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It's going through another one of those what we call eye wall replacement cycles where there's a double eye wall right now. that outer eye wall is forming that has a wider diameter than the inner eye wall. and it's contracting in toward the center and normally what that does is it actually weakens the storm briefly. so what you might see overnight is you might see the hurricane bottom out in intensity, maybe even weaken just a few millibars, but then once it completes that eye wall replacement cycle, it's right back to being even stronger than it was before and irma's been pretty amazing becau...

Of 87, 88 degrees fahrenheit and that just is fuel for the fire. the waters through the bahamas heading toward miami are about the warmest they've been all year. >> and you talked about the size of the eye. if you could just repeat how big that eye is, and i know yesterday people were talking about how sort of perfect the eye wall was. i'm wondering how it looks today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect what we call stadium effect to it, where it looks like you're inside a circular football stadium. right now the eye is approximately 15 miles across. it's actually getting smaller. it's ...

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 l 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 inkreecredible the stre of this thing. thanks so much. continuing the focus on south florida i talked to miami-dade county mayor carlos jimenez a short time ago. your county issued a mandatory evacuation order for all mobile homes, other at-risk areas. h...

Heading towards miami are about the warmest they have been all year. >> and you talked about the size of the eye, if you could just repeat how big that eye it. and i know yesterday people were talking about how sort of perfect the eye wall was. i am wondering how it looks today today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect, what we call stadium effect to it. where it looks like you're inside a circular football stadium. right now the eye is approximately 15 miles across. it is actually getting smaller. it's going through another one of those what we call eye wall replacement cycles where th...

You need to have extra prescriptions on hand. you need to make sure that you're not in a vulnerable structure, a trailer or, you know, a weak structure like this a. get to your local evacuation center. of course, check in with your local news as well. they'll have all that stuff posted. >> and you need to do that today. can't wait until tomorrow. >> this happened so fast. in 24 hours this storm blew up. tomorrow probably stronger. >> and it's hot in the gulf and the storm is moving slowly which lets it church and church. >> worst case scenario ub folding here. let's hope that an eye wall repla...