and now we have a storm that's getting stronger as the hours progress. we have a pinhole eye. it's not the larger storms that are always the most destructive. sometimes the smaller an eye, the more compact a storm, the more ferocious they can be. irma had an eye about 23 miles in diameter. this is 11 1/2. look at the winds, two hours ago, they were 160. the last hour, 165. that would still make it the strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in puerto rico, and now we have just upped it to 175. this is amazing. you'll notice how compact they are. we call this an annular hurricane. this is going to create a world of problems. 70 miles now from st. croix. don't think they're going to take a landfall, but anything is possible. hoping to get a secondary band on this radar. that would tell us we're undergoing an eyewall replacement. that could lose strength going through the process. that's the only thing that could be helpful to st. croix, the u.s. virgin islands, pounded by