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Let's go to bill karens. we news about nate. >> exactly 12:30 central time. hurricane nate made land fall over biloxi. mississippi. wi winds estimated maximum 85 miles per hour. it moved inland. it will begin to quickly weaken. so we would expect this become lower down to possibly the tropical storm by 5:00 a.m. east coast time. only a couple hours from now. >> what does ha mean for the rest of the coast. mobile, we have pen sa cola? >> it means woer on schedule. wind were not as bad as feared in the biloxi area. 70 miles per hour gusts as far as we have heard. there is not widespread power ou...

Mind, we're talking about at least, again, a category 2 storm, if not potentially stronger than that as it makes landfall. and as you slow a storm down, it has a better chance of seeing some development as you go through the next couple of days. as far as where the system is headed after that, pushing up towards the mississippi valley, still a lot of uncertainty with that piece of the track, but we do expect this to be increasing to hurricane strength as we go through the next couple of days. storm surge will be one of the bigger issues, especially with a system that has that big of a wind fie...

But there's a look at the folks that really need to be on alert with this, especially in and around new orleans, not just concerning, again, the central portion of the cone, but keep in mind, we're talking about at least, again, a category 2 storm, if not potentially stronger than that as it makes landfall. and as you slow a storm down, it has a better chance of seeing some development as you go through the next couple of days. as far as where the system is headed after that, pushing up towards the mississippi valley, still a lot of uncertainty with that piece of the track, but we do expect th...

Portion of the cone, but keep in mind, we're talking about at least, again, a category 2 storm, if not potentially stronger than that as it makes landfall. and as you slow a storm down, it has a better chance of seeing some development as you go through the next couple of days. as far as where the system is headed after that, pushing up towards the mississippi valley, still a lot of uncertainty with that piece of the track, but we do expect this to be increasing to hurricane strength as we go through the next couple of days. storm surge will be one of the bigger issues, especially with a syste...