that doesn t mean a lot to folks in the path of it. what s the difference? category 4 is 130-mile-an-hour winds, now down to 125-mile-an-hour winds. still a massive storm. this is the eye wall, the hurricane stretching out beside it, general track, there all the way until it hits land. just within the last 40 minutes or so, see it turn to the north. that is going to affect folks in the immediate path as we begin to see it take the northerly route, anyone in that direction obviously on the right-hand of this system, that s where the strongest winds are. the major population center here is corpus christi, beginning to turn a little way away from that, not turning it any closer to it. i think the strongest winds behind for folks there. still have a storm the rest of the evening but lifting to the north and perhaps just rain is the big concern for those folks for the rest of the night as we continue to deal with. this the problem is going to be moving forward from tonight into tomorrow.
couple of hours ago in this parking lot. a massive sign that really could have caused some serious threat to life had anyone been underneath of it. fortunately this area has been mostly evacuated since early this morning, not by mandatory order but by voluntary. a lot of people getting out of the way of this storm as these winds come through. now, it s not feeling like we re anywhere close to what was predicted in terms of, you know, 125-mile-an-hour winds. but we re definitely experiencing torrential rain and very heavy wind right now. katy beck in corpus christi, thank you very much. sadly, hurricanes love things like burger king signs and cracker barrel signs and the roof over gasoline pumps, among the first things to go when you cover a storm. we re fortunate to be joined tonight by john nielsen gamen, a ph.d. in meteorology, texas a&m
it gets back out into the ocean. san antonio could be in for a major surprise of what they re going to get, too. not 125-mile-an-hour winds but flooding when you thought you were evacuating. when did they say that harvey was going to be so devastating? this came off the yucatan peninsula as a blob of nothing. it looked like scrambled eggs with a little tabasco on it. it looked like nothing four days ago. all of a sudden the models picked up on it and said, wait a minute. it exploded, and the models knew by tuesday afternoon, to answer your question, not until tuesday did we know a category 3 hurricane was going to make landfall. so 72 hours sounds like a lot of time, but when you have to board up your windows, find places for
in case the power goes out and whatnot. and i definitely recommend that people should go get the water before they actually do run out. i will may be come in later. harris: they are tracking the storm, this is really about respect, respect that rain amounts because it is fierce. yeah, we knew that this was going to be a big rain event, harris, and now we know it will also be a big hurricane event, there are two things really to watch, it is a very strong storm already, and the forecast of this is now getting much stronger, so tomorrow night the forecast right now is saying 125-mile-an-hour storm, that is the cap for a hurricane, we haven t seen anything like that along this coast for at least 47 years in this part of texas, there s a lot more people in the area now who haven t experienced anything like that, and so one thing that is incredibly strong
in kinston, north carolina, where the neuse river is expected to reach record flood levels tonight and tomorrow and in greenville, north carolina, at least 9,000 residents have evacuated their homes. that s roughly one in ten residents now spending the night in shelters as the effects of hurricane matthew still felt in the southeast. they have tough days still to come. thank you, polo. hurricane nicole is weakening as it moves away from bermuda. this is what it looked like from space passing over the island. it brought 125-mile-an-hour winds. it never officially made landfall which was a good thing for bermuda. it did drop a lot of rain. 8 inches in bermuda by the time it is all over. big storms in the west this morning. i want to turn to meteorologist derek van dam. good morning, john. the storms on the pacific northwest. today, heavy rain and high winds