irene. president obama said to take the storm seriously. i cannot express this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. don t wait. don t delay. we all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst. all of us have to take this storm seriously. you need to listen to your state and local officials. and if you are given an evacuation order, please follow it. as we understand it, president obama is on his way back to the white house as we speak cutting his vacation short by a day. joining me now is the mayor of wilmington, north carolina, explain how things are going from the perspective of wilmington right now. we ve got a lot of rain coming down right now. we ve had four inches so far before this event is finished, in the early morning hours of saturday, they re expecting over nine inches. we have a lot of wind, about we ve had gusts at times 62
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their homes. heavy, heavy duty interior rainfall as well is going to be a big issue. we could be looking at five to ten inches of rain. you combine that, that s terrible. you re right, if the wind speeds continue to come down, the saturated ground is going to have a hold on some of the trees. that will keep some of the power outages from happening. so many questions. the last thing we want to do is thinking that things are improving, it s okay to go to the beach. that s the most dangerous area. where i m standing now, i may not be able to stand 24 hours, 36 hours could be the worst of the storm for jersey and headed to new york city. the other big development, adam, in atlantic city, they closed the casinos there sending everybody out the doors. could you run that by me one more time? they re telling everybody in atlantic city to get out of there. do they expect that area to be hit particularly hard? probably a little bit of both. they re probably doing it because it s a good p
if that smashes window. that means glass will be added to that debris. it could be dangerous out and about in the streets. especially sunday afternoon into monday morning. i think a lot of people will find it interesting that the mass transit system here in new york, one of the largest in the nation is going to be shutting down tomorrow at noontime. why so far in advance of the worst part of the storm to do that? the problem with a system that large, it takes about eight hours to shut it down. once they begin that at noon, it really won t officially stop or they won t get all the pieces, if you will, out of harm s a until 8:00 tomorrow night. the time which we expect to see some of the first outer bands. they want it in completion by the time that s done. jim cantore. thanks for the update. we ll continue to check in our nbc and thus news weather channel correspondents. get get the latest updates from the officials also. you re watching special coverage of hurricane irene on the
been there a long time, it s expected, once every four years. you have your hurricane plan, your shutters. no big deal, right? further up the coast, there are a lot of people panicking this the suburbs. d.c., baltimore, philadelphia, new york, hartford and providence that haven t gone through this and they re very worried about eight inches of rain, worried about basements being flooded and looking up at their trees wondering if they fall, where are they going to fall and where is the safe place for my family? that is what my family in baltimore is thinking about. bill, thanks for the update. we bring back jay gray in kill devil hills in north carolina. explain how you ve seen the swell of the waves change in the few hours you ve been watching this storm as it comes ashore there. reporter: the most notable changes are the height of the waves. they have grown in intensity. let s look over the dunes and back out at the waters here. what we noticed is the surf has become much rougher
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