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Hilton head and the buford area. here's the new update from the hurricane center. we're at 75 miles per hour. we're at the weakest we possibly can be for a category 1 hurricane. and after this it will drop down to a tropical storm. it's still accelerating to the northeast at 20 miles per hour. and is now getting very close to the macon area. and eventually by tomorrow morning it will be near augusta. and it's still a very big large rain shield with this. here's the new forecast path. again, we're not expecting a lot of damage from here on out. so it doesn't really matter where the center goes ...

Hurricane force winds in geor a georgia. it is really important. it will still produce those hurricane force winds into georgia. not just the damage winds along the coast. you saw how large the rain shield is. you'll get the winds inland. the idea it's going go into central georgia. we'll still see high winds. at what point does it stop worrying you. at some point it becomes a normal stand that a normal city is handle. >> at that point it does. one of the worries that i have is once you get inland, we have such a focus on the winds, but if you think about the flow around the hurricane, even wh...

Around counterclockwise with the storm. it seems to remain a constant as the storm moves up. why is that? >> the thunderstorms that are regenerating themselves. normally, if you get a storm that is a cat 4 or cat 5, kit are the ring around it. but what we're having is we're having a sheer. so what shear is fast upper-level winds that destroy and eat away thunderstorms. that's happening. and also there is dry air. so we get these thunderstorms that are forming, popping up into the atmosphere. and they try to wrap back around. notice they make it about halfway with the bright yellows. and then t...

Radar composite. and the white shows you the cloud cover shield, which still goes from cuba all the way to clouds now. if you walk outside in north carolina and look up in the sky, those are the clouds from irma far to your south. the green shows you the rain shield. all the way now approaching central sections of georgia and south carolina. and we still have rain bands down there in the florida straits. i can estimate it would take me about 15 hours to drive that far, to go all the way through this storm. this is the eye of the center as it made landfall, as we went throughout the 4:00 hour n...

Stronger winds down to the surface and that is really the concern and will it make its way and curve more toward you, anderson? we do believe so, and of course, it's got to make that turn again in the next couple of hours. >> and you talk about the breakdown of the eye. just explain the significance of that because it is now a cat 2. i assume it will be weakening which is good news for anybody in its path in the hours ahead. >> it is. when you lose that eye it starts to kind of become an entire rain shield. when you lose the eye, you're losing what basically is the exhaust of this engine. when...