that my family is paying attention to that. as we heard a little while ago, not everybody is leaving. some people are going to try to stick this thing out, so we ll wait and see happens. but, certainly, to shut down the ca so e knows in atlantic city, you know it s a big deal. let s check in with janice dean at the extreme weather center with the latest on the storm s track. reporter: i m really glad you told us that story about your family, that is what i like to hear as a forecaster, that people are taking this storm very seriously because we are dealing with a very dangerous, potentially deadly storm if people do nod heed those do not heed those warnings. tropical force winds extending almost 300 miles away from the center of this storm. this is a very large, lumbering system as it moves up the coast, and a lot of real estate is going to feel the power of irene over the next 24-48 hours. you know we talk about those commuter models that make up that cone of uncertainty, this
the national hurricane center is thinking it has a chance to regenerate. if it does, this would be the general path it would take. the closest it would get to south florida, sometime around saturday at midnight or so until 2:00 a.m. that s the closest it should be to miami. then the hurricane center thinks it makes a more northwards turn and parallel the florida coast. that cone of uncertainty includes florida, but most of it is off the coast. on sunday, it will head up towards the carolinas. they think at this time it could strengthen over the warm waters of the gulf stream and have a category 1 hurricane along the south carolina or north carolina coast. we have a lot of interest here with emily. the big key is what will the state of emily be tomorrow morning after it comes off of haiti and the dominican republic? as far as commuter models go, a lot of them are taking it close to florida and parallel to the coastline going from sunday into monday. let s talk about the heat. this was s
look at the temperatures on the thermometer, well into the 90s but feeling good in chicago and minneapolis due to the cold front up there and staying very chilly across parts of the west. things are getting a little interesting here into parts of the atlantic. there you can see africa over here and this is the caribbean. it is in the middle of nowhere right now. this is just a tropical wave but it has a pretty good chance of developing into tropical depression number one, possibly even before the day is over. the commuter models brings it toward the caribbean islands. however, the winds here not favorable. if we do get development here in the next day or two, it likely won t last very long. john and kiran, back to you. essentially a harbinger of things to come. keep bringing out the spaghetti models on monday morning. this morning s top stories minutes away now, including bp on the clock. the president demanding a plan as he gets ready to address the nation about the worst oil sp
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the east coast to cape cod during the day tomorrow. hurricane warnings cape cod, hurricane warnings from virginia beach southward to just outside of jacksonville, north carolina near camp lejeune. as far as our commuter models go, everything is taking it offshore at this point. the only close call is out there at nantucket, martha s vineyard, chatam. it should be a category 3 and then a category 2 by the time it s south of new england, weakening to a category 1 as it impacts either down east maine, they re probably going to get hit good saturday morning. the tropical storm force winds, the worst where stephanie is located, and then as everyone drives to work tomorrow, delaware and coastal new jersey and then we take that wind field up into virginia on friday evening.