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Pick up speed as it heads toward te u.s.? let's get straight to cnn's chad myers with a new forecast. >> brand new, fred. up to a 70-mile-per-hour storm. hurricane hunters are flying through it. they found a flight level wind at 10,000 feet of 82 miles per hour. that doesn't translate to the surface, but winds at the surface are gaining strength. the pressure is going down, so that's the 11:00 advisory. but that's not the only change in the 11:00 advisory. to hit at about 8:00 tonight as a hurricane, 75 miles per hour. but look at this. category 3, 115-mile-per-hour storm off the florida coast...

Area forecast to take the hardest hit. we have live coverage from destin and apalachicola on the panhandle, and from the weather center where we start with chad myers. good morning. what is on the way? >> good morning, dave. 140 mile-per-hour storm with higher gusts right now. flight-level gusts at 159 miles per hour. no one lives at flight level but the brave men and women in these planes deserve credit from all of us to tell us what's going on. they've been bringing updates all night long, and they're flying through storms that i would never get in an airplane. there goes all the way from ne...

Utilities to get plenty of people in here to get the power back on as quickly as they can. >> reporter: thank you for joining us. we know you are holding a briefing at 8:00 a.m. eastern time, and thank you for your time. >> be safe, john. >> reporter: a few things the governor just said there that bear repeating. number one, if you are in your house, stay there. the time to evacuate, he says, has come and gone. the time to take refuge is now. be aware, first responders can't get to you. you are on your own. the wind speeds are almost already too high for them to leave their bases and you need ...

Flat and very, very shallow and it's going to go way inland. i am very concerned about people that have chose not to evacuate. we will do everything we can to help people. we have a great search and rescue team and we have our national guard deployed and we will do everything we can to help people, but during the storm nobody can help you. >> reporter: again, it's a dire and sobering message. to give you an update on news we received, the aircraft blocked winds at 150 miles per hour, and that's at flight level. at ground level the national hurricane service confirms it's 145 miles per hour, an...

This storm a little, it's rubbing right along the coast of cuba, that is a little bit of a disruptive factor but it's still quite the storm. >> if it wasn't rubbing on the coast, out to sea would be stronger, right? more intense? >> there's every reason it would be? it's getting a good source of warm water right now, very low sheer. beautiful ray v radar structure if you like that thing but it's not beautiful as far as what is ahead for florida. >> what type of data are you collecting right now and how is it going to be used in. >> the primary thing we've been collecting tonight other than sur...