Good evening. Tonight much of the east coast is on high alert and sitting on a slow motion collision course with what forecasters are calling a storm of historic dimensions. At its heart Hurricane Sandy, a sprawling system more than 800 miles wide. Capturing these amazing images from space. After killing more than 50 people and causing heavy flooding in the caribbean sandy tonight is tracking parallel along the u. S. Coast toward a rare and fateful rendezvous monday with two other potent weather systems. Call it a hybrid storm. It is expected to send sandy inland with damaging winds and torrential rain. The storm will impact some 64 million people. Tonight, eight states and the District Of Columbia are under states of emergency as officials brace for flooding and power outages. Some mandatory evacuations are already under way. Forecasters warning just how dangerous the storm is. Weve got our team in place to cover it all. Lets start in new york with Weather Channel meteorologist jim ca
And has already killed 58 people in the caribbean. Welcome to 11 news sunday morning, im lisa robinson. And im mindy basara. An 800mile swath of the country is in the crosshairs of sandy. Residents on the east coast are preparing for winds, rain, and snow in some areas. We have live coverage with tony pann and Jennifer Franciotti. We begin with tony. Todays not going to be a big deal. It will be a good day to prepare for things. We might get some rain and it will be breezy today but not a lot happening. Right now 59 at the airport. Northeast wind at 12. Winds will pick up heading into the afternoon. Youd call it breezy, not windy, between 10 and 20 Miles Per Hour. Picking up rain on the outer fringes of the storm which is still way off the southeast coast. Heavy rain off the Eastern Shore counties represented by the orange and red, a little rain around baltimore. The best chance for rain today is in the Eastern Shore counties, breezy with temperatures in the low 60s. The worst part of
Good evening. Tonight much of the east coast is on high alert and sitting on a slow motion collision course with what forecasters are calling a storm of historic dimensions. At its heart Hurricane Sandy, a sprawling system more than 800 miles wide. Capturing these amazing images from space. After killing more than 50 people and causing heavy flooding in the caribbean sandy tonight is tracking parallel along the u. S. Coast toward a rare and fateful rendezvous monday with two other potent weather systems. Call it a hybrid storm. It is expected to send sandy inland with damaging winds and torrential rain. The storm will impact some 64 million people. Tonight, eight states and the District Of Columbia are under states of emergency as officials brace for flooding and power outages. Some mandatory evacuations are already under way. Forecasters warning just how dangerous the storm is. Weve got our team in place to cover it all. Lets start in new york with Weather Channel meteorologist jim ca
On monday with two other potent weather systems. Call it a hybrid storm. Its expected to send the full force of sandy careening somewhere in new york with damaging winds and torrential storms. The storm will impact some 64 Million People. Tonight, eight states and the District Of Columbia are under states of emergency as officials brace for severe flooding and prolonged power outages. Some mandatory evacuations are already under way. Forecasters sparing no words in warning just how dangerous this storm is. Weve got our team in place to cover it all. Lets start in new york with Weather Channel meteorologist jim cantore. Jim, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. More and more preparations under way. Then by the time tomorrow night rolls around, we will start to feel the impacts in earnest across much of the northeast. Lets talk about this and lay out the impacts of the storm. First of all, the satellite shows a hybrid transition you spoke of. You have a cloud canopy that stretche