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Clogged with traffic from texas to alabama. mississippis governor has declared a state of emergency. his state was also ravaged by katrina. the national weather service is underscoring the dire stakes warning that some places might be, quote, uninhabitable for weeks or months. we are covering all the angles of the approaching hurricane and the growing sense of urgency tonight. lets begin with meteorologist tom sater and the cnn weather center. how is it looking? >> well, we just received the 8:0...

To get much higher goal the cloud tops. signs that we are starting to begin to see strengthening. we talk about the track of the storm and theres a center point of the lowest air pressure is it makes landfall but that is where the track is. look how far outside the track the impact of the storm will be felt, rain on parts of the panhandle of florida, storm surge across parts of mississippi into alabama. the worst of the storm surge will be right where the storm comes on shore and that likely wil...

>> we are at the top of the 7:00 hour, the bigger problem, isis k surrounding the kabul airport, we had an attack last minute the drone strike against one of their planners and for reporting run the kabul airport that another attack may be imminent, covering all aspects of the situation, we start with that. later has the details. >> the president under pressure to take action in response to that horrific attack from the 13 us service members and dozens of afghans dead. this may be part of that r...

It is now due north of the grand bahama island, abaco island. we talked about those islands, and the completion devastation they experienced from hurricane dorian. this is the latest 5:00 a.m. update. 630-mile-per-hour sustained winds. look at the thunderstorms, all the con conviction, the deep red and white. that is the cloud tops. the stronger part of the storm. the bulk of that is to the north and east. its been like that the past 24 hours. analyzing the satellite yesterday at this time, it w...

Others say if theyre afraid if they go too far away, it will be too hard to get back to their houses. what i can tell you is, thats still the case this afternoon, even as the storm moves further away. we have 110 road closures in and around the charleston area. people wanting to come back earlier, trying to assess the damage in their homes, might have a tough time getting back. >> of course, driving back to your house once the storm has passed is also dangerous with all of those floodwaters. tha...

Which is when dorian was really starting to intensify into the powerful storm that were seeing now. the cloud tops were really reaching up to our flight level at 45,000 feet. were getting some of the outflow and some turbulence up there as well. really just a powerful storm. >> reporter: nick underwood, thank you so much for what you do. the science youre helping provide is saving lives. thank you for joining us right now. >> were happy to do it and thank you, john. >> reporter: dana, you can se...

Picture. if you noticed yesterday was almost text book. you didnt need to know a lot about weather to know it was a pretty amazing image. now were starting to see the wobble a little bit. it is not quite as strong as it was. were still getting those intense thunderstorms. that is the red. weve colored the maps and the red is the highest cloud tops. thunderstorms still wrapping around, still pummelling parts of the grand bahama islands. a terrible time there. well see many more hours of that. but...

Stewed ya with the latest on the storm. >> we got the 5 a.m. advisory. its a very strong category 4 storm. last night we thought this was going to be upgraded to a cat 5 because the presentation of the satellite is incredible. its textbook. youve got a wide-open eye, all four quadrants are filled out with the higher cloud tops, the thunderstorms. a perfect-looking storm. and unfortunately its going to remain over the bahamas for days. i am really concerned with all of these beautiful beeche beac...

When we evacuate folks they say is it the wind, the speed, the water, we dont know which event its going to be but when a major storm comes one of those is going to happen if not all. heed our advice. if we say go, go. >> and as janice pointed out and local officials tell me, here theyre comparing this to matthew three years ago. it left people without power, people lost lives and there were billions of dollars of damage. at some point trouble is going to come here and people are going to have t...

Storm on all fronts for you. lets first go to our meteorologist, michelle grossman. okay. it is a category 5. what does that mean? how dangerous is it? put it in perspective for us. >> alex, this is a dangerous and dire and scary situation for the northwestern bahamas right now. now making almost as land fall. winds of 170 miles per hours. gusting near 200 miles per hour. hoping and praying that residents and tourists have taken shelter there. le lets look at this. you note how powerful this is....