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Eye of the storm. what we're doing, we're dropping drop sons. instruments that fall by parachute. they're the opposite of a weather balloon. they go down and record pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction. all of that data gets fed into the models that help forecast the track of the storm. we're not only going to fly above the storm and through the top of the storm, we're also going to fly a pattern northwest of the storm through the bahamas and east of florida in order to sample the environment that the system is heading towards in order to make those drop sons. all of tha...

>> shepard: hurricane hunters flying into the eye of irma and that's how they get a lot of information about help with predictions and the rest. i mentioned earlier, we may have a chance to go live to one of the hurricane hunters. sure enough, joining us now, richard henning. he's in one of the specialized planes and with us by phone. he's the hurricane hunter's flight director for noaa. right now i understand you're above the storm. is that right? >> yes, sir, shepard. we are flying in an altitude of about 42,000 feet right now. flying through the top of the symptom. we're located just southe...