climate correspondent, bill weir, who is live on the scene. bill, you are right on the path of this storm, now a category three almost. how is the situation changing where you are as it moves closer? >> well, abby, we haven't seen any change yet here. it's still pretty calm before the storm but it was less than a year ago when i was preparing for hurricane ian and we went to bed and woke up and the storm had intensified greatly. that is the ingredient here, the warmer golf of mexico, warmer than we have ever seen before. it is in patches and so, overall, it is about 88 degrees, and average temperature but hot or warm to the shore, close to 90. so we are going to see whether or not that is sort of a steroid shot for this particular storm as it gets close to the shore. folks in communities like this, which is right, a low-lying community right on the river here as that storm surge pushes all the water up into the neighborhoods. that is the main concern. >> to that point, you just talked about this warmer water.