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Let me get to the beginning. wind moving north northwest at 16 miles per hour. the center of the storm, very close to the british virgin islands. back toward the u.s. virgin islands and thats the area that will have the 185 mile per hour winds. lets get to the change. you talked about it a little bit earlier today. about 20 miles farther west than where we are now. what do i tell you every single time? dont focus on the middle of the cone. the entire cone has shifted 20 miles to the east. maybe ...

Ignore this category 5, this just came out. 160-mile-per-hour winds once again. so it did intensify a little bit. it was 155. its moving to the west at 13. that takes it over land and into cuba for the next 12 to 18 hours, and the hope is that this will weaken the storm in the core, at cubas expense. the immediate thing you notice is miami is no longer in the cone of uncertainty. west palm beach youre out of it, too. we have eliminated the worst case scenario in miami and ft. lauderdale. it does...

Down to a category four. thats good, we want a weaker storm but if it does the eye wall cycle, it can regenerate before it gets to the coast. it could easily be a five at landfall. here is a clear picture of the zoomed in eye. this is crooked island here in the southern bahamas. lets get to the all-important pass of the storm. this is the critical time here, 2 a.m. sunday. you notice the cone, still a very slim chance it misses to the east and to the west. florida is right in the direct center o...

Orlando could get 90 mi mirm-mile-per-homir -mile-per-hour gusts. i was in land when charlie went through with 90-mile-per-hour winds. trees were down, power out. its really whos going to get devastated the worst and may not have homes to return home to. >> bill, explain how hitting landfall in cuba might take some of the punch out of this. >> ill go back over here. cuba, especially eastern cuba, has some pretty tall, big mountains. it looks like it avoided the big huge mountains. mountains are ...

Thats life threatening. look at this. this building is about ten feet high. the surge could be twice this height. you dont want to be anywhere near here when that passes through. hallie? >> rehema, stay safe. we will be thinking of you and checking back in later on in the day. i want to head now to the gulf coast of florida where we find kristen dahlgren. the gulf coast also bracing for flooding now from the storm surge, right? >> right, hallie. yeah. the storm surge here based on the latest m...

So we will have to watch this. it is splitting hairs at this point. we are still going to be dealing with a major hurricane across south florida. this is the scenario that we are looking at right now without push a little bit towards the west. so the worst of the storm surge, the worst of the winds will be coming on the right side of the storm. so the key is, marathon, key largo, taking the worst of this. if it moves a little bit towards the east, the center of the cone coming on short and south...

They might have to help themselves. shepard: steve harrigan y with us in naples. live now in the extreme whether centers. three or four days ago you wouldve thought miami now it looks like marco island and naples. reporter: the national weather center has done a good job with the cone of uncertainty because it did show the west side of florida. the center were showing potential south florida landfall. i would say 50, 60 miles from the center offshore from what we were pretty dean is pretty good ...

Food, fuel, store shelves empty there. having of course, just witnessed the destruction of hurricane harvey in texas. the first hurricane watches and warnings are in effect tonight. chief meteorologist ginger zee has been tracking this all afternoon with us in the news room. where is irma right now? >> reporter: less than 500 miles east of the leeward islands, david. i can take you to the maps and you can see that thing. the eye so distinct. this thing looks scary. we have time before it even hi...

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