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Catego 5. take a look the this. we think sometime early wednesday morning potentially as early as later tonight this storm could move ashore across portions of the virgin islands before making the turn towards turks and caicos. we've talking about -- harvey was predominantly a rain maker. irma predominantly a wind event. this storm essentially has both of those elements into one. the wind z, as you see a category 5. you work your way towards this region, the population has tripled since 1920s. last time the category 5 made landfall. this would put it directly over san juan here sometime in the...

Weaker tropical storm. after that it becomes a rain maker and a tropical depression, on this path, the heaviest rains would be atlanta through augusta, to savannah, columbia to the coastal areas, near charleston, isolated flooding problems during the day today on that path. and the other story is, we are still getting the high winds on shore. we heard from one of the reporters on the beaches from volusia county north wards towards jacksonville up into savannah, those areas have high morning issue the morning high tide cycle is happening now especially want to ask you about the storm surge ende...

Live was unbelievably hard hit. arthel: how is your home? >> our home is fine. thanks for asking. our heart goes out to people. we went to beaumont. arthel: our hearts are definitely there with all of you in southeast texas as well as southwest louisiana, do you like -- would you like to see changes to the infrastructure or system in houston after harvey? >> well, i think we are going to have have learned some things by this disaster. the president has already talked about an infrastructure bill, if you will. since our area is such a huge generator of energy, such big economic driver, fuel pri...

Seeing. this is heavy rain. you see it spreading across the entire southeast. going to be a rain maker as we head into the weekend. other things we're paying attention to, this one is intimidating. back in the gulf of mexico. just a 20% chance of forming but that's what we'll pay attention to. it could bring a new round of rain to the gulf coast. otherwise, and this is the real big one, we're paying real close attention. hurricane irma. this is way out in the atlantic. it's forecasted now to become a category four storm. that's taking into early next week. this is a big one, one we'll be watch...

That important perspective from where you're sitting. thank you. congressman randy weber who represents beaumont in texas. you're at sam's club where they're loading up water for folks. what are you seeing? >> thank you, hallie, they are. we're in dire need. tanker trucks of water and distilled water. one of my friends has tracked down. they need water. they're hard hit. heavy flooding as harvey moved their direction. lot of work to be done. >> why did this seem to catch everybody in beaumont off guard, congressman? >> i don't think it really caught them off guard, hallie. you've got a rain ma...