tracking a brand-new hurricane threatening to follow irene's path. wouldn't that be something? she is out there but she is not staying out there. meteorologist janice dean is tracking it. she's getting stronger is she? >> reporter: yeah, we just got the new advisory. at this point still a hurricane, minimal category one moving west at 18 miles an hour. we are still like a thousand miles away from the northern leeward islands, many days to catch katia and see what she does. we do expect this to become a major hurricane into the weekend and into early next week. again there is san juan puerto rico, north of that region, we'll have to wait and see as to what katia will do. more importantly we are watching the gulf of mexico. a low pressure system south of new orleans. a lot of convex involved with that east of the low. these are what the computer models are doing, it looks like my two and a half-year-old skaobg a crayon and went [yelling] stph-fpl we could have a tropical storm that brings