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It has nothing to run into. there is no land interaction to shred the storm. its over the open waters, the warm september waters giving it the fuel to help it blossom. and then take a look at what happens between saturday and sunday. this is new as of that latest advisory, a category 4 storm. and we expect it to stay a category 4 storm before it makes landfall in florida. lets pay attention to the bahamas. we anticipate a hurricane watch issued later tonight, early friday morning. well keep you ...

Days out, we have something here. that means you should be making your plans for a couple of days from now when we can pinpoint where this is going to go. people can put the plans in place. shep? >> shepard: sounded like your teams hope yesterday was well, from an american perspective is the mountains in the dominican republic would break this up. >> or puerto rico. that would have been much better. it didnt happen. going right over the bbis, those are not enough mountains or land mass to disrup...

Conditions will continue to deteriorate throughout the day tomorrow. especially into the afternoon. as this gets closer and expected to make landfall on puerto rico by the time we get -- get into tomorrow evening. we have hurricane watches in place around puerto rico and is pan yoela and it is interesting to see the interaction with puerto rico as we get into tomorrow it will have earlier landfall previously thinking around 8:00 p.m., now it is being pushed up to around 2:00 p.m. so of course no...

Them with both parents killed. thank you, athena, i appreciate it. now to another developing story were watching. a dangerous storm is bearing down on the united states. florida is bracing tonight for hurricane michael, a major storm that could make landfall as a category 3, powerful category 3 very soon. outfront now is jennifer gray in the cnn weather center. jennifer, where and when are you looking for this to hit? >> this is looking to make landfall along the panhandle on wednesday, possib...

To expect on the northern gulf coast. right now tropical depression 16. not upgraded to tropical storm nate. not organized enough. no central core. need the thunderstorm to be wrapped around the center to get that core to start to become a stronger storm. right now thats not happening. all the thunderstorms are well away from the center. as long as that continues, stay a weaker storm. thats great. want it to stay weak. 35-mile-per-hour winds. right along the coast of nicaragua. because of land i...

Starting to get back together. it had weak owned over northern cuba. that land interaction temporarily setback the hurricane. now that its over the florida straits, this water is bath water felt even hotter than that. 90 degree water temperatures here. unfortunately our worst fears are starting to come through with this storm system regenerating itself. its not even to the keys yet. so this outer eyewall still has to come a shore before things get better there. thats going to be a couple more ho...

Out the possibility that it gets there again. because there is a lot of very warm water ahead of it. in some cases 90-degree temperatures in front of the storm with not a lot of land interaction. as we go into saturday and sunday, were thinking landfall saturday, sunday night or rather saturday night into sunday. and ace mentioned, these are the two reliable forecast models. both of them coming into very good agreement that the center of this storm is going to come on top of south florida and sc...

Certainly the eye wall makes landfall sometime saturday into sunday across south florida. sea surface temperatures i want to make mention of this because we have seen a little bit of weakening. we still have very warm water ahead. close to 90 degrees with not a lot of land interaction, so there is the potential for this to be upgraded again to a cat 5. cat 4, cat 5 doesnt matter. its going to make a huge impact on south florida and the keys. the models in good agreement right now. saturday night...

The possibility of landfall as early as this weekend but temperatures very warm ahead of the storm, not a lot of land interaction and the storm certainly has the capability of strengthening further. heres the steering pattern, the bermuda high helping move the storm westward. we have a trough and whether or not the storm interact with the trough pushes it more northward is yet to be determined but again not to pay attention to the center of this code that anywhere within the cohen of uncertainty...

Barely hits western haiti. close enough to cause significant devastation to western haiti, but not enough land interaction to break this thing apart. then it moved into cuba, which is a little more mountainous. because of the mountains of cuba, after it moved through eastern cuba, it went from a category 4. thats what caused it to weaken to a category 3. it did not have a lot of interaction with land, at least the eye of the storm did not as it moved through the bahamas. it threaded its way thro...