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What are you seeing? what's the latest on the path of this now-hurricane, category 1 hurricane? >> it's moving west-northwesterly. a little bit more after westerly turn could be expected. that makes it more likely that we're going to be seeing a north mexico landfall. but even if we see that, keep in mind it is that right front quadrant as we call it of the hurricane that causes the worst damage and some of the strongest of winds. we could see some of that on south padre island as well as the brownsville area. you can see some of those bands already beginning to move in at this hour. this is a...

If they get up to 40-mile-an-hour gusts in the area where they're doing this oil clean-up and the work out there, they would have to evacuate. let's talk wind first and then we'll talk was. will they get anything possibly? any chance we're going to get up to 40 miles an hour? >> in a squall, without a doubt, yes. i know we focus on where it is and where it's going. but these outer feeder bands away from the storm itself -- even if it's a gust of 30 -- let me find the other map. i'm going to figure out which one i want. in these squalls as the squalls come over to these boats, ships, there will...

♪ i will be taking this dish as criminal evidence. ♪ gadzooks! these handles are hot. [ male announcer ] new kraft homestyle mac and cheese. rich, creamy, oven baked like jefferson used to make. [ jefferson ] thievery! welcome back to msnbc. let's get the latest on hurricane alex. it is expected to gain strength as it swirls in the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. 80-mile-per-hour wind and on a collision course with the texas/mexico border. stephanie abrams is joining us from south padre island, texas. that's where they're bracing for. what is it like there now, stephanie? >> we are ge...

We're getting one of those heavy squalls right off the gulf of mexico. but tomorrow 15, maybe 20 inches of rain with wind gusts of 50 miles an hour. more than likely this will be upgraded to a hurricane either this afternoon or this evening. this storm is moving northwest at 13 miles an hour and is expected to make landfall in this area sometime tomorrow night. in the meantime, the skimming operations have been shut down, hundreds of miles a away, because the swell of the waves have propagated off the coast of louisiana, florida, mississippi and alabama. that's because some of the waves there ...

Is under a hurricane watch. the national hurricane center is saying that this system does have the potential of getting close a category 1 status by the time to makes landfall up the west coast of florida come tomorrow morning. as you see here, we have heavy rainfall across the florida straits and as the system pushes to the north,en conditions wilo downhill. we've had thunderstorms on monday and then more thunderstorms across miami dade this morning. and we'll continue to see that. in surfside, we'll see stormy gusty squalls as we go through tuesday. and then wednesday, thursday, it is back t...