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Of 30 inches, storm surge up to 12 feet, which is the deadliest form of weather. we are going to be watching this closely over the next several days. it is a very serious situation. if you have not taken precaution to protect yourself, do that now. this is what the storm looks like. just a massive storm. it went through an eye wall replacement. it's starting to gather its speed up once again and strengthen. it weakened just a bit. it's on the verge of a cat 3/cat 4. 130-mile-per-hour winds. there's really nothing in its way that's going to stop it from strengthening. it's not impossible that w...

The movement has started to speed up a little bit. we're up to 8 miles per hour, even though in general terms that may not sound like a fast speed, that's moving faster for a hurricane. we've also started to notice the eye wall replacement cycle that's taken place in the last hour. traditionally, this means the storm is trying to reintensify itself, which is unfortunate because it's getting ever so close to the keys. right now about 40 miles away from the keys as it continues to take that center of circulation over it. again, here's a closer look. we still expect it to cross over the keys arou...

Tighten up into the center. they will make a really tight circle as it strengthens. and that sensor here. sorryly stand like that. let me see see if it holds up, the center tries to tighten in, when it has it's strength, an outer area starts to reform and that is what we call the eye wall replacement cycle that gives it a bigger space to strengthen more and titan and tighten. one of the things we were noticing as it was moving across the keys is that as it was moving or tipping into the keys, we were getting an eye wall replacement. there was another little ban trying to form to make it wider ...

This storm multiple times by now. how does this mission compare? is the storm getting stronger? >> well, right now the storm is fluctuating in intensity between category 4 and category 5. and people shouldn't make too much of, for example, if they say it's a category 5 and then they make it a category 4, it shouldn't give people the impression that it's weakening, because what's really primarily driving the intensity of the storm right now are what we call eye wall replacement cycles where it's building itself a new eye every eight, ten, 12 hours. and as it goes through those cycles, they weak...

Outer band shrinks up and the storm increases again. it takes about 10 to 12 hours to complete one of these cycles, but by the time it's over with, the outer band comes back into the center, it can be just as strong as it was before it began or even stronger so that's why it's really been defying the rules here of nature. so, again, if it continues at that strength with the waters getting warmer, it could go through this eye wall replacement cycle time and time again sustaining that strength which is not the best of news as it gets into the warm waters closer to florida. >> just incredible the...