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Is strengthening. so as that pressure drops, the hurricanes gonna start to strengthen and we are going to begin to see those winds shoot up here in the coming hours. so its begun its strengthening process. national hurricane center expects this bad boy to rapidly inte intensify in the hours to come before it makes landfall in southeastern louisiana. its going to rapidly intensify into a category 4 hurricane with 130 -- 130-mile-per-hour sustained winds. gusts as high as 150 and it will make land...

A lot of detail. you see shadows, ridges of thunderstorms but the well defined eye. moments ago the latest advisory has come in and what we know is the pressure is dropping. that means its getting stronger. once the pressure drops, it takes a while for the winds to react and they pick up in their intensity. weve jumped from 100-mile-per-hour sustained winds to 105. this environment is conducive for it to blow up even more. typically these storms will fight off some dry air. a lot of times youll ...

Tom, whats the latest forecast? this thing is strengthening, no doubt about it? >> no doubt about it, jim. what weve been watching is a well-defined eye popping up. inside the eye, columns of warm air are shooting up and cooling at the top. we got a lot of lightning activity, so its strengthening. well get a 5:00 p.m. update from the national weather service, but well see the pressure drop. when the pressure drops, the winds respond and they really pick up. so, again, were at 100-mile-an-hour su...

A pressure drops, the storm gets stronger and once that pressure drops, the winds pick up. we just seen a 20 milibar drop. thats the greatest drop of pressure between one advisory and the next since the birth of dorian. at this time last night, it was a category one expecting at 11:00 p.m. last night to become a two and did. last night it was a three and were all most at cat four now. that pressure dropped, increased winds to 125 miles per hour. thats only five miles per hour away from category ...

>> the time to act is now. if you havent acted, act to make preparations. do not wait until its too late. if you prepared and then dont end up getting affected, no harm no foul. if you dont prepare, that may be something difficult to recover from. >> dana: rick leventhal is at the hurricane center. >> reporter: i think a lot of florida will be impacted by this. its looking like it will be moving slowly. that means a lot of people getting a lot of rain. talking about a pretty widespread flooding ...

Continental divide. >> how does a storm like this get so strong? >> a classic noreaster. i know, yesterday, you were talking about the term has been going around, about this bomb cyclone. all that really means is that when the storm system develops and the pressure drops, the storm gets stronger. the difference between the temperatures on the land and of course, the warmer waters of the atlantic create this extreme strengthening. the jet stream is the highway the storm will take. thank goodness ...

Philadelphia, 3 to 6. new york city, 4 to 8. and boston, 10 to 15. the bigger problem, i think, will be the cold that follows. if we have power outages to thousands, anderson, it could be days before its restored. and the temperatures are going to be extremely cold. in fact, colder than weve seen the last 11 days, east of the continental divide. >> how does a storm like this get so strong? >> a classic noreaster. i know, yesterday, you were talking about the term has been going around, about thi...

Airlines industry has been changing. how customers fly. many of the changes are not good. here to give us some perspective is greg gutfeld and bernard mcguirk. gutfeld when i was your age, all of those airlines, twa. you went to the plane and it was nice and food was good hospitality. now, its change gutfeld. >> were packed like shark teeth. flying is not part of our evolutionary tool kit. 35,000 feet in the air. the pressure drops, air must expand to fill the space. this s is a huge problem for...

>> bill: for years, the american airline industry has been changing how customers fly. any of the changes are not good. here to give us some perspective. when i was your age, all those airlines. twa. went to the plane and it was nice, and the food was good and the hospitality. now its changed. >> were packed like shark teeth and there. but we have to understand, flying is not part of our evolutionary toolkit. were in a silver tube 35,000 feet in the air, the pressure drops, air must expand to fi...

but i can not. are you ready? states of hnemergency are in if effect from north carolina all the way to connecticut. it could be a very rough weekend. so lets head right to atlanta and check in with jackqui jeras. >> once again its a little later than usual, so im scrambling to get it all out to you. hurricane watches now posted from the north carolina/virginia border to sandy hook, new jersey. so that includes delaware bay, chesapeake bay. we also have hurricane warnings in effect fro...