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Were going to see the winds continue to increase. this intensification is happening with this storm. >> ian: jane, just a few moments back, we were talking about how we expected now a major hurricane idalia because of some of the information we were seeing from the hurricane hunters. we estimated maybe we were going to see a minimum central pressure which is a measure of the overall intensity of the system. the lower you go, the stronger it gets. we thought this was going to come in maybe 948. l...

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And with the buoy data, theyll be able to get more specific data and then you can backtrack in time, given how the pieces of debris -- you know, if its one piece of debris thats moved or multiple pieces of debris and just backtrack to try to narrow down where the plane actually went down. >> and you know, jackie, so much of this we have focused on debris at the top. im curious to get your thoughts about what we would be confronting underneath in the ocean, in the water. what is that terrain like...

That may be unrecognizable, compared to what were seeing today. even if the storm doesnt make a direct hit and stays off the coast, which is the forecast, the tropical storm-force winds are going to extend some 200 miles from the center. hurricane-force winds, some 90 miles from the center so it could do a widespread damage not just off the carolina coast, but off the virginia coast, the delaware coast, the jersey shore, up past massachusetts. you could have power outages that could be unbelieva...

>> right now at the storm site -- at the spill site, im sorry, as you can see on the radar theres some bands already moving through the area, rain. the site right there is point h, and looking at some buoy data, the winds have already picked up to about 15-20 knots at most, but we are expecting those conditions to continue deteriorating through the rest of the night and tomorrow. >> reporter: all right. so will this become danielle, daniel? >> well, the hurricane center is forecasting it to beco...

Saying the local tsunami warning goes until 6:00 a.m. so theres a little bit of a conflict there. and i wanted to point that out. now, the tsunami warning does cover the entire pacific basin. all the way from coastal sections of chile down towards antarctica, up through the hawaiian islands, to russia. this is a broad expansive area. and theyre saying that these waves could last five minutes, they could last 15 minutes, but its something that we just have to kind of evaluate at this point. but a...

Lets go to rick riechmuth. he is watching the weather very closely as well? >> she was saying the water is recede inning hilo. that is on the big island which the southern most island and close toast chile. that would be the first island to be affected. if they were experiencing that water to recede, very likely they are feeling the tsunami right now. without having a camera in the exact spot, its difficult to tell what is going on. honolulu, that is probably i would say over a hundred miles fro...

>> all right. well check back with you a bit later on. >> greg, even though some people are hanging out and watching what happens. this is moving north wampltd lets go to rick, with the very latest in the extreme weather center. rick, what is the storm doing right now? >> i was trying to look to see the buoy data. waves up to 12 feet off the outer banks here. this is the latest look at the storm on the radar picture. you can notice, center of the storm, generally, you have the small, compact eye...