they are calling a super storm. it s a combination of a hurricane, a winter storm that s come from this way and arctic air that s come from the north. pushing into land much than anybody had anticipated it was moving at 15 miles per hour, 12 hours ago. it s now moving at 28 to 30 miles per hour. so that increases the forward winds above it. and it also decreases the amount of time that those that very heavy, on shore flow and the surge will effect the landfall. here are the biggest problems. let s go to the next map. the biggest problems have to do with this sturgeon. the sturgeon three hours ago he we were told the storm had speeded up, as a result, it would have been coming in about 5:00 or 6:00 eastern time. turns out that didn t happen. it s expected around 8:15. and 8:15 is high tide. that is absolutely a worse case scenario. let s get to janice dean in the fox weather center. janice, the hope was that 8:15, 8:30 high tides would
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where the hurricane is. if the hurricane went the other way, wouldn t that have been great? the wind would have been this way. it would have been blowing the oil away from shore and into the gulf of mexico where they could have rounded it off or burned it off. because now it s going to be such a quick, on-shore flow, this oil will be different than all the other oil we ve seen so far. this oil will not be a tar ball. this oil will not be a moose. this oil will be liquid. like you pour out of your 10-w-40 as you pour into your car. it will be more deadly than a tar ball. tar balls are what they are. they can being picked up. they re not as terrible to the wildlife. it s this liquid oil that s on its way now with hours and hours of on-shore flow that will be all the way through the bayous of louisiana, up through mississippi and louisiana. now, there s a slight east component, wind from the east here, that will help drag it