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 beach fac
confident that everybody is doing everybody they can to ensure your safety. jim tilmon, thank you so much. want to remind everyone we re getting this new information thanks to susan candiotti, we re getting a time line of basically starting at 11:00 the night before, so this past friday night on into saturday morning, what the accused shooter in that tucson rampage is accused of doing through the entire night, dropping off film to handling that black bag and a lot in between. we are still reading this. we ll try to make more sense of it and we will continue following that part of the investigation there in tucson. also, we are getting even more dramatic pictures from brazil where the death toll from flooding and mudslides is now past 500. we ll take you to the hardest hit area, that is ahead. also, is an innocent man on death row? cnn s david manningly asked him if he was involved in the
and the s&p 500 up 3. but green is green so we ll take it. for shares of a & p, they were halted. the company file forward bankruptcy. the stores will stay open. the company opened in 1859 and so that makes it one of the oldest grocery stores in the nation. and finally, if you were shipping packages today, better get ready for long lines. fedex said today will be the busiest day of the year. it s expected to move 16 million packages. no wonder christmas is 12 days away. to ring in the shipping thing, fedex rang the opening bell to celebrate and get those packages moving. they have purple santa hats and giving out hot beverages to get everybody happy about standing in line to ship those packages. our david manningly is out at one of the hubs jumping on the trucks, going to give us a live tour to show us how nutty it is.