michelle, take it away. >> all right. hi there, steve. this is a storm that has exceeded expectations since the beginning. the first thought about this was a tropical storm the whole way throughout. since then has increased with every advisory for the past 24 hours. we just got the latest advisory as of 11:00. so just a few minutes ago. and once again, we have seen an increase in the strength. we're look at winds at 85 miles per hour. still a category 1 storm. we do project it to be a category 3 storm in time for it to make landfall somewhere in florida. let's take you through the movement. it's moving at 13 miles per hour. that's been pretty steady over the past 24 hours. that's a good thing. at least it was a good thing for the virgin islands. it moved pretty quickly even though it did batter the virgin islands earlier today. so looking on radar we see the swirl right there, we see the eye closing in right now but we see the heavy rain around it. right now over the open waters of the atlantic. what that means is it's continuing to pick up that warm fuel from the waters and it's