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Latest track update. >> yes and more information that came into the national hurricane center at 11:00. now a category 1 storm is expected to become a major storm and could make land fall along the gulf coast as a category 3 storm. let me show you what we're seeing. here's what it looks like on satellite. you see the darker colors and reds indicating a stock storm. higher cloud tops. the cloud over parts of mexico and extending to parts of florida. watches in place. we expect this to be upgraded to warnings later on today. where you see the pink, that's your hurricane watch. the yellow, your t...

All weeks long we have been trying to get the word out until irma makes a turn to the north, we can't do that. i thought by now the system would have made the right turn. sure, there is a northerly component, but it is west worth west. if this continues on a west northwest track, we may barely get a land fall in key west. at some point it will turn north ward. notice the color of red. higher cloud tops. notice how it broadens off this coast. this is getting stronger and the first category five to make land fall in cuba since 1924. now we have got tornado warnings. we've seen quite a few of the...

Has been quite tumultuous in the region, in fact it's monsoon season. as our meteorologist janice dean has been pointing out all day here. looking at the satellite behind you really does paint a grim picture when you're talking about air travel? >> julie that was the satellite imagery we received at the time where we lost the flight or lost contact with the flight, and you can see the cloud tops here, so this is infrared satellite imagery, meaning that we look at the cloud tops and the shades that you see and the deeper shades of red, meaning the cooler cloud tops the higher cloud tops and the...

Is and also if you could kind of what people in clearwater and tampa are experiencing now and what is going to, how it compares to what they should expect in the hours ahead. >> well, obviously if you look at the infrared satellite imagery the bright red colors are the colder higher cloud tops. on the northwestern flank, tampa, st. pete you're looking at the riged, the band of thunderstorms. people am the emergency services said we're going to hunker down, not going out right now. little surge in the northwestern quadrant. last time i was with you, some things have changed. maybe we demand mor...