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Prepared. whats the story of irma that people on the ground need to be prepared of. we are hearing of catastrophic winds. is water a big concern as well? >> so harvey is a completely different storm. i mean, it was a rappedly intensifying storm that did bring category 4 winds for a small duration for the texas coast but then lost steering current for the next five to six days which means copious amounts of rainfall. irma has good steering current. its moving at 17, 18 miles per hour. so right no...

Landfall in devastating rockport in texas. with harvey we didnt have a steering current. lets look at steering current right now. youll see high pressure kind of keep anderson to the south. this little trough in the eastern u.s., i wish it was hanging around. thats our one hope to get it off the eastern seaboard. were going to miss out on that. here comes another. this will save landfall from texas and louisiana but move tutuit up, of course, into florida. what coast were not sure yet. >> what c...

There cant just evacuate, they have to hunker down and hold out. british virgin islands as well as puerto rico. with the system, i think the storm will stay north of puerto rico, but this is new. we have a warning now for the coast of the dominican republic, as it moves counterclock wise it will throw . most likely will become a hurricane in the last 20 minutes or so. it will not follow irma and head to the north. the models, this is unbelievable. right now, irma is much stronger than harvey whe...

On many islands with loss of power communications maybe water. so as the system moves i believe the eye will stay over water. thats going to continue to sustain the strength. but again, the damage is going to be north and south of this. when you look at the track from the earth national hurricane center its been like this the last couple days. high pressure in the atlantic keeping it to the south. looking a the its forward momentum you think maybe it would move into the gulf of mexico. cant rule...

We are looking at it. there is no steering current. water temperatures are very warm. two key ingredients. take a look. this is called a her. take a look at this. one strong band as we go into monday, afternoon, into tuesday. into louisiana. they look at potential for flooding. just to back it up. this is the european model. meaning they plug in different parameters. we have a north american model. but they are are all in pretty good agreement. and it brings out tropical storm harvey into the gu...

Year event. it could be greater than that. the system will stall on us, without a steering current, its unfolding before our eyes. many are wondering, why is it still a electron cal storm, hasnt it been on land long enough? shouldnt this be called the remnants of harvey? >> when they are over land, they really fire up. its feeding off its own rainfall, its called the brown ocean effect. its just feeding on all the rain that its already dropped on the ground. it gives its energy and sustains its ...

Weve never seen a system really recent american history that has been so challenging, but yet when you look to the computer models, so accurate. it is something something. in fact, even tracking storms around the world and typhoons, weve never seen one without a steering current that has just been me yandering for days. this is still a tropical storm. its feeding off the rainfall its dropped on land. when you look at the bands of rain in houston, there was another band getting ready to move thro...

Victoria, texas, which is just on the northeastern side of the eye of the storm right now and were still seeing those really heavy bands of rain coming down. just to put it into perspective just how intense the eastern side of the storm is, areas like houston and just outside of galveston have had reported tornados because of this storm system. so even though we are on the western side of the storm, its the eastern side of the storm thats going to really face the brunt of the damage with this. n...

The real concern is once harvey gets here, the steering current, according to the forecasters, looks like its going to sit here for a while. that is why we have the most unusual prediction of 37.6 inches of rain expected from harvey in town here. that means the guadalupe river, as they say it here locally, is expected by wednesday to crest at 32 feet. that would be two feet shy of the record. that would be a tremendous amount of localized flooding as a result of the amount of rain thats going to...

Tonight. about in the last hour as a category 4 storm. it wont stay at that designation. but then again, the wind, the storm surge has never been the greatest danger from this storm. its been whats about to happen. it is a colossal rainmaker. there are no steering current aloft. normally, it would hook on to a tributary of the jet stream and youve seen hurricanes come up out of the gulf and scoot on out in a high arc that leads them out over bermuda and the cold waters of the north atlantic. the...