good morning. it is friday, august 26th. welcome to american morning. it s all about the hurricane today. i wish i could say happy friday, happy friday for those not living along the northeast coast. and whom it hasn t reached yet. exactly. let s talk about hurricane irene. now said to be a massive and powerful category 2 storm sitting just off the east coast. 50 million people could feel its force by this weekend. new hurricane warnings are now up, they stretch from north carolina to new jersey. states of emergency have been declared as far north as new england. irene totally hammered the bahamas yesterday with torrential rain, 115-mile-per-hour winds, north carolina like i is next. in atlantic beach a surf shop boarding up, mandatory evacuations under way along the outer banks and could be the biggest storm to hit new york in decades. people all the way up the coast are being asked to leave or to get ready. i understand sometimes folks think that people overreac
tennessee, winter storm warning, the carolinas will get hit hard by the storm. more tomorrow than today. it will accelerate and intensify into a full fledged noreaster. winter storm with weather advisories, boston, prodense, new york city, and washington. if you are wondering why, it is not snowing right now, the storm has yet to form and come together. that is what happens with noreasters. that is what makes them so hard to report. it will work its way further off shore, and more energy to the north. tap into colder air. that is why we are infecting
and other bad storms that have hit that area that changed the sort of structure of the sand and the lines out there. are folks leaving, or are those fishermen and those tough new englanders staying put? reporter: for the most part t. seems like people are staying. they had a lot of notice, they ve been seeing it on tv and in the newspapers all week long, that the storm was heading their way, but like you said, they have the tough new england attitude where they feel take they ve seen bigger blizzards and noreasters, and we heard if the power goes out a lot of people plan to go to a bar, because they have a generator and it s friday night in the summer on the cape. martha: i m going to keep that in mind tonight, because i m heading up there myself. peter doocy, thank you very much. in chatham, it s an area that gets hit all the time but it sticks out there in the atlantic ocean. we ll see what happens tonight. bill: remember, the last big
usually they don t have the lights on in the buildings. they re getting ready to wake up and head to work. we ll talk to jacqui oh, yeah, our own jacqui jeras that points out today is the start of meteorlogical spring. we all wish it was real spring. we had enough of the shoveling and snow and salt. it gives you that little silver lining, right? make you feel better that there is hope out there. things could get better. the forecast for el nino that will stick around through spring and maybe mid-april which means one of the southern tracking storms and, yeah, potentially more noreasters, as well. we ll watch things as they develop in the upcoming months. we have that southern tracking storm here today. we saw the shot from dallas overcast skies with very light rain mixing in. but very cold air on the back side of this system here. so you could see some snow mixing in as you head into the afternoon hours. rumbles of thunder ahead of this system, watch for that in the