Our local forecast here and beyond. See you in a few. Utility companies preparing for sandy. Baltimore gas and electric is planning for hundreds of thousands of potential outages. The company is putting workers on standby and plans to make excuse me, is already making plans to bring in at least 500 workers from other states. Utility companies learned from past storms. And keep it here with fox 5 for the next 90 minutes as we track Hurricane Sandy. Can you also follow the storms path on myfoxhurricane. Com. The website features enhanced satellite images, interactive mottos, a live chat and a lot more. And another big story, a legendary swim coach under arrest accused of sexually abusing one of the students decades ago he was the cofounder of the swim clog club that grow into one of the largest in maryland, d. C. , and virginia. This summer, a new 43yearold woman came forward and said he sexually abused her when she was 13 and later grew into a sexual relationship. Fox 5s beth parker is
Im will thomas. Take a live look right now at miami, florida. You can see giant waves crashing over the street. Power outages are being reported, Public School classes canceled for friday andthe storm not just pounding here in south florida. It could cause huge problems and billions of dollars in damage along the east coast. Lets get right to it tonight. Hurricane sandy fears, gary mcgrady is in the weather have to begin our storm coverage. Thanks, will. This will be a high impact storm all up and down the east coast. Well go right to the satellite picture to show you. It doesnt look very organized here. As a matter of fact, it has been weakening just a little bit over the last several hours. Its encountering strong winds aloft. We call that wind sheer and that tends to buffet the storm around a bit. Winds are down to 90 miles an hour. Movement has slowed dramatically. Now its moving north, north we have at 13 miles per hour. The pressure is up just a little bit at 968. This is the tra