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Carrying the water out of the bay to the south where they swing back around. this is charlotte harbor. this is areas of peace river, which is going to flood dramatically. we've been waiting for a steering current. we have dry air coming down and ian moving all. together they will form and converge. that's going to create a lift. that's much more rain than we had yesterday. 10, 20 inches south of tampa to lakeland to orlando. this alone, laura, would be devastating without the hurricane. so this is life-threatening as well. big changes, not the best for everybody. >> tom sater, thank you. keep ...

Up being the real concern. now the storm has slowed down. it has no steering current. it will take the time meandering out of the northeast. so wheeather prediction center determining the threats of flash flooding, they actually have a moderate risk of flash flooding for new jersey, portions of eastern pennsylvania, southern new york, including long island, parts of connecticut, even western massachusetts. a slight risk here where i'm standing in rhode island and new port. another 1 to 3 inches of rain on top of what has fallen. i checked some of the local river gauges across the area, there a...

Hurricane and bring rip currents to the coast of the united states. reporter: right now we are watching the storm itself right over the atlantic ocean. and with it it is certainly bringing in the wave action and of course storm surge a little bit of a concern along the immediate coastline. the good news is the storm itself is what we call a fish storm eventually heading out into the open waters. the concern is if it becomes a hurricane and heading toward bermuda as we head into the mid-week period. here is the news. the steering current with the storm itself going to be more so out to sea. tha...

Now, richard, when you joined us a couple days ago and you were flying above the storm as well in your gulf stream monitoring dorian, it seemed to be a very come back the and very well defined and very powerful storm. now, as it gets bigger and less organized, is it ease easier or harder to figure out where it's going to go? >> well, it was a -- the problem we had a couple days ago is that the steering current that determined the direction of the storm came to a complete halt, so the environment around the storm had nothing to push it forward. now we do have some steering current, unfortunatel...

It doesn't move at all. it's staying on grand bahama island and the bad part, the strongest winds around the eye wall are the strongst winds and they have been battering the island all day long. >> this is a dumb question but why does a hurricane just stall over an island? >> it's squeezed in between two areas of high pressure. there is no steering current for this storm to move. that should change, though, by the time we get into tomorrow. that's when the storm is expected to pick up a little bit of forward speed. now the storm is now located about 100 miles to the east of west palm beach. it...