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Has y has this thing been weakenin weakening. there are warnings in effect though. tropical storm warnings. and is we are expecting in the tropical storm force conditions will be possible by early this afternoon. that will mostly be in the form of squall lines as we call them. they should pick up in intensity throughout the day. so not really expecking flood issues. another big story is the heat. there are a lot of heat advisories in effect here. we will continue to track

About a quarter-mile stretch of the beach and at that point, without the rain, we had at least 100 people enjoying the beach or perhaps even in the water. but over the last 45 minutes, we had a serious rain squall come through here and now that number has dwindled to maybe about 20. we talked to the fire chief here in south padre island, texas, they're warning people to stay off and out of the surf here because there's still a very strong rip current. if you want to go in, go in maybe about knee deep, make sure you have a firm grasp on the kids here, but otherwise, enjoy the beach, but be wary...

Stronger. you can see, take a look at this -- this is the eye of the hurricane now showing up on our radar picture right there. you can see it is moving in the west-northwesterly direction. look at squall lines now as they move across parts of northern mexico, all across the texas coast and all across the entire gulf of mexico. it is a really large storm. here's the latest track. it does continue to show that those wind speeds will continue to increase even up to a category 2 probably before landfall. we think that will happen later on tonight or maybe real early tomorrow morning. but again, t...

Half of the gulf of mexico and it is bringing in these squall lines all the way into parts of florida. a very large storm. we're going to be feeling those tropical storm-force winds and impact in texas probably just a few hours from now as these squall lines continue to push on through there. now the forecast brings it into northern parts of mexico. texas no longer even in the cone of uncertainty. but you're likely going to be getting some very heavy rain, flooding conditions can be expected. even into central parts of texas. another threat that we have with tropical systems is that tornadoes ...

And warnings. jacqui jeras is in our hurricane headquarters in atlanta this morning. how's it looking from where you stand? >> well, this storm hasn't really intensified since it became a hurricane. it's been kind of status quo with winds of 80 miles per hour. what it has been doing, it's been getting bigger so the wind field is much broader and those tropical storm-force winds go out 200 miles from the center of this storm. now that center of the storm is about 230 miles away from brownsville so that tells me we could start to see those tropical storm-force wind gusts, at least, really at any...