water. if another low-lying neighborhoods now under mandatory evacuation orders, mayor bloomberg tonight saying the city transportation system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports in danger of flooding. they re being closed arriving flights starting at noon. now this is what they re concerned about. pictures here of irene hitting the bahamas. new yorkers are used to seeing this on tv, not up close, though. but they might see a version of it in about 36 hours from now. all day today irene was making its way north. and as it did. emergency plans started kicking. in warnings went up. people boarded up, stocked up and either hunkered down or took off. in a moment we ll check in with anderson and our entire team on irene. first chad myers and that late bulletin from the national hurricane center. chad what s the latest? not much change in the forecast and not much change in the track, isha. we re still at 100 miles per hour. we re still forecast to get slight
troubling new assessment. they are expecting the storm surge from irene to flood the area which includes the ground zero construction site with anywhere from 6 to 12 feet of water. it and other low-lying neighborhood on a mandatory evacuation order. mayor bloomberg saying the city transit system will shut down at noon tomorrow. all five local airports also in danger of flooding. they are being closed right starting at noon care this is what they are concerned about. pictures here of irene hitting the bahamas, new yorkers i used to seeing this on tv, but up close. they might see a version of that and about 36 hours from now. all day today irene was making its way north. and as it did. emergency plans started kicking. in warnings went up. people boarded up, stocked up and either hunkered down or took off. in a moment we ll check in with anderson and our entire team on irene. first chad myers and that late bulletin from the national hurricane center. chad what s the latest? no
here s what hurricane irene looked like when it hit the bahamas. new yorkers might see it here and soon. here is the view as irene began moving up the eastern seaboard, and as it did emergency plans started to kick in. airlines began cancelling flights. hospitals moving patients. and here in new york mayor mike bloomberg issued the first evacuation orders in city history for low-lying areas, including the one, the area that we are standing in tonight. and for the first time in modern memory, a hurricane warning is in effect for new york city. meantime as we speak, north carolina s outer banks are getting hit. we ve got reporters all around the region. in a moment we ll check with correspondent on the ground there. i want to begin with chad myers who just got his hands on a fresh update from the national hurricane center. chad, what have you learned? i ve learned now that storm has turned to the north-northeast. that is the continuation of the right-hand turn, anderson, that
carolinas and threatening the entire northeastern seaboard. we ll have a lot of details about that tonight. the other breaking story, of course, libya and the hunt for gadhafi. the opposition s already got his cap. this guy took it out of his pal as. now they want that head that goes with it and they re willing to pay. $2.5 million for the dictator dead or alive, they say. one of his sons still at large is sending e-mails to our nick robertson. nick just got another one a few minutes ago and he joins us shortly. in the meantime, heavy fighting today in tripoli. take a look. running street battles all day. this video s from the capital s eastern neighborhoods not far from the airport. the field in opposition hands but still taking heavy shell, from loyalist fighters nearby, some of it just within the last-mile-per-hour or two. the two side exchanging artillery throughout the day. opposition commanders say they ve been trying to direct fire to minimize civilian casualties b
good evening, everyone. tonight, we have two big breaks stories. one is hurricane irene now officially a major storm. the view here from space it is huge. category 3 and getting stronger this hour. now pointed straight at the carolinas and threatening the entire northeastern seaboard. we ll have a lot of details about that tonight. the other breaking story, of course, libya and the hunt for gadhafi. the opposition s already got his cap. this guy took it out of his palace. now they want that head that goes with it and they re willing to pay. $2.5 million for the dictator dead or alive, they say. one of his sons still at large is sending e-mails to our nick robertson. nick just got another one a few minutes ago and he joins us shortly. in the meantime, heavy fighting today in tripoli. take a look. [ gun fire ] running street battles all day. this is from the capital s eastern neighbors, not far from the airport. the field in opposition hands but still taking heavy shellin