in puerto rico, which was slammed by hurricane fiona nearly a week ago, there are still broken trees, roads damaged and widespread power outages. fiona continues to cause havoc. in canada, it made landfall in nova scotia at hurricane strength. homes on the coast just washed away. what can we expect? reporter: ian is expected to rapidly intensify over the upcoming days as it moves into the gulf of mexico where the environment is a little more conducive for development. we re losing that wind shear. it changes with height as it moves off to the west at 16 miles per hour. a lot more convection. a lot more organized as we are looking at satellite. as we notice a bit more of a center, we ll gain some clarity as to where this storm is expected to arrive on somewhere the coastline of florida. so currently sitting down in the caribbean, expected to take its track into the gulf of mexico by monday becoming a category 2 storm, with winds expected around 100 miles per hour. tuesday mo
even if the wind storms aren t maria sized, 180 miles per hour category 4 or 5, they can still cause real infrastructure damage. the power is still frustrating people a week after the storm. the one to watch is the one in the gulf of mexico. they get upgraded. this storm now heads to cuba and up into the gulf. speaking of the damage, when you look at the kind of damage that we re seeing in canada and in puerto rico, when they talk about rebuilding, when they look towards rebuilding, how much are these storms and what we know is coming going to change the way these communities rebuild their structures? yeah. that s a fantastic question.
so currently sitting down in the caribbean, expected to take its track into the gulf of mexico by monday becoming a category 2 storm, with winds expected around 100 miles per hour. tuesday morning, crossing over cuba, now moving as a cat 3. a major hurricane, at 115 miles per hour. the cone widens, as we talked about, there is a lot of uncertainty as to where this system can lie or make landfall. from destin, all the way to key west, expect landfall sometime wednesday into thursday. again, that uncertainty lies where the center is with the storm. so as soon as we find that out, we ll have a better idea as to where landfall will be. the american model friday, 5:00 in the evening, coming into play around the panhandle of florida. but notice that uncertainty. the european wednesday at 2:00 in the afternoon. we ve got that center of the storm off the west coast of florida.
brian: you have to think that some of the people have evil intentions and unfortunately you have to deal with it alone. alis anderson, mom of 3 in the border. it is not right, thank you so much for sharing your story. thank you so much. brian: you got it. 14 minutes till the top of the hour. i would like to check with the power vested in me with the senior meteorologist, forecast that it was raining, i have to say it is not. janice: not right now but we do have rain in the forecast along the easthe east coast this weekt least for the first part of the weekend. let s take a look at it. we have elsa strengthening in the atlantic, we will see perhaps first hurricane of the season. this is the earliest fifth name store on record and there are the computer models, crossing over cuba and south florida and east coast as well as the gulf coast need to monitor the system. the forecast intensity is not gate when it comes to knowing
how strong the storm is going to be once it crosses over cuba. bottom line is make preparations, it s a listening season. early start to it, right. there s a forecast rainfall regardless we are dealing with a depression or tropical system, we are still going to see very heavy rain from south florida up towards the southeast coast with the current trajectory. all right, past 24 hours, you can see the showers and the thunderstorms lingering across the east coast. we have the chance throughout the day today into saturday and then the gulf coast as well. we will see the potential for the scattered storms. that s your forecast today. again, watching the gulf coast and florida and the southeast as elsa comes to visit us probably monday, tuesday and there is your fourth of july forecast, actually not too bad but we are watching the gulf coast and we are watching the path of elsa, unbelievable that we are talking about the fifth named storm this early. am i tossing back to brian with the power