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And closer. our meteorologist is in the weather center. jennifer, dorian is on the move and very dangerous? >> yep, dorian is finally on the move. we should add it was sitting stationary over grand bahama island for so long. now it's moving at 6 miles per hour. it's running parallel to the florida coast. we don't expect it to get much closer to florida. the problem is the wind field is expanding. tropical storm force winds extend 175 miles from the center. so tropical storm force winds will absolutely make it on shore. the center of the storm has 1 110-mile-per-hour winds, gusts 130. on this t...

120 miles away from the center, now 175 miles, especially on the north end. so we're seeing the wind field expand. even if the winds are lower in the center, the impacts could b >> reporter: and we're beginning to feel the winds pick up here as time goes on. ken graham, director of the national hurricane center, again, thank you for being with us. we look forward to speaking to you over the next day. so joining me now by phone is florida senator rick scott. senator scott, thank you very much for joining us. let me tell you what i'm hearing from the people in your state. they're saying we've ...

Storm and if it has made that northward turn. >> yeah, john, we're watching it real close. it looks like we're finally up to about 2 miles an hour. that doesn't sound a whole lot but at least we have a trend of movement and not stationary battering the bahamas. with time, continuing to move to the north. right along the coast of florida and even georgia, south carolina and north carolina with time, they'll all be dealing with this throughout the entire week. >> reporter: chad myers was telling us it is now a category 2 hurricane. what are the chances of it strengthening as it moves out over th...

Surge and some very heavy rainfall close about 15 centimeters in a few spots and there's even a chance the carolinas the outer banks could see some isolated tornado activity thanks to the strong winds in the upper atmosphere associated with the hurricane after that should pass harmlessly out to sea and be probably pretty much a fish storm after that so as you just mentioned it's been downgraded to a category 2 that might strike many people are saying it's not so much of a problem anymore could you lay out what's what are some of the dangers that this storm still poses for people on the atlanti...

Lock at his tweeter feed. he's pushing out the information that fema is sending out, the national hurricane center is publishing on the forecast. making sure that all of his followers are up to speed on what's happening with the storm. we want people to pay attention. >> shepard: secretary, one thing that people should know what would you like to tell them? >> i'd like to tell them not get complacent. because the current track shows it off the coast of florida, that does not mean we won't see tropical storm force winds or hurricane winds lashing the coast. as it heads up to georgia and south c...