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Pick up speed as it heads toward te u.s.? lets get straight to cnns chad myers with a new forecast. >> brand new, fred. up to a 70-mile-per-hour storm. hurricane hunters are flying through it. they found a flight level wind at 10,000 feet of 82 miles per hour. that doesnt translate to the surface, but winds at the surface are gaining strength. the pressure is going down, so thats the 11:00 advisory. but thats not the only change in the 11:00 advisory. to hit at about 8:00 tonight as a hurricane,...

Area forecast to take the hardest hit. we have live coverage from destin and apalachicola on the panhandle, and from the weather center where we start with chad myers. good morning. what is on the way? >> good morning, dave. 140 mile-per-hour storm with higher gusts right now. flight-level gusts at 159 miles per hour. no one lives at flight level but the brave men and women in these planes deserve credit from all of us to tell us whats going on. theyve been bringing updates all night long, and t...

Utilities to get plenty of people in here to get the power back on as quickly as they can. >> reporter: thank you for joining us. we know you are holding a briefing at 8:00 a.m. eastern time, and thank you for your time. >> be safe, john. >> reporter: a few things the governor just said there that bear repeating. number one, if you are in your house, stay there. the time to evacuate, he says, has come and gone. the time to take refuge is now. be aware, first responders cant get to you. you are o...

Flat and very, very shallow and its going to go way inland. i am very concerned about people that have chose not to evacuate. we will do everything we can to help people. we have a great search and rescue team and we have our national guard deployed and we will do everything we can to help people, but during the storm nobody can help you. >> reporter: again, its a dire and sobering message. to give you an update on news we received, the aircraft blocked winds at 150 miles per hour, and thats at ...

This storm a little, its rubbing right along the coast of cuba, that is a little bit of a disruptive factor but its still quite the storm. >> if it wasnt rubbing on the coast, out to sea would be stronger, right? more intense? >> theres every reason it would be? its getting a good source of warm water right now, very low sheer. beautiful ray v radar structure if you like that thing but its not beautiful as far as what is ahead for florida. >> what type of data are you collecting right now and ho...

Cairo. if there was possibly a tail malfunction this time mid-flight, could it cause a debris field like the one were seeing? >> well, it could if the tail -- if a significant part of the tail came off or they had a rapid decompression at that flight level at 30,000 feet. and you would expect to see the plane come down in two distinct debris areas, which is the debris field that they have. and so that could explain it. people are going to be very skeptical of that because this plane should have ...

The area. >> thank you so much for weighing in, former british senior military office, michael kay. right now, well turn to ron mott. monitoring the situation from london. ron, what have you learned? >> good morning, again, dara. well, im looking at the flight returns, the radar returns and it would indicate to me as a pilot that before this plane lost its radar signal that there was some oscillating of the aircraft where it was doing one of these up in the air at flight level 27, up to flight...

Militants led by an affiliate of isis. now, i dont want to inflate concern. i dont want to exaggerate what might have happened. but could there be a correlation here? >> there could be. im inclined not to think that right now. but its still a course of action that we must consider. and i think that lufthansa and air france are bei in ing very prudent on what theyre doing. >> there have been persistent media reports that this islamic group, again, led by an affiliate of isis has been able to obta...

Lufthansa and air trafrance hav decided not to send them over the sinai peninsula. the investigation will be an international investigation. officials from france, officials from russia, officials from egypt and germany as well, the aircraft maker, the engine makers are all going to get together and piece together what happened here. but it appears that this plane had a normal takeoff and had reached altitude in the midlevel flight level, 35,000 feet and something went wrong and it will be a mat...

Ground. the plane split upon impact and according to reuters there are possible survivors of the crash. 224 people on board this aircraft, 217 of them passengers. the seven crew members also aboard and as this plane was heading to the st. petersburg, russia, we believe most if not all were vacationers who were going home from a vacation there in the resort city of sharm el sheikh when they crashed 23 minutes after takeoff. listening to your guests talk about the stall, im a pilot and i can tell ...