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Refuge area even if we go left or right a little bit. 100 mile per hour storm right now. a little brighter color pattern, more purple color in the center of the eye. that means the storms are higher, they're colder, they're the tensifying. something else i've just seen here. on the radar we're seeing lightening again which means likely an intensification process going on. the track has changed slightly to the west, 20 miles or so from the last advisory at 5:00, but that puts hurricane force winds all the way into georgia. there are hurricane warnings in georgia. can't remember the last time i'...

This is just a very serious storm. it'll be one of the very strongest storms to hit louisiana since the 1850s. >> well, let's talk about all of this with tyler mauldin. tyler, hi. just give us a sense of -- of where it's heading right now. >> hurricane ida has begun its rapid intensification process, robyn. it's about 185 miles to the south of houma, louisiana. about 100 miles to the south-southeast of the mouth of the mississippi river. and it's heading right in that direction. sustained wind right now of 115 miles per hour so it has strengthened by 15 miles per hour just within four hours. g...

Right now. >> yes. the storm is still strengthening, though and expected to become a hurricane late today. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joins us now. where is it heading? >> it's going to be eventually heading toward bermuda. in the short term the good news it's heading away from the united states and the bahamas and taking the threat of gusty winds and heavy rainfall. sustained winds about 60 miles per hour. so that is an increase about the same time we were yesterday. we are seeing that intensification process. movement is technical to the north/northwest at 7 miles per hour but see a ...

Becoming a major concern. the slower it moves the worse this hit could be, where is dorian right now? >> right, so it's still out over the open atlantic. we've been seeing it go through an eye wall replacement cycle. we've started to see that intensification process, thus, we are now up to a category three storm, also known as a major hurricane. winds increased up to 115 miles per hour, the forward movement pretty much the same, northwest at 10 miles per hour, that is going to be one of the key things to monitor over the next 48 hours, because that is really going to give us an idea of when an...

Have just been ordered for parts of new orleans. our mee or tteorologist, alison chinchar is tracking the forecast for us. >> we have a lot of now up to 60 miles per hour xwusing up to 70 miles per hour. we're also starting to notice the storm take much better form. this is a good indicator the storm is starting the intensification process. we also see, we have also seen an extension of the hurricane warnings to know include the city of new orleans. it also includes biloxi as well as mobile, alabama. now, in terms of storms, this is the bigs threats with nate. here's a look. areas of new orlea...