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Prepared. what's the story of irma that people on the ground need to be prepared of. we are hearing of catastrophic winds. is water a big concern as well? >> so harvey is a completely different storm. i mean, it was a rappedly intensifying storm that did bring category 4 winds for a small duration for the texas coast but then lost steering current for the next five to six days which means copious amounts of rainfall. irma has good steering current. it's moving at 17, 18 miles per hour. so right now the major hazard that people are going to see that we evacuate them for is coastal flood unnun a...

Landfall in devastating rockport in texas. with harvey we didn't have a steering current. let's look at steering current right now. you'll see high pressure kind of keep anderson to the south. this little trough in the eastern u.s., i wish it was hanging around. that's our one hope to get it off the eastern seaboard. we're going to miss out on that. here comes another. this will save landfall from texas and louisiana but move tutuit up, of course, into florida. what coast we're not sure yet. >> what could change this to where it ends up? >> the biggest question is, anderson, many people want t...

There can't just evacuate, they have to hunker down and hold out. british virgin islands as well as puerto rico. with the system, i think the storm will stay north of puerto rico, but this is new. we have a warning now for the coast of the dominican republic, as it moves counterclock wise it will throw . most likely will become a hurricane in the last 20 minutes or so. it will not follow irma and head to the north. the models, this is unbelievable. right now, irma is much stronger than harvey when it made landfall and devastated rockport in texas. there are differences, with harvey we didn't h...

On many islands with loss of power communications maybe water. so as the system moves i believe the eye will stay over water. that's going to continue to sustain the strength. but again, the damage is going to be north and south of this. when you look at the track from the earth national hurricane center it's been like this the last couple days. high pressure in the atlantic keeping it to the south. looking a the its forward momentum you think maybe it would move into the gulf of mexico. can't rule it out just yet but are losinged window that could maybe spare the u.s. a landfall. moving off t...

We are looking at it. there is no steering current. water temperatures are very warm. two key ingredients. take a look. this is called a her. take a look at this. one strong band as we go into monday, afternoon, into tuesday. into louisiana. they look at potential for flooding. just to back it up. this is the european model. meaning they plug in different parameters. we have a north american model. but they are are all in pretty good agreement. and it brings out tropical storm harvey into the gulf of mexico. keeps it along the coast. moves back in over houston. with the staggering rain fall to...