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Say thats not 185 so im not leaving. it is a major hurricane, category 4. if p you are in florida and if you are in the cone, you are going to be hit by something. its that simple. this storm is so wide, there is no middle of the cone. the entire cone is -- no question about it. will get hurricane force winds from cutler ridge, all the way down to miami and the keys, from key west up to key largo i believe the center and will be very close to -- worldwide sportsman on the other side. farther dow...

The entire state of florida, let me repeat, all of florida, is within the path of this storm with evacuation orders spanning across at least 13 southern counties. >> this is a complex forecast. anybody from alabama to north carolina should be watching this storm very closely. its not a question of if florida is going to be impacted. its a question of how bad florida is going to be impacted. i can guarantee you that i dont know anybody in florida thats ever experienced whats about to hit south fl...

Well go into the keys. this would be a worse case scenario for miami and millions of people that work here because all of the storm surge, the strong winds, the heavy rainfall on the northeast side of the storm is going to pile up into miami and south florida. this is the other case scenario and that cone of uncertainty where the worst of the storm surge goes into fort lauderdale and west palm beach. i wish i could pinpoint the exact location of where the center of circulation is going to come o...

Theyve even started evacuating places in georgia like savannah. how bad are those areas going to get hit, the middle of the state, going up to jacksonvillee marta? >> that cone is a cone of uncertainty. gary left or right. the cone is not where the hurricane is covering completely. lets say -- lets assume my track is right, up the east coast of florida. you will have wind gusts over 120 miles an hour, all the way up to cape canaveral. you will have in the gusts. 100-110 miles an hour. west coast...

Lets get right, check in now with meteorologist tom sater in the cnn weather center. tom, what do you know? >> well, waiting for an update from the national hurricane center, don, at 11:00 p.m. the pressure did drop at 8:00 p.m. which mean its trying to get a little stronger. well see if the winds kick up a bit and catch up to that pressure drop. if you look closely, what were seeing right now is tremendous rainfall in haiti. parts of hispaniola, dominican republic on that southern edge. we went...

You why. go google the 1926 great miami hurricane.l go google 1935 labor day hurricane. 1947 west palm beach hurricane. hurricane don in 1960. go look at what happened. hurricane camille, 1969. it flattened those areas that were hit directly. you dont stand in the way of69 this storm. im going to tell you how bad this storm is.y i would read all the time about. storms of the past and people dont understand how bad it was in florida especially in the 1940s. i would say could not actually happen? ...

Well, guess what, its a strong category 4. its only two miles below what would be a category 5. and between where it is now, where its battering the bahamas, itll skirt along cuba and turn to the north, theres a swath of extremely warm weather anywhere from 86 to almost 90 degrees. in fact, it looks like there will be strengthening. it will make landfall sometime late saturday night, probably closer to early sunday morning, late sunday morning as a category 5 possibly in the keys. people shouldn...

Low-lying beaches. when you talk about 20 feet, much of the structure is much like you saw in barbuda would be entirely moved off their foundation. significant implications in store by this afternoon in turks and caicos and beyond that into the bahamas. notice the model still bringing that right turn in. a lot of the cone shifting to the east including florida, points to the east of florida, model-by-model breakdown. look at the high concentration of this. even potentially dodging cuba in its en...

The coming days as we roll this up into florida and possibly into the carolinas. there was a slight wobble to the right in the past hour or so. well see if that goes back to the left or not or if that is a meaningful trend. we hope so, not for the bahamas but hope it gets through and misses everything. that is not the forecast right now. category 5 running between cuba and grand bahama island. this couldnt be a worse place for it to hit florida. it will pick a huge storm surge to biscayne bay to...

The better part of two days. its been moving over warm water. the darker colors, thats even warmer temperatures. there isnt any reason fuel wise were going to see the storm weekend. finally, one last thing. yesterday irma went over the leeward islands. cat 5 hurricane. take a look at hurricane jose. its a major hurricane. that white line is what happened with irma. take a look at the cone here for jose. by saturday, we might be talking about a second major hurricane landfall on the same islands ...