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Than half an hour from now. lets check in with msnbc meteorologist michelle grossman. we just heard from the local mayor with mariana atencio that the next couple hours are going to be critical as they watch and see what they do next. >> you can bet well be watching it minute by minute, hour by hour. as you know since last monday this has been unexpected and inconsistent so certainly going to watch for that northward turn we are betting on over the next several hours. certainly keeping our eyes ...

Hurricane center, as it loses a little strength, the wind field is going to widen. you can still have a lot of damage. dont pay attention to the category, pay attention to the winds. we have hurricane warnings north of west palm beach. weve got watches up to the florida/georgia border. we even have tropical storm watches inland. the theme parks are closing at around 3:00 this afternoon to make sure people are out of harms way. heres the path, by tomorrow afternoon or evening, 8:00, category 4 st...

That is good news. terrible news for the bahamas. i want to mention that. good news for florida because the slower pace gets the steering currents in place. theres a lot of folks up and down the coast who want to know what is happening. we will not know until the turn take place. we have the hurricane watches and warnings in place. listen to your local officials and evacuate and heed the warnings. we could see gusty winds as early as today. >> michelle grossman tracking dorian. thank you so much...

Islands, right there, this is visible satellite image. its what the satellite in the atmosphere looks down and sees the storm. so this is infrared, and you can see on this, with the track, just this little bit of a northwesterly jog, but its back on its west track. also, the forward movement is down to 5 miles-an-hour. so it is slowing its forward momentum. that is probably an indication that the steering currents are beginning to break down a little bit and eventually it is going to make the ri...

Beach erosion. it also gives the environment surrounding the storm time to make up its mind what steering currents will be dominant. and right now, if we have a landfall near those time periods, even within the time frame, we may have a system where different elements of the atmosphere are pulling or pushing and it may sit. >> sitting is hard. especially on land that is already saturated and doesnt have a very good water table in terms of taking more. look. youre the only good news right now for...

The 11:00 p.m. update. which well pass along to you. we have the hurricane hunters flying through the center of the storm as we speak. they have picked up on winds over 80 miles per hour. so clearly hurricane force. it is strengthening and it will continue to do so for the next several days. really the only thing between here and the southeast coast of u.s. is open ocean warm bath water. >> were talking about the potential of the storm getting really big and we dont know exactly where the storm...

P.m. update which, of course, well pass along to you as soon as we get it. we have the hurricane hunters flying through the center of the storm as we speak. they have picked up on winds over 80 miles per hour, so clearly hurricane force. it is strengthening and it will continue to do so for the next several days. really, the only thing between here and the southeast coast of the u.s. is open ocean warm bath water. don? >> so were talking about the potential of the storm getting really big and we...

Florida. earlier i told you, where the center of the storm was earlier this morning there were 17 storms within 100 miles and only one ib made landfall in florida in 2004, now where the center of dorian is, we went back to 1950, found 12 storms, only one made landfall two years ago on the florida peninsula. some in the gulf, many in the atlantic. a lot can happen here, percentages are on our side, every storm is different. lets take the cone of uncertainty. from miami up to georgia, the steering...

Packages around the storm. we are coming over the florida coast right now to return to our base in lakeland. hurricane hunters have been trying to get the steering currents on where this is going. >> i know youve been doing this for more than three decades. how does this storm compare to others you have seen? >> well, this one reminds me a great deal of way back in 1985, hurricane gloria. perfect storm in the bahamas, it went up to long island. the winds spread from new york city over to cape co...

Logan poole, an extreme meteorologist, is with me. with all the storms you have covered, how does this compare? >> a little different, anderson. the pressure actually stayed fairly low for a storm of this magnitude. we talked about, oh, its dropping from category 4 to 3 to 2, but barometric pressure, which is one way to measure the intensity of a storm, stayed fairly low. in the 950 millibars up until landfall. that being the case, it allowed the storm to expand the wind field instead of being s...