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One is going to get very close right here to the lesserse antilles by saturday, the area that was just raked by this cat 5 storm. kind of insult to injury right here. there's another one there in the gulf of mexico, that was going to move into mexico. that cat 5 right there, irma a that we are concerned about. w this is a radar image. righted there, you can kind of e two i walls, going through a replacement cycle. this is the thing that happens with these large hurricanes.r the strongest of these winds just offshore. great news in puerto rico, we'd seen some hurricane force gusts but i think t...

>> thanks to those hurricane hunters we get a better idea of where it's going and what it is doing. we don't have measurements over the ocean, we can't send out the balloons so the planes provide a crucial look for us. two -- looks like were going through a replacement cycle of the storm. it will likely go through some for my fluctuations. we've been skiing wings pop tarts hurricane strength, unfortunately that outer band right there is just off of san juan, that's where we have the hurricane force winds and the cat five hurricane force winds are in that inner circle. over the next couple of d...

Talking about maybe 4.5 feet of rain. that's almost 6 feet tall. it still looks like it's strengthening. pressure continues to fall, the replacement cycle, i will say that in a second pair look at this. in this land fall sometime tonight or into tomorrow morning, tomorrow evening, it is pulled inland and we are still category one hurricane. we are now dealing with this per se 18 hours and we still have a hurricane. this here is the radar picture. we have lightning going out in the center, that is usually an indication of strengthening. >> harris: you know we've got reporters in the field. they...

Within 70 michael miles of the coastline. we believe it is going through an eye wall replacement cycle. %-p which hasn't changed a whole lot. even though we have one model with 6:00 a.m. land fall near cape canaveral. an eye wall replacement cycle means this. typically if it loses a little energy you think it is interacting with land. the eye wall cannot sustain this kind of strength, like spinning a top on a table. it can only handle that so long before it wobbles. now we're finding the eye wall, stronger winds are being forced out, creating a secondary band. that is the replacement cycle. on...

You were telling me that the path seems to be changing a bit. >> bad news for puerto vallarta, kate. we are tracking the eye closely over the past couple of hours and notice a little wobble to the left away from manzanillo and the eye gone under a replacement cycle over the past couple of hours and strong storm. here's puerto vallarta. you can see the storm is looking like it's going to make more of a direct line up towards puerto vallarta. winds still around 200 miles per hour. sustained the strongest hurricane ever seen and the strongest storm ever recorded. moving to the north around 12 mil...