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thank you so much for joining me. i m for greca whitfield we begin with this breaking news, the national hurricane center alerting moments ago that tropical storm beryl is forecast to become a dangerous major hurricane and barrel would be the first hurricane of the 2020 four season. let s get right to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. so you ve been watching this storm. what s it going to do? right? i mean, i think the key thing here is how early in the season we re seeing this storm develop in the location two, so here s a look at where barrel is located right now, that central tropical atlantic just east of the windward islands sustained winds are 65 miles per hour gusting up to 75 for those that don t may not remember 75 miles per hours, that threshold in which it becomes a hurricane. so we re only about ten miles per hour off of that forward movement to the west at 23 miles per hour. but what makes this storm interesting? we talked about how early in the season ....
reporter: his audologist explained how much he has to learn and how difficult it will be. he doesn t even realize the difference between the noise maker shaking and the sound of his mother s voice. until he can learn to discriminate those things, it s a pretty scary experience. reporter: unlike a traditional hearing aid, the cochlear implant sends coded sound waves into the hearing nerves. back in the testing room mom finally sees david s fleeting but unmistakable reaction. david. david. you hear me. it s going to change his life completely. i already see it. reporter: david s younger brother joseph with similar hearing and behavioral problems will be evaluated for an implant next giving this whole family the promise of a future full of speech, laughter and music. they ll all be able to hear together. what a sweet story. very cool. the reaction amazing. ....
And the inner ear is connected to our brain. so if we lose hearing normally, we put a hearing aid on or something called a cochlear implant which we put in the inner ear. this child has nothing connected from the ear to brain. jenna: wow. so the hearing aid won t work or cochlear implant won t work. what they did is they put an implant directly on his brain stem which is one of the first steations in the brain. stations in the brain. jenna: how effective is it? well, we don t know. in adults it was primarily performed in people who had no hearing nerves, and they often had brain tumors, and that s the reason the ear wasn t connected to the brain. the performance has been iffy. they have perception of sound, but they couldn t carry a conversation or understand what we re saying. the hope in children, of course, is because their brain is otherwise normal and it s much like learning a language, so if they start to hear something, they might actually develop ....