f. you re on the outer banks, you re not going anywhere else. the reason why it is so important and so dangerous is because, as rob mentioned, if this storm were to come even relatively close to land, you will deal with the western half of the storm. the side here, the winds spinning counterclockwise. you can still deal with the brunt of this wind which will extend about some 90 miles from the center of it. tropical storm force winds over 200 miles from the center. so keeping that in mind and looking at the path we have at the national hurricane center, if the storm were to stay just right on this forecast line or perhaps deviate more to the east or west, the coastline is still going to be ravaged by some heavy winds. of course you will have tremendous waves. power outages are almost a certainty from boston southward to the carolinas, perhaps even as far north as maine, even areas that are not under the gun, the florida coastline or even the georgia coastline, you will be dealing with
trouble. nobody. you can t hear me? ali can t hear me. we can t hear you. i should say bad things because they can t hear me. i hope you can hear me. i m t.j. holmes in for krya phillips. we are going to be not talking about base-brawls. we have a big night on our hands with the storm. hurricane earl is on the way. it could make it to the coast, close to the coast at least today. at some point tonight we are keeping a close eye on. our reynolds wolf is here tracking it. we are talking about man a strange scene that played out yesterday. explosives, a gun, grunge, directed at the disney channel. why? we will explain the pictures year seeing as well, discovery channel, excuse me. we are talking about the discovery channel, n.
weakening at least that is certainly the hope. the other hope is that make that right turn and sooner rather than later. they haven t done that just yet. reynolds will expound on that a little more later on to see when that thing will turn. if it jog further to the west 20, 30 miles, then you are talking about this area being in the core of the western core of that eye wall. and that s much, much more dangerous than being 20, 30 miles away from it. that s going to be a dicey situation come around 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. tonight as it heads up towards new england. all right. this will be a story for the next several days. exactly what this storm will do. we appreciate you and con to check in with rob. he will keep us update order what s happening on the coast and reynolds wolf is here with me. he is keeping a close eye on the track of earl. we will be checking in with him in just a moment. back to the story we saw play out live on the air here yesterday. the story of what was happenin
morning, are taking it much more serious now that it s a category 4 with the forecasts that it will come very, very close and potentially even closer. if if does even jog 10, 20, 30 miles west that could put the area right in the core of the western eye wall and that is not a place you want to be. so that is a fear and until this passes us late tonight, early tomorrow morning, folks are certainly sweating it just a little bit and visitors have been told to get out of the outer banks and we have seen folks doing just that in anticipation of the storm. we appreciate you saying it, yes, you should take it seriously. rob, we appreciate you. we re going to continue to check in with you. reynolds, amazing to hear someone say something that sounds so stupid. we re kind of excited about it. many of the bridges that lead back to the mainland, shut them down as soon as the winds get up to 39 miles an hour. once they get to tropical storm force, those bridges are closed
on. schools are closed. the beachgoers and the storm onlookers are already out here. the way the landscape is set up tease coast different from the gulf of mexico. you don t worry so much about storm surge. it is low tide now. waves are building, high tide will be up right where we are standing. there are slifvers of the outer bank. in hurricane s past have been completely washed over. some cases cut off to where you have people cut off from the mainland. that s certainly a concern here and that s one of the reasons evacuation orders have been issued. they haven t seen a hurricane here since 2003 when hurricane isabelle came in as a category 2 storm. it has been quite some time. some of the people we talked to yesterday didn t really seem to be terribly concerned. that changed somewhat today. we are seeing more as far as people that are on the move. it is very dry here right now. that s good news. as far as the amount of humidity in the air. i think some of that dry air will get caught