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Southeast. most models put landfall if it happens between central florida and the carolinas. cnn's chad myers is back with us from the severe weather center. chad, where is this hurricane now? and just how fast is it moving. >> moving about 8 to 9-mile-per-hour. and 380 miles from west balm beach. although it's not heading to west balm beach because it's going to turn. just so you have a reference for distance. it is a day and a half away from the bahamas. and this is the time that the bahamas are really going to have to do some significant soul searching, whether you want to protect your valu...

5 hurricane. you combine that with king tides. that's actually an abnormally high tide for this time of year. literally the moon is rotating around the earth at its closest point. and it's exaggerating the tidal swings on the ocean. you combine the two variables, and we put communities on the coastline at risk to coastal erosion. you can see this home behind me here in hutchison island has been susceptible to coastal erosion. there is beach erosion behind it. as we the storm draw near the storm it picks up the surf it allows for more situations like this behind me. >> derek van dam we see peop...

Process. forensic meteorology, they have to get in there and see how a structure is built before they can determine how it was ripped apart. i went out with tim marshal, considered to be the rock star of this type of work. he helped develop the enhanced fujita scale, the scale we use today. he doesn't have official word of what this tornado was which came from mississippi, through tuscaloosa, and headed into north georgia. likely an ef-3 if not ef-4. there is an ef-5 with winds of 200 miles an hour across smithfield, mississippi. so many large, powerful storms, anderson. >> rob, this is obviou...

He's joins us from tuscaloosa. you spent the day with the national weather service trying to determine tornado strength. what did you learn? >> reporter: well, i learned that it's a slow and arduous process. forensic meteorology, they have to get in there and see how a structure is built before they can determine how it was ripped apart. i went out with tim marshal, considered to be the rock star of this type of work. he helped develop the enhanced fujita scale, the scale we use today. he doesn't have official word of what this tornado was which came from mississippi, through tuscaloosa, and h...

Of this field of work. he's a structural engineer and tornado expert at the same time. he helped develop the enhanced fujita scale, the scale we use today. he doesn't have official word of what this tornado was which came from mississippi, through tuscaloosa, just barely missed birmingham and headed into north georgia. likely an ef-3 if not ef-4. we have determined there is an ef-5 with winds of 200 miles an hour across smithfield, mississippi. so it's been quite an outbreak with so many large, powerful storms, anderson. >> rob, this is obviously the third night we've been covering this storm,...