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tonight about 65 million people from north carolina to new england are in the path of hurricane irene. ten governors declared states of emerge system new york city officials ordered the first mandatory evacuations in city history, but along the jersey shore, drivers can testify trying to get out of harm s way is a slow nerve-racking process. the hurricane isn t waiting. right now, the storm, a category 2 with 100 mile-an-hour sustained winds is heading for the north carolina coast. our coverage starts with john in north carolina. we probably don t need to ask you to set the scene for us. what does it feel like there? reporter: we are getting the winds as you see right now gusting and picking up a little bit. the rain has been constant. periodically heavy and then it lightens up a little bit. the past couple of hours or so here on atlantic beach, a mandatory evacuation, obviously, this is an island. the atlantic ocean is that way. that s actually south the way this bea ....
to see how they re doing. a lot of damage. interestingly, jim, one thing to we do e-mailed me this which came from the national emergency management agency hout there where you are. they basically tell us it is the islands where the problems are. a lot of power lines down, a bridge out here and there, a report from cat island that all power lines were down and no telecommunications. so it sounds like the large islands have done pretty well. the smaller islands, either we don t know or they have had some problems. that s right. it s probably going to be another at least into tomorrow where they re able to get a sense. people can only get to those islands it s hard to communicate there. you know the first thing to happen is power is out. they don t even know that they re really facing yet. trying to send out the trucks. really, until tomorrow they can get out there, maybe get some planes out there. it s going to be tough for them to know the real impact on the bah ....
arabic networks saying he is walking around in tripoli and calls rebel forces criminals and traitors and rats. more and more the rebels do believe he is still in or near tripoli. in fact, they think two days of fierce fighting near the airport could be pretty significant. we are covering every angle of this story with multiple correspondents on the ground. sara sidner is in tripoli central square and we have arwa damon and frederik pleitgen and zain verjee. let s get to arwa damon right near the airport on the latest on the clashes. there were grad rockets fired at the airport complex earlier today. the fighting around here has been quite intense. and the rebel commander who led the assault on the airport believes that that fighting is directly linked to the whereabouts of colonel gadhafi himself. translator: the clashes are fierce because i think a route for gaffy to escape to other places. traffic all day and breaking people in the sunset and we spotted a convoy. ....
viewers in the united states. we begin with breaking news out of libya. the sun is rising on what appears to be a new day in libya. however the square is quieter now. snipers would be in that area of the city. here are the latest devel developments. broadcast yet another pep talk to his supporters. tro i am with you, alongside with you in this fight. we will not give up. it appears that gadhafi s body guards did not share his conviction. insists that nato fighters returning the city into a held fighter. blamed nato for all those who had lost their lives in the fighting. every drop of libyan blood is the responsibility of the western world. and especially nato s countries. so we will hold mr. obama, mr. cameron morally responsible. for every single death that takes place in this country. nick one of the astonishing things is the way the libyan army has dissolved, especially in tripoli zits. what lie with the can you tell us about it? sort of a ring of steel ....
the real jimmy fallon. properly in love? properly in love, what are you saying? what are you jimmy fallon, the prime-time cable exclusive, this is piers morgan tonight. jimmy fallon, your new book is called thank you notes. we all know them from your show. brilliant, simple idea. very quick. you know, when you start a talk show, a late night talk show, you always hope for like the top ten list or the headlines like leno has or whatever like that. we try different things every week. this guy jeremy bronston came up with the thank you notes. it was with one off. we tried it, wrote sarcastic thank you notes, twitter, facebook blew up. my god, thank you notes did it again. guys, we might have a hit. it s cool. is it like all things in comedy, especially with the running things, is it the simpler the idea, often the more effective it is? yeah. seriously, ideas you think of off the street, like last week i really went into a store and bought a pack of gum. t ....