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Frightening mother nature can be. we heard you talking to the governor before commercial break. we ve been saying for days, we ve been talking about not just the impact of hurricane making landfall itself, we sounded like broken records we told people this was going to be a catastrophic flooding event in the national weather service and the national hurricane service and scientist who make a living forecasting stuff like this, they don t use those words lately. we see the reports all the time and they don t use words like catastrophic and life-threatening, lightly. so this of course is not something we ever expected to see, then again, we had warning therapy heavy rain. ....
National hurricane service. that is the information you re seeing us put on the radar here. you talk about air travel. you have lieutenant carpenter in a plane, a lot of planes not going anywhere. air travel on the east coast is at a standstill. i want to bring in nbc s tom costello at one of the busiest airports in the world in atlanta. we re looking at the flight boards, cancelled, cancelled. cancelled. we re paralyzed here. we re really talking about, to put it in perspective. we re talking about florida and east of i-95. here is what is important to note. at this hour we have 700 delays, 4,500 flights cancelled from wednesday to saturday and already we have miami back open again and fort lauderdale open again. we re talking about airports closed, really, from orlando, which is closed up i-95 up through charleston, south carolina. take a look right here at live flight tracker. you ll see this. there simply are not a lot of planes in the air over florida ....
Reporting. it s especially windy today in the windy city although they say it s called that because of the politicians not because of the actual weather history. our meteorologist janice dean warned us yesterday that even as the storm moved inland it would still pose a real threat. she is live in the fox weather center. we had a conversation this morning about how irritating it is when the weather people want to make the story all about them and their accurate predictions. i know you don t want to do that. i do want to say for the record, right again, take us live together to where we are now. thanks to the national weather service and national hurricane service working around the:00. us as forecasters bring you the message and we hoped that people listened is the main thing. we ve been talking about the northeast and obviously that s been the big story this thing is stretching as far west as the midwest, the great lakes as we saw a reporter out there. we could see wind gusts in exce ....
Just a logistical nightmare and that s why i stayed away, but that doesn t get covered. welcome, i think it is being covered because president obama has just made, had the samith respect to a visit down there. he s going there monday. he s going there on monday. and says he wants to give things a chance to cool, to settle down. exactly, and i think that people do understand though at the time, it was not the fact that president bush flew over that disaster area, as much as the fact that it was such a disaster earlier because fema and the people who are supposed to do their jobs in the federal government hadn t done them and people died, a thousand, over a thousand people died. i thought the best, which was rush limbaugh who said that the national hurricane service purposely tells you where the storm is going to scare people about the republican convention and because they work for obama, this, they did it on purpose and that was the best coverage. well, i mean, do you think ....
Just a logistical nightmare and that s why i stayed away, but that doesn t get covered. welcome, i think it is being covered because president obama has just made, had the same decision with respect to a visit down there. he s going there monday. he s going there on monday. and says he wants to give things a chance to cool, to settle down. exactly, and i think that people do understand though at the time, it was not the fact that president bush flew over that disaster area, as much as the fact that it was such a disaster earlier because fema and the people who are supposed to do their jobs in the federal government hadn t done them and people died, a thousand, over a thousand people died. i thought the best, which was rush limbaugh who said that the national hurricane service purposely tells you where the storm is going to scare people about the republican convention and because they work for obama, this, they did it on purpose and that was the best coverage. well, i mean, ....