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Perhaps further, closer to a category-5 storm and we haven't seen a cat-5 in the atlantic basin since 2007. and, it is possible with the storm, and, the tropical storm watches for bahamas an turks and caicos and there is the path, guys, 11:00, new advisory comes out, a complete advisory and with each advisory we fine-tune the forecast and you can see, we are still in that cone of uncertainty. along the coastline and, if this storm comes close to the west earn border, of the cone, we will be dealing with hurricane-force winds and life threatening storm surge and heavy rain up and down the north...

It could run up to the houston area along the gulf coast. let's hope that one doesn't come to fruition. one that's always been created, a monster across the atlantic, already a category 3 going up category 4 and some models show a cat-5. you'll be running up to tuesday and it still hasn't made louisville. -- landfall. one model has it to the east coast. the other to southern portions of the caribbean. this is one we'll be watching for the next week or so, kimberly. >> adam klotz, thank you so much in the fox news extreme weather center. for more on the recovery efforts is texas lieutenant gove...

Lowest it has been, and we're continuing to see winds measured by the aircraft in the range of 150 to 160 knots of the surface, in the eye wall which is over 180 miles an hour. so this is a legitimate category 5 hurricane. you really can't over-hype this storm. it's the strongest storm that has ever formed in this part of the atlantic. we have had cat 5's that have formed further to the west, closer to miami of course. we had andrew, and then we have had storms like karina and rita back in the gulf of mexico back in 2005. but they really haven't seen a storm like irma. so it's extremely danger...

On cuba's north coast. and now the storm is about 24 hours from striking the florida keys. now, within the past few hours, it cranked back to a category 5 storm. sustained winds winds of 160 miles an hour. it is not expected to weaken before hitting florida early on sunday. a very, very unusual event to hit land at cat-5 on the u.s. mainland. now the window to evacuate, meanwhile, quickly closing for the countless drivers who did heed the call to get out there. is only one way out, and that is north. but it's slow going. bumper-to-bumper traffic stretching to the horizon. now flying out of mia...