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Refuge area even if we go left or right a little bit. 100 mile per hour storm right now. a little brighter color pattern, more purple color in the center of the eye. that means the storms are higher, theyre colder, theyre the tensifying. something else ive just seen here. on the radar were seeing lightening again which means likely an intensification process going on. the track has changed slightly to the west, 20 miles or so from the last advisory at 5:00, but that puts hurricane force winds al...

This is just a very serious storm. itll be one of the very strongest storms to hit louisiana since the 1850s. >> well, lets talk about all of this with tyler mauldin. tyler, hi. just give us a sense of -- of where its heading right now. >> hurricane ida has begun its rapid intensification process, robyn. its about 185 miles to the south of houma, louisiana. about 100 miles to the south-southeast of the mouth of the mississippi river. and its heading right in that direction. sustained wind right ...

Right now. >> yes. the storm is still strengthening, though and expected to become a hurricane late today. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joins us now. where is it heading? >> its going to be eventually heading toward bermuda. in the short term the good news its heading away from the united states and the bahamas and taking the threat of gusty winds and heavy rainfall. sustained winds about 60 miles per hour. so that is an increase about the same time we were yesterday. we are seeing that in...

Becoming a major concern. the slower it moves the worse this hit could be, where is dorian right now? >> right, so its still out over the open atlantic. weve been seeing it go through an eye wall replacement cycle. weve started to see that intensification process, thus, we are now up to a category three storm, also known as a major hurricane. winds increased up to 115 miles per hour, the forward movement pretty much the same, northwest at 10 miles per hour, that is going to be one of the key thi...

Have just been ordered for parts of new orleans. our mee or tteorologist, alison chinchar is tracking the forecast for us. >> we have a lot of now up to 60 miles per hour xwusing up to 70 miles per hour. were also starting to notice the storm take much better form. this is a good indicator the storm is starting the intensification process. we also see, we have also seen an extension of the hurricane warnings to know include the city of new orleans. it also includes biloxi as well as mobile, alab...

6 and down towards crystal river look iing at 1 to 33-feet. because of these number, we have storm surge warnings out for the affected area along the gulf coast, now, nate is expected to go back out over open water in the gulf of mexico. this, that warm water thats there, will be fuel for the intensification process. but it doesnt have a ton of time to reintensify. so, heres the question. how high can it get in that short period of time? as of now, the national hurricane center expecting it to g...

This is where the intensification process will take place. the question is how much can it intensify before it ends up making landfall? at this point in time, the hurricane center believes it will likely end up being a category one storm, but some models think it could be a low end category two or its not going to be able to intensify that quickly. once it makes landfall, it will continue up over portions of the eastern u.s., bringing with it strong winds and very heavy rainfall in spots. this w...