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Theyve seen hurricanes the last couple of years. you see all of that rain battering south florida, getting into tonight, into saturday morning, and thats where most of the rain is going to be. maybe as much as 6 to 8 inches. its going to be a slow one, guys. as i head back over towards you, a rain maker. thats the big story with this one. the winds arent going to be the story, not as much, not the storm surge but really just a soggy couple of days. carley: what about key west this weekend. produ...

Some of the folks in the pacific northwest are typically used to this type of tonight in august, that is true for some folks, but for a lot of them in the pacific northwest, they have never been this hot. tomorrow portland will be 20° cooler, but that is still 94°, 95°. washington could see 119°, and that would be the hottest temperature the state of washington ever recorded. there is a big heat zone over the pacific northwest. but it is also all the way over to the east coast. philadelphia ...

For rain to continue to be picked up in the ocean and dropped along the carolina coast. could turn out to be big numbers. this is one potential model here. what could happen that would be good is that this stalled a little bit out to sea. some of the heaviest rain to fall offcoast. if it moves inland youre talking several feet of rain, 30, 40 inches in some locations. thats still possible at this point. widespread were looking at getting anywhere 6 to 12 inches of rain across the entire state of...

Jacksonville beach area and it took a right-hand turn and went north. the problem is when it went north it lost a little power but stalled over the carolinas and it was a rain maker of historic proportions in north carolina. and some of the projections suggest it could happen again. if you get a stall of this magnitude. 40 inches of rain. >> sandra: expected to make landfall early friday. that is a big storm, bill hemmer. evacuate. >> bill: well tell you what you need to know and well get update...

The carolinas, targeting an area from charleston up to myrtle beach, perhaps up to the north carolina border. thats where a lot of the models suggesting this will go. it is going to be perhaps a major rain maker. as we bring this on-shore, this is a huge area where perhaps youre running into the care lie carolinas, up to virginia, over a foot of rainfall once it makes landfamiliar this is a little ways away but its a major storm. heres the track one last time. category 3, category 4 storm, not u...

Stronger than it is. winds 45 miles per hour as it moves back out over the gulf of mexico eventually running along the northern gulf coast there. also as a tropical storm. we arent expecting it to become a hurricane. winds will be around 45 miles per hour. it will be a rain maker for a lot of these areas and will continue to be. so the motions -- the potential tracks of this, these are spaghetti plots. you do see pretty much in line with this moving across the gulf of mexico, running there close...

Down to southern florida, and as we go through the next couple of days, this will be the bulls-eye for all the rain. were looking at a lot of rain right now. look at the onshore flow. the darker colors is indicating the heaviest rain. very heavy rain down through the keys. so not a great spot today. that will be the case throughout the day, before it moves off to the west here. as we go throughout tuesday, were looking at anywhere from 4 up to 6 inches of rain. even up to 8 in some spots. this i...

Closer to the islands, but how the we see it shifting to the west -- but now we see it shifting to the west at 7 miles-an-hour. that means it is leaving the islands and will continue to do so. there are still spots among the island chain particularly the big island where you continue to see showers. as it moves farther west, that does mean we will clear off probably later tomorrow with all the rain. heres a look at how that is going to move. away from the islands. as it moves it continues to wea...

Forecast models, each one a possible track. some turning out earlier and others landfall before turning out. whether we hit or not it will be a huge rain maker and the big island from 15 to 20 inches of rain in some spots. it will be a problem whether it makes landfall or not. >> sandra: now lets go to live to adam housley live on the ground in maui. adam. >> you heard from adam what the storm is doing. we just got a report in hawaii talking about that wind sheer. two things, one preparation and...

See right through portions of florida and you get these yellow and orange colors thats suggesting anywhere from 5 to 6 inches of rain, enough to cause flooding, widespread across the entire southeast at least a couple of inches of rain and then where you talk about this making landfall, perhaps there getting up to 10 inches of rain in isolated areas maybe even more. this could be a real rain maker. thats going to be the biggest concern with this particular system. again, as of right now, complet...