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Now up to 140. this storm continues to strengthen. running over warm water. its still a long ways away from the coast. there is bermuda. south of bermuda currently, this is the paths going to take in as it moves along the path, it will continue to strengthen. will eventually be running up to maybe 150-mile-an-hour winds, getting close to there anyway. this is thursday morning. youre looking at perhaps a landfall as this gets closer to the carolina coast, thursday night into early friday morning....

Massive flooding potentially be concerned. we have fox team coverage. we have adam klotz and extreme weather sent to tracking the storms path. but first escort to steve harrigan on the ground in honolulu. reporter: molly, they were real fears here in honolulu that this could be a major storm that might make a direct hit. instead it does not seem that way at all. weve seen remarkable degradation of the storm over the past 48 hours or from a category five, major hurricane not just a tropical storm...

Tonight, steve. >> we have seen conditions dramatically change over the past several hours, the storm has weakened. structurally changed a great deal and the strength of its wind has changed, originally a category 5 hurricane, the most powerful, at this point it is a tropical storm, winds just 70 miles an hour. the real danger at this point is still from the rain. it is a rain event and that rain has proved devastating in parts of the state on the big island, some areas getting more than two fee...

We have learned that all tropical storm watches and warnings have been cancelled for hawaii but a flash flood watch does remain in effect as the storm starts to turn away from the island at a very sluggish pace, its a slow mover. steve harrigan is in honolulu this afternoon with more on that. steve, i see people -- it looks like they are at the beach? >> its been a beach yesterday and beach today despite some dire warnings and a major hurricane that looked like for a while it was going to make a...

This is become less of a wind event and more of a rain event. the rain has been pummeling the big island, about 35 miles to the east. it is hammering the east side of the big island with, at one point, 15 inches in 12 hours. that rain is expected to come this way and drench us. this storm is breaking down a bit which is good but at the same time, it is sitting here which could be bad, especially if that rain all comes ashore. those who decided to stay prepared several days ago. people were warne...

Seen this in 43 years, right, we used to run on this park as little kids and now a raging river. >> i feel like it will come more and our house will get like knocked down and stuff like that, so i just pray and stuff to not make it happen. >> meanwhile, to the west on aohu, the risens sirens sounded yesterday as precaution. the waters and rain come toward the island, the siren sounded for sometime as they checked them all throughout the island. people there are preparing for what might be coming...

>> we do get some wind gusts coming through, and the rain, we expected to get worse. more of a rain event than a wind event. thats what forecasters believe. here on maui, we know that a lot of airlines have canceled flights friday in preparation as lane comes this way. back to you, shannon. >> shannon: adam housley in hawaii. thank you. our chief meteorologist is alive in the extreme weather center. good evening, rick. >> good evening. some good news coming out of the national hurricane center. ...

>> it is going to be exciting. >> we get some wind gusts. it is more a rain event than a wind event. on maui, a lot of airlines canceled flights on friday in preparation as lane comes this way. >> live in the fox news extreme weather center tracking the hurricane tonight. >> some good news out of the national hurricane center, the forecast cohen has shifted west. maybe not having as big an impact but the rain is already having big impact on the eastern side, 19 inches of rain, incredible floodin...

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Computer model forecasts, forecasting about a half inch a day. we could get more than that easily. look at this forecast here, the next seven days. thats not good. a lot of colors indicating six to ten inches of rainfall. the cave fills with more and more water. theyre pumping out water but theyll lose the battle because how much rainfall. the other thing, this part of the world, south china sea and the western pacific, typhoon season, we dont want a tropical system to get pulled in there. we ha...