cape hat ta rust darn hatterus. all the way up to new jersey, coastal maine. that is the most frustrating part of this. i can t tell people this is exactly where it s going to go right now. it s a wide swath. here is the hurricane right now 135-mile per hour sustained winds. we thought they were going to weaken a little bit as of the last advisory but they didn t. it is going through a bit of an eyewall replacement cycle, which means it s starting to try to reorganize, to strengthen again. you know, jon and jenna this could actually become a borderline category 5 storm which is the highest you can have. this is the path as of 11:00. we will get a new advisory at 1:00 which will give us cord nats and how strong the storm is. right now the national hurricane center has not bulged on this track. unfortunately we can t rule out a u.s. landfall at some point over friday and saturday, but, again, the worst case scenario
central texas and 2 to 4 inches for parts of louisiana. i want to show you the track of hurricane alex. we get a new advisory out at 2:00 p.m. which will give us cord nats. it looks like we will have a category 2 storm overnight tonight as it continues to make landfall, most likely in northeast mexico. guys this is the first hurricane that we ve seen in the gulf of mexico since 25 years, so 1995. patti ann: wow. reporter: a june storm. pretty impressive. patti ann: janice dean live in the weather center thanks. jon: fox news alert right now the senate is voting on weather to confirm general david petraeus to be the next commander of our forces in afghanistan. general petraeus has plenty of supporters who say is the right man to replace general stanley mcchrystal. that includes our next guess retired lieutenant general tom