plane headed into this thing. they are calling it a tropical disturbance for now just to see if it s serious enough to name it a tropical storm possibly in the next couple of hours. keep in mind we re also learning major oil companies are not taking any chances with this disturbance. evacuations have begun just in case and the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu, he ll be holding a news conference as they are all watching this disturbance as well heading precariously closely to their government line. we ll keep an eye on all of it and let s move on to some other news. moammar gadhafi, a la saddam hussein, is threatening to plunge his country into a drawn out civil war, but did you know it is 42 years to the day since a much younger gadhafi seized control of libya in a military coup. now presumably on the run but apparently still alive, gadhafi is extorting supporters exhorting excuse me, exhorting supporters to fight to the death. here s his message. this was aired today
some new jersey highways became a bigger parkg lot than ever. governor christy said, you have maximized your tan. cash in your chips and go home. new jersey shut down the atlantic city casinos today. how would people know who toe genome from them? this snows we are a bunch of music-loofg, baseball-watching, subway-hopping, casino hounds who want to live in a better union. for what hurricane irene is doing now, we join bill karins. a lot of people are wondering, what are your tax dollars doing to help you? one thing is hurricane hunter planes. men and women are aboard two different airplanes flying through the center of the storm. they relay information back into my weather computers. they report how strong the winds are. when we get the knew visionary
a bigger parking lot than ever. away from the beach. governor christy said, you have maximized your tan. cash in your chips and go home. new jersey shut down the atlantic city casinos today. otherwise how would people know to go home from them? this shows who we are. a bunch of music loving, baseball watching, subway hopping, casino hounds who want to live in a better union. keep hoping for that. for what hurricane irene is doing now, we join bill karins. thanks for joining us. what can you tell us about the latest? a lot of people are wondering, what are your tax dollars doing to help you? one thing is hurricane hunter planes. men and women are aboard two different airplanes flying through the center of the storm. they relay information back into my weather computers. we can track them as they fly in and out of the storm. they report how strong the winds are.
this will start heading towards populated areas. the reason i m bringing this up, a lot of our weather computers think that this should be a hurricane or tropical storm somewhere mere the bahamas or florida by the time we get to the upcoming weekend. forecast wise today, there s the heat in texas. and everyone in new england joining us, bring your umbrella today. thunderstorms will be widespread late this afternoon. so a lot of weather going on and in the a lot that we like. just once i d like you to use the word brutal not in a forecast. how the markets react to the debt deal, major job cuts at a major bank and the home of a hollywood legend hits the markets. your first look at this morning s business headlines is straight ahead. back in the nfl, the red sox make franchise history and need a laugh, we ve got you covered. you re watching first look on msnbc. chronologically i m sixty years old.
i m sick of saying that word. no kidding. this is bad. this is getting to a different level. yeah, dangerous. when we have heat waves like this and they last day after day after day, that s when usually we start getting deadly heat waves. that s probably the case this week. before i get to the heat wave, we had a tropical storm form off the florida coast. too close for comfort. thankfully this will be drifting away from florida and the southeast coast. it doesn t look like it will actually become a hurricane but down anyone in the bahamas is getting hit by gusty winds and rain and maybe bermuda in a couple days. here s the southeast coastline. all of these wavy spaghetti lines, there s our different weather computers telling wrus they think the storm is going to go. you can see the consensus definitely takes it away. the yellowish cone here, that s the actual forecast cone of uncertainty from national hurricane center so we feel surely this will not be