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Tropical Storm Isabel Update
Aired September 19, 2003 - 06:17 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time to talk about Tropical Storm Isabel. And, Chad, before you start, I just wanted to tell people this. You know the guards -- the guards who guard the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery?
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. Yes.
COSTELLO: Well they were ordered to go inside because, you know, they have to guard it 24 hours a day.
MYERS: Right.
COSTELLO: They were ordered to go inside because of the hurricane, but they refused.
MYERS: Really?
COSTELLO: They stayed out there all night long.
MYERS: Wow!
COSTELLO: They had like rain gear and some coffee and hot chocolate.
MYERS: Yes. And you know what, there's a lot of trees around there. I think they were only looking out for their own safety, I mean not themselves, the people that ordered them inside.
COSTELLO: No, the people that ordered them in, right.
MYERS: Right, a lot of branches down across D.C. I mean we saw a live shot there from Arlington just a little bit ago from downtown and there was just a lot of debris in the -- in the roadways, too, so.
COSTELLO: Yes, I want to read you something that, let's see, Sergeant Christopher Holmes (ph) said. He said when he heard the order to go inside, he said they told us that, but that's not what's going to happen. That's never an option for us. It went in one ear and right out the other. It's just considered to be the greatest honor to go out there and guard. It's not only the unknowns, it's a symbol that represents everyone who's fought and died for our country.
That's nice.
MYERS: I see his point of view, and I also see the person who was above him that gave him the order, and now he disrespected the order. COSTELLO: Well, they were out there guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns.
MYERS: So.
COSTELLO: Don't get him in trouble.
MYERS: All right. I know, but this is the military, you do what you're told.
Good morning, Carol. Good morning, everyone.
Tropical Storm Isabel now really it's a tropical depression. We still have the storm on it, though, because the 5:00 a.m. advisory still had winds at 50 miles per hour. I have had a really hard time finding even wind gusts at 50 miles per hour.
There is the center near Keyser, West Virginia. It was over Rio, West Virginia about a half hour ago. And the winds now, still, as the storm moves on by, still gusting to some spots 40 to 50 miles per hour.
You can still see the rain showers and thunderstorms from Hartford down to the Tristate. New York City had a pretty good batch here about an hour ago. And it will be raining over parts of Somerset County into Pittsburgh with some wind gusts there. Thirty-seven miles per hour now at Washington, D.C., 24 in Salisbury. And everywhere you see the orange here, all along the coast, all the way through the southern Delmarva and even here from about Smith Point all the way down into parts of Richmond, wind gusts there, in the orange, over 30 miles per hour.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you -- Chad.
MYERS: You're welcome.
COSTELLO: And as Chad just told you, Isabel did roar through North Carolina. Virginia, however, not entirely out of danger.
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Aired September 19, 2003 - 06:17 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time to talk about Tropical Storm Isabel. And, Chad, before you start, I just wanted to tell people this. You know the guards -- the guards who guard the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery?
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. Yes.
COSTELLO: Well they were ordered to go inside because, you know, they have to guard it 24 hours a day.
MYERS: Right.
COSTELLO: They were ordered to go inside because of the hurricane, but they refused.
MYERS: Really?
COSTELLO: They stayed out there all night long.
MYERS: Wow!
COSTELLO: They had like rain gear and some coffee and hot chocolate.
MYERS: Yes. And you know what, there's a lot of trees around there. I think they were only looking out for their own safety, I mean not themselves, the people that ordered them inside.
COSTELLO: No, the people that ordered them in, right.
MYERS: Right, a lot of branches down across D.C. I mean we saw a live shot there from Arlington just a little bit ago from downtown and there was just a lot of debris in the -- in the roadways, too, so.
COSTELLO: Yes, I want to read you something that, let's see, Sergeant Christopher Holmes (ph) said. He said when he heard the order to go inside, he said they told us that, but that's not what's going to happen. That's never an option for us. It went in one ear and right out the other. It's just considered to be the greatest honor to go out there and guard. It's not only the unknowns, it's a symbol that represents everyone who's fought and died for our country.
That's nice.
MYERS: I see his point of view, and I also see the person who was above him that gave him the order, and now he disrespected the order. COSTELLO: Well, they were out there guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns.
MYERS: So.
COSTELLO: Don't get him in trouble.
MYERS: All right. I know, but this is the military, you do what you're told.
Good morning, Carol. Good morning, everyone.
Tropical Storm Isabel now really it's a tropical depression. We still have the storm on it, though, because the 5:00 a.m. advisory still had winds at 50 miles per hour. I have had a really hard time finding even wind gusts at 50 miles per hour.
There is the center near Keyser, West Virginia. It was over Rio, West Virginia about a half hour ago. And the winds now, still, as the storm moves on by, still gusting to some spots 40 to 50 miles per hour.
You can still see the rain showers and thunderstorms from Hartford down to the Tristate. New York City had a pretty good batch here about an hour ago. And it will be raining over parts of Somerset County into Pittsburgh with some wind gusts there. Thirty-seven miles per hour now at Washington, D.C., 24 in Salisbury. And everywhere you see the orange here, all along the coast, all the way through the southern Delmarva and even here from about Smith Point all the way down into parts of Richmond, wind gusts there, in the orange, over 30 miles per hour.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you -- Chad.
MYERS: You're welcome.
COSTELLO: And as Chad just told you, Isabel did roar through North Carolina. Virginia, however, not entirely out of danger.
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