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Colder cloud tops, the energy. we're starting to see it almost complete a full cycle now. what this may mean now is now that it's putting on the brakes going from 15 miles an hour to 10 to 5 it may strengthen a little bit more. we're only 10 miles an hour from category 3. we really can't worry about those numbers because it's already bringing with it the life threatening elements it had when it was way back in the atlantic. however, notice we have the tornado warning. we've had some hurricane gusts already. the national hurricane center says we believe that cape lookout will start to see susta...

Shows us where the highest -- the colder cloud tops are, what happened earlier today, it stopped intensifying, which was great, that's what stopped it from going to a category 2. winds at 85 miles per hour, when we get the core going on shore. the highest gusts should stay under 100, maybe close to 100. with irma, they got up to 130, 140. minor roof damage, a lot of trees coming down. we'll get the new update at 11:00, with a new path, new intensity. as far as the 1:00 a.m. position goes. 2:00 east coast time, we're well inland. the landfall should be 11:30 east coast time, toward midnight. yo...

Weather history. why is this happening? i mean, two weeks of devastation. >> yeah. so right now what you've got is the eye of this storm moving right across the island. the worst winds. and of course the rain are carried along with that eye that are now fanning out. we have no way to show you where the heaviest rain bands are. bill is going to walk you through all this later. the color enhancement, you want to look for the deepest shades of red. the deepest shades of red will show you where the intense rainfall is coming in with the higher cloud tops right there. so we now have flooding. and w...

So let's get to the details. here is the satellite move, start to go look more impressive. some of the colder cloud tops located there with the convection right in the center of the storm. again, there are various models that we look at and we continue to harp on these things because various models show us a different path of jose. in fact, the global model, which was the american model, shows almost a landfalling hurricane into the new england coastline from the middle of next week. the european model keeps it offshore. one thing is for sure, we do expect this system to bring at least rip tid...

Showing us, ed, thank you so much. in dickenson, texas, today. i want to head to the cnn meteorologist center in atlanta. break this down for us, what do the next few hours look like for that area? >> well, the next few hours pretty much if you look at infrared satellite imagery, the brighters colors are the higher cloud tops. doesn't show the rain at the surface, but it gives you an idea if you go north of austin, you're into some of the heavier downpours, some of the more severe weather or thunderstorms and it's also been sliding off towards areas to the east. but for the next couple of hour...