end. we ve seen the worst of it. we ve seen the most damage and the most extreme damage on the coast with the high tide cycle we just got done with but all the water has to rush out and we still have wirnds blowing onshore. the next high tide psyche ll have minor damage but nothing compared to the damage just done. as far as the winds go, we re still probably, i d say, roughly half a million people sitting there with power on, crossing their fingers hoping they don t lose it and they probably will as we go throughout the night. storm will do a slow turn. it went inland over philadelphia and southern jersey around 5:00 or 6:00 this evening and then the storm is now going to slow down, slowly weaken and head up to our northern inning over the next three to four days. it will linger. not like we re going to all of the sudden have a clear day and beautiful and sunny to clear up. tuesday is going to be rough with gusty winds and periods of rain. i don t think the power crew also get out the
but i can not. are you ready? states of hnemergency are in if effect from north carolina all the way to connecticut. it could be a very rough weekend. so let s head right to atlanta and check in with jackqui jeras. once again it s a little later than usual, so i m scrambling to get it all out to you. hurricane watches now posted from the north carolina/virginia border to sandy hook, new jersey. so that includes delaware bay, chesapeake bay. we also have hurricane warnings in effect from little river inlet north carolina northward to sandy hook including delaware way, chesapeake bay, south of smith point. so that includes basically everybody from long island on southward. so this is a developing situation. of course. second thing that s new here that just came in, the intensity of the storm. category 2. look at that number. 110-mile-an-hour winds. the threshold between the two is between 110 and 111. 111 makes it a major hurricane, 110 makes it a think not major hurricane, b
who is in harm s way needs to prepare for the worst and pray for the best. let me assure you that we are not overreacting. we need to be ready if you live in one of these areas, spend time with precaution. battering the bahamas. in nasa, jim, what has the damage been there? reporter: candy, a little a little bit of palms here with high wind and strong rain. here in nassau, the main tourist areas, no damage or floods whatsoever. the power lines [inaudible] they are so confident that the tourist areas [inaudible] jim, i m sorry. i m going to have to interrupt you here. we have really bad i can t hear thaw well. from what i can tell, not that much damage where he is in nassau. we will get back to him we can e audio problem. the latest forecast from the national hurricane center says irene will approach the north carolina coast saturday. cnn meteorologist chad myers is here to fill in more of the details. chad, you and i have talked for a couple of nights now, and
center in the middle part of the pacific ocean. here s the united states, there s alaska, here s russia, here s japan. around that low it goes and that would take any major radiation explosion and the distinction we have to make is these are not meltdowns. right. if a meltdown happened, obviously the government would run all of these models over and over to figure out who had to go where. it appears that a lot of the energy, aloft the radiation, may go to the north of japan. that would be the russian peninsula there. but i am a meteorologist. i know little to nothing about radiation dispersion. but i know what the levels are and where the winds go. we will just try to break it down for you. we re just trying to literally break it down as layman s terms as we can get. and as we get more information, we ll share that with our viewers. you and the fellow meteorologists are on top of this. thank you, chad. keep us posted about what goes on with the second plant, daini.
they strengthen, intensify, get very heavy snow, strong winds, and then the storm hits its highest point, it piles, and it s a bomb. so whether the storm will actually do that now, time is going to tell. but it at least has the capability to. it s bringing some very heavy snow right now across new jersey getting into new york city and eventually starting to push its way into boston as well. as far as the winds go, they re not very impressive right now. nine miles per hour in new york city. 15 in boston. as we go throughout the day boston could see wind gusts as high as 50 miles per hour, and that s why they re expecting blizzard conditions at times. for new york it s not supposed to be exactly a blizzard. just blowing and drifting snow as we go throughout the day and then this storm, which could bomb out, should be heading to the east coast, and if it is going to bomb out it will be as it continues to track north and east. now, we do have another storm on the way for the northwest, but