if you re in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. 65 million people in danger. to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. you have to get out. we ve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldn t be doing it now if we didn t think this storm had the potential to be very serious. we re tracking this monster minute by minute and going live into the storm zone. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, we re covering every angle of hurricane irene tonight from north carolina, with landfalls expected in a matter of hours to new york city where unprecedented mandatory evacuations are under way. thousands of flights are cancelled on the east coast. jfk is closing to international arrivals tomorrow at noon. major highways are closing down as i speak. there are unprecedented shutdowns, transit system in new york and philadelphia. atl
horizon from us now. she s definitely a big storm and people in her way better banted down the hatches. slamming down into the east coast. i can t stress this highly enough. if you re in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. 65 million people in danger. to all the people in eastern north carolina, good luck and our prayers are with you. mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. you have to get out. we ve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldn t be doing it now if we didn t think this storm had the potential to be very serious. we re tracking this monster minute by minute and going live into the storm zone. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, we re covering every angle of hurricane irene tonight from north carolina, with landfalls expected in a matter of hours to new york city where unprecedented mandatory evacuations are under way. thousands of flights are cancelled on the east coast. jfk is clo
hurricane winds and then for another six, eight hours on the back side of the storm we ll get this tropical storm force winds and the continuation of the rainfall. so, a long time yet to go before we see any clear skies here. anderson? i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of this hurricane, you have to take precautions now. 65 million people at risk, the government possibly picking up the pieces after this massive mandatory evacuations, time to get out right now. you have to get out. we ve never done a mandatory evacuation before and we wouldn t be doing it now if we didn t think this storm had the potential to be very serious. we re tracking this monster minute by minute and going live into the storm zone. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, we re covering every angle of hurricane irene tonight from north carolina, with landfalls expected in a matter of hours to new york city where unprecedented mandatory evacuations are unde
done safely and carefully. i want to turn to the budget debate. we know there s a new short term resolution. the current one expires this friday. house republicans put one out. a lot of democrats have signed on. i want to confirm you approve of this new short term three week budget resolution that the house republicans have put out? yes. it gives me some cause for optimism that we can finish this cr, the remaining six months pretty well. there were negotiations between the president, senate democrats, house republicans and the proposal that was made, i m for it. it takes cuts that democrats had proposed. cuts that get rid of fat but don t hit into the muscle the way that hl-1 did and leaves out these riders like on abortion, global warming and other things that would cause make it far more difficult to get to a budget decision. senator, there s bean lot of criticism of a lot of players in this budget debate. let me play you a clip of
done safely and carefully. i want to turn to the budget debate. we know there s a new short term resolution. the current one expires this friday. house republicans put one out. a lot of democrats have signed on. i want to confirm you approve of this new short term three week budget resolution that the house republicans have put out? yes. it gives me some cause for optimism that we can finish this cr, the remaining six months pretty well. there were negotiations between the president, senate democrats, house republicans and the proposal that was made, i m for it. it takes cuts that democrats had proposed. cuts that get rid of fat but don t hit into the muscle the way that hl-1 did and leaves out these riders like on abortion, global warming and other things that would cause make it far more difficult to get to a budget decision. senator, there s bean lot of criticism of a lot of players in this budget debate.