of mexico named willa. it s going to hit north of puerto vallarta. by the time we get to this weekend it s going to be moving through northeast. you can see the storm here. it lost its well-defined eye. yesterday was a category 5. it s doing an eye wall replacement cycle. sometimes that weakens the storm. right now we re looking at it being a category 2 storm. it has winds of excuse me, category 4 storm, 130 miles an hour. yesterday it was 155. they do think landfall as a category 3. that s a lot better than a 5. then we ll take all that moisture and bring it up here to texas. here s the rainfall forecast through thursday. notice the purple. that s about an inch and a half of rain, same areas that had the
flooding last week in areas, especially there in texas. right now it doesn t look heavy enough to cause a lot of extreme flooding, maybe just isolated flash flooding. it s going to be a soaking rain here wednesday in texas and then through the southeast into thursday. so this is 5:00 p.m. this evening, some rain and tropical moisture all the way through new mexico. here s the landfall down in mexico itself. a ton of moisture in texas on wednesday. dallas and san antonio wednesday afternoon, wednesday evening you ll be driving home in the rain. by thursday we track the rain through the southeast including pensacola and montgomery. thursd we also have a weak storm going through new england today. going to have rain on and off in areas like boston. we ve got the world series taking place this evening, but temperatures will be on the coolish side in the 50s.
mueller for his service, calling him an american hero and adding that he s respected the prosecutor s work for decades. let s get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. you re tracking hurricane willa. it s a category 4 on the western side of mexico. not every day you get a major hurricane makine ining landfall. it s at 130 miles an hour winds. it was at 155 yesterday. we think it s going to make landfall likely as a category 3 north of puerto vallarta. as we go throughout the life of the storm, landfall will be this afternoon, then the rain will go through texas into wednesday. now let s talk about this storm coming through the northeast. it s diving down from canada. out ahead of it there is even some light snow showers in maine. here s the timing of it. keep in mind we ve got game one of the world series taking place later on tonight.
so, what looked like a truth one minute can fall apart the next. you are right. these are complicated negotiations and these have to be turned into a real agreement that s literally hundreds and hundreds of pages. we re going part by part with euro. i was down in mexico last week. we had a terrific meeting with the new administration. the nafta talks are back on track. that s our number one priority to get nafta done. we will negotiate these by peace with the eu and we continue to have conversations with china and we will see what we get. but you are right, these things have to be negotiated because the president is very clear. he doesn t just want to talk. we want our counterparts to follow through and deliver on breaking down barriers and creating better opportunities
so, what looked like a truth one minute can fall apart the next. you are right. these are complicated negotiations and these have to be turned into a real agreement that s literally hundreds and hundreds of pages. we re going part by part with euro. i was down in mexico last week. we had a terrific meeting with the new administration. the nafta talks are back on track. that s our number one priority to get nafta done. we will negotiate these by peace with the eu and we continue to have conversations with china and we will see what we get. but you are right, these things have to be negotiated because the president is very clear. he doesn t just want to talk. we want our counterparts to follow through and deliver on breaking down barriers and creating better opportunities