the time apologized to you. what did he tell you? it is, general walker, it was a very distressed phone call, he called me up and saying i felt so bad at the time, i pulled up my men, we pulled up at 5:44. my men and women finally got approval and pulled up to get sworn in and the new jersey state police had arrived there before us. the national guard headquarters less than two miles from the capitol police headquarters. think about it. the new jersey state police chief was almost in tears. i was covering this live at the time sitting in this chair in new york and i remember, i get chills thinking about it, and i remember watching it and just screaming, where are the reinforcements? how are these officers left alone? how can we see lawmakers running, hiding in the chamber for cover. with guns drawn in the chamber. how can that be? for the people in power, for the national guard, for the
cnn s jim spellman is seeing its power firsthand. he s now in the bahamas. we ll try to get jim spellman. we don t have him quite yet because the wind is blowing really, really hard in the bahamas at this moment. let s head into atlanta and check in with jack can jeras. can you tell us the track of the storm? we can, carol. we ve seen more changes and it bridges it closer to hugging the coast of the united states, potentially from north carolina all the way on up northward. i do want to tell people, this is just in. normally we get this 20 minutes before the top of the hour and it literally just came in. bear with me. the hurricane watches you ve been talking about, this is the north carolina coast, from north of surfacy to the north carolina/virginia border. tropical storm watches in addition for that north of modesto beach to surfacy. basically what that means is hurricane conditions are expected in about 48 hours, but tropical storm watch means tropical storm conditions