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Little bit closer to the eye. the reason why that's important is because these storms have a structure very similar to a wheel. you have the wheel, the center of the wheel and you've got your spokes. well having the dry air coming in is almost like knocking out a few of the spokes. it actually breaks up some of the structure, the storm itself, thus it can help weaken the storm. that's exactly what the national hurricane center is forecasting is that the storm is expected to weaken. the latest forecast from the national hurricane center shows that it's going to, the storm is expected to veer no...

>> the 140-mile-per-hour winds, how fast is this thing moving? and what the relevance of the eye that you were talking about? the size of the eye or the containment of the eye? >> the eye itself is basically an indication of how strong this thing can be. it's not the source of the power, but it gives us an idea of the thing tends to be fairly strong. an indicator that if you've got a well-defined eye, you've got a big storm to be reckoned with. in terms of the storm itself, the scope of it, the thing that's important about it, is the eye, where you have the strongest winds, you have to remembe...

Of workers out there and many ships as well. bp says it is evaluating the conditions. it is closely monitoring the storm itself, and hasn't yet made a decision but says it is possible that they would have to evacuate and shut down the containment efforts, but they had not made that decision yet. jon: i guess awful this is causing -- all of this is causing more oil to wash up on some of the beaches around there, huh. >> reporter: it is indeed. you have heavy storms, blowing winds and waves and the water toward shore, much of it filled with some of the thicker oil we've seen. in fact fushon beac...

On the boulevard peninsula north of houston. this was barrier island. what you are looking at is houses that were on stilts that got hit by a storm surge of 10 to 15 feet with the wave action. there are only four, five houses out of a hundred in the area that remain. that's the catastrophic damage that's going to be in the ft. myers area and naples with a population combined of 1 million people. that boulevard peninsula had maybe a thousand. try to fathom a storm surge in a highly populated area. it really hasn't happened. the worst storm surge with hurricane katrina was in northern mississipp...

So much. but there's also a great sense of hope here. we'll have more on that in a moment, but first the latest on what is now tropical depression harvey. this storm weakened wednesday night. it's moved on from houston, but the governor of texas says the worst is not yet over. life-threatening floods are a big concern here. entire cities are under water in parts of the state. the death toll so far, at least 37 people have been killed since harvey hit friday night as a major hurricane. here in houston, texas, alone, police say they responded to more than 5,000 calls for rescues. now, as a matte...