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Coming up, we have Live Team Coverage of Hurricane Sandy keeping millions of people home on this monday. Good morning washington at 5 00 a. M. Starts now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning, washington. 5 01 is the time on this october 29. I am cynne simpson. I am steve chenevey. We have a full list of closures at the top of your screen, so keep an eye on that. We will have you coverage throughout the morning. Jacqui jeras as an update on the storm. From the National Hurricane center sandy has intensified a little, still a category one but the maximum winds are 85 miles an hour. The wind is huge. The Tropical Storm force winds between 39 and 73 miles an hour, extend out more and 500 miles from the center of the storm. So they are feeling that along the coastal areas already. The storm is 400 miles away from d. C. It will impact us all day. We will be going downhill. Anything you still have to do to prepare for the storm, that needs to be done now. Philip your bathtub, make sure anything loose outdoors has been secured. Its a good idea to spend a day in theless you arelood prone area. I want to talk about the waves. Two big thrifts from the storm will be the flooding and the wind. Adam caskey will be here in the second to talk about the flood threat. I want to talk about the wind. If its gusting between 15 miles an hour to 25 miles an hour right now. But by this afternoon it will pick up. The tree limbs could start coming down as well as power lines and large trees, if they are unstable with saturated soil. We will have a prolonged period of extreme wind. We are talking 2436 hours potentially. This will peak late this evening and tomorrow morning. The wind could reach 60 or 70 miles an hour. That is the gusts. Right now there are gusts of 20 miles an hour in manassas and 29 in quantico. Lexington park, 32 Miles Per Hour gust. Theres a high wind warning in effect for pretty much the entire viewing area. That means the wind will be where we could see significant damage. Thats a significant win speaks today, the 30s and 40s, that is the sustained wind. Imagine a 40 mile per hour wind pushing on you. That is pretty significant. What our big concer the wind will stay strong through tomorrow morning and then we will start to see that taper off. By midday tomorrow i think we will see improvements. From 6 00 a. M. Thru noon today we could see gusts between 30 and 40 miles an hour. By noon, 3550. By 5 00 to midnight, the gusts should be between 45 and 50 miles and 55 miles an hour. A few 70s after that. I think by tomorrow afternoon things will be looking pretty good. Heres the latest forecast track from the national retain center. Once we make landfall, we will curves up to the north, so we will not be totally done with sandy until late tuesday. We might be concealing during rainfall and overcast conditions into wednesday. Lets talk about the flood threat with adam caskey. We have a flood watch in effect for nearly the entire viewing area because and that is all the way through tomorrow, by the way because we will see the rain pick up throughout the day. Theres a light rain across a good part of our viewing area, especially northern virginia, and parts of maryland. The yellow and orange shows the heavy rain moving from the Eastern Shore westward on to the western shore. Calvert county and down through st. Marys county has very heavy rainfall. Down in lower st. Marys county and that includes the mouth of the Potomac River as well, and thats all moving east to west. Its an onshore flow as we typically see in tropical systems. How much rain can we expect . About 4 inches to 8 inches from this system all the way through tomorrow. Heres one of our inhouse computer models that we consult with in terms of the rainfall totals. This gives us a pretty good idea of what to expect overall from this system. About 5 inches around the beltway. Southern maryland, about 6 inches of rain. That especially in st. Marys county. On the Eastern Shores when we could see 10 inches of rain by the time this wraps up in terms of the rainfall later on tomorrow. A flood watch in effect for the majority of our viewing area through tomorrow evening. Flood warning right now for the Monocacy River and frederick county. Later this morning through the afternoon and into the evening that will be the heaviest rainfall and the wind will continue increasing throughout the day and especially speaking later on tonight. We have a bunch of tall old trees in the washington area. A better idea to sleep on the main floor if you can instead of upstairs. Its just one of those days. You need to be careful and take precautions. A number of agencies are doing the same thing. The commute might erupt if you have to get to work without a car today. Several local mass transit systems are closed today. That includes metro rail, metrobus, and metroaccess. We have dan for metro on the phone. What about this decision to shut down the entire system . Good morning. This is a decision we made late yesterday afternoon in consultation with the National Weather service and our jurisdictional partners as well as the federal grant. The first reason was the National Weather service came back to us with a forecast that had some new information about what to expect in terms of sustained winds that caused us some concern. In addition, the federal government was indicating they were leaning toward the closure of federal offices in d. C. And we were also hearing from pepco dominion about concerns of their ability to maintain power needed to preserve metro rail service. Those three factors led us to this decision like many transit agencies up and down the east coast, to suspend service entirely monday and possibly beyond. Divided each year to shut it down completely rather than to Start Service and then decide where to redraw lines to shut off part of the service . It is difficult when you have passengers on the system or folks who may have taken your service to work or wherever they were going and then after communicate a message that the service is in the process of shutting down. We did not want that type of situation. We did not want to put passengers and Emergency Responders in a position where they would have to endure a power outage on a train or some situation like that. What is the process of deciding when the system will be back up and running . I would not expect any decision on that prior to this evening at the earliest. That will be made after we have put gone over consultation with the jurisdictions and the national government. We will look at what the forecast is for overnight and tomorrow. We will also need to get an assessment internally on damage from the storm and we will need to know where flooding is, where trees are down, where we have power issues. Once we have all that information together, we may be in a position to tell customers what to expect. By the time you get to around 6 00 or so this evening, we will communicate with customers about tomorrow . In terms of a full restoration of service, we may not have a definitive answer then, but we can tell customers at least what to expect. Do you remember the system shutting down in advance prior . Back in 2003 in advance of isabel. It was not a whole day. The system closed early at 11 00 a. M. Breaking new ground all the time. Thanks very much. We will talk with you again later this morning. It turns out that the new york subway system and the subway system in the philadelphia area are completely shut down as well. Plan on huntingtown. Stay tuned. We are back with an update on the forecast and on the roads. If you have the ability to take pictures of the letter from a safe place, we would love to see them. [ female announcer ] i found the best cafe in the world. Nespresso. Where theres a coffee to match myvery mood. Where just one touch creates the perfect cup. Where every cappuccino and latte is made with fresh milk. And where clothing is optional. Nespresso. What else . Good morning. Im jacqui jeras with latest on Hurricane Sandy and its impact to our area. Its a category one storm. Maximum winds increasing overnight. Its 85 miles an hour now. This is a monster storm. We have been stealing its influence for about 1224 hours already. The delmarva peninsula has been getting hit very hard with this. Heavy rain and strong winds already 40 miles to 50 miles an hour. The storm is moving in a northerly direction right now as it approaches. It is expected to take a turn towards the west northwest. That should bring it just to the north of our area, which puts us on the good side of the storm meaning the majority of our own direction will come in from the north or northwest. That keeps the storm surge concerns down a little. Being that the storm is so large, the wind threat remains very widespread and it does not matter whether it gives us north or south. Theres no way to get around the wind. Our wins will be increasing throughout the day and reaching Dangerous Levels winds. It could cause widespread Power Outages that could last for days. Hopefully, the Recovery Time will be a little shorter because of recent Infrastructure Improvements record. Rainfall can be expected somewhere in the range of 4 inches to 8 inches. Damaging wind with the wind gusts to night reaching 60 miles or 70 miles an hour. Thats why Power Outages are possible. We expect down trees as well. If you want to stay home today. Schools are closed. You need to ask yourself how important is it that i need to run outside to go to this one last thing . I am very concerned about trees coming down, getting cars or getting your home. If you have a basement or interior room on the lower level of your home, thats a good place to hang out today. If youre in a flood prone area maybe the basement is not a good place for you today. Rainfall so far, take a look at the polls in the last 24 hours. A third of an inch up to about a half inches what we generally get. We have seen over an inch and that half. Heres the computer model forecast showing the rainfall expected between now and tuesday evening into wednesday morning. About 4. 5 inches in d. C. And the same la plata. Heavier amounts toward the coast and in delaware and virginia and maryland. In the future, how long this will last, increasing rainfall throughout the afternoon. That one might think the heavy downpours will occur. We could see as much as an inch per hour at times. Its not so odd as a flash flooding event as a river flooding event. The rain will be lasting a long time. Some observers could be flooded throughout the week. We expect the wind died down by later tomorrow morning. Now lets check on traffic with jamie whitten. Thank you so much. I dont expect much traffic on the roads. If you can, stay put. Dangerous conditions out and about. Already seeing ponding. At little falls parkway, that is shut down between massachusetts avenue and river road. Beach drive is closed. The sligo creek parkway is closed near piney branch road and wayne avenue. This is all closed until further notice. As we look at some of our Traffic Cameras around the region, rain coming down hard. Essential personnel, if you and think that there might be high standing water, a turnaround. Dont try to go through it. That is so dangerous. I just wanted to show you some of those Traffic Cameras with heavy rain coming down throughout the area. Please be safe if you have to head out. Back to you. Thank you. 5 18 right now, 51 degrees. Coming up, we will talk about how its already impact on wall street in new the nyselisted has shut down today and the New York Stock Exchange has shutdown today due to Hurricane Sandy. Google is the victim of a hurricane. It was expected to announce its 10inch tablet today, but the event has been postponed. Assault Windows Phone 8 still on today. It hopes to announce a family of devices that work together. If you want and ipad minidisk friday, get in line. All the models are sold out on line. Theres a fifth installment in a mystery game series. Theres a new story line and hundreds of puzzles to solve. They do a really great job of scrapping proposals into the story itself. It is a seamless experience, a jumping from the story proposal went back to the story again. Have a great day. I am rob nelson. Anncr their ads, hopelessly untrue. A West Virginia casino launching the biggest ad barrage ever. Dont be misled. The wawashington post says question s seven is just. Common sense. Itll create 4,000 permanent jobs. And stop maryland from losing millions to other states. Every year. Thats why business, labor, and teachers all support. Question seven. And so does the washington post. Vote for question seven. Its just common sense. [ female announcer ] now theres a way to make just about anything delicious. Introducing new jif chocolate flavored hazelnut spread. Whatever you put it on. Reaches a whole new level of deliciousness. Choosy moms choose jif. Welcome back. We wanted checkin with Jummy Olabanji and colitis following the Power Outages numbers, which will increase exponentially throughout the next couple days. We are keeping a close eye on this. I want to pull up pepco, first. The majority of their outages are in the orange area. Thats where the most people are affected. That is fort washington, maryland. Temple hills, maryland. 3000 people without power. Some of the other areas in green, that anywhere from five people to tim tebow without power. Britain and dominion power, the majority of the outages are in the Hampton Roads area of virginia. But virginia dominion power. The numbers will continue to rise as the storm gets closer to our area. We are keeping a close eye on any of the power situations. We will continue updating you on air and online. Thank you. 5 27, 51 degrees. We have more news at 5 30. We continue Live Team Coverage of sandys impact up and down the east coast. This is a live picture of alexandria of the rain coming down. The win is ok right now, but it will be picking up a anncr its said that character is what we do. When we think no one is looking. Mitt romney believe that they are victims. Anncr mitt romney thought no one was looking when. He attacked fortyseven percent of americans. His companies shipped jobs overseas. His plan cuts millionaires taxes, but raises yours. Hell voucherize medicare. And make catastrophic cuts to education. So remember what romney said. And what his plan would do. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Obviously, all of us across the county are concerned about the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy. This is a serious and big storm. President obama urging everyone in the path of the storm to take the message of precaution, to stay safe. Good morning, washington. Its monday, october 29. I am cynne simpson. I am steve chenevey. We are bringing you Live Team Coverage all day long. It continues moving up the east coast and the rain continues. Jacqui jeras and adam caskey have the latest on the conditions as we look at this live picture from alexandria. Lets start with jacqui jeras. We are talking about the latest conditions. Two of the biggest threats today will be the wind and rain. I will start by talking more about the wind conditions. We see in dedication through the overnight and early morning. 85 miles an hour for the maximum sustained winds. Still a category one hurricane. It could connect with the jet stream and we could see peak gusts along the coast and may be reachi around 90 miles an hour or so. This is a very large storm. The windshield stretches out more than 500 miles from the center of the storm. You can see from the center of the storm that it would stretch all the way towards kentucky, where they are getting a little snowfall in the higher elevations. We will see Tropical Storm force winds gusts. The wind will be increasing in intensity throughout the day. We are talking about 2436 hours solid of these extreme winds. That will weaken the trees. Combined with saturated soil, thats a major concern. The wind could reach 60 miles an hour or more by this evening and continuing through the overnight. Current wind gusts of 21 miles an hour in manassas. At reagan national, between 50 miles an hour between 15 miles an hour and 20 miles an hour. The same at dulles airport. That will increase to about 40 miles an hour in the afternoon and it will be at its peak during the overnight. Theres a high wind warning in effect for our entire area through tomorrow morning. The wind that will be steady and consistent, a sustained winds will be 3540 miles an hour. Imagine that and then with even higher gusts. For more on the rainfall, meteorologist adam caskey. Thank you. Heres a timeline of what to expect. You will notice the rain started to get a little heavier at 8 00 a. M. Today. Most sustained downpours will be late this morning through the lunch hour into the afternoon and early evening. The rain will taper off a little tonight and especially by tomorrow. Sustained winds picking up throughout the day, gusting up to 70 miles an hour. Heres a look at live super doppler 7 radar. The yellow indicates the heaviest rain and the orange and red as well, thats not moving east to west. Calvert county, erie county moderate to heavy rain. Over the johnson bridge is a little downpour at this time. Its all moving west to the 95 corridor. Light rain will continue picking up as the heavy rain moves onshore and westward close to the metro area. You can see in the general flow is from the east to west, as we typically see from the tropical systems. We arent going to see the heavy bans pushing from the east to the west. How much rain can we expect . Up to 8 inches. Around the beltway about 5 inches of rain. In denair is county, 6 inches to 7 inches of rain. This is just one computer model, but it does indicate high amounts of rainfall stimulation especially on the Live Team Coverage<\/a> of Hurricane Sandy<\/a> keeping millions of people home on this monday. Good morning washington at 5 00 a. M. Starts now. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Good morning, washington. 5 01 is the time on this october 29. I am cynne simpson. I am steve chenevey. We have a full list of closures at the top of your screen, so keep an eye on that. We will have you coverage throughout the morning. Jacqui jeras as an update on the storm. From the National Hurricane<\/a> center sandy has intensified a little, still a category one but the maximum winds are 85 miles an hour. The wind is huge. The Tropical Storm<\/a> force winds between 39 and 73 miles an hour, extend out more and 500 miles from the center of the storm. So they are feeling that along the coastal areas already. The storm is 400 miles away from d. C. It will impact us all day. We will be going downhill. Anything you still have to do to prepare for the storm, that needs to be done now. Philip your bathtub, make sure anything loose outdoors has been secured. Its a good idea to spend a day in theless you arelood prone area. I want to talk about the waves. Two big thrifts from the storm will be the flooding and the wind. Adam caskey will be here in the second to talk about the flood threat. I want to talk about the wind. If its gusting between 15 miles an hour to 25 miles an hour right now. But by this afternoon it will pick up. The tree limbs could start coming down as well as power lines and large trees, if they are unstable with saturated soil. We will have a prolonged period of extreme wind. We are talking 2436 hours potentially. This will peak late this evening and tomorrow morning. The wind could reach 60 or 70 miles an hour. That is the gusts. Right now there are gusts of 20 miles an hour in manassas and 29 in quantico. Lexington park, 32 Miles Per Hour<\/a> gust. Theres a high wind warning in effect for pretty much the entire viewing area. That means the wind will be where we could see significant damage. Thats a significant win speaks today, the 30s and 40s, that is the sustained wind. Imagine a 40 mile per hour wind pushing on you. That is pretty significant. What our big concer the wind will stay strong through tomorrow morning and then we will start to see that taper off. By midday tomorrow i think we will see improvements. From 6 00 a. M. Thru noon today we could see gusts between 30 and 40 miles an hour. By noon, 3550. By 5 00 to midnight, the gusts should be between 45 and 50 miles and 55 miles an hour. A few 70s after that. I think by tomorrow afternoon things will be looking pretty good. Heres the latest forecast track from the national retain center. Once we make landfall, we will curves up to the north, so we will not be totally done with sandy until late tuesday. We might be concealing during rainfall and overcast conditions into wednesday. Lets talk about the flood threat with adam caskey. We have a flood watch in effect for nearly the entire viewing area because and that is all the way through tomorrow, by the way because we will see the rain pick up throughout the day. Theres a light rain across a good part of our viewing area, especially northern virginia, and parts of maryland. The yellow and orange shows the heavy rain moving from the Eastern Shore<\/a> westward on to the western shore. Calvert county and down through st. Marys county has very heavy rainfall. Down in lower st. Marys county and that includes the mouth of the Potomac River<\/a> as well, and thats all moving east to west. Its an onshore flow as we typically see in tropical systems. How much rain can we expect . About 4 inches to 8 inches from this system all the way through tomorrow. Heres one of our inhouse computer models that we consult with in terms of the rainfall totals. This gives us a pretty good idea of what to expect overall from this system. About 5 inches around the beltway. Southern maryland, about 6 inches of rain. That especially in st. Marys county. On the Eastern Shore<\/a>s when we could see 10 inches of rain by the time this wraps up in terms of the rainfall later on tomorrow. A flood watch in effect for the majority of our viewing area through tomorrow evening. Flood warning right now for the Monocacy River<\/a> and frederick county. Later this morning through the afternoon and into the evening that will be the heaviest rainfall and the wind will continue increasing throughout the day and especially speaking later on tonight. We have a bunch of tall old trees in the washington area. A better idea to sleep on the main floor if you can instead of upstairs. Its just one of those days. You need to be careful and take precautions. A number of agencies are doing the same thing. The commute might erupt if you have to get to work without a car today. Several local mass transit systems are closed today. That includes metro rail, metrobus, and metroaccess. We have dan for metro on the phone. What about this decision to shut down the entire system . Good morning. This is a decision we made late yesterday afternoon in consultation with the National Weather<\/a> service and our jurisdictional partners as well as the federal grant. The first reason was the National Weather<\/a> service came back to us with a forecast that had some new information about what to expect in terms of sustained winds that caused us some concern. In addition, the federal government was indicating they were leaning toward the closure of federal offices in d. C. And we were also hearing from pepco dominion about concerns of their ability to maintain power needed to preserve metro rail service. Those three factors led us to this decision like many transit agencies up and down the east coast, to suspend service entirely monday and possibly beyond. Divided each year to shut it down completely rather than to Start Service<\/a> and then decide where to redraw lines to shut off part of the service . It is difficult when you have passengers on the system or folks who may have taken your service to work or wherever they were going and then after communicate a message that the service is in the process of shutting down. We did not want that type of situation. We did not want to put passengers and Emergency Responders<\/a> in a position where they would have to endure a power outage on a train or some situation like that. What is the process of deciding when the system will be back up and running . I would not expect any decision on that prior to this evening at the earliest. That will be made after we have put gone over consultation with the jurisdictions and the national government. We will look at what the forecast is for overnight and tomorrow. We will also need to get an assessment internally on damage from the storm and we will need to know where flooding is, where trees are down, where we have power issues. Once we have all that information together, we may be in a position to tell customers what to expect. By the time you get to around 6 00 or so this evening, we will communicate with customers about tomorrow . In terms of a full restoration of service, we may not have a definitive answer then, but we can tell customers at least what to expect. Do you remember the system shutting down in advance prior . Back in 2003 in advance of isabel. It was not a whole day. The system closed early at 11 00 a. M. Breaking new ground all the time. Thanks very much. We will talk with you again later this morning. It turns out that the new york subway system and the subway system in the philadelphia area are completely shut down as well. Plan on huntingtown. Stay tuned. We are back with an update on the forecast and on the roads. If you have the ability to take pictures of the letter from a safe place, we would love to see them. [ female announcer ] i found the best cafe in the world. Nespresso. Where theres a coffee to match myvery mood. Where just one touch creates the perfect cup. Where every cappuccino and latte is made with fresh milk. And where clothing is optional. Nespresso. What else . Good morning. Im jacqui jeras with latest on Hurricane Sandy<\/a> and its impact to our area. Its a category one storm. Maximum winds increasing overnight. Its 85 miles an hour now. This is a monster storm. We have been stealing its influence for about 1224 hours already. The delmarva peninsula has been getting hit very hard with this. Heavy rain and strong winds already 40 miles to 50 miles an hour. The storm is moving in a northerly direction right now as it approaches. It is expected to take a turn towards the west northwest. That should bring it just to the north of our area, which puts us on the good side of the storm meaning the majority of our own direction will come in from the north or northwest. That keeps the storm surge concerns down a little. Being that the storm is so large, the wind threat remains very widespread and it does not matter whether it gives us north or south. Theres no way to get around the wind. Our wins will be increasing throughout the day and reaching Dangerous Levels<\/a> winds. It could cause widespread Power Outages<\/a> that could last for days. Hopefully, the Recovery Time<\/a> will be a little shorter because of recent Infrastructure Improvements<\/a> record. Rainfall can be expected somewhere in the range of 4 inches to 8 inches. Damaging wind with the wind gusts to night reaching 60 miles or 70 miles an hour. Thats why Power Outages<\/a> are possible. We expect down trees as well. If you want to stay home today. Schools are closed. You need to ask yourself how important is it that i need to run outside to go to this one last thing . I am very concerned about trees coming down, getting cars or getting your home. If you have a basement or interior room on the lower level of your home, thats a good place to hang out today. If youre in a flood prone area maybe the basement is not a good place for you today. Rainfall so far, take a look at the polls in the last 24 hours. A third of an inch up to about a half inches what we generally get. We have seen over an inch and that half. Heres the computer model forecast showing the rainfall expected between now and tuesday evening into wednesday morning. About 4. 5 inches in d. C. And the same la plata. Heavier amounts toward the coast and in delaware and virginia and maryland. In the future, how long this will last, increasing rainfall throughout the afternoon. That one might think the heavy downpours will occur. We could see as much as an inch per hour at times. Its not so odd as a flash flooding event as a river flooding event. The rain will be lasting a long time. Some observers could be flooded throughout the week. We expect the wind died down by later tomorrow morning. Now lets check on traffic with jamie whitten. Thank you so much. I dont expect much traffic on the roads. If you can, stay put. Dangerous conditions out and about. Already seeing ponding. At little falls parkway, that is shut down between massachusetts avenue and river road. Beach drive is closed. The sligo creek parkway is closed near piney branch road and wayne avenue. This is all closed until further notice. As we look at some of our Traffic Cameras<\/a> around the region, rain coming down hard. Essential personnel, if you and think that there might be high standing water, a turnaround. Dont try to go through it. That is so dangerous. I just wanted to show you some of those Traffic Cameras<\/a> with heavy rain coming down throughout the area. Please be safe if you have to head out. Back to you. Thank you. 5 18 right now, 51 degrees. Coming up, we will talk about how its already impact on wall street in new the nyselisted has shut down today and the New York Stock Exchange<\/a> has shutdown today due to Hurricane Sandy<\/a>. Google is the victim of a hurricane. It was expected to announce its 10inch tablet today, but the event has been postponed. Assault Windows Phone<\/a> 8 still on today. It hopes to announce a family of devices that work together. If you want and ipad minidisk friday, get in line. All the models are sold out on line. Theres a fifth installment in a mystery game series. Theres a new story line and hundreds of puzzles to solve. They do a really great job of scrapping proposals into the story itself. It is a seamless experience, a jumping from the story proposal went back to the story again. Have a great day. I am rob nelson. Anncr their ads, hopelessly untrue. A West Virginia<\/a> casino launching the biggest ad barrage ever. Dont be misled. The wawashington post says question s seven is just. Common sense. Itll create 4,000 permanent jobs. And stop maryland from losing millions to other states. Every year. Thats why business, labor, and teachers all support. Question seven. And so does the washington post. Vote for question seven. Its just common sense. [ female announcer ] now theres a way to make just about anything delicious. Introducing new jif chocolate flavored hazelnut spread. Whatever you put it on. Reaches a whole new level of deliciousness. Choosy moms choose jif. Welcome back. We wanted checkin with Jummy Olabanji<\/a> and colitis following the Power Outages<\/a> numbers, which will increase exponentially throughout the next couple days. We are keeping a close eye on this. I want to pull up pepco, first. The majority of their outages are in the orange area. Thats where the most people are affected. That is fort washington, maryland. Temple hills, maryland. 3000 people without power. Some of the other areas in green, that anywhere from five people to tim tebow without power. Britain and dominion power, the majority of the outages are in the Hampton Roads<\/a> area of virginia. But virginia dominion power. The numbers will continue to rise as the storm gets closer to our area. We are keeping a close eye on any of the power situations. We will continue updating you on air and online. Thank you. 5 27, 51 degrees. We have more news at 5 30. We continue Live Team Coverage<\/a> of sandys impact up and down the east coast. This is a live picture of alexandria of the rain coming down. The win is ok right now, but it will be picking up a anncr its said that character is what we do. When we think no one is looking. Mitt romney believe that they are victims. Anncr mitt romney thought no one was looking when. He attacked fortyseven percent of americans. His companies shipped jobs overseas. His plan cuts millionaires taxes, but raises yours. Hell voucherize medicare. And make catastrophic cuts to education. So remember what romney said. And what his plan would do. President obama im barack obama and. I approve this message. Live and in hd, this is good morning washington, on your side. Obviously, all of us across the county are concerned about the potential impact of Hurricane Sandy<\/a>. This is a serious and big storm. President obama urging everyone in the path of the storm to take the message of precaution, to stay safe. Good morning, washington. Its monday, october 29. I am cynne simpson. I am steve chenevey. We are bringing you Live Team Coverage<\/a> all day long. It continues moving up the east coast and the rain continues. Jacqui jeras and adam caskey have the latest on the conditions as we look at this live picture from alexandria. Lets start with jacqui jeras. We are talking about the latest conditions. Two of the biggest threats today will be the wind and rain. I will start by talking more about the wind conditions. We see in dedication through the overnight and early morning. 85 miles an hour for the maximum sustained winds. Still a category one hurricane. It could connect with the jet stream and we could see peak gusts along the coast and may be reachi around 90 miles an hour or so. This is a very large storm. The windshield stretches out more than 500 miles from the center of the storm. You can see from the center of the storm that it would stretch all the way towards kentucky, where they are getting a little snowfall in the higher elevations. We will see Tropical Storm<\/a> force winds gusts. The wind will be increasing in intensity throughout the day. We are talking about 2436 hours solid of these extreme winds. That will weaken the trees. Combined with saturated soil, thats a major concern. The wind could reach 60 miles an hour or more by this evening and continuing through the overnight. Current wind gusts of 21 miles an hour in manassas. At reagan national, between 50 miles an hour between 15 miles an hour and 20 miles an hour. The same at dulles airport. That will increase to about 40 miles an hour in the afternoon and it will be at its peak during the overnight. Theres a high wind warning in effect for our entire area through tomorrow morning. The wind that will be steady and consistent, a sustained winds will be 3540 miles an hour. Imagine that and then with even higher gusts. For more on the rainfall, meteorologist adam caskey. Thank you. Heres a timeline of what to expect. You will notice the rain started to get a little heavier at 8 00 a. M. Today. Most sustained downpours will be late this morning through the lunch hour into the afternoon and early evening. The rain will taper off a little tonight and especially by tomorrow. Sustained winds picking up throughout the day, gusting up to 70 miles an hour. Heres a look at live super doppler 7 radar. The yellow indicates the heaviest rain and the orange and red as well, thats not moving east to west. Calvert county, erie county moderate to heavy rain. Over the johnson bridge is a little downpour at this time. Its all moving west to the 95 corridor. Light rain will continue picking up as the heavy rain moves onshore and westward close to the metro area. You can see in the general flow is from the east to west, as we typically see from the tropical systems. We arent going to see the heavy bans pushing from the east to the west. How much rain can we expect . Up to 8 inches. Around the beltway about 5 inches of rain. In denair is county, 6 inches to 7 inches of rain. This is just one computer model, but it does indicate high amounts of rainfall stimulation especially on the Eastern Shore<\/a>. Anywhere from 9 inches to 11 inches on the Eastern Shore<\/a>. No. Again, 45 inches. The flood watch all the way through tomorrow evening. There is a warning for Garrett County<\/a> western mineral county, and high elevations of western maryland and West Virginia<\/a>, theres a blizzard warning. This is still october, right . Barely. Thank you. Sandy is expected to knock out power to millions of people. Power companies are welcoming crews from all across the country. Craig anderson is joining us on the phone from pepco. Greta kreuz are coming in from the south and east. Because the storm is tracking up the eastern seaboard, we could not bring in cruise from new york and new england, so we have crews already in place from alabama, louisiana. Protecting utilities will be the focus. We have had to reach the south and east to bring in crews. We have brought in about 300 to 400 yesterday. Its important to have as many in place before the storm swept in. We learned that from irene. We have about 1300 dedicated men and women right now for the restoration. That does not include those working on secondary, such as myself, people working 247. Customer service, outside and inside, we are working in preparation for a storm. Power outages are such a sensitive subject in this area, especially after the derecho. How will the response be different this time . It will be different because it started with communication. We sent out automated calls last week. We told our customers that it would be a Long Duration<\/a> event. We told our customers better would be the potential for extended period of power lost throughout the metro area. We told our customers last week that it was critical clabber preparation plant, and Emergency Preparedness<\/a> plan for their family. And for businesses as well as residential parentso we have tried to be more transparent and communicate with our customers. That way people have an expectation of what to expect and can make plans accordingly. Thanks so much. Will check back with in with you. Conditions have steadily been declining in ocean city, maryland. Greg Brianne Carter<\/a> joins us from the shore with the latest. Some waves crashing overall. The concern in ocean city is the flooding and how much we will see over the next 24 hours. Along the beach, looked at the scene behind us. Incredible. We are seeing this. At this point between 16th street and 17th streets along the boardwalk, were not seeing much of a beach. Were seeing some flooding against many of the hotel that had sandbags against the first floors in ocean city. Talking about the response, we expect to get an update from ocean city officials about 10 00 this morning on the condition and the efforts underway. Already this morning we have seen Ocean City Police<\/a> and members of the National Guard<\/a> driving along the boardwalk to check out the conditions and to make sure nobody is out here this morning. That is the big concern, for safety and for flooding out here. Talking about that in general, we have mandatory evacuations for areas south of this point where we are. 8 00 last night is when there were told to leave by. If you of not been able to leave by now, you have to stay in place. Theyve closed the bridge from 50 to be able to get in and out. If you are still here, youll have to stay through the duration of the storm. There were voluntary evacuations for lowlying areas along the delmarva peninsula for people concerned about flooding. We have seen areas boarded up for a precaution for what will come our way. The big concern is we are already starting to see what were seeing during the height of irene. And we are still far away from the worst here in ocean city. Back to you. Thank you. We want to move our coverage inland a little and continues Team Coverage<\/a> in annapolis. John gonzalez has the latest. We can tell you and has been raining hard for several hours in annapolis. Not only is the arraignment picking up, but the wind. The gusts are more frequent here on main street in annapolis. Many merchants said the sandbags down on the weekends. They have put their outdoor Patio Furniture<\/a> in doors, making sure everything is safe. There were many warnings over the weekend. The mayor advising not only the Business Owners<\/a> but the residents here to evacuate if they can today as soon as possible. It has been raining hard several hours already. The chesapeake river has not jumped its banks yet. By this drain is clogged with fall leaves. That will pose a problem. Were not even dealing with the high tide get in annapolis. This is an area that knows well what happens when theres bad flooding. Some businesses over here have not only set down the sandbags, but have also put congress on the windows. The rain is really coming down at this hour. The wind picking outup. Businesses have put protection over the windows. You can see of the businesses taking precautions. This one has a lot of glass, so theyve put duct tape to prevent shattering. Everybody is heeding the warnings. Not a lot of activity. A couple people walking dogs, but theres not much traffic. We expect this to only get worse. You can see the trees, the wind really starting to pick up. We have a rain gauge and we have about two centimeters of water on the rain gauge. Thats in about the last hour. So the rain is picking up as well as the wind gusts and folks are staying indoors in annapolis. John gonzalez reporting, abc 7 news. Thats the best benefaction, staying indoors today. Its 50 degrees outside. This break. We will check in with jacqui jeras for the latest on the storm. If you are wondering about the outer banks, heres a live look right now at some of the waves beginning to crash a short in meet bruno, a military working dog. Good morning, washington. We have all the Resources Available<\/a> to us that were passing along to you for Hurricane Sandy<\/a>. Jacqui jeras is keeping an eye on the forecast. The wind is up a little. The pressure has dropped. So that is a sign the storm has intensified and could strengthen before it makes landfall especially if it interacts with the cold front that has been tracking our way with the jet stream. The storm has been moving northeast all day yesterday and has started turning in a northerly direction. It has picked up a little speed. Now we will watch for it to make a turn towards the north and west. We expect to see landfall probably somewhere on the jersey shore. So not in our area. Thats the good news. The storm is just beginning. What you are seeing right now is nothing compared to what we will see tonight. The wind will increase, the rain will be heavy at times, and the peak of the storm is to bite into early tomorrow morning. If flood risk could last several days and we could be without are several days because of this as well. Lets talk about some risk factors. Record rainfall in the range of 4 inches 8 inches. Damaging winds expected. Large tree limbs could fall. 60 Miles Per Hour<\/a> wind gusts or greater. Hundreds of flights at been cancelled already, including my husbands. Heres the forecast track. I think this could speed up a little. The best estimate is late tonight and early tomorrow morning before it starts to a blowback to hook back towards the north. Lets check with meteorologist adam caskey in the storms center. Keeping a close eye on live super doppler 7 radar ripon heavy rain is falling. If its miss fleak in anne arundel county, calvert county, where is county closed its store discount close to Prince Georges County<\/a>. The orange, along the middle part of the day, that is very heavy rainfall. The middle part of the bay. It is falling at two inches per hour in the purple area. That is headed west right now on the western shore. Close to the metro area and close to Prince Georges County<\/a> seeing 0. 4 inches per hour. I want to show you the timeline for the rest of the day. The heaviest rain through this morning and did to the evening just in time for the wind to increase later today with gusts of 6070 miles an hour, speaking later on tonight. I will talk about the coastal flood threat, in a few minutes. Back to you. Thank you. Sandy rabid the caribbean last week. Now shes bringing her impact here. Heres a live picture from Atlantic City<\/a> spirit thats from the top of one of those small buildings. Greg Brianne Carter<\/a> is in ocean city, maryland keeping an eye on the coastline. And we have live pictures from the outer banks and more on the weather with arkstorm Team Coverage<\/a>. And Jummy Olabanji<\/a> will have the latest information from the li [ male announcer ] citibanks app for ipad makes it easy for anne to manage her finances when shes on the go. Even when shes not going anywhere. Citibank for ipad. Easier banking. Standard at citibank. [ male announcer ] jay likes it when his mobile phone helps him deposit his checks. Jay also like it when Mother Nature<\/a> helps him wash his car. Mother natures cool like that. Mobile check deposit. Easier banking. Standard at citibank. Storm watch continues this morning. Jummy olabanji has been keeping up with the storm from alive desk. Was tapping . We just got in some video from the Montgomery County<\/a> fairgrounds in gaithersburg, maryland. This is where all the extra crews from pepco are staged right now. We have Alabama Power<\/a> and we have crews from as far away as arkansas and north carolina. 1300 trucks are gassing up and are ready to go to help pepco and other Power Companies<\/a> so that if we do lose power, they can be dispatched right away. So you may see a lot of those trucks coming through your area, in the next couple days. I want to make sure our viewers know about. About. We do have the abc 7 weather app and a news app you can download to your ipad or your phone. Make sure to download it now what you have electricity to your phone so that if you lose power that you still can connect with us and get the updates as far as the news and the weather. You can find that in your app store by searching wjla. That will come in handy. As part of the preparation process. Also keeping us prepared is jacqui jeras. A good morning. I hope everyone and always prepared already for the storm. Youre really after russia and get things done. Now the time to stay indoors and spend the day inside and stay safe. If you have to do get anything done, its time. The best forecast will keep sandy to our north. Our wind will be coming in from the west northwest today as a result we hope. So we would be on the weaker side of the storm. With maximum winds at 85 miles an hour, it is accelerated from afford motion of the storm. If you are in the right front quadrants, your wins could reach 100 miles an hour. Winds. But since we are on the good side of the storm, we would experience maybe 70 miles an hour. So that the good news. It also means are storm surge will be a little lower. This is a large storm. Despite all that, are winfield remains very large. Wind field. The center of the storm stretches all the way to kentucky, that the distance that is the distance. Now to adam caskey. We are flying by the seat of our pants this morning. Coastal flood advisory along parts of the bay until midnight. It will be around one or two feet for a title anomaly. Alexandria can get some flooding. Along the shoreline, tomorrow will be worse than today. From midnight tonight all the way through 8 00 a. M. Wednesday coastal flood warning. In alexandria there could be a title anomaly of 1 to 3 feet. But along the bay, 3 feet. The rain has been coming down all morning spirit5 57 now. There you see alexandria. It continues to move from east to west today. Teacher this is West Virginia<\/a> pennsylvania, delaware. And this is maryland. Every year marylanders spend five hundred and fifty million gaming at casinos in these other states. Question seven will build a new casino and bring table games s to baltimore. Generating hundreds of millions for schools. And that money has to go to education. Its the law. So vote for question seven. 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