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And ripped the roofs off buildings in the abaco islands. years, for most part as strong flooding is also a major concern as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it. with the storm surge up to 23 so it's a big problem. feet or 7 meters. it's a mental problem. it's a big problem. the northwest bahamas could see as much as eight months' worth of rain in just a few days. >> and then take a look at this. >> thnatasha lindstaedt is a you get a sense of how big and vast this thing is from the professor of government at the international space station. it's the strongest...

Everyone really needs to pay attention to what he said. that is vital information that he just gave out. as we flew into dorian on saturday night it was a very powerful category 4 storm. we had an incredible stadium effect of the eye as you've seen. there are pictures on the internet right now that have gone viral. we did experience severe turbulence on the way in. we had a good ride and did four penetrations of dorian which is really typical for any mission we fly when tracking a storm. as far as the eye ride itself when we're going through, what we're experiencing at flight level is no way i...

Likely going to be enough for them to make some changes in the forecast? >> so whether -- so aerial weather reconnaissance is one piece of a larger picture, so the folks at the national hurricane center, they're really looking at the larger and the bigger picture of things. our aircraft reconnaissance could be coming in with one wind speed and they could be getting different day from other sources and places saying well, yeah, there's this, that, and the other. another thing to pick up on is where those wind speeds are occurring, right? if we're picking up on those winds at flight level, they ...

Sure. this is 24 hours, literally, from the coast to orlando, in 24 hours. you could probably walk there in 24 hours. and that's the heavy rain potential all the way through the entire peninsula of florida, because this will not be a compact storm when it gets there. it has 96 hours to gain strength in very warm water. we're now seeing the hurricane hunter aircraft fly through it at 89 miles per hour at the surface, slightly higher at flight level. so what else has been here in the past? there's dorian and francis, irma, jean, hug oh. all of those passing within about 60 nautical miles of wher...

That was a complete swing and a miss. it's going to be a 70 mile per hour storm or very close to a hurricane when it runs over st. croix and even into the eastern half thereof puerto rico. and a lot of times you see the storm being bad on the right side, this one actually has more rain on the left side. 100 mile per hour storm somewhere between miami and maybe charleston. and i know alisyn talked about this with the hurricane center. it could be a lot less, could be more, this is still five days out. many, many things could still happen here. here's the radar. oats not an eye, but what we will...