this morning lava is spewing from the world s largest active volcano, creeping toward the main highway on the big island of hawaii. officials are urging people to be prepared. as we talk about hawaii, twin volcanos are also erupting in alaska. jennifer gray joins us with more. remember when those volcanos erupted a few years ago and it sent so much ash people couldn t fly across the atlantic ocean. i remember that. it happens when you have these explosive eruptions. this is an inconvenience across the big island. mauna loa is huge. it takes up half the island of the big island of hawaii. but the problem is, the flow is going to interrupt one of the main cut throughs to the island to get from one side to the other. so it s more of a convenience thing. here is the road that the lava is getting close to.
of what is considered the outer bank and this is water in the sunday sow have water on both sides of this, the barrier islands and ocean coming in on one side and a calm bay on the other side and the bay has been filled up with water from the storm surge and, now, when the wind switches the back side of the islands will be hit. the islands will change and new cut throughs and certainly the roads will be overtopped but this is what you look at on the right side with the strongest winds going, the band you see coming in right there in that last frame, the strongest wind, everyone there is getting the heaviest of the storm surge as we speak and when it is gone we will get the images. conditions are very dangerous. you mentioned we have known of this for a while since tuesday. so, especially in this area, everyone is out of batteries and flash lights and all the
good morning. it is friday, august 26th. welcome to american morning. it s all about the hurricane today. i wish i could say happy friday, happy friday for those not living along the northeast coast. and whom it hasn t reached yet. exactly. let s talk about hurricane irene. now said to be a massive and powerful category 2 storm sitting just off the east coast. 50 million people could feel its force by this weekend. new hurricane warnings are now up, they stretch from north carolina to new jersey. states of emergency have been declared as far north as new england. irene totally hammered the bahamas yesterday with torrential rain, 115-mile-per-hour winds, north carolina like i is next. in atlantic beach a surf shop boarding up, mandatory evacuations under way along the outer banks and could be the biggest storm to hit new york in decades. people all the way up the coast are being asked to leave or to get ready. i understand sometimes folks think that people overreac