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Ed, talk to me about the situation. we are not familiar with storms that completely, almost fully stall over a place, particularly over land. what do we know about whats happening right now? >> its been a terrible couple of days now for the northwestern bahamas. we talked about it before, but the center has stalled right over just to the north of grand bahama island. heres a picture radar from the national weather service. youre looking at the satellite from noa. heres the center of the eye. her...

For much of this area which extends to beyond charleston. >> that water is more dangerous than the wind. thanks for the work youre doing there. ed rapport. coming up, the science behind the historical storm. whether we can expect powerful hurricanes like dorian to be the new normal. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: lets turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students firs...

Moving slowly there and beginning to make its closest point of approach to southeast florida. monday night, tropical-storm-force winds are certainly possible on the southeast coast. for tuesday and wednesday and thursday off the carolinas. >> and so when people are looking at these different maps and listening to their different media outlets, what should they be listening for in the next 24 hours? >> particularly if youre along the florida peninsula along the east coast, you need to pay attenti...

Pay close attention to the recommendations of their local emergency officials. >> you said its probably at its maximum intensity right now. its a category four storm, winds up to 140-miles-an-hour. you dont expect it to get any higher than that, than that category and those winds? >> we dont. and even if it were to be five miles per hour higher or ten or 15 lower its not going to really change the impact. the most history important aspect is to have people away from the coast where the storm sur...

Have done have really read wind readings in excess of 100-miles-an-hour. i want to bring in ed rapport, good evening to you. busy time for you. we appreciate it. where exactly is hurricane matthew now and where is the storm headed? >> you can see pretty clearly where the center of the storm is located, and thats about 50 miles to 75 miles off the south florida coast a little bit north of palm beach. the center is forecast to move close to parallel to the east coast of florida, maybe approachin...

Another view of the forecast. heres the east coast of florida. the red is where the hurricane warning is in effect. heres the center of matthew and this brown area is the core. you can see that hurricaine-force winds are just offshore. but as the center progresses, gets a little bit closer to the coast, that core area will shift up and impinge about the coast, bringing hurricaine-force winds and where those hurricaine-force winds occur theyre going to be coming onshore and theyll be driving that...

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