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Or a category 3 system. really speaks to the significance of what a large player it is at this hour. when you measure the cloud field, it spans some 500 miles from its western periphery to its eastern periphery. roughly the size of the state of alaska. drop this over the state of alaska, it would span nearly the entire width of the state. it speaks to the significance of. when you look at a storm of such magnitude, we know tropical storm force winds extend some 175 miles away from the center. so just about everyone up and down the central and northern coast of florida will feel tropical storm ...

Offshore. forecasters predict dorian could make landfall in south carolina later this week. so let's get more on all of this from our meteorologist pedram javaheri who joins us again. let's go over that path and what people can expect on the way through, and, of course, once that landfall is made. >> yeah, you know, rosemary, we're 11 days into tracking the storm system. of course reaches category 5 in the past couple of days. stalls over portions of the grand bahama island. you take a look at what is left of this storm system, an incredible scope of the system that spans some 500 miles from i...

Puerto rico between 8:00 and 9:00 in the morning. the update continues to keep it as a category 5. a new eye wall trying to form around the system buzz anywhere you see the white indication, 100-mile-per-hour winds. it will make landfall into the early morning hours in puerto rico. and half of that population is on the eastern periphery. so one of the worst scenarios. but storm surge one of the main concerns with this system, up to 11 feet across the leeward islands. that is 11 feet across what is normally dry ground. so you get the 6 to 9 feet, a lot of homes within a few miles and models con...

>> yes. it's sitting there a category 4 right now. it's larger than the size of the state of texas. so it kind of tells you how large of a feature it is. very, very impressive on the visible scale, slightly larger, it would go into the state of new mexico into the west and stretch on into the state of louisiana on its eastern periphery. among the strongest march typhoons we've seen. it's between the island of guam and yap. 10,000 people call this area home, but the concern goes farther downstream as this approaches the philippines. but we've had three typhoons in the first three months of the ...

Huntsman will join us onset and later we'll continue our education nation series with former governor of florida jeb bush and mayor of newark, cory booker. up next, chuck todd is standing by at the white house and joining us onset nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. but first, let's go straight to todd santos for the check on the forecast. todd? >> hey there. still tracking at least some of these showers. thunderstorms going on across the country. some will have implications travelwise especially for places like chicago, indianapolis, eventually toledo and even potentially...