the wind is like. your clothes are flapping in the breeze there, bro. the reason we do it, shep, is because we get paid to do it. that s the bottom line. it helps people at home sort of experience what it s like to be in the teeth of one of these things. if this were a category 4 hurricane, would i be standing out here? not likely. i went through of those hugo in 1989 in charleston. i don t want to get through another one of those again. category 1 hurricane you are pretty good staying out here most of the storm though my ears are definitely getting sandblasted. shepard: that happens. the waves behind you, i don t know if it s the camera or what. but they look like they are 10 times your height. they are not. probably pushing 7 or 8-foot waves at this point. the tide is out. not coming too far up the shore. low tide is a little after 12. high tide is going to be at 6:00. and if this hurricane does continue on the forecast track and the eye comes right over us
that we re getting sandblasted. it s like being in a sahara sand storm. we ve lost some shingles on these houses. just about every house has lost some shingles. and then beyond this brick constructed motel, you can see some of the other superficial damage. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is kate. [ kate ] can t believe i have high blood pressure. what s that thing? another medication. i really should have taken my shoes off before i got weighed. [ female announcer ] you ve got a lot on your mind. that s why every walgreens prescription goes through a 10 point safeguard check that reviews your current walgreens health record for allergies and potentially harmful drug interactions.
you re standing up okay? good morning from nags head. we re still getting battered. the worst is still yet to come. the center of irene is still down just north and northeast of xap lookout. that s down to the south-southwest. we have a good three or four more hours of this. the winds will get stronger. there are dangerous-looking bandses that will come at us right near the center of irene. we don t have a true eye anymore, but once that comes over, the winds will back off and the sky wit brighten. these winds are over 60 miles per hour. i m also getting sandblasted, which is kind of painful, and the rain is blowing horizontal. look at some of these homes here. again, they are hanging in there. what you can t see is as the wind gets channelled between buildings here, some of these homes, i can see now that large sections of board and siding have been ripped off and blown off the homes. there s going to be there goes part of the roof, part of
hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as it s making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the carolina shoreline for the past several hours. that is where, again, it it has officially made landfall. the storm surge there is expected to take a toll on outer banks and coastal communities. concern shared all the way up and down the east coast right now. more so in cities you can imagine that aren t used to dealideal ing with hurricanes, like new york city. been some time since they ve had to deal with a direct hit from hurricanes. this storm could be head toward parts of lower manhattan, could
and the pilot gets on the system and says, this is an exact quote. ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. we have a small problem. all four engines have stopped. we re doing our damnedest to get it under control. i trust you are not in too much distress. all four engines. little problem. no worries, though, right? when captain eric moody made that remarkably calm announcement to the 260 people onboard his plane, the plane was 37,000 feet in the air with no engines. captain moody glided the plane down 24,000 feet in total silence. remember, no engines. finally at 13,000 feet he was able to get one of the engines restarted. at the last minute he got three of the four engines restarted and got that plane down safely. he s the british sully, in other words. once that plane was on the ground it got even weirder. there was an acrid sulfury smoke in the cabin no one could explain and the windshield of the plane was completely opaque like it was sandblasted.