or a category 3 system. really speaks to the significance of what a large player it is at this hour. when you measure the cloud field, it spans some 500 miles from its western periphery to its eastern periphery. roughly the size of the state of alaska. drop this over the state of alaska, it would span nearly the entire width of the state. it speaks to the significance of. when you look at a storm of such magnitude, we know tropical storm force winds extend some 175 miles away from the center. so just about everyone up and down the central and northern coast of florida will feel tropical storm winds. some areas will feel hurricane force gusts as well. the question is where does the storm end up when we go from wednesday night to thursday morning. models suggest this will want to take a turn to the southeast. as it does, places such as charleston, south carolina, to wilmington, north carolina, those are the areas we're watching. once this begins to cross over land, you get close to landfall. we think around myrtle peach,