Get under way in this courtroom for a georgia father charged with murder and Child Cruelty after his son was left in his suv on a 92degree day. And right now, the closing bell has just rung ending a short but historic day at the New York Stock Exchange. The dow passing the 17,000 mark for the very first time. Hello, im jim sciutto reporting again today from washington. Wolf blitzer is off today. The first hurricane of the atlantic season is gaining strength and speed as it barrels up the east coast on the busiest Holiday Travel week of the summer. Right now, hurricane arthur is churning off the coast of South Carolina. It is a category one storm with 90 mile an hour winds but forecasters expect arthur will become a cat 2 with 105 mile an hour winds before making landfall on North Carolinas outer banks. Thats expected to happen overnight. Dangerous conditions are possible along much of the east coast now just as millions of people hit the roads and airports for the july 4 weekend myself included. Alina machado is on the carolina coast and chad myers is tracking arthur from hurricane headquarters in atlanta. Chad, if i can, i want to start with you. Where is the storm headed right now and as it makes landfall how bad do you think this is going to be . Its moving north. Its going to turn the northeast. Its going to make a glancing blow at wilmington, North Carolina. That means its going to slam into carolina beach, into wrightsville beach, into surf city and all the way up the carolina coast. This couldnt be worse case than what we have right now with a category 2. Sure it could be 3 or 4 but were going to have an eye and an eye wall on land for many miles, maybe 50 miles. Usually a hurricane will come on shore, you get ten miles worth of damage and its over. This is going to skim along the coast all the way through here for miles and miles and miles taking on its on shore wind and also its on shore beach erosion right there along the carolina coast. It couldnt be any worse than that. Well show you the radar in a second. We have now hurricane warnings all the way from the Virginia North carolina border down to moorehead city. If youre at surf city, just pretend theres a hurricane warning. Its close enough. This will be 100 miles an hour over the top of you. I consider that a hurricane. There thats the storm getting an eye well defined now, air coming in from the ground and going up through the eye wall storms here and blowing out the top. The storm continues to get bigger, continues to strengthen in vary warm water, no shear to tear it apart. There it is. Wilmington, youre next up here along the beaches, a lot of beach erosion as a category 2, 100 mile an hour storm. Alina machado is right there. We have another crew right here. We have Indra Petersons and joe johns right there and look at that. We cant even believe how that storm is going to go right along there. You need to be inside if you can be and not certainly in the water. Were not going to have our reporters in the water, thats for sure. Jim . One measure of how bad the weather is now, we cant go to Alina Machado because the signal is bad. Chad, if youre not living in the path of this storm but planning to travel up the east coast as people are planning to do, how bad is the weather going to affect people on i95, the airplanes, looking at things. And if take any coastal highway along North Carolina it will look like this. This is surfchecks. Com and also obxcram. Com. The waves here six to ten feet, the winds at least 40 Miles Per Hour. Every time a squall comes in youre talking about that coastline that youre talking about right through here becoming, honestly, you cant see anything. There will be wind and wave us there here at 08 Miles Per Hour. Dent try to get for from Morehead City to Topsail Beach or Morehead City to wilmington. These areas a long the coast will be hit so very hard. Literally almost whiteout conditions with spray and wind at 100 Miles Per Hour wiping out your visibility, no travel anymore, its done. Get out of the way now, stay inside, its the storm is coming on shore too quickly now. Good advice, clad. As youre saying, dont even risk it in that key area and keep aware as the weather develops. Chad myers at the Weather Center in atlanta. Officials in North Carolina arent taking any chances themselves with hurricane arthur. Theyre telling residents and tourists to prepare and in some cases that means packing up and getting out. Joining me by telephone, Gregory Baker with the North Carolina department of Public Safety and Law Enforcement. Hes the commissioner. Mr. Baker, as youre preparing for this enormous task at hand for you making this call as to whether people should evacuate, what are you most concerned about . Well, specifically that. As you know, jim, most of the serious injuries and deaths are related to storms like this or because of flood situations, high water, storm surge and getting out in front of this is critical to us. Our born declared a state of emergency yesterday which enabled our state resources. It put our county officials that we rely on to make these decisions, it put them on notice. We are very happy that they went ahead and declared a mandatory evacuation for hatteras and Ocracoke Island as indicated that are in the direct path of this storm. So thats critical to us when we enable our North Carolina national guard, our Highway Patrol to start the process of evacuation while working closely with North Carolina department of transportation, the ferry system, getting people off of these Barrier Islands and safely inland. Tremendous help to us getting out in front of this early. Mr. Baker, i know one of the challenges when youre ordering these evacuations is that sometimes people dont listen. They stay. To your knowledge, are people heeding the warnings and getting out thereof . Theres always a few, jim. Yes, a majority of people are heeding the warning. Again, i think not to be repetitive but getting out in front of this, letting people know early the danger that this storm represents as it strengthens and we certainly anticipate that it will continue to strengthen and those Barrier Islands along the outer banks are in the direct path of this so, yes, its critical but there will always be a few, thats unfortunate. Once we evacuate those that are willing to go then it becomes a searchandrescue and often times Recovery Mission after that. Chad myers, you probably heard was showing the path of this storm Going Forward and it does look like it will take a path out to sea towards the east. Does that make you any less concerned . This is after landfall. Any less concern about how long this is going to be a threat to North Carolina and South Carolina . Were thankful that its a quickmoving storm and were thankful to be on the western side of that storm obviously preparing for the high winds as he mentioned, as chad mentioned, the beach erosion and i think a critical component for this and understanding, again, the need of getting out in front of it early. July 4 weekend theres going to be a tremendous loss of revenue associated with these communities that rely on tourists but to make the call between tourism dollars and safety, theyve done that, we appreciate that. If theres one thing to be thankful for its moving quickly and appears to be moving to the northnortheast so were happy about that. Well, listen, good luck to you, mr. Baker we know off big challenge for your community and also an Economic Cost beyond the danger from the weather. I want to go back now to chad myers in atlanta because yet another weather warning, this time, though, tornadoes . And you just talked about how we couldnt get to Alina Machado because the weather was so bad because we knew there was a waterspout moving on shore right where she was, central newhan over in county a tornado warning. About six miles east of wilmington and not that far from the uncw campus. So not only do you have wind but the potential for tornadoes again. Any landfall, large cell in any one of these spinning storms. Any time theres a yellow or red coming at you, any one of those storms could make a tornado and well have that all day long, jim. Incredible to see that right now. Thanks for the warning, chad. Stay with cnn all day for the latest on hurricane arthur. Well have much more coverage ahead. Also ahead, another record day on wall street. Well have a live report from the New York Stock Exchange on what exactly pushed the dow bo that historic 17,000 mark. Tra they connect the factories built along the lines. And that means jobs, lots of people, making lots and lots of things. Lets get your business rolling now, everybody sing. Norfolk southern whats your function . Helping this big country move ahead as one Norfolk Southern hows that function . It was a short trading day on wall street ahead of the july 4 holiday but still one for the record books. With the dow cracking 17,000 for the first time, it was helped by betterthanexpected jobs report for june and president obama spoke about it a short time ago. Weve now seen almost ten million jobs created over the course of the last 52 months and it should be a useful reminder to people all across the country that give wherein we started back in 2008 we have made enormous strides thanks to the incredible hard work of the American People and american businesses that have been out there competing, getting smarter, getting more effective and its making a difference all across the country. Allison joins us from the New York Stock Exchange. Allison, you hear the president there, 10 million jobs, 9. 7 million jobs over the last 52 months. The marketsetting record. You hear these good economic numbers but for so Many Americans theyre not feeling so good so confident economically. Why that disconnect . Thats a very good point. You have to think about what the president said. Hes talking about the positives were seeing now but this has been a recovery thats been slow going. I mean, even look at this jobs report which is no doubt about it very solid. You can even find problems in it. One of the big problems i find is the Labor Force Participation rate, meaning the number of people either working or looking for work. I mean, in the labor force that level is not where we want to see it. Its at the lowest level since the late 1970s and thats people who have literally given up looking for work. Thats one of the disconnects. The other disconnect is the fact that a lot of people, you look at we talked about the dows 17,000. Thats a huge milestone for the dow. Theres a disconnect there. You know, a good portion, more than half of americans, arent even in invested in the stock market so theyre not feeling the headline of 17,000. A few other things that americans will feel on a day to day basis. Their incomes. Although we did see salaries go up in this jobs report theyre not keeping pace with inflation. Also cost for food and energy for example, they have certainly risen. Today, in fact, gas prices are at a sixyear high. So these are things that take Consumer Spending away from making discretionary purchases and keeping their pocketbooks tightly closed and that in turn hurts the economy because Consumer Spending makes up the lions share of economic activity. Even though for sure momentum is building in the jobs picture, jim. We have to hope those good times filter down so more people start to feel it. Thanks very much to allison cossack of the New York Stock Exchange breaking the numbers down for us. Now we want to turn overseas to iraq and a new assessment from the pentagon. Listen to this from joint chiefs chairman Martin Dempsey just a short time ago. Its not 2006. This is a very different approach than weve taken in the past. I mean, assessing and advising and enabling are very different words than attacking, defeating, and disrupting. We may get to that point if our National Interests drive us there. If i so become if isis becomes such a threat to the homeland that the president of the United States with our advice decides we have to take direct action. Im just suggesting to you were not there yet. General dempsey also said that isis forces are stretched thin after their initial gains but iraqi forces dont yet have the capabilities to capitalize on that. I want to bring in our own Barbara Starr from the pentagon. Listening to general dempsey there, interesting because he seemed to leave the door open to something the president has said to this point u. S. Troops would not be doing in iraq and thats something of a combat role as f as general certain zi says interests were threatened. Do you theys significant . I do. I think that general dempsey as the chairman made sure in this press conference with defense secretary chuck hagel that he did not get boxed in in any way. He absolutely left every military option open. He says were not there yet. He says this is not the war we had fought back in 2003 all the way to 2011. Right now its just military advisors. But he leaves the door open if the insurgents begin to pose a threat to the United States. He also was pretty grim, i would say, about the ability of the iraqi forces to go retaker the tear in the north to take back those isis strongholds. Listen for just a minute a little bit more of what he had to say about all of this. It really is about deliberately first preserving options and then developing option options. If youre asking me will the iraqis at some point go on the offensive to recapture the part of iraq theyve lost; i think thats a broad campaignquality question probably not by themselves. Doesnt mean we it would have provide kinetic support. Im not suggesting this is the direction its headed but at any military campaign you would want to develop multiple access to squeeze isis. Youd like to squeeze them from the south and west, youd like to squeeze them from the north and youd like that squeeze them from baghdad. Thats a campaign that has to be developed. But the first step in developing that campaign is to determine whether we have a reliable iraqi parter in that is committed to growing their country into something that all iraqis will be willing to participate in. If the answer to that is no, the future is pretty bleak. And what dempsey goes on to say, if the answer is no, if theres no inclusive Iraqi Government that basically everything the u. S. Is going to try to do wont work, wont be worth it. So right now its quite interesting here at the pentagon. Words being picked very carefully here by the military making sure they leave all the options on the table for president obama to choose if he chooses to, not shooting the door to anything really, just now making clear the u. S. Advisors that are there are not there in a combat role. At least not for now. 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