forecast s path and strength? don, i m going to be honest with you, it is difficult to envision a labor day weekend without significant impacts along the southeast coast of the united states. sustained winds, 85 miles per hour. it is moving away from puerto rico as we speak. very quickly as well, at a northwesterly pace, about 13 miles per hour. leaving the british virgin islands and nothing between here and the southeast coast of the u.s., specifically florida between it. so there is no land interaction to help slow the storm or help disorganize this storm. so all it has is warm ocean waters to help fuel the storm. look at the projected path. this is the latest information from the national hurricane center. still a category 1 by tomorrow morning. look how that ramps up thursday evening to a category 2 to a category 3. really, all of our computer models indicating the potential exists for this storm to become even stronger and larger as it approaches the florida peninsula as we head
the president s policy moves, publicly expressing concerns about the state of america s strategic alliances around the world and the state of our democracy? we re going to get to all of that in a moment, but we re going to begin with the new forecast out for hurricane dorian. it is getting stronger. our meteorologist derek van dam is at the cnn weather center with the very latest. the forecast just came out. what do you know about the forecast s path and strength? don, i m going to be honest with you, it is difficult to envision a labor day weekend without significant impacts along the southeast coast of the united states. sustained winds, 85 miles per hour. it is moving away from puerto rico as we speak. very quickly as well, at a northwesterly pace, about 13 miles per hour. leaving the british virgin islands and nothing between here and the southeast coast of the u.s., specifically florida between it. so there is no land interaction to help slow the storm or help