cubic meters of gas into the baltic sea. there s a toxic bubble field more than half a mile wide. you can only guess how many marine animals are being killed right now, countless. but the lasting damage may be to the atmosphere. it s 90% methane. methane, as biden has told us, is the key driver of global warming, which is an existential threat to humanity in planet. so if you re worried about climate change, what just happened to the pipelines is its close of the apocalypse as you can imagine. it wasn t an accident. the same ten leaks were det detected, there were two undersea explosions, each of which was equivalent to hundreds of pounds of tnt. nothing on nature can account for that. leaks were in three separate places. only one explanation. this was an act of industrial terrorism. that was obvious to the prime minister of poland and he wasted no time saying so. today, we are also dealing with an act of sabotage. we do not know the details of what happened yet. but we can
an entirely different set of towns affected. between fort myers and tampa, now you ve got all the communities between sarasota and charlotte. between tampa and fort myers look like where land falls can it be. when we look at the wider view, it comes in here somewhere, let s say it comes in here around fort myers, there may be an evacuation, then it moves up north over orlando, it s under a hurricane warning for hurricane force winds there, then it loops out in jacksonville will get the search. this is going to be the entire state of florida under alert in terms of the commuter models will got, notice it s pushing even little more toward fort myers. we are very about this area from charlotte county, north of
it s covered and sand and debris. the overall structures are still standing. parts of the roof, parts of the porches and doors. they re all here in the middle of the road where it s still gusting and the rain 20 inches is still coming in pretty much sideways. it s clear there s no in or out of the island because of the debris and the water that is covering the debris. and also because of downed power lines. there s no electricity here. there s no electricity for 600,000 people in north carolina. the cleanup here is going to be huge. but too early to talk about cleanup now. this is still very much a wind event on this part of the carolina coast, shepard. shepard: you still feel like you re getting hurricane force winds there, steve? yes, i do. the rain hurts and you can t fall backwards. i m not seeing trees snap. i m seeing branches snap. so yes, this feels like a
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