meteorologist maria molina is live at the weather center. >> reporter: i first want to show you what's going on with the storm right now. maximum sustained winds stronger since the update from the national hurricane center. 125 miles per hour. it's still a category 3 hurricane. it's moving southwest at 6 miles per hour. it has not don't northward turn we are expecting. we'll watch that closely. but something of concern is we have life-threatening conditions across the bahamas. strong winds and locally heavy rains. especially the central bahamas where the worst of the conditions are expected. and it's for a long period of time. it hangs around the bahamas