Coming ashore. You can see whats going on. A ton of rain on the west side of the storm. But notice, the strongest side, normally the Northeast Corner here, thats where you see the strongest winds, 84mileanhour wind gusts in long island. Notice the rain here, really cutting off on the back side, as it makes its way in. Well continue to see rain here, though, as we continue to be on the southwest side of the storm. Heres atlantic city. Heres the ey coming onshower right now. Atlantic city, probably seeing the strongest winds they have seen in years. Maybe even decades right now. Potentially 90, 100mileanhour winds with this storm. You can see the outer eye wall which is right here through cape may county, new jersey, along the delaware bay. Were watching this rig around rehoboth beach. Theyre probably seeing very strong winds out of the northwest right now. Once again, they could easily being seeing 60, 70, 80, 90mileanhour winds even towards rehoboth beach. We are just Getting Started.
Recorded. And that goes back to the super storm of 93. Even beating the super storm of 93, that was the benchmark for many meteorologists. The one we all learn about in school. I guarantee you well all be learning about sandy. As we move through the next day or so, sandy just making its way north of new york. What will keep us in the wind. It will keep us in the rain, too the rain is slacking off around Atlantic City, toward philadelphia, Atlantic City coming in with winds of 70 to 75 Miles Per Hour. This is the eye wall, right in through portions of cape may county, new jersey. This is cape may county. This is where wildwood is, Rehoboth Beach right here starting to see some of the outer bands making their way through, too. Well start to see some of these bands, this one right in here, a strong band coming across the chesapeake bay. The winds are picking up very quickly. They will stay up all night long. Were seeing numerous trees down across the region. Were looking at a lot of Power
Stops in virginia yesterday and an event scheduled in New Hampshire for tomorrow. Hurricane sandy is also causing some trouble with early voting. The lines stretched around some polling places ahead of the storm on saturday. Look at the line there. Fox 5s maureen umeh sat down with mark plotkin to talk about more on this. Reporter fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin joins us now to talk more about the impact of sandy on voting. I didnt know i was going to be the weather man. Early voting being compromised because of this. How will this affect the race . You know that governor romney canceled a trip to virginia beach. That is a very pivotal area that republicans thought they would immediate to do well in and any visit there delayed or postponed obviously hurts a candidate. He is going to ohio. So is president obama. In terms of the eastern coast, North Carolina really is going to go romney. I dont think it will be affected but the only real state is virginia. That one will be affected
Welcome back. It is 6 00 here this morning. We are watching Hurricane Sandy very closely for you this morning. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. A very busy morning indeed. Tucker barnes will have the latest information as soon as we get it. Before we talk with him, first the warnings about this storm are being taken very seriously. There is a long list of what is closed today. Metro is closed today. That includes all rail, bus and metro access service. The federal government is also closed. D. C. Government offices or closed as well and so are most schools across it is region. For a full list of closures gorks to myfoxdc. Com. We are also running all the closures on the top of your screen. For a full list of closures, go to myfoxdc. Com. Tucker, can you at least i know you are very busy over there. Here, we have a picture it was right now. What is the latest on this . So, were now looking it at the outer band of sandy actually working their way inland and starting to a
Hurricaneforced wind gusts across the Northern Tier of our viewing area as we get into the overnight hours tonight. Thats when the worst will appear later this afternoon and particularly during the nighttime hours tonight. 26 your most recent wind gusts here in washington, 18 in leonard county. Winds will be picking up, and itll be worse later this evening. Forecast, 54 today, chilly throughout, winds gusting to 70 Miles Per Hour, yes, 70 Miles Per Hour later this evening. As the storm makes land fall. Rain heavy at times and becoming very windy. We have a high wind warning in effect until 8 00 tomorrow night. I want to mention, its going to be very cool, in fact cold later tonight. Make sure you have plenty of blankets. If you lose electricity, not top of warm you. Thats a look at weather,ville more in a minute. Thanks. We have Live Team Coverage of the storm this morning, Lauren Demarco is live in ocean city. Holly morris is live in annapolis, and melanie is monitoring the situation