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The 11:00 p.m. update. which we'll pass along to you. we have the hurricane hunters flying through the center of the storm as we speak. they have picked up on winds over 80 miles per hour. so clearly hurricane force. it is strengthening and it will continue to do so for the next several days. really the only thing between here and the southeast coast of u.s. is open ocean warm bath water. >> we're talking about the potential of the storm getting really big and we don't know exactly where the storm will hit. there are many states under threat right now. >> at least six. from the carolinas thro...

P.m. update which, of course, we'll pass along to you as soon as we get it. we have the hurricane hunters flying through the center of the storm as we speak. they have picked up on winds over 80 miles per hour, so clearly hurricane force. it is strengthening and it will continue to do so for the next several days. really, the only thing between here and the southeast coast of the u.s. is open ocean warm bath water. don? >> so we're talking about the potential of the storm getting really big and we don't know exactly where the storm is going to hit. but there are many states that are under thre...

Florida. earlier i told you, where the center of the storm was earlier this morning there were 17 storms within 100 miles and only one ib made landfall in florida in 2004, now where the center of dorian is, we went back to 1950, found 12 storms, only one made landfall two years ago on the florida peninsula. some in the gulf, many in the atlantic. a lot can happen here, percentages are on our side, every storm is different. let's take the cone of uncertainty. from miami up to georgia, the steering currents in the days ahead, will determine where we're going to have more of the warnings, where w...

Packages around the storm. we are coming over the florida coast right now to return to our base in lakeland. hurricane hunters have been trying to get the steering currents on where this is going. >> i know you've been doing this for more than three decades. how does this storm compare to others you have seen? >> well, this one reminds me a great deal of way back in 1985, hurricane gloria. perfect storm in the bahamas, it went up to long island. the winds spread from new york city over to cape cod. this one is doing something similar. the winds are spreading way out. there's a strong pressure ...

Logan poole, an extreme meteorologist, is with me. with all the storms you have covered, how does this compare? >> a little different, anderson. the pressure actually stayed fairly low for a storm of this magnitude. we talked about, oh, it's dropping from category 4 to 3 to 2, but barometric pressure, which is one way to measure the intensity of a storm, stayed fairly low. in the 950 millibars up until landfall. that being the case, it allowed the storm to expand the wind field instead of being so concentrated. that's why even now, portions of the eastern north carolina are still experiencing ...