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Our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth tracking the storm. t weaken a storm is dry air gets in there. that does happen and it's hard to forecast. that could be one thing. if that did happen, it might inhibit some of the strengthening. the official forecast at the national hurricane center center right now is for that category four. the other thing that could happen is fluctuation in that strength that happens once you get the strong storms. they go through eye wall replacement cycles and that can make the sustained wind fluctuate 20 to 30 miles an hour. we could be on one of the down sides whe...

I want to go to tom who joins us with the very latest. >> anderson, the latest advisory keeps it as a powerful cat dweg three, but the pressure has dropped, which means it is getting stronger. they go on to say that it is getting better organized. and something we rarely do but should do more is explain this infrared imagery. when you look at imagery like this, those bright colors, those are the colder and higher cloud tops. for the last several loops we have been watching most of that on the northern and northeast western frank. it's not out of the realm of possibilities that this category th...

The pressure has dropped, which means it's getting stronger. they go on to say, the national hurricane center, that it's getting better organized. and something we rarely do but should do more is explain this infrared imagery. when you look at a satellite imagery leek this, those bright colors, those purple colors, anderson, those are the colder and higher cloud tops. and for the last several loops we've been watching most of that on the northern and northwestern flank. we've been waiting for it to complete the circle. it has now done this. so it's not out of the realm of possibilities that th...

You can see this is the coldest cloud tops and where you see this black shaded area, that's where we have the worst of the winds, the worst of the storm surge. we are seeing a little bit of an erosion on the east side of this storm but don't let your guard down. this is going to be one of the worst storms we've ever seen. you can see the well-defined eye. it's very rare you see such a circle, a clear circle eye and all of the core of the winds staying very compact and close together. 145 mile-per-hour sustained winds but we're seeing gusts in excess or will see gusts in excess of 165 miles per...

Account of how things are going. >> mariana, thank you. i hope you're able to build in down time because it's so important. we need everybody sharp and being careful when you do venture out. bill karins, she just mentioned what we've been talking about. this was the storm out of nowhere. nobody's fault. it's the fault of wind shear not showing up to cut these cloud tops in half the way it was expected. >> all of our computer modeling and mathematical formulas that spit the information out and i stand in front of and try to act confident, this is what's going to happen. we've gotten to the poin...