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Order and really get their preparations finalized before this thing, you know, comes, blows, beginning late tomorrow night into the day on wednesday. category 5 is an unfathom bl storm. we just saw what a category 5 will do to an island. we saw barbuda, st. martin, those islands were devastated by irma. maria is going to pack the same punch unfortunately. we talked about the crisis in puerto rico with infrastructure,ky tell you, bret, we say category 5, the winds are 165 miles per hour, that s what s coming. there s nothing to slow it down. if you look at progression of storm eye just today, it starts off vague and now it is stark, clear and it is swirling. how is this storm? how is irma different than other ....
To go. the rain and winds are starting to pick up tonight. michael, i can t believe it, that we re talking about this, happening again where you are, what are conditions like? we ve hardly finished covering the last one, which we were covering in florida and then out here in the caribbean as well. you know, it s interesting listening to alison. we re 110 miles or so from dominica where it is expected to make landfall in about 2 hours or so from now, you can see the conditions behind me. we re already getting whippedably wind and rain. the ocean behind me was royaling earlier before the sun went down. even 100 plus miles away from the eye of this storm we are getting fierce conditions here in antigua. what s independenting with the track is places like dominick ....
Hurricane maria has been upgraded, it is now a category 5. it was a 4 a couple minutes ago. you re now talking about sustained winds in 150-55-mile-per-hour range, headed for the caribbean, possibly the east coast. meteorologist has been tracking some of the strongest hurricanes ever including irma. you were there with harvey. we are now in the past few minutes reporting the storm has been upgraded to a category 5. that s going to be the strongest storm in more than 85 years to hit where you are right now. what is your biggest fear? reporter: we re very concerned for the entire area. there s a lot of people here, we are in the district of san juan right now and there are a lot of people still out tonight. we re hoping people are really going to heed this evacuation ....
That s starting to expand. all of these signs of strengthening in the storm, as if a category 4 wasn t bad enough. winds right now, 130 miles per hour, we expect them to intensify as it pushes to the northwest. land fall is expected on or near dominica in two to three hours from now. likely to intensify even more before making its way to puerto rico, and the dominican republic. all the models are in good agreement up to puerto rico, it s up to that after they start to split. the blue is the european model. the red is the gfs, pushes it a little closer to the u.s., why is there such discrepancy between the two? it all comes back to this high pressure. the european model is banking on this mod moving, that would ....
Breaking news tonight, a new major hurricane exploding into a dangerous category four storm. hurricane maria now heading straight for areas as you can see, the caribbean and possibly the u.s. coast right now. this is the eye of maria, a new image just released by nasa. you can get a feel for the power of this storm. you re looking at 130 miles an hour. alison is out front in the weather center. here we are, i can t believe it another week, another storm, what do you know about mar maria? your words just a minute ago, getting stronger by the minute could not be more accurate. we look at each individual loop of this storm, as 2 goes through. the eye wall is getting clearer and larger, the purple you see, ....