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This has got a lot -- she's got tricks up her sleeve. but the eye wall replacement, when you spin a top on a table, it can only sustain that strength and that centrifugal force for so long. it's got to go through these cycles. but what happens is that tight eye starts to wobble, and it throws the winds out, and it creates an outer eye band. once that outer eye band forms, it tightens back up, and it gains its strength. but this is interesting. each time it goes through one of those cycles, which could be eight, nine, ten, 11 hours to take the process and take it through, it pushes the winds ou...

Latest numbers and the track of the storm. cnn's jennifer gray joins us. what have you learned, jennifer? >> anderson, the latest advisory just came out about five minutes ago and we have learned it has weakened a little bit, 115-mile-per-hour winds. still a major storm, though. still a category 3, with gusts of 150 miles per hour, moving to the northwest at 15. so the forward speed is still the same. but you can see the eye starting to collapse a little bit. it could be going through an eye wall replacement, meaning these storms just exhale and inhale. they can't maintain that strong intensit...

115-mile-per-hour winds. still a major storm, though. still a category 3, with gusts of 150 miles per hour, moving to the northwest at 16. so the forward speed is still the same. but you can see the eye starting to collapse a little bit. it could be going through an eye wall replacement, meaning these storms just exhale and inhale. they can't maintain that strong intensity for very long. it is expected to still make landfall as a category 3. that hasn't changed. that's what we've been talking about the last couple of days, and that extreme slowdown is still expected, as well. we'll be able to ...

Feel like forever. don? >> miguel marquez, you're right. calm before the storm. miguel marquez in carolina beach, north carolina. we'll get back to him. thank you, miguel. now i want to bring in cnn's tom sater. he's in the cnn weather center. tom, good evening to you. you heard what the fema administrators -- what they say about hurricane florence not going to be a, quote, glancing blow. it's going to be a mike tyson punch to the carolina coast. give us the latest. >> well, even mike tyson got a little tired from time to time. it may not have been until round eight or nine, but he looked a li...

Let's bring in ken graham now, director of the national hurricane center. ken is live with us. ken, what sort of changes have you seen and what should people expect. >> a close eye on this thing as we are seeing some further organization with the system. we are watching real close into the eye and really starting to see, you know, an expansion. really expansion of some of these winds. more organization. so it really is in line with the forecast being a major hurricane. let me tell you all the ocean right ahead of it not only warm at the surface but even deep labor warmth. so therlabor -- deep ...