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South florida. places like miami, ft. lauderdale, or does it veer just a little bit to the north and hit more of the central locations near the space coast areas. maybe around melbourne. the other question is, when does it make that turn north. the slower it does that, the more time it has to dump a tremendous amount of rain across florida. we have hurricane watches in effect for portions of the bahamas right now, likely to add some of those to florida as we head into the weekend. and we get closer to that landfall point. the storm is stirred by a high pressure system here toward florida. the ...

Hour, more significantly, we talked about the storm intensifying. here is a look where the track is expected to take. it will be out over open water not necessarily hitting land but a good thing in terms of the storm because it allows it to intensify. there is nothing to weaken the storm in the short term. long term, the question where does it go from here? it's going to start to curve back towards the state of florida and in fact, just about owns the entire state of florida is in the cone of where a potential landfall point could be and perhaps making landfall as high as a category three stor...

Because of wind speed or is the rainfall to be torrential or is it the storm surge? >> reporter: it's going to be both. it depends where you are. if you are at the landfall point, your biggest concern is going to be the strong winds because remember they are up around 130 miles per hour. but for some of the surrounding communities, especially on the coastal regions it will be that storm surge and heavy rainfall that will likely be the biggest impact. so, again, this is, unfortunately, one of the storms where just about everyone in florida is likely going to have some type of impact from this s...

A good thing in terms of the storm because it allows it to intensify. there is nothing to weaken the storm in the short term. long term, the question where does it go from here? it's going to start to curve back towards the state of florida and in fact, just about owns the entire state of florida is in the cone of where a potential landfall point could be and perhaps making landfall as high as a category three storm. the question is why florida? because by all normal circumstances, these storms always want to veer north. always. under normal atmosphere conditions but that's not the case here. ...

Strengthen dorian from where it right now. the main concern is going to be impacts to florida. here's a look. regardless of where it actually makes its landfall point this is a graphic showing where tropical storm strength winds will stretch out. we still anticipate landfall to be up around category 4 strength. but the tropical storm force winds will expand well outside of that landfall point. you can see a huge swath of areas still likely to have wind speeds up around 70 if not even 80 miles per hour. so that's another thing for folks to understand. even if you are not in the path of the actu...