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From the eastern most tip of new york and montawk, long island, mike, take us through both. obviously what's behind you there, but as i said first and foremost, this sudden explosion into a category 5 and the real chance that puerto rico is going to have a category 5 land fall. >> yes, indeed. maria just blew up. it went from a cat 1 to cat 5 in 27 hours. it made land fall in dominica, a small island in the antilles, lesser antilles a few hours ago. the only saving grace is it's a small tightly wound hurricane. so, the hurricane force winds only extend out 25 miles. but it made a buzz saw acro...

Over islands that were mostly spared by irma. sadly, it might be aiming at puerto rico. the great intrepid weather channel meteorologist mike seidel joins us with an update on both. from the eastern most tip of new york and montawk, long island, mike, take us through both. obviously what's behind you there, but as i said first and foremost, this sudden explosion into a category 5 and the real chance that puerto rico is going to have a category 5 land fall. >> yes, indeed. maria just blew up. it went from a cat 1 to cat 5 in 27 hours. it made land fall in dominica, a small island in the antille...

That's starting to expand. all of these signs of strengthening in the storm, as if a category 4 wasn't bad enough. winds right now, 130 miles per hour, we expect them to intensify as it pushes to the northwest. land fall is expected on or near dominica in two to three hours from now. likely to intensify even more before making its way to puerto rico, and the dominican republic. all the models are in good agreement up to puerto rico, it's up to that after they start to split. the blue is the european model. the red is the gfs, pushes it a little closer to the u.s., why is there such discrepancy...

How great the response has been, how they've been effective in, you know, in houston and florida, you know, that's one of the big things you've seen. and, actually, i think very presidential. there's a lot criticism in the cabinet all about trump and going about crooked hillary clinton last night. he fits into the mold of a president. >> there is now going to be a discussion of how much money is going to be needed from the federal government to try to help some of these folks in florida. senator marco rubio in that. he was on this show, roughly, 24 hours ago to the minute talking a little bit ...

So unfortunately, i'm seeing people out here still. but it does seem like most people here in tampa heeded warnings and have stayed away from this area right now. >> now i want to get to karen in the cnn weather center. she joins us now. give us the latest forecast for irma. >> look like this is the most don, we will see perhaps the most impact right across tampa. its position puts it about 35 miles to the south southeast of tampa. this is a water vapor image and what i noticed most strikingly is that this southwestern edge has got a little bit more dry air into it. that's because it is not si...