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Feelings of hopelessness in some areas due to the onslaught of all that oil. tropical storm alex is gaining strength and now headed for beliz. we sustained winds of 40 miles an hour and the residence and cleanup crews in the gulf are watching every move of that storm. it could deal a devastating blow to the oil containment effort there's. so for more on tropical storm alex, let's go to our meteorologiest, bill karins. >> just got done reading information from the national hurricane center. if you live in the northern gulf this is better news. if you live in texas, you could be on edge. it is...

This is a small storm and key west, the wind gusts are 35 to 40 miles per hour right now. it's mostly a storm surge issue, not a wind event. so here's the forecast path. paralegaling the florida west coast, coming on shore near tampa later tonight after mid night and then moving up to cedar key and the gainesville area. maximum winds inland shouldn't be an issue and then tomorrow, into tomorrow night, the storm races along the northeastern coastal areas like cape cod, long island, virginia beach and norfolk. so it'll be squalls and rain for those areas. as far as florida goes. if we're going t...

Considerably to the south. it took virginia out. now the path is leveling out and notice it's not stalling as much. we're taking it now, almost looks like a guaranteed landfall near wilmington. we were thinking it could go like, this like the european model had it, and paralleling the coastline. that's looking more and more unlikely at this point. sought hurricane center does have it weakening over the top of wilmington. that would be about 8:00 a.m. so sunrise come, friday morning, the eye of the storm could be right over the top of wilmington. then it weakens ever so slowly as it drifts down...

It's already created these huge waves off the coast. all of that energy is heading to the shoreline. it doesn't really matter anymore how much the storm weakens. so we're still expecting a 9 to 13-foot storm surge even though at this time yesterday the hurricane center was saying we'd have a category 4. right now it's only a category 2. so it's not changing this equation at all. so for all the people that evacuated off these barrier islands, you did the smart thing because this water's going to come up not just for one high tide cycle but maybe two. maybe three if it stalls out long enough. an...

Category one or two. a million people without power on the island. here's the update. still amazing. now a two-day straight here of category five strike. typically the storms only maintain category five status for maybe one day, two days. the record is three days. the next big one will be 11:00 a.m. this morning. it does take it clear of the mountains. it's no longer -- it doesn't look like any chance at all that the mountains of cuba or of the dominican republic in haiti will weaken. turks and caicos, direct hit later on today. category five. they're going to get crushed. then the new forecas...