Hurricane Irene - CBS Evening News - 2011-08-26

Name: Hurricane Irene - CBS Evening News - 2011-08-26
Uploaded: 2023-08-20
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[0:00] tonight Hurricane Irene is about to

[0:03] launch an assault on the east coast of

[0:05] the United States

[0:06] and tens of millions of people in some

[0:09] of the biggest metropolitan areas of the

[0:11] country are in her path we have

[0:13] correspondence throughout the region as

[0:15] we track this powerful storm in New York

[0:18] the mayor orders the first mandatory

[0:21] evacuation in the city's history

[0:23] nobody's going to get fined nobody's

[0:25] going to go to jail but if you don't

[0:27] follow this people might die and as we

[0:31] look ahead to Irene we'll look back as

[0:33] well to a devastating hurricane that

[0:36] took the very same path there is no

[0:39] warning absolutely zero warning

[0:45] this is the CBS Evening News with Scott

[0:48] Pelley good evening much of the east

[0:51] coast is preparing tonight for an

[0:54] invasion by Hurricane Irene an estimated

[0:57] 65 million people could feel the impact

[1:00] of this powerful Storm 2 million have

[1:02] been ordered to evacuate and that

[1:04] includes more than three hundred

[1:06] thousand and in low-lying coastal areas

[1:09] of New York City and here's why a

[1:11] hurricane could cause a storm surge that

[1:14] would swallow up the part of downtown

[1:16] Manhattan that you see here in blue at

[1:19] last report Irene was about 300 miles

[1:22] off the coast of North Carolina packing

[1:24] Winds of 100 miles an hour a category 2

[1:27] storm watches and warnings are up from

[1:30] the Carolinas to New England covering

[1:32] some of the most populated areas in the

[1:35] country including Washington

[1:36] Philadelphia New York Long Island and

[1:39] Boston we have a team of correspondents

[1:42] deployed throughout the area and we

[1:44] begin with CBS News