point out it s really kind of lumbering. it s a slow, slow storm. yeah, it definitely is. and you know, that slow movement on some respects is actually helping to continue to pull in these warm atlantic waters and keeping this going with a very strong central pressure right now at 952 millibars. we also do know from this storm hearing from the nbc news desk 2 million people without power at this point. and as of the 11:00 p.m., full update. we are going to get another one here shortly. we re going to take a look at my computer here. and what you re going to note is we do have these tropical or hurricane warnings extending still right up into the cape of massachusetts. so we have not seen anything change. if you re just tuning in now and you re wondering about what the latest is, it is still on track. it is still going to bring potentially hurricane-force winds right into new york city. now, it s a category 1. winds at 80 miles per hour. gusts are gusting higher into the 90s. and very
that is continually feeding off these warm atlantic waters. get this, alex. hurricane-force winds still extend 90 miles from the center of the storm, and tropical storm-force winds some 260 miles from the center. i don t think i ve seen a category 1 storm hold up that well at landfall with hurricane-force winds reaching that far out. those winds right along the outer banks that you saw is still gusts to 75 miles per hour, and we re seeing those winds right now holding steady at 85 miles per hour. the current track, it really hasn t adjusted too much at this point. it slowed down maybe a little bit here. you can see by sunday at 8:00 a.m. it does put it right over maybe even just to the south of long island right near new york city. so maybe it s slowed down here by a couple of hours, but all in all winds are at category 1 strength up the coastline. we put this into motion with the
really cool. meanwhile. here s the satellite image of tropical storm igor they might say in the movies, the latest named atlantic storm. that s western africa. you see just beyond igor s pinwheel to the right. right now, maximum sustained winds at 40 miles per hour. later today, it should start moving to the west-northwest. tomorrow it should be gathering steam as it moves out over the warm atlantic. too early to tell whether or not it s going to be a threat to the united states or to the caribbean. meanwhile, let s take a look. we have some widely scattered thunderstorms all the way from portions of texas right up through the ozarks. where it s the heaviest. also a lot of rain in northern portions of iowa. widely scattered stuff in the inner mountain region. it is for the most part nice and dry across the eastern third. temperaturewise on this thursday in september, as you can see, 63 right now in new york and raleigh. we got 52 in chicago and minneapolis. 68 in kansas city right
who nervously held on to hope when four generations of the family fled their homes in slidell, louisiana, a small town flattened by katrina. they were a family hell bent on getting home to assess the damage. three foot of water in the house. two to three feet. look at these trees. ooh, god. whoo whoo! two weeks before the deadly storm wreaked havoc on residents along the gulf coast, katrina was nothing more than a harmless waved that formed off the coast of africa and disappeared completely in the atlantic ocean. 11 days later on august 24th, the system resurfaced as a tropical depression. it lost its identity and then it kind of came back and then tropical depression number 12 came in behind it. tropical depression 12 gathered strength while churning in the bahamas, quickly becoming a tropical storm. when had started as an innocuous
know these areas very well. but there is still enough of a circulation offshore that it is still picking up all of that moisture coming in off of the warm atlantic. and it can seemingly do this forever. it won t be forever, but it will be for a couple of days. so all those amazing rainfall totals that we told you about yesterday, 2 feet in some areas, well, take a look at this. this is what we call the forecast of where we anticipate the moisture to be. and look at this, it is not moving a whole lot. it is still picking up the moisture offshore. and aiming it at wilmington. aiming it at the sound. aiming it at myrtle beach. so it is just going to meander a little bit, maybe sneak its way over this vicinity, but it will do it at a very slow pace. it is in no murray to move out. and the doubters who were saying, oh, computer models are