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because of the saturated ground and the rain we have seen. keep that in mind going forward for the next 24 hours or so. eric will have more details coming up in the first alert forecast in a couple of minutes. we have eye opening video. this is the heart of the storm as it rolled into uptown. shawn recorded time-lapse video seconds. you can see the clouds and rain covering the stadium and the high-rise buildings. almost as soon as the storm arrives, look at that it clears out. paul, duke energy crews are responding to state thousands of power outages. brody o connell has been talking to officials and live in wilkinson boulevard. power lines i know have been down there. do you know when that road is going to be clear and free of that problem? yes, we got word from cmpd if you look you can see up at little rock road the intersection of wilkinson closed for the inbound lanes it will be 3 to 4 hours before they get that back open. but cars are flowing outbound fine. b ....
funnel cloud as it developed this afternoon. meteorologist john ahrens is in severe weather center 9 where things are a lot calmer now, but the threat of strong wind is still out there. that s right. and some showers as well, scott as we look at the one that s coming through now in southwest charlotte into belmont and up through gastonia, live early warning doppler 9 showing you a big pocket of rain and gusty winds out of this. i don t want you to get scared. but this is packing strong winds and very good rain right now. just south of the airport as you travel passed through the white hall communities of steal creek as well. let s peel this back. and look at the winds coming out of this. this is not a severe storm and not showing any kind of rotation. but menacing as the wind speeds are going up to 50 miles per hour in southwest charlotte. tracking it for you now on live early warning doppler 9. cornelius will be involved with this between now and 6:30 this afternoon ....
just 13 days until the presidential election and the obama and romney campaigns, they are kicking into overdrive as the candidates make their final push to win the white house. cnn correspondents are following their every move. they re reporting from coast to coast and from all the most crucial states, any one of which has the potential to decide who the next president of the united states will be. let s begin this hour s coverage in iowa where president obama kicked off a two-day coast-to-coast swing through eight states. he s calling it a campaign marathon extravaganza. likening it to an all-nighter. no surprise his itinerary consistents almost entirely of battleground states. cnn s chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is traveling with the president. reporter: wolf, president obama is hopping around the nation stumping for early votes and undecided voters. it s the kind of whirlwind tour you usually see in the last 48 hours before election day. the fact t ....
girl for her bike. and a new election rover after one candidate says pregnancies from rape are god s will. and right now tropical storm sandy almost a hurricane. it s five miles per hour away from that heading to jamaica. i ll show you the path after it hits that region coming up. bob, thanks so much. there is a criminal investigation into the fungal meningitis outbreak that s killed at least 23 people. and massachusetts is currently pulling the license of that company that made the shots blamed in the outbreak. the state department of health says that there was a visible black matter in sealed vials at the new england compounding center. they failed to sterilize products. and floor mats very lab were visibly dirty. they were operating beyond the scope of their compounding l license, instead acting as a manufacturer. the very question you re asking, i m asking. and the investigation continues on. georgia is the latest state to report a case of fungal meningi ....
black or white smoke signals. the cardinals begin to meet tomorrow in what they call con growlation in which they ll discuss the problems of the church before they even get around to voting for a new pope. and many cardinals say the problems are so large it could take them a week to ten days before they re ready to vote on the man whose job it will be to fix them. jeff? jeff: mark fill lipses thank you. queen elizabeth is in a london hospital tonight after being admitted for a stomach infection. with more on her condition and what the royal family is saying here s kelly cobiella. reporter: queen liz bleth ii is in good spirits and good health according to buckingham palace aside from a stubborn stomach bug she hasn t been able to shake. the queen came down with gastroenteritis saturday after a ceremony honoring olympians the palace cleared her weekend calendar and said she would rest at windsor castle. that rest apparently wasn t enough. the queen was driven to th ....