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Care of families and loved ones making sure theyre ready for the storm. >> that big piece of equipment, the launcher, thats huge. describe some of the challenges of moving something like that, and how vulnerable is that in a hurricane? >> well, our engineers tell us the moberly launcher can take winds up to 110-mile-per-hour. but when dorian started getting over that we decided, you know, its best if we have is it inside. he dont want to test it. its 400 feet tall. when you talk about the challe...

People in florida. does that change anything in terms of your preparations for the storm? >> no, ana, it does not. we met with our forecaster here at the kennedy space center early this morning. and its been determined we are going to have potentially still hurricane force winds here at the kennedy space center as this storm comes by. so we want to make sure were all buttoned up. bethe operation yesterday to move a very valuable piece of equipment, that mobile launcher that you mentioned, which ...

There along the east coast will still feel the winds and the rains and the storm surge, no. >> no question about it. 20 inches of rain easy. because it sits over water and uses the water to make its energy and make it rain and rain and rain on shore. then wind even at 6 oh-mile-per-hour. imagine 30 hours of win on shore in west palm or port st. lucy. that would push water into the back bays and into the inner coastal. water could go up eight feet even without landfall. >> so important for everyb...

That everything is stable and steady as she goes. it only goes 1-mile-per-hour. for good reason you wouldnt want it to sway back and forth in movement like that. >> no doubt. fascinating. you sent us a picture of door yaen yan taken from the space station. its an amazing picture. tell us about it. >> yeah, thats awesome. thats from our cameras at the international space station. and you know we go around the earth every 90 minutes. and so when we got over the top of dorians location we fired up ...

They are serious about, the balms for sure. does it make landfall in the u.s.? we dont think it will. but its too close to call really. you cant let your guard down. its too big. >> and weve seen it change course a few times in the last 24 hours or at least past couple of days. so could get again. thank you very much chad. >> you bet. >> dorian is already drawing comparisons to mushing matthew, the 2016 hurricane that took a long slow ride up the florida, georgia and south carolina coastlines. m...

Southeast. most models put landfall if it happens between central florida and the carolinas. cnns chad myers is back with us from the severe weather center. chad, where is this hurricane now? and just how fast is it moving. >> moving about 8 to 9-mile-per-hour. and 380 miles from west balm beach. although its not heading to west balm beach because its going to turn. just so you have a reference for distance. it is a day and a half away from the bahamas. and this is the time that the bahamas are ...

5 hurricane. you combine that with king tides. thats actually an abnormally high tide for this time of year. literally the moon is rotating around the earth at its closest point. and its exaggerating the tidal swings on the ocean. you combine the two variables, and we put communities on the coastline at risk to coastal erosion. you can see this home behind me here in hutchison island has been susceptible to coastal erosion. there is beach erosion behind it. as we the storm draw near the storm it...

Process. forensic meteorology, they have to get in there and see how a structure is built before they can determine how it was ripped apart. i went out with tim marshal, considered to be the rock star of this type of work. he helped develop the enhanced fujita scale, the scale we use today. he doesnt have official word of what this tornado was which came from mississippi, through tuscaloosa, and headed into north georgia. likely an ef-3 if not ef-4. there is an ef-5 with winds of 200 miles an ho...

Hes joins us from tuscaloosa. you spent the day with the national weather service trying to determine tornado strength. what did you learn? >> reporter: well, i learned that its a slow and arduous process. forensic meteorology, they have to get in there and see how a structure is built before they can determine how it was ripped apart. i went out with tim marshal, considered to be the rock star of this type of work. he helped develop the enhanced fujita scale, the scale we use today. he doesnt h...

Of this field of work. hes a structural engineer and tornado expert at the same time. he helped develop the enhanced fujita scale, the scale we use today. he doesnt have official word of what this tornado was which came from mississippi, through tuscaloosa, just barely missed birmingham and headed into north georgia. likely an ef-3 if not ef-4. we have determined there is an ef-5 with winds of 200 miles an hour across smithfield, mississippi. so its been quite an outbreak with so many large, pow...