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Just a little bit. that is weakening it but instead of ten miles wide, it's now 30 miles wide. that means the devastation is through a larger area but not as extreme. this red circle shows you, san juan got to 78. that's when it does structural damage, trees are falling down, power is going out. and there's the center of the storm, about an hour, hour and a half away from landfall of a strong category 4 hurricane. they haven't seen something like this since 1932 in puerto rico. here's the eye. you can notice that the innerportion of the eye which was really pronounced kind of is falling apart....

Miles west. that may not seem like a lot, but that's enough to really continue them into that track of uncertainty. here's a look at the model comparison. the red circle being the american model, the blue being the european model. at this point both of them have pretty dissent chances for cities like boston and nantucket but it's not just those places that will have impacts from this storm. really from maine all the way down toward florida rip currents are going to be a huge thing, so a lot of folks maybe trying to go out, you've got some fall break, maybe trying to take the chance to go out t...

P it's that marco island in naples area. >> you're speaking to the true lack of any modern precedent. you were saying that wide, wide red circle representing the core of the hurricane, we can see that moving up. is there any time that something that wide has hit this much land mass in the united states? >> we've had huge storms before. floyd was a big storm. katrina had a huge wind field. very large tropical force. we had storms that's this big before. katrina was like a category 4 bordering on category 5 in the gulf. by the time it made landfall it did weaken down to a category 3. this is exp...

And you'll notice that in the track here. the cone of uncertainty as we head into sunday, monday, still includes florida, but now starting to see the caroline as show up in that. that's because of the model trends. and i'll show you the molgd z right here. notice lots of agreement through say friday into saturday morning. and then the turn happens. there's one cluster of models taking the storm into florida, south florida here. and then another cluster taking irma into the caroline as for possible landfall in the caroline as or somewhere along the southeast. we're dealing with a lot of potenti...

Puerto rico and florida are already under states of emergency as people there are preparing for the worst. look at the path of this thing. the national hurricane center warns that the storm is, quote, potentially catastrophic with an increasing chance to affect parts of florida later this week. i want to bring in nbc meteorologist rafael miranda who is tracking irma's path. rafael, what have you got there? >> ali, we're seeing a storm we've never seen before in the atlantic basin outside of the caribbean. this is the strongest in the gulf of mexico, 185-mile-per-hour winds, really a monster an...