just been issues. i have not had a chance to read the 5:00 advisory but you can see what s happening here as the storm is moving off toward the north. due north now no longer a northwesterly track. still has that eye at times more evident than others and if you follow the line there, it s going right up that line. at the moment. hurricane center as of 5:00 a.m. winds 110, gusting to 135. pressure holding steady at 9.42. that s lower than yesterday morning though and we ll watch this strengthen to a category 3 if not category # storm. close to it i think at times over the next 24 hours and frock chases as well. fluctuations as well. by saturday 2:00 a.m. now, it will be approaching okracoke in eastern north carolina. by saturday 11:00 and this is faster, we thought this would be more lick sunday morning but the like sunday morning but the forward speed increasing. passing norfolk as a category 3 storm approaching ocean city here during the early morning hours weakening to
locally in our metro area, there will be a sharp cut off. the further east you are of the district, the heavier the rain will get in the higher the winds will be. the for the west, the lower the accumulations will be in the lighter the winds will be as well. we could receive two to 4 inches of rain. right now we have a few areas of rain, mainly in southern maryland. partly cloudy a few showers. 88 the high-temperature. time is flying for rain. yesterday i stood in line at the hardware store to buy sand and sandbags. i back for bags of sand yesterday to put around the basement door. i live on the western shore of the chesapeake bay. people are buying water and batteries. good idea. make sure you have candles but be careful with that. we are going to fill the bathtub with water in case the power goes out so with you can have the water reserves. we learned the hard way. what have we been to this morning? not much. beautiful. 66, 95 all lanes are open. a pretty clean shot aro
curtis drive. that apartment is considered structurally unsound. everything was falling, glasses, cracking and popping. it was actually kind of scary. prince george s county activated its emergency operations center, as did many localities in this area, to coordinate many government agencies. a shelter has been set up at the recreational center for those who have nowhere else to say. a surveillance video from the epicenter showing the quake as it hit in realtime. we ll take you down to mineral, virginia, to show you the damage down there. our area may still be assessing the damage from the earthquake, but this is the other big story we re following this morning as we clean up from that earthquake. we must keep a watchful eye on hurricane irene. right now the storm turning in the atlantic southeast of the bahamas. the weekend will bring something different. it could be bearing down on the mid-atlantic, including our area in some ways. irene, a category 2 storm with winds
still rattling nerves this morning. a lot of closures and delays to tell you about. good morning to you. i m joe krebs. and i m aaron gilchrist in for eun yang this morning. everything you need to know to get your day started in this day after the quake that shook the washington region. it is wednesday, august 24th. let s take a live look outside right now. everything seems to be calm and, yes, still dark. beautiful temperature though. what is it, 80 degrees? 60 degrees. no, 80 degrees. it s a lot cooler. it feels good outside. i think somebody s got their blow dryer on our temperature sensor. it is much cooler again this morning. a delightful start. certainly feeling unaugust-like. feels like late september. most of the region under a clear sky, few wispy high clouds coming over. jupiter shining brilliantly under a southern sky. crescent moon in the eastern sky, and we have temperatures around our region now near mid-60s in washington and by the bay. away from the
businesses across the area. fox 5 s wisdom martin in culpeper, virginia with more. reporter: we re talking about a lot of damage. we are 37 miles from mineral, virginia, which is the epicenter of this earthquake and this is an example of some of the damage. this is a barbershop and salon. when the earthquake hit, bricks started falling off this old historic building lining the sidewalk. there were people in both the barbershop and salon. then went out the back when they realized the ground was shaking. they didn t realize it was an earthquake until later. they did go out the back and were not injured. downtown culpeper has been shut down for the most part because of the severity of the damage. we re talking about several buildings, three buildings that were condemned because they re just too unstable at this point. we re also talking about at least three churches with very serious damage, one of those a very historic church in downtown called st. stevens episcopal. a lot of