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you can see sustained winds are still 45 miles per hour gusting up to 60 miles per hour, still trying to get itself fully organized, but it is going to be heading into a more favorable environment in the next 24 to 48 hours, lower wind shear, lower sea surface temperatures. you have tropical storm watches for jamaica but hurricane watches for areas of the cayman islands. that's because in the short term we anticipate that storm will strength sboon a category 1, maybe a category 2 as it's crossing over the cayman islands. further strengthening is expected as it crosses over cuba and i...

Fear, right? what if there was an asteroid coming to earth. can you really stop it, do something about it. for the first time our technology allows us to do something about it. >> nasa is planning to ram a refrigerator-sized spacecraft called dart into roughly the size of the pyramid of giza. the goal is to see if the impact will push it slightly off course. if it works, it means that this technique could be used to deflect a future killer asteroid that is headed for earth >> this inaugural planetary defense mission marks a major moment in human history. for the first time ever, we will measur...