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Hilton head and the buford area. heres the new update from the hurricane center. were at 75 miles per hour. were at the weakest we possibly can be for a category 1 hurricane. and after this it will drop down to a tropical storm. its still accelerating to the northeast at 20 miles per hour. and is now getting very close to the macon area. and eventually by tomorrow morning it will be near augusta. and its still a very big large rain shield with this. heres the new forecast path. again, were not e...

Hurricane force winds in geor a georgia. it is really important. it will still produce those hurricane force winds into georgia. not just the damage winds along the coast. you saw how large the rain shield is. youll get the winds inland. the idea its going go into central georgia. well still see high winds. at what point does it stop worrying you. at some point it becomes a normal stand that a normal city is handle. >> at that point it does. one of the worries that i have is once you get inland,...

Around counterclockwise with the storm. it seems to remain a constant as the storm moves up. why is that? >> the thunderstorms that are regenerating themselves. normally, if you get a storm that is a cat 4 or cat 5, kit are the ring around it. but what were having is were having a sheer. so what shear is fast upper-level winds that destroy and eat away thunderstorms. thats happening. and also there is dry air. so we get these thunderstorms that are forming, popping up into the atmosphere. and th...

Radar composite. and the white shows you the cloud cover shield, which still goes from cuba all the way to clouds now. if you walk outside in north carolina and look up in the sky, those are the clouds from irma far to your south. the green shows you the rain shield. all the way now approaching central sections of georgia and south carolina. and we still have rain bands down there in the florida straits. i can estimate it would take me about 15 hours to drive that far, to go all the way through ...

Stronger winds down to the surface and that is really the concern and will it make its way and curve more toward you, anderson? we do believe so, and of course, its got to make that turn again in the next couple of hours. >> and you talk about the breakdown of the eye. just explain the significance of that because it is now a cat 2. i assume it will be weakening which is good news for anybody in its path in the hours ahead. >> it is. when you lose that eye it starts to kind of become an entire r...

And moving up towards shreveport eventually headed up towards the tennessee river valley in the next couple days. its not going to be at tropical storm intensity but will have the rain shield associated with it. as we head towards the weekend memphis and nashville, eventually louisville, don, it looks like they see the remnants of what has been this horrible harvey that has just inundated houston, in some cases almost 50 inches of rainfall. >> wow. and i know you said it. you said the second lan...

Louisiana and texas where staggering rain fall totals, maybe not 40 and 50 inch in houston and galveston but certainly right around a yard of precipitation, 30 to 36 inches in places like beaumont, mcfadden. technically the center of tropical storm harvey is off shore but creating swells all the way around galveston bay over towards new orleans but this is going to make a second land fall. tropical storm harvey probably between 5:00 and 7:00 a.m. local time is expected to cross the coast line in...

I want to go now to bill karins. let me pick up where the deputy sheriff left off. theyre hoping and praying this tropical storm moves out so they wont get more of the torrential rain that stephanie gosk ref rensed. how much longer do they have to hold out? >> not much longer. heres the beaumont area. houston cleared out last night. no rain whatsoever on the way to beaumont. this is the last bands. the center of the storm now starting to move up here north of lake charles and eventually this aft...

And looking at this radar, i was floored by just how broad this rain shield is. extending all the way towards san antonio and austin, edging toward dallas, extending toward galveston into louisiana. a huge broad deep tropical moisture laden area. the ground is saturated. the more the rain comes in, and there will be plenty more associated with this, and the ground is saturated, the bayous are filling up, we have looked at some of these reports and we may even blow away by feet what some of these...

Made landfall around 10:00 p.m. local time. north of the airport in corpus christi, the corpus christi airport is closed. the victoria airport is closed. still has a clearly defined eye. still a broad shield of rainfall. but its just not going to be moving very far or very fast. and i have made this point before, cant emphasize it enough. we go from laredo to san antonio to austin. pretty much that rain shield is going to be to the east of that interstate. not exclusively. but this is where were...