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Meteorologist tom sater is in the cnn severe weather center. thats where we want to start, tom. sustained winds, 185 miles per hour. this is a monster. gusts over 200 making matters worse. >> yes. >> this hurricane is movie ininy slowly. >> you could outwalk it really. in fact, tg going to slow down to maybe 2 1/2 miles per hour. the sun is setting now. i fear when the sun rises parts of the abaco islands in the bahamas will look like puerto rico. it will look like the u.s. and british virgin is...

That line is firing up because this is the area where we have had a lot more sunshine than the other areas in tennessee or kentucky. the heating of the day thats helping to fire up a lot of powerful thunderstorms. you have numerous severe thunderstorm warnings along the back edge of the line as it continues to progress east. in addition to that, look at the tremendous amount of lightning with this particular storm. the lightning goes as far north as illinois and indiana, stretching back toward t...

Tornado indicated, across portions of mississippi right now. the back edge is probably the biggest concern, thats the one well be watching as it moves through the southeast overnight tonight. the areas of largest concern continue to be northern mississippi, outside of the memphis area and northern alabama. this system is one to pay attention to as it moves overnight tonight and eventually gets into sunday, you begin to see that threat shift from saturdays warnings and watches into sundays. and t...

Flags blowing on the plaza. above the white house, see the flag blowing a little bit. its windy up and down the east coast also. flash flood watches from northern vermont down through the mountains here of the central appalachians and into north carolina. an additional 1 to 3 inches with isolated totals to 4 inches. what an amazingly wet and soggy 2018 weve had. and the fire hose of rain and the thunderstorms comes up just off the outer banks and about into new york city. it will be in new york ...

Shore. we made landfall and continue to move north at a rapid rate. north northeast at 15 miles an hour. so moving quickly. a reminder. were seeing the pictures inside the eye. its a very dangerous thing. this thing is moving so fast, 15 miles an hour. as it moves north, you may have some calm inside the eye but its dangerous. youll have the back edge of the winds. we often see that to be incredibly dangerous. be careful. really just best to stay in a safe place in the shelter. so with time, let...

The back edge of what wed call the core of the hurricane and about 20 miles offshore moving at 15 miles per hour so even by the time the sunsets we may be able to get mariana coming back out here to show, you know, what she can, whats safe to venture out and the entire region dark once the sun completes sets and maybe initial reports of the damage to panama city. mexico beach. right front quadrant. stuck in the eye wall for half an hour. thats by far where the most extreme wind damage -- >> poin...

Be getting down toward near record breaking temperatures as were looking at freeze watches and warnings in portions of central california, areas where you dont typically see the numbers fall down into the 30s, but thats exactly whats going to happen. tonights lows getting down to 35 degrees, in some cases 36, 33 degrees. getting down to that point where you can freeze. l.a. and san diego getting down abnormally cold from 45 to 50 degrees there along the coast. when you get such cold air and such...

>> reporter: as you mentioned this is a poorly timed accumulating snow event for new york city. backing up towards the george washington bridge. which connects i-95 towards connecticut. jersey has seen accumulating snows along that thoroughfare. the back edge has yet to go through new jersey. it will take a couple of hours. this is an ambitious coastal low but its running out of real estate as it pushes to the east. one to three inches but enough to slick up the roads and strong squalls through ...

Rubble of a building just yesterday. elsewhere in mexico city, a much more grim scene is emerging. teams, wog through the night to free a young girl trapped beneath the school. 21 children and four adults killed when the building caved in during the middle of classes tuesday afternoon. joining us live from mexico city, nbc news steve patterson. bring us up-to-date for the search of that young girl and other students that may be trapped in that building. were now approaching 48 hours. its a criti...

Wednesday, thursday of next week, its very possible it goes back down to a tropical storm, which would be a good thing. thats also around the same timeline if it were going to make landfall, that would be when it would do so. right now places like new york, massachusetts, rhode island, and connecticut are still, albeit on the fringe, they are still possibilities at this time for a potential landfall. heres a look at the storm as it progresses off to the north. it is going to encounter much coole...