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You can see the heavy surf. it was raining a little bit this morning, the rain holding off now. you see the ominous clouds on the horizon we anticipate we will get a drenching as we go into the day and the first major feeder band of this storm slowly comes ashore. rick back to you. rick: jonathan serrie live in north carolina, atlantic beach. thank you very much. our military is also preparing for the worst. the navy ordering dozen of its ships and subs out to sea to protect them of the hurricane and sending planes away from its massive naval complex in norfolk, virginia. also taking precautions the coast guard. we will be one of the last units out of here tomorrow. we have to shore up everything that is loose. people don t realize the strength of hurricane winds. a light object becomes a missile. there won t be anything left, everything will be evacuated to safe-havens. rick: joining us now on the form is rear admiral mark benzal commander of the mid-atlantic ....
We were asked to by fema to come and help out. rick: are there any exercises or drills that can be carried out while they are out to sea, any way to put the situation into a positive. we looked very carefully at that. the mission in this one, rick is to stay out of the way of irene. we are focused on that. irene is a very dangerous storm and so our mission is to make sure that our ships are safe. rick: rear admiral mark benzal is commander of the mid-atlantic region. thank you very much, sir. thank you. rick: we had a couple of technical issues that you didn t know about at the beginning of the show. jenna lee is in washington today. we couldn t hear you for a couple of minutes. you re back. jenna: i promise i showed up to school on time. i was ready to go. no weather to blame this on, ....