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We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So...

Miles-an-hour. at 110, this becomes a category 3 storm. we are just shy of that. i expect overnight tonight it will continue to strengthen ultimately as we said getting up to a category 4 hurricane. here's that track turning into a 3 overnight. by early tomorrow morning, a 4. i think you will see things deteriorate through the early morning hours. even though we're looking at an afternoon to leavening landfall event -- afternoon to evening landfall event, it will get nasty by sunday morning. what i want to draw your attention to, if we get a landfall, say, 1:00 p.m., it is still a category 1 h...

Orleans are pretty mild, at this point. it's breezy and some drizzle but that wasn't the case overnight. there were some pretty heavy wind gusts. and those rain totals were just where they were forecasted. somewhere between 3 and 5 inches, overnight. some areas, getting up to 8 inches, in isolated spots. so there -- there was a landfall event here. this is the first of the hurricane season for the new orleans area. but certainly, not the damage that they expect with hurricane season or much-larger storms. this is sort of the warning flag, though, that hurricane season is underway. preparations...