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Defined. i know one of the hurricane hunters went out and took it comes out tomorrow. >> i took a year to put this some video yesterday where together. it shows and you look out it talks about how the democrats the window and they are in are trying to do things behind the eye of the hurricane and the scenes. as chairman of the oversight they are looking straight committee i got a lot of things up. apparently you in the that most people didnt get to weather business call that see. things democrat...

Everyone really needs to pay attention to what he said. that is vital information that he just gave out. as we flew into dorian on saturday night it was a very powerful category 4 storm. we had an incredible stadium effect of the eye as youve seen. there are pictures on the internet right now that have gone viral. we did experience severe turbulence on the way in. we had a good ride and did four penetrations of dorian which is really typical for any mission we fly when tracking a storm. as far a...

180 miles per hour. however, theres still a bit of uncertainty about the future of its path as it gets ready to make landfall in the united states. lets go to nbc news meteorologist bill karins for the latest on the storm. bill? >> thank you, reverend. we know the northern bahama island chain has been devastated. weve seen pictures and imagery out of there that looks like a tornado went through. thats what youd expect. i want to show you this picture. this is from the hurricane hunters. this was...

For the last three hours is right in the center of the eye. im sure the sun was out towards the middle of the day but now whatever wasnt destroyed with that western eye wall now the winds are shifting completely opposite as they now have to go through the southeast eye wall of a category 5 hurricane. just incredible to even see this on a satellite imagery and this is just the clouds and what we do is we know that the thunderstorms, more intense they are, the higher in the atmosphere they do so h...

Invaluable information we get from them. we really appreciate it. >> if you dont like turbulence, dont take on that job, thats what youre saying. >> they hand you air sickness bags as you walk on. >> they fly straight through the storm, not above it, straight through it? >> different levels. they used to do low flying passes, like down low to measure how high waves were and stuff, there was a plane maybe in isabel, one "am joy" caught fire from sea spray. they stopped doing that. they go through...

The storms defined eye wall. the stadium effect as its called. right there in the center, visible from space sustained winds were told. hundreds have been on guard and preparing for the storm today people in georgia and the carolinas are now on notice. hes been tracking the storm for days. >> were so close to this being a huge deal. at the same time it wasnt that bad. a difference of 50 to 100 miles is going to be huge and enormous until the impacts go. were having 50 to 100 mile an hour winds. ...

Forecasts you see are absolutely accurate based on what weve seen in the storm telephoitself >> what are you seeing on these missions that tell you its going to carry more water, its wider, bigger, its stronger? >> its a number of things. includes wind speed, visual clues. the video thats been circulating with our air crew flying into the eye. that presentation, also known as a stadium effect is generated by extremely powerful storms. only seen it that pronounced in one other storm in nine years...

Welcome back to "the 11th hour." we want to get right to an update on hurricane irma. the life of irma starting there at the bottom right as captured on monday. these images released by noah thanks to a new satellite launch last year. the storm growing slowly, the eye becoming defined, what forecasters call the stadium effect as it becomes more distinct and precise. you see each new day arrive, the sunrises and sets. the clouds from this storm now stretch nine miles up into the sky. say nothing ...

So its not only the environment around the storm thats important, but also the ocean temperatures and the ocean temperatures ahead of irma are very, very warm. were talking water temperatures of 87, 88 degrees fahrenheit and that just is fuel for the fire. the waters through the bahamas heading toward miami are about the warmest theyve been all year. >> and you talked about the size of the eye. if you could just repeat how big that eye is, and i know yesterday people were talking about how sort ...

Of 87, 88 degrees fahrenheit and that just is fuel for the fire. the waters through the bahamas heading toward miami are about the warmest theyve been all year. >> and you talked about the size of the eye. if you could just repeat how big that eye is, and i know yesterday people were talking about how sort of perfect the eye wall was. im wondering how it looks today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect what we call stadium effect to it, where it looks like youre inside a circular football ...