Backed up with traffic. Not looking too good. Forecasters say the storms winds will top 140 Miles Per Hour before landfall. It could be the strongest hurricane to slam in to floridas east coast in a generation. Back when hurricane andrew killed dozens in 1992. The projected path shows Hurricane Dorian hitting around palm beach county, which is where president trumps maralargo resort is located. Forecasters warn with days left to go, all of florida including miami, palm beach, even orlando, could be in the storms cross hairs. Executives at disney world say theyre closely watching the storm on what was supposed to be a crowded labor day weekend. At the Kennedy Space center in cape canaveral, nasa Scientists Say theyre moving a 380 foot high mobile launch platform. Floridas governor says the time to get ready is now. The time to act is now. This storm is slower than thought four or five days ago, which means, you know, were looking at i think the Tropical Storm force winds probably coming sometime sunday night. So make the preparations that you need. Meaning it could last for days. This hour well talk to a Hurricane Hunter who flew above this monster storm and a live report from florida as people up and down the coast brace for impact. First, Rick Reichmuth is in the fox extreme weather center. Rick . Yeah, the storm getting its act together. A lot compared to yesterday, this is the water vapor image. This is what we look at. You can see the dark colors there. Those are strong winds that we had yesterday and overnight in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Around 15 to 20,000 feet up, theres winds that come in and shear the storm apart a little bit. That area, that dark mass there, youll notice it moving away from that. Now we basically just have a storm that is in perfect conditions for it to continue to strengthen. About 11 00 a. M. , we saw this eye begin to develop. Its continued to stay very wellorganized. We also saw the west side of it that had been eroded yesterday really fill in. Now we have a very textbook looking hurricane here going over very warm water with nothing to break it apart. Thats why the official forecast brings it to a category four again. That is a very difficult thing to forecast. Could be higher than that, could be lower than that based off of the storm goes through these recycling regenerating cycles. Thats what well deal with. That would weaken it a little bit the next few days. Still some uncertainty. Exactly when it makes that righthand turn and unfortunately where it does will change the impact for localized areas. So is it run up the center of the state . Bringing huge rain to the east coast, does it run off the coast bringing the rain offshore . That is still a possibility. I will tell you most of our models starting to have a little bit better agreement of this righthand turn. Youll notice on the eastern half of the state, not as much on the western half of the state. Thats one of the things that were looking at. The official forecast brings it to a category four sometime tomorrow and making landfall as a category four, weakening to a cat three once its over land there. Well look at a landfall probably tuesday morning. Because its a strong storm, well have strong winds even as it begins to wind down going very far to the north. Probably have very bad conditions for about 48 to 72 hours across parts of florida. Wore going to get very significant rain for sure across georgia and the carolinas. Likely cause some flooding. Trace, so often with storms, we say its going to be a flood event or a storm surge event or a wind event. Our concern this time is it will likely be all three of those things. Thats why were so concerned. Thats bad news. Were focusing on florida because thats where its going. Other states are watching this as well. Well, yeah, in the short term, georgia and the carolinas need to watch it. Theyll get a lot of rain and will cause localized flooding. A lot of models are indicating that it exits somewhere towards the outer banks and meanders and maybe makes another landfall around the canadian maritimes or eastern maine. Not as such a strong storm but thats probably say 10 to 12 days from now. Were still have this storm close to the eastern seaboard and well still be talking about it. Bad news all the way around. Back to you with the news breaks. Rick reichmuth, thanks. Jack parrish joins me by phone. Hes with noaa, the Hurricane Hunters, the folks that fly in an around hurricanes to gather data and better predict these storms. He went up on one of those flights earlier today. He joins us now. Jack, youre busy. Ive give us an idea why you go in and check out what this storm looks like . Were putting a t3 aircraft in the storm twice per day. My colleague was in this mornings flight. Ill be out there this afternoon between 6 30 and 10 30 p. M. This evening and well make multiple crossing patterns around the storm. Generate three dimensional winds using the noaa doppler radar. Those threedimensional fields of wind go into the forecast model to continually improve the forecast in terms of both where its going to make landfall and how strong. You say threedimensional winds. Youre concerned about temperature winds at the bottom of the hurricane, the ones that are going to affect the coastline the most is. That a Fair Assessment . Very Fair Assessment. We certainly want to know what will happen in peoples roof levels. What happens dynamically in the storm in three dementions will have a profound effect on what happens to the lowest winds. We have a cool instrument that measures the surface winds. Were continually mapping those fielding to tell how far out go the Hurricane Force winds and the Tropical Storm force winds. When you go into this thing, im curious, because we hear a lot about piercing the eye wall. Why is it so important when Hurricane Hunters go out that they get into the eye wall and they get a look at the whole symmetry of how this thing looks . The radars do a magnificent job of giving us that picture and the satellites are amazing as far as telling us how things are developing all the way across the atlantic. To get the detailed information, how strong is that wind, the radius of maximum wind. How low is the pressure in the center of the storm. We have to get up close and personal. In a lot of cases were targeting drops on instruments in the strongest wind, followed by the central pressure and the opposite side, strongest winds. Thats where we get the most action, too. So everybody has to be strapped in and yet still launching these probes, taking these data and getting them out to the various important people. Hurricane center and the modelling centers. And people in florida, theyre very concerned. Theyre hoping that you go into this storm, jack, and that you come away and find something that might degrade it, something that might kind of break it up a little bit. You will look for that as well, right . Youre right on that. Weve seen many disrupting factors on this storm. I started flying it when it was southeast of barbados last monday. It was a mess the first two days. The third day, northeast of puerto rico, it gained a great deal of organization. Of course, now were seeing that visible eye, which is a very good indicator of low shear, good ocean heat, all kinds of positive factors for growth, which are negative if you list on the coast. Well be hoping for those negative factors. But we go out and observe. We get that information to the Hurricane Center and then they do the forecast. And u know youre going back out. What is the first thing you look for when youre going in and you get inside this storm . What is the first thing youre looking at . Trace, as im as were approaching the eye wall, well go through it six times, maybe eight times tonight. So the big thing is the radar structure, we expect our biggest bumps on the inside edge of the eye wall as we get into the eye. Safety of the air crew is super important. So im looking at things from a safety perspective. We have to keep these people safe and keep the airplane safe to go out on the 5 00 a. M. Mission. Im going on the 5 00 p. M. Mission. We have to keep our noaa 150 million airplane safe. And the quality of the data is everything. Those are the things im looking at. Yeah, we greatly appreciate it, the work that you do. Best of luck on your trip. Jack parrish from noaa, thanks. Thanks, trace. 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Navy captain in afghanistan that refused a medal after he tried and failed to save another service member. This guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire. The general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. I got up there and its the gods truth, my word as a biden. He stood at attention. He said sir, i dont want the damn thing. Do not put it on me, sir. Please, do not do that. He died, he died. Trace biden combined the stories of several Different Service members he met into one. After the Washington Post called him out, biden told reporters the essence of the story was correct. I was making the point how courageous these people are, how incredible they are. This generation of warriors, the fallen angels that we lost. So that i dont know what the problem is. I mean, what is it that i said wrong . Trace the post spoke to a Staff Sergeant and confirmed details in his story. He said the former Vice President treated him with empathy. Lets bring in chris wallace, anchor of fox news sunday. I wonder what your thoughts are. Every time he tells the story, its the gods truth, his word as a biden. Is it significant . I think the most significant part of this story is that it was the Washington Post that found the story and reported it above the fold, the top half of the newspaper. Here is the Mainstream Media, a liberal newspaper outlet. Now theyre pursuing this narrative that a lot of us have pursued for some time that joe biden just doesnt say things that are right. That he mixes things up, that he says things that are false, that he has had a very shaky performance in not one but two president ial debates. The idea that this has now spread to the Mainstream Media is of some concern. If this were the first case, yes, its obviously not completely accurate. But the essence of the story that biden was there when a very heroic soldier said he didnt want a medal because the person that he was trying to save had died. I dont know that much a big deal would be made. Its not the first case or second case or the fifth case. Its at least the tenth or the 20th. As we all know in politics, when the media gets on a theme, anything you do that seems to verify or legitimize that theme is going to be picked up. Now, heres the same thing. The media seems to care about this. The political insiders do. So far at least, democratic voters dont especially as you see joe biden up over 30 still with a tenpoint lead over the other candidates. Its certainly not good. Its not what you would wish for that people are talking today about another biden mistake, gaffe, misstatement. The ultimate question is whether or not voters will care. Yeah, its the slow drip. They may not care now but if it keeps happening, they do care, a lot of concern that you read, is it just stretching the truth or is it confusion . I want to play this for you, this is last week in new hampshire. Watch this. I just spoke at a dartmouth on healthcare at the medical school or not i guess it wasnt on the campus. The people from the medical school i want to be clear. Im not going nuts and im not sure if it was the medical school or where the hell i spoke but it was on the campus. Trace its not a great defense there. The problem is people are saying maybe he is just confusing things more than he used to. Yeah, although having said that, joe biden has been confusing things for a long time. Hes had a pretty good political career. As weve seen with donald trump, not the say that its the same problem, but donald trump said a lot of things that werent true. Not necessarily confusion like this. His supporters dont seem to care. So maybe the same thing with joe biden. Its not a good way to go into a president ial campaign though. You know that not only are some of although the democrats are being pretty careful. I asked Amy Klobuchar last week about the concerns that joe biden wasnt up to a campaign. She wouldnt touch it with a ten foot pole. President trump isnt going to be nearly so gentle. He called him sleepy joe and, you know, this will be if he does become the nominee a big issue in the campaign. You know that donald trump will play it for all its worth. While were on the subject, chris, of people not speaking the truth, i wanted your takeaway on the comey memos and the News Coverage yesterday. What is your takeaway of the whole thing 24 hours later . You know, i have thought about it 24 hours later. On the one hand, it was damning what the Inspector General said. On the other hand, the Justice Department did not prosecute him and the final decision was that they couldnt find evidence that he had passed classified information on to the media. Comey takes that as exoneration. The most damning part, when you put this together with the criticism, also by the same Inspector General of comeys behavior in the clinton investigation, that theres a selfrighteousness that is disturbing. He seems to think the fbi rules and regulations that apply to the other 35,000 members of the agency dont apply to him. If he sees a higher purpose in whatever he believes is right is the higher purpose, he will go and it. Hes not going to serve a prison term or be prosecuted for this. Well see where the other investigations go. Its a serious stain on his reputation. Trace yeah. Wrong is wrong. Chris wallace, good to talk to you. Thank you so much. Thank you, trace. Trace chris talks with acting fema administrator and acting senator and former governor rick scott. Rick scott has to be concerned about his state. And the president of the aflcio, richard trumpka. And the brother of olympic gymnast simone biles accused of murdering three people. 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Keep in mind, that nobody knows where to evacuate yet. It hasnt happened. Havent given the orders. Nobody knows where the storm is going. You have to have gas. Sometimes in the next 24 to 48 hours, youll have to possibly leave your area. The question is where are you going and how much fuel will you need. That is the track right there. Right now its looking at palm beach. It could wobble. It could be miami. You dont