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It's like getting hit with a tornado for several hours. that is what they were experiencing, especially across the northern and western sections of the island of guam. here is the latest satellite imagery and we've been annualizing this and keeping a close eye on it because we thought a direct landfall was imminent. it went through what is called an eyewall replacement so actually curved the if storm just north of the island and it's basically hugging the coastline on the western shoreline and that has major implication on who gets the storm surge, who gets the heaviest rain and also the stron...

Carolina coast, and msnbc michelle grossman, and michelle, first to you, and looking at the storm track, and what are we preparing to, and then to marianna. >> hi there, andrea. yes, we are looking at a category 4 storm, and right on the borderline of the cat 3 and 4 and it did weaken, and it is go ing through the eyewall replacement, but it is going to change. as the next couple of hours, it is go ing to strengthen again, and encountering nothing to slow it down. so we expect it to remain on the path. this is what it is looking like right now, and just a huge storm, and the eyewall is a t tex...

Centered southeast of mexico city. unrelated to the quake that hit two weeks ago off the country's southern coast. >> bill: maria hitting land as a category 4 hurricane in puerto rico. the storm is a killer. we mentioned how dangerous this storm has become. fema administrator brock long with me now out of washington, d.c. it's all too common we have a conversation. here it is again. what are you doing and what are you hearing about this storm now? >> yesterday we were looking at a very fierce but compact storm. unfortunately as the system was passing south of st. croix that wind field expanded...

You can -- here's the recent track, we're going to watch this storm move across the bahamas and today, we're into tomorrow and it's going to move across the northern part of cuba. then all four have it making a northern lift. if that storm attaches to cuba or eyewall, we may have a subtle adjustment in the strength but we may even see in the 11:00 update, that it got a little bit stronger because prior to that, at the 8:00 update it was making a little eyewall replacement. when it does that and the wall shifts and replaces in the center of the storm, you may weaken the wind speeds for a while....

Heeding those evacuations and getting out of here and getting out of the path of this thing. this is a deadly storm. it's like andrew, except it is massive. so the impact is going to be that much more widespread. >> when you look at the eye of the storm and talk about it could be striking where you are, 25 miles wide and we look at it from space and those pictures that are impossible to turn away from. it is easy to see. what does the eye tell you about what is about to happen where you are? >> well, this storm is also undergoing eyewall replacement cycles as well. it could be going an intensi...