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Couple storms in my coverage, 70 of these things, that defy the odds, they stop moving for a while. no guarantee. the bottom line is it's moving slow, it's lost its steering flow. the blocking ridge has go gone away. the impacts will be lasting. the surge on the coast, the battering waves, we had the mayor on earlier today, brian. he said they already lost a lot of sand and the core of engineers had just come in and pumped the beautiful beach behind me last winter. already day one ask they've lost a lot of sand. and then the inland rainfall, already some spots have had more than a foot of rain...

Issue, it's anything tidally connected, the tidal creeks, the waterways. that's why we're so concerned that any of these low-lying areas where there are a lot of communities, that there could potentially be some storm surge into some of the structures. certainly, the oceanfront with the large battering waves. >> and that's before we get 2 feet to 3 feet of rain. so just imagine the effect that that will have. we see the storm approaching the coast right now. again, we have the radar imagery up. any chance that it shifts paths at this point, or are you pretty certain of where this thing is goin...

>> think so much. blake? >> what time of year when you've got to look toward the caribbean and the gulf. now we are watching tropical storm gordon which is bringing heavy rain and gusty winds to florida. that storm is heading for a northern gulf coast landfall tomorrow. possibly, a category one hurricane. warnings they are posted, meteorologist predicting battering waves, flash flooding, and a couple of isolated tornadoes and waterspouts could be a result as well. a hurricane watch has also been posted for coastal areas of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, and throughout florida as well. >> new...

45, a couple inches of rain. but the real impact -- and we've seen this for a couple of days along the entire eastern seaboard. battering waves, rip currents and beach erosion. we'll be dealing with this a couple days. now the forecast models indicate that jose will go out and come back. it may come back towards the east coast later this weekend or next week. and what that could do, and we're hoping, is that it steers maria out to sea. so, maria is going to come towards the southeast as jose comes back towards the west. and they're going to do this, what we call fujiwara, a dance. they're goin...

Hit puerto rico in 85 years. so, this is a major hurricane. it could be catastrophic with land slides, flash flooding, 20 to 25 inches of rain in the mountains in puerto rico. not to say the u.s. virgin islands won't get hit hard. the islands that got hit barbuda, they're going to be too far north. again, everything rushed to completion in puerto rico and the virgin islands tonight and tomorrow. >> and, mike, about what's behind you, how much of a wallop are portions of the east coast going to get tomorrow? >> well, we're looking at jose as like a nor'easter. it's going to be gusty northeast w...