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Around 85 degrees fahrenheit. so there's nothing to prevent this storm from continuing to intensify. >> cnn teams are spread out covering this storm and preps that are under way. let's begin with meteorologist chad myers who just got an update from the national hurricane center. what is the latest? >> it's still at 130 miles per hour. earlier today, it was 140, but we lost the inner eyewall. an outer eyewall tried to build. it's normal. just like rapid intensification, that's another term we used yesterday. we're not seeing that now, but that could come into play again tomorrow. the hurricane ...

Hurricane florence we begin with breaking news because of this hurricane that is bearing down on the east coast right now, a hurricane watch has just been issued from south carolina to the north carolina/virginia border. florence is barreling towards the u.s. coast. let's get right to cnn meteorologist chad myers, he's tracking the path for us. so how fast is this moving? when do you think it's going to make landfall? >> moving now at 15 miles per hour and that's more than we've seen yesterday. we were somewhere around 9 or 10 miles per hour yesterday, getting over very warm water. we had what...

Lowe's home improvement store, they say those shelves will be restocked as quickly as they can. they are already sent out 550 truckloads as of last night to help that restocking process and that will continue, john. >> kaylee watching things. i want you to take one more look at what this storm, hurricane florence, looks like from space. look at that eyewall just churning. that is what is heading right now to the east coast of the united states, the city of wilmington in north carolina right now the most likely city to leave a direct hit or near direct hit. joining us now is the mayor of wilmin...

Have coming. our goal is to protect lives and property. now we know that this evacuation order that i'm issuing is going to be inconvenient for some people. but we are not going to gamble with the lives of the people of south carolina, not a one. that's why we're doing what we're doing. >> bill: senior meteorologist janice dean live in the weather center watching it. that's the status of florence? >> we're seeing eyewall replacement cycle. this is what's happening right now and this is what's happened overnight. it means the storm is trying to strengthen so it is going through some reorganizat...

Tens of millions of people are in irma's path right now and told to prepare for the worst. stay with us throughout this hour as we put you on the ground right in the path of this monster storm. first, a better look where the storm is heading right now. that means chad myers is standing by to give us the latest on the forecast, the track of hurricane irma. chad what are you seeing? >> i see finally now that the u.s. model we talked about yesterday and the european model that we talked about yesterday are finally agreeing. and they are agreeing on the european version of what they had yesterday....