emergency, then visit ready.gov, that s ready.gov, or listo.gov. robert? i thought that was a good warning from the president. too bad that didn t happen before katrina. we ll stay on this. very quickly katrina has not been rebuilt, and that s a president that the government made. ask the residents down there. obama dropped the ball on that one. marinationan wa mayor nagan e
but i can not. are you ready? states of hnemergency are in if effect from north carolina all the way to connecticut. it could be a very rough weekend. so let s head right to atlanta and check in with jackqui jeras. once again it s a little later than usual, so i m scrambling to get it all out to you. hurricane watches now posted from the north carolina/virginia border to sandy hook, new jersey. so that includes delaware bay, chesapeake bay. we also have hurricane warnings in effect from little river inlet north carolina northward to sandy hook including delaware way, chesapeake bay, south of smith point. so that includes basically everybody from long island on southward. so this is a developing situation. of course. second thing that s new here that just came in, the intensity of the storm. category 2. look at that number. 110-mile-an-hour winds. the threshold between the two is between 110 and 111. 111 makes it a major hurricane, 110 makes it a think not major hurricane, b