>> janice: 947 is the pressure right now. >> steve: that is low. >> 947 the pressure. wow, that s low. that s the rapid inferenceification, right, janice? >> janice: absolutely. when you see the winds go up. 5:00 a.m. advisory they downgraded it to a category 3 i always say don t pay attention to the category because it s always been the storm surge. when you see the pressure dropping as it has dropped in the last six to 12 hours that was rapid intensification. this time yesterday we were at a category 1 storm. so the fact that we have got the warmest waters in the gulf of mexico off the coast of the big bend of florida has inenhanced that rapid intensification. >> steve: robert, out of curiosity, over the last couple of weeks we have been talking about how the waters off the
some people can be caught in the middle of this storm. >> steve: that s the worry. steve, thank you for the live report from tarpon springs, in florida. >> ainsley: here is a live look at i-275. >> steve: look at that. >> ainsley: which is in tampa, florida. it looks like some people are on the road the waiter is not going over the road on the left-hand side it is on the right-hand side. this is tampa. >> steve: a lot of bridges. >> ainsley: clearwater. saint pete in that area. some of those bridges that take you to those areas have closed down the department of transportation made that decision to close them down because winds were so strong they didn t want people to get in their cars and be blown over. >> brian: drive over those bridges without a storm wow it wouldn t take much for these bridges to flood. i almost feel like it s at water level so it s already happening.