CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta August 28, 2021 19:02:00
Tom, what's the latest forecast? this thing is strengthening, no doubt about it? >> no doubt about it, jim. what we've been watching is a well-defined eye popping up. inside the eye, columns of warm air are shooting up and cooling at the top. we got a lot of lightning activity, so it's strengthening. we'll get a 5:00 p.m. update from the national weather service, but we'll see the pressure drop. when the pressure drops, the winds respond and they really pick up. so, again, we're at 100-mile-an-hour sustained storm. we're about 290 miles from the mouth of the mississippi. four out of five hurri...