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Should have been 56. it was 80 in memphis on a december day. the jet stream also in the way pushing storms at a rapid rate. we had a level four out of five risk for severe weather. that's just one short of the highest risk there was. so we started out about 6:00. we have some storms on the radar. we start to get more and more of these tornado warnings in different areas. here's st. louis. in mayfield. many tornadoes were on the ground at the same time. and this is where the rub is. we had such large tornadoes, these were called super cell tornadoes. the storm itself was all by itself. we typic...

Background. plenty of businesses boarded up. this area, the geography, if you were just to look at a map of this part of florida, the big bend, it's in the shape of a "c." it catches all the water from approaching hurricanes. that is why this region is so susceptible to storm surge. and also considering that much of the area is without the helpful nature of some of the sea islands that protect so much of the coastline of florida. there's st. george's island off the coast. if you go a little further to the east, then you're without the barrier island. that means that it is very likely that we'l...

Today talk about the category 5. >> we have hurricane fatigue and we don't want to hear about another monster one. there's no reason this one won't produce as much or more damage than harvey and irma. here's the storm well defined wi not really weakening much. we're hoping a little bit before a landfall but that would be lucky, still 175 miles per hour winds, just to the south of st. croix. the wind gusts, it's only 40 where gabe is, they're expecting the wind gusts 140 to 160 miles per hour tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon, what you just saw, add 100 miles per hour. we had gusts at st....

The wind gusts 140 to 160 miles per hour tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon, what you just saw, add 100 miles per hour. we had gusts at st. croix and saint thomas. here's a look at the current radar. here's st. croix. they are so close to the 175 miles per hour winds. here's the southern type of the island. this inner eye wall is only about 14 miles away. that's how close it was to -- this is as close as they're going to get to that eye. so i don't think they're going to go through the inner eye wall. there's two eye walls, we call it concentric. this one may try to weaken and dissipate b...

If that storm surge is in your home, that's major devastation. let's zoom out a little bit more, go up the coast. here's tampa and here's st. pete, here's that waterway, an additional 15 feet of water possible across he region. this jutes out a little bit. this has already moved toward the northwest just slightly. we're looking at being battered by that upper right quadrant that's where we see the potential for very high winds, the potential for tornadoes. already i saw fisher island, 57 mile an hour wind gust. key biscayne, 65 mile per hour wind gust. if you shifted from the east coast of flo...