reporting. it's especially windy today in the windy city although they say it's called that because of the politicians not because of the actual weather history. our meteorologist janice dean warned us yesterday that even as the storm moved inland it would still pose a real threat. she is live in the fox weather center. we had a conversation this morning about how irritating it is when the weather people want to make the story all about them and their accurate predictions. i know you don't want to do that. i do want to say for the record, right again, take us live together to where we are now. >> thanks to the national weather service and national hurricane service working around the:00. us as forecasters bring you the message and we hoped that people listened is the main thing. we've been talking about the northeast and obviously that's been the big story this thing is stretching as far west as the midwest, the great lakes as we saw a reporter out there. we could see wind gusts in excess of 60, 70 miles per hour and that is why we're seeing waves of 20 to 30 feet. another thing that we haven't