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What are you seeing? whats the latest on the path of this now-hurricane, category 1 hurricane? >> its moving west-northwesterly. a little bit more after westerly turn could be expected. that makes it more likely that were going to be seeing a north mexico landfall. but even if we see that, keep in mind it is that right front quadrant as we call it of the hurricane that causes the worst damage and some of the strongest of winds. we could see some of that on south padre island as well as the brown...

If they get up to 40-mile-an-hour gusts in the area where theyre doing this oil clean-up and the work out there, they would have to evacuate. lets talk wind first and then well talk was. will they get anything possibly? any chance were going to get up to 40 miles an hour? >> in a squall, without a doubt, yes. i know we focus on where it is and where its going. but these outer feeder bands away from the storm itself -- even if its a gust of 30 -- let me find the other map. im going to figure out ...

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Were getting one of those heavy squalls right off the gulf of mexico. but tomorrow 15, maybe 20 inches of rain with wind gusts of 50 miles an hour. more than likely this will be upgraded to a hurricane either this afternoon or this evening. this storm is moving northwest at 13 miles an hour and is expected to make landfall in this area sometime tomorrow night. in the meantime, the skimming operations have been shut down, hundreds of miles a away, because the swell of the waves have propagated of...

Is under a hurricane watch. the national hurricane center is saying that this system does have the potential of getting close a category 1 status by the time to makes landfall up the west coast of florida come tomorrow morning. as you see here, we have heavy rainfall across the florida straits and as the system pushes to the north,en conditions wilo downhill. weve had thunderstorms on monday and then more thunderstorms across miami dade this morning. and well continue to see that. in surfside, w...

The storm. >> about 10 million people from key west all the way up to big bend of florida are under a warning because elsa is producing 60-mile-per-hour winds and it is making a beeline in that direction. you can see the heavy rainfall beginning to pick up in intensity across key west and that will spread across the rest of the keys and on into south florida too. miami was hit with some very heavy thunderstorms on monday and then we had this band set up within the last couple of hours to the sou...

It will gust a little bit here and there with some of the squalls coming in. sunday, north of birmingham, the storm is going to move quickly. the heavy raines with you now montgomery, two to three hours and then those will shift into northern portions of georgia. by the time we get through this afternoon the storm crosses into tennessee. by monday at 2:00 avlt m., its up through west virginia and then for columbus day, thats where were going to track this rain through areas of pennsylvania, upst...

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Winds for the last hour or so. but this is the first of some of the rain bands that we have just started to get. we may lose actually our signal. but well just keep on going as long as we can. i want to go to patrick oppmann who is stand big in cuba. patrick, what is the situation there? >> well, along the northern coast here in florida, weve been feeling rain bands as well as squalls coming in. it has been knocking out the power here for the last several hours. we only have lights up because we...

It continues to tear itself up and takes a long tithe to put itself back together, but i think thats going to happen. >> all right. take us from where were going from here. because i know the keys, first and foremost, are the most vaul national right now? about what time do you think thats going to happen? >> it will be storm morning when we start to see the storm surge. but were already seeing the first bands of weather. if youre traveling out of the keys, youre going through some squalls. no d...