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Where a lot of the danger lies or exactly right. thank you so much for that reporting. let's go to our meteorologist tom sater outfront in the weather center. where is dorian going now, tom? >> well it's picking up speed, poppy. that's what we want to see but also getting broad ner the wind field. hurricane warnings south of charleston up to the lower neck of the chesapeake right now. we thought maybe this eye would be collapsing for a while. but now the eye wall is closest approach to land within about 15 miles, a little concerned about the curvature of north carolina taking the winds straigh...

The storm surge is going to be significant. feeling it already and it's going to be through the day and into tomorrow. >> i know one of the things i was surprised to wake up to this morning was the news that the storm got even stronger overnight. up to a category 3 storm again. tell me about the storm surge. 4 to 7 feet in some areas on top of these king tides. that could be a real problem. >> it's life threatening. the rainfall on top, some areas getting to 10 to 15 inches of rain. look at the storm surge values. we've got areas in south carolina 5 to 8 foot of storm surge. by the way, that's...

Eyes. in this case we have an ocean that's very warm. the global oceans have warmd up by a degree so far. it's a little less than 2 degrees fahrenheit. we know for each degree of warming, of the ocean surface, you get an increase of 7% in the maximum sustained winds of these very strong storms. that might not sound that big, but the destructive potential of the storm goes as the third power of the wind speed. that's a 23% increase in destructive potential. we saw that. we saw that in the bahamas. the definite station from that wind field. and now what we're seeing is another aspect of that. be...

Intensity hurricane. i have had people tweet at me to say lclimate change doesn't caue more hurricanes. there were always hurricanes. nobody has argued that climate change is causing more hurricanes. it's the temperature inkrecreas and the water causing an increase in the intensity of those hurricanes. the wind field drives a bigger storm surge and it's on top of a foot of sea level rise. now keep in mind, so far we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. while sea level rises less than a foot, we're likely to see 3, 4, 5 or 6 feet by the end of the century if it we continue not to acts on clim...

Destroyed or damaged. let's get right to cnn's tom sater. he's in the weather center with the new forecast for us. tom, what does the forecast show right now? >> well, we've got a new track now from the national hurricane center, don. but for the most part as we focus in on this, it's still a strong category 2 and will remain that way for about 36 hours. it's still moving at 6 miles per hour, jogging now north-northwest. but again, at 6 miles an hour, that's pretty slow considering this is still a tropical system. but because it's been so strong for so long, don, we're going to continue to see...