the inner eye wall. and it's contracting in toward the center and normally what that does is it actually weakens the storm briefly. so what you might see overnight is you might see the hurricane bottom out in intensity, maybe even weaken just a few millibars, but then once it completes that eye wall replacement cycle, it's right back to being even stronger than it was before and irma's been pretty amazing because it's gone through about four or five of these cycles over the last few days. >> incredible to see. i appreciate all the work that you and all your colleagues are doing to keep us informed. richard henning, thank you. >> thank you. thank you, anderson. much more on hurricane irma shortly. the path of the storm heading toward florida. we'll have an update from puerto rico where they're already seeing effects. up next, though, a political storm. the controversial deal president trump made with democrats and what republicans think of it, next.