hours and in some cases still hurricane force winds the next 12 to 24 hours, forecast rainfall amounts upwards of 20 inches of rainfall. that we have to watch the turks and caicos and the bahamas and the east coast needs to monitor this into next week, tracking maria all day. heather: did the eye of the storm passed directly over st. croix? we heard there was a possibility. and other smaller islands but they got the strongest core of wind in the area. heather: it is their job to protect and serve but police officers in st. louis are under investigation. why the mayor is taking aim at police instead of violent protesters. rob: the fiery words to north korea part of a bold speech to leaders. the iran deal was one of the worst and most 1-sided transactions the united states
city, we re watching disaster loom. in puerto rico specifically and the caribbean and includes parts that were just hit so hard by hurricane irma. as hurricane maria bears down on the caribbean, we re joined by bill karins. thank you for being here tonight. what can you tell us tonight? we all have hurricane fatigue. harvey, irma, jose. is it dire for this storm or maybe worse? this is the tenth strongest storm we recorded in the atlantic basin and headed for 3.5 million people. we re about 12 hours away from what should be and what i expect to be one of the worst hurricane ds asters that we ve ever seen. i don t say that lightly. we re talking about a storm with 175 mile per hour winds that is going to be heading over st. croix close to it in a couple hours and about 8:00 a.m. making landfall in puerto rico. it looks unavoidable. doesn t look like an escape
what should be and what i expect to be one of the worst hurricane disasters that we ve ever seen. i don t say that lightly. we re talking about a storm with 175 mile per hour winds that is going to be heading over st. croix close to it in a couple hours and about 8:00 a.m. making landfall in puerto rico. it looks unavoidable. doesn t look like an escape path. where we d miss puerto rico here is st. croix. you can see the well-defined eye. pinhole eye. it s small. the 175 mile per hour winds are only in this circle. that is where the devastation will occur. there is mystery where that travels over puerto rico, over san juan, the highly populated areas where 1 million people live and central puerto rico but less people live there. nobody will win. it will be extremely destructive. it just depends where it goes and i want to advice everyone in st. croix right now, you re getting into hurricane-forced winds and now we re only about 40 miles, 35 miles from that eye. it s time to get to your
after that. after that, after four or five days it s entirely a guess. i want to show you so far south florida not in the cone and also not in the forecast when it comes to search, eight days away in the computer models. nothing is out of the question. we saw that with irma. where does the cross happen? the yellow line is irma. the middle of this line here the red line, that is maria. over the turks and caicos, right over d.r., through punta canna and dominican republic and puerto rico where we will see big swells on the east side of the storm over st. croix with a damaging hit there. think about the u.s. vi and bbi their houses are torn up. doesn t take 100 mile per hour wind to blow things around and they may get 120. here is jose grabbing a bunch of dry air and killing itself. that s the good news. still swells here along the east coast and for new york all the way up to about boston, we will see tropical storm warnings that were just posted from this but
storm. later today it will just be a dr tropical depression. none of the moisture is making its way to our country so we re not worried about it here. we re going to track some severe storms over the next couple of days. first today colorado and kansas. friday this cold front located over st. louis, eindianapolis ad detroit. on saturday, not a good beach day. cold front coming through with showers and thunderstorms saturday afternoon. the great weather on sunday will be found in the great lakes and ohio valley, typical afternoon storms in the southeast. i haven t mentioned much about the west. you ll have great weather right through the weekend. new york city is one of those spots that s had great weather over the last couple of days. that tcontinuese today.