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Now the center of the cone is more, lets say, right up the mississippi river. so, that makes it right over the oil field, right over the oil spill, the center of the cone is right over the oil spill. now, let me just say -- anderson, just take a look at this. i know you can see it in your field here. here are some squalls just coming in to south florida. this storm is still way down there. it still has a long way to go before it even gets across florida, which will be tomorrow. then into the gul...

Ships and rigs have been ordered to be moved. where is it going, chad? >> 50 miles farther to the right than the advisory we had at 5:00. that means probably not new liberia, but landfall close to new grand isle. that said, were hours and hours away from that. the cone goes from mississippi all the way over to galveston. this thing is in the bahamas. it should be up there near the convection. its not. a lot of the convection or thunderstorm activity is to the north of where the center is. does i...

Into the gulf of mexico. as that storm continues into the gulf of mexico. the forecast is still for it to get a little bit stronger. it is not a very organized storm, because look at this. i know its hard to see, but does this not look like another storm out here? well, it does. you see that circulation? thats an upper level circulation that is shearing this bonnie storm kind of apart. its too much pull. theres too much wind going on. bonnie wants to be all by herself. they dont like to be aroun...

Make tabasco, back out to the western side of louisiana. now the center of the cone is more, lets say, right up the mississippi river. so, that makes it right over the oil field, right over the oil spill, the center of the cone is right over the oil spill. now, let me just say -- anderson, just take a look at this. i know you can see it in your field here. here are some squalls just coming in to south florida. this storm is still way down there. it still has a long way to go before it even gets ...

Where is it going, chad? >> 50 miles farther to the right than the advisory we had at 5:00. that means probably not new liberia, but landfall close to new grand isle. that said, were hours and hours away from that. the cone goes from mississippi all the way over to galveston. this thing is in the bahamas. it should be up there near the convection. its not. a lot of the convection or thunderstorm activity is to the north of where the center is. does it matter? no, not really. its not very organiz...

Compromise the structure. we expect the storm chugs its way more to the west and then into the northwest, it is going to be moving into an area of where you have minimal shear. and very warm water. there is a chance the storm may strengthen. in fact, you take a look at this, enlarge this one. as we do so, you will notice the forecast of the national hurricane center shows that very thing happening. winds going from 40 to 45. gusts up to 60. winds of 50 miles per hour, going to 65. about the same...

Well check in with chad myers. you just got the official word from the national hurricane center. where is it going? >> 50 miles farther to the right than the advisory we had at 5:00. that means probably not new liberia, but landfall close to new grand isle. that said, were hours and hours away from that. the cone goes from mississippi all the way over to galveston. this thing is in the bahamas. its right about there. i know it looks like it should be up there, near the convection, but its not. ...

Go as wide. so the cone would continue to go out that way and continue to get bigger that way. but now that we know its probably going to be a louisiana landfall. but fred, right over the oil field and right over all of that what we call the slick. although a lot of people out there are saying we cant find anymore slicks. so the skimmer versus have been out there working, churning, but i think there will probably be some oil into parts of the bayou where it didnt happen before. >> interesting ti...

Shear. you cannot put that kind of shear when you have individual thunderstorms trying to rotate around each other because they start banging into each other. they dont make the nice symmetrical storm. and this shear is killing that storm. wont allow it to do what its trying to do, which is become one big giant monster. it just cant get it. look at this cone, akd be all the way to mobile, over to biloxi and even into beaumont. but probably somewhere with a louisiana landfall tomorrow night proba...

So we will -- well see this whole thing move to the northwest for the rest of the day. it will be all the way into the gulf of mexico tonight, and i think its even picked up speed, and so what looked like about a 2:00 p.m. landfall on sunday, now looks probably like thats not likely. it might be some place like a midnight saturday night landfall. and landfall is a relative term when you get landfall in louisiana, because a lot of it is bayou. you cant really tell where land starts and swamp ends...