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It looks like a beast of a storm. the key is, its 550 miles away from florida right now. we dont mind if its a big huge storm over the open waters. we would like it to weaken from here on out because its going to get very close to the northern portions of the bahamas, especially freeport area. looks like nassau will be further south, just a glancing blow. for the northern islands, sunday night through monday morning and monday during the day, theres a chance it could stall here for maybe 24 to 3...

This from miami beach all the way to the east coast, and there is a change in the mood. people are sort of relaxing a little bit with a change in the forecast, but thats exactly what authorities dont want to see. we heard governor desantis say any bump to the east could potentially put a lot of these communities back at risk. as you mentioned, many of these beachside cities, communities along the east coast of florida are still in the crosshairs, still in that cone of uncertainty. here in del ra...

>> we are. all about the preparations right now. hows it going? ly. >> alex, this has been such an unpredictable storm. ive been covering it on the ground since puerto rico. here on delray beach, 60 miles south of west palm beach, it is still an all hands on deck situation. t they were offering free tarps and sandbags yesterday. it all ran out pretty quickly. you can see the line of cars waiting for these sandbags, because right now dellray sits in the cone of uncertainty, and as michelle explai...

Open to take in some thousands and thousands of people as we spin around you see the latest statistics we have from dorian. you can see hurricane dorian, category 4 storm, located right now about 205 miles near the great abaco key in bahamas itself. bill? >> yeah, were just getting in some of the new information from our computer models, we get these in randomly. the big ones we watch for, is the european model or american models, we get our spaghetti lines. this is the 11:00 advisory, well wait...

More. we take these month els, we call them the operational models, we tweak them a little bit. maybe we make the high pressure system a little stronger or weaker. we come up with the american model, 26 different options off of this, with the european, 51 different options. its a little more confusing, thats what the hurricane center is doing. >> all week long ive been hearing reports historically, that the european model has been corrected. i believe the european models had it going into the gu...

With sustained winds of 140 miles per hour. it does hug the coast here. the storm surge really going to be a problem. with the latest change here. now were adding on three to potentially four more states. georgia, even atlanta youre going to see some of the leftovers of this storm system. but still, now potential landfall of a category 2, out towards the coastal areas of south carolina. we will have north carolina, the outer banks into wilmington, also in the mix of this. our models are now star...

The cone. what about the intensity for them, the warm water of the gulfstream, it wont be stalling out and churning up the water underneath it. what are the rains they could be looking at? >> if you keep it over the open water a little longer, youll have more time over that warm water to stay stronger. a little more influence on the coast it could be weaker. its interesting how that intensity could be impacted by where the track is. either way, youre talking a major hurricane off the georgia coa...

Now were down to about 8 miles per hour, this is going to continue to slow down and eventually stall about 36 to 48 hours from now, thats whats going to spare florida from getting a direct hit. it doesnt look like its going to get pushed hard up to the west to get in there. i zoomed in here. it looked like something from lord of the rings, this is the eye of the storm. you can see how wide the eye, you can see how symmetrical. all these ripples around the center of the eye. these are the thunder...

You will feel the effects here, and that storm surge is going to come in and impact buildings, roads and businesses. i want to turn now to the del ray beach city manager. can you tell me what were seeing behind us in terms of preparedness? >> yes, good afternoon, we have one of our lifeguard towers that has been secured in place, those anchor points. theres four anchor points per tower. theyre eight foot into the ground and we have it strapped down so when the storm surge comes and the heavy win...

Out in the ocean. its bad for the cruise lines and whatever else but it spares us a billion-dollar weather disaster. thats what were hoping for and we still have a chance of that happening. the latest from the weather center, category 4, looks extremely impressive on satellite imagery. we have a lot of opportunity for changes with the path. lets get you to the latest path from the hurricane center. yesterday at this time we had the storm coming in just north of west palm beach, up through centra...