crash tomorrow. where it lands, though, pretty much anybody s guess at this point. kris gutierrez is tracking it live from johnson space tph-r in houston. so how is this all going to turn out for us, kris? fingers crossed it doesn t hit here and we re learning it probably won t hit here now. believe it or not, the department of defense has a sophisticated system of radars, martha, that s actually tracking this thing and they pass that information on to orbital scientists at the johnson space center so they are currently tracking this thing and the latest projection is this satellite will not be flying over north america when it comes crashing down and reenters the earth sometime we re told tomorrow afternoon. remember, you mentioned the satellite weighs 6 tons so it s roughly the size of a school bus but during reentry it s expected to break apart into 20 different chunks of steel and titanium, as small as 10 pounds, as large as 300 pounds and nasa right now has no idea where that de
[ grandma ] my family is my joy, my hope. they are my heart. it s the reason we get out of bed in the morning. [ grandpa ] the reason we fall into bed at night sometimes. [ grandma ] yes. that s right. [ male announcer ] humana. never done a mandatory evacuation before. we wouldn t be doing it now if we didn t think this storm had the potential to be very serious. the best outcome would be if the storm veers east and doesn t hit us, doesn t hit us hard. we can t expend on mother nature being so kind. we have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. greta: right now she is not veering off. hurricane irene veering squarely for new york city forcing the shutdown of its transit system. first time mandatory evacuations in new york city. something new york has never seen before.
which is the largest in the nation will grind to a halt at noon tomorrow. no storm has ever done that. if irene s winds whip up to 60 miles per hour they will close bridges including george washington bridge which includes george washington bridge. this is no time to play games says michael bloomberg. we have never done mandatory evacuation before. we wouldn t be doing it now if we didn t think this storm had the potential to be very serious. the best outcome would be if the storm veers off to the east and doesn t hit us. doesn t hit us hard. but we can t depend on mother nature being so kind. we have to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. new york state governor andrew cuomo also mobilizing the state s army and national guard. our jonathan hunt live now with more in our new york city newsroom. and john, than the city, obviously as you heard the mayor say are not taking any chances. taking any chances at all.
yet, they are both being pulled in opposite directions by their parties. well, they should stop the bickering and the finger-pointing and set down and make a deal and move forward. we should have something on the table by monday. we have to vote by wednesday in the house. it has to include, like any business, revenues and expenditures, and we can t continue with 15% of the gdp is revenues and 25% is expenditures. we need to bring them closer together. yet, the republican leadership so far has been intransient about cutting or increasing revenue on profitable oil companies, cutting out their subsidies, or subsidies for jets or the yachts or all kind of ways that we could cut spending, increase revenue, that doesn t hit or overall economy and our aeblt to envest in invasion, infrastructure, and the future so that we can out compete our competitors in the world economy. we need to make a decision, move
bickering and the finger-pointing and set down and make a deal and move forward. we should have something on the table by monday. we have to vote by wednesday in the house. it has to include, like any business, revenues and expenditures, and we can t continue with 15% of the gdp is revenues and 25% is expenditures. we need to bring them closer together. yet, the republican leadership so far has been intransient about cutting or increasing revenue on profitable oil companies, cutting out their subsidies, or subsidies for jets or the yachts or all kind of ways that we could cut spending, increase revenue, that doesn t hit or overall economy and our aeblt to envest in invasion, infrastructure, and the future so that we can out compete our competitors in the world economy. we need to make a decision, move forward. hopefully it is a large plan that puts us on a path towards