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Of their ships, there's a bunch of help coming, but they just need the storm to leave and then they can get in there. and that will happen. i mean, i imagine by the time we get to wednesday morning the storm will be all the way up here off the daytona beach area. so that should be far enough away that the seas will get low enough and the seas will die off enough. maybe by the end of today they can try to get some of the emergency response people in there. i mean, they're going to need help for so long and so much help, too. so the forecast path, this was the big update that we just got in. we'...

The entire island. the storm hovered over the island for several days. this is a category 2 at this point, mering the southeastern coast of florida. before we move on to other topics in the show, as promised, an update from meteorologist bill karins with nbc news. bill? >> we're watching the storm closely. it's still right on, about 80 miles off the east coast of florida. the heaviest bands are now rotating closer to the coast. and this will be the peak of the storm from areas of volusia county southwards, palm bay, ft. pierce and jupiter. windy conditions, almost like a tropical storm is ri...

Make. now, as we go to the north and also the east, the cone of concern does include the coast at this point by wednesday, thursday, friday. so now by thursday we're getting into south carolina, category 2 storm, right off the coast. i mean, painfully off the coast. and, you know, with this storm it's been very inconsistent. the consistent thing about it is that it's been so inconsistent. so they wobble back and forth. and we do need to have those players in place that's going to steer it and they could break down a little bit slower or the trough could come in a little bit slower. the trough ...

60 miles per hour. 74 miles per hour. that is a cat 1 storm. we are moving at 13 miles per hour. that is good news for puerto rico. we will move pretty quickly over the eastern part of the island. here with he go with tracking dorian the next several days. we expect 70-mile-per-hour winds. close to a cat 1 storm. there is that increase. we are over very warm waters of the caribbean. that helps to give the fuel to the storm. that's what we are expecting now. we're not expecting it to make the land mass interaction. that would have helped to decrease it. there is your category 1 storm north of t...

Were sorry they did. >> yes, when we were covering hurricane florence, i was in new bern where there was a significant amount of flooding, it was catastrophic, and i heard people say my home's never flooded before, that's why i need to evacuate. if you were on this island here, you knew you were going to get slammed here. category 2, and category 3, you know you're going to get slammed. but there are reasons why people don't evacuate, but everybody needs to get to safety in a couple of minutes. we knew we were going to get slammed. there we go. >> we're flying past, a little inland. it's tough...