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Well. were also, you know, special operations guys. we can do anything. >> the two plan to hike mt. whitney on veterans, the tallest mountain in california. >> and theyll make it. theyre lifting each other to the top there. that is wonderful. puerto rico bracing for a direct hit from dorian. newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. im jim sciutto in new york. poppy harlow is off today. tropical storm dorian is intensifying this hour and now just hours away from hitting puerto rico. ac...

Once we found it, it was farther to the north. so once you have a center found, then you base the track on that, and so the track has moved, away pretty much from what was a couple of days ago, hispaniola, hoping the mountains would break it down. and then towards the mona pass in between puerto rico and the dominican republic and kept moving to the east. then we thought the landfall would be on puerto rico, an hour and a half ago, the center was over saint thomas. currently, the center is 60 mi...

Years on. >> yeah, a lot of folks are still shell shocked. theyre reeling from there. theres 30,000 homes with blue tarps on the roofs. theyre vulnerable if this storm is as bad as it might be, 4-6 inches of rain, possible flash flooding and mudslides. the government opened 260 shelters and encouraging people in damaged homes to go to the shelters to ride out the storm. but as you said, no one knows how bad it will be, if its going to turn again. originally it was supposed to go well to the west...

Hurricane watch is in effect a state of emergency declared, and there are concerns about life-threatening flash flooding as the storm churns through the caribbean. florida is also in its path. al roker is tracking it for us al, whats the latest forecast >> latest from the national hurricane center, kate, its got 50 mile per hour winds its moving west northwest at 13 miles per hour the track of the storm brings it across puerto rico in the next 24 hours, and continues. it may weaken, but continui...

That. >> reporter: flying over the island today, we could still see blue tarps covering many roofs. were in southern puerto rico right in dorians path. were told there are 26,000 homes just like this one with a blue tarp acting as a roof. we were invited inside one of those homes. and if you come this way, youll see what it looks like now. take a look there. when it rains, what does it look like? >> they coming a lot of water. >> reporter: a lot of water comes in. >> a lot of water comes in. >> ...

Category three storm at 115 miles per hour winds. those are sustained winds. were going to see gusts higher than that. well see live-threatening flash flooding especially in puerto rico. we have a drought situation in a lot of puerto rico, but we also have some land that doesnt have a lot of vegetation so we could see mudslides as well. as this approaches the eastern coast of florida, we are anticipating category 3. anywhere from central to northern florida. but i wouldnt be surprised if we even...

And we will watch this over the next several days. but this is the thought pattern right now. we are thinking anywhere from southern florida up to southern georgia, even into the carolinas. in addition to that, we do have a new moon. we have a high tide that will hit friday. so thats going to be a double whammy in addition to the category 3 storm coming nrk we have lots of rain. we could see some flash flooding anywhere from 2 to 4 to 6 inches of rain up to 10 inches of rain in isolation along w...

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