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Huge hospitals, you have a good setup as far as generation. there will be power outages. >> interesting how the morning unfolds, the tornado threats, still under tornado watch until 6:00 a.m. eastern time, we have a warning on the board for orange county and osceola. >> we have only gotten a taste of the rain band. threat for tornados will go up. we'll check back in a couple of minutes, we have full coverage on the ground. >> mattin ifn joins us from upon st. pete beach. what is your experience like over the last couple of hours? >> you know, the weather has been dramatically fluctuating.

Coming in at category 1, 75 miles per hour. that barely puts it into hurricane status, but it is going to rapidly intensify as we get through the next 20ish hours before it makes landfall. we're talking it needs 35-mile-per-hour increase in the winds in order to be considered rapid intensification. it'll definitely get that. right now moving north at 14 miles per hour, that pace is going to pick up, as well. it is right now leaving us with some rain across parts of cuba and moving into parts of florida later today with the outer rain bands. check out all of these watches and warnings we alread...

Infrastructure that you talked about being impacted by this storm. leyla will continue to do her work. we'll check back as she continues to gather news from puerto rico and fiona that's continuing to wreak havoc there. let's go to jennifer gray in our weather center to get a better sense of how long puerto rico is going to feel the impact and where fiona is right now. >> well, ana, puerto rico is positioned in the most unfortunate part of the storm because we're seeing fiona drift away from puerto rico. it's actually north of the dominican republic right now, but where these outer rain bands o...

Coast, were flash flood alert are posted tonight from southeast texas to the florida panhandle. hurricane nicholas came ashore as a category one storm with gusts approaching 100 miles per hour, downgraded but still powerful, it is slamming the region with torrential rain, more than nine inches in houston so far. some areas could end up with more than twice that amount in the coming days. and communities still struggling to recover from hurricane ida two weeks ago, are again being inundated with more rain. and the storm is moving slowly, pounding southern louisiana and mississippi. life-threate...

Storm? people may be tempted to go outside. this is moving so slowly, people have to resist those temptations at this point? >> i was thinking about the words to use at this time. we can't let our guard down just because we made landfall. we're just starting with this. that's going to bring some of these winds close to baton rouge up to hammond. you have outer rain bands and eye wall bands that are going to produce horrible damage. the slower you move -- look at these rain bands. even though the individual cells are moving fast, notice there's no east-west movement. all of this rainfall is goi...