latest ensembles and it s showing a high probability of tropical storm force winds at the minimum for the louisiana and mississippi and alabama coast, especially as we head into saturday night overnight period and into the day on sunday. that is the time frame we are looking for across the gulf coast states. in the immediate term, the short term here for honduras, nicaragua, tropical storm to hurricane-force winds for the yucatan including cozumel and into cancun. as we head into the day on sunday, that s where we expect a potential category 1 hurricane impacting the gulf coast states. a lot to monitor here, don. i know you re on top of it. thank you very much, eric van dam. this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. it s 11:00 on the east coast. we re live with the big developments of tonight. was stephen paddock casing other possible targets?
west told martin savage, residents need to be prepared for the conditions, you see there the conditions many will return home to. i tell them that be prepared to be shocked when you get here. don t expect ah tll the service that you need, that you can just call somebody and they will come over and fix it. be patient. if you do come back, don t be upset when things don t go exactly as you plan. and if you come back, be part of the solution not a problem. such a strong storm, a lot of devastation, and it s going to take time to rebuild. here s something that many in the caribbean may not want to hear, but more misery seems to be headed for the caribbean islands. they re already devastated. eric van dam is here to tell us about tropical storm maria. gaining strength, 5:00 a.m. update, this is the last news that people want to hear, but as
23.5 million votes. you see mr. rouhani there. this video taken earlier. again, he wins the election in iran. time to talk about weather. major flooding has taken a southern indiana city, forced water rescues, causing millions of dollars in damage. power out in many places. eric van dam has more. talking washington county in southern sections of indiana, population of about 6500 people. salem the name of the town. we have footage to show you what they had to deal with late friday and into the overnight hours. you can see how deep the water actually was. they declared a state of emergency within washington county. there were water rescues, swift water rescues of about 20 people. we re not aware of injuries or fatalities, good news, but a lot
snow is headed next. meteorologist, eric van dam, has the latest from the cnn weather center. we just came across a stat na authorities responded to over 500 accidents in the state of virginia. 650 abandoned vehicles because of the winter storm that moved to the region. can you imagine just driving through some of these treacherous roadways, almost impossible. we have blowing and drifting of snow. you have dangerous conditions and unfortunately the bad roadways have led to two fatalities from this east coast winter storm that moved through. there was another weather-related fatality on the other side of the storm. here is an image coming out of north carolina. some areas getting up to 18 inches of snowfall. the good news is, this storm has moved offshore, off the new england coastline.
evacuated from a vacation at the south pole because doctors say he was dangerously ill. he s in a hospital in new zealand. he apparently has fluonid his lungs. doctors say he wasn t responding well to antibiotics. it s a physically-demanding trip. you have to climatize before climbing around. you can walk around the whole earth in a few steps. hopefully he can recover and go back. a blast of cold air and snow for parts of the northeast this weekend. let s bring in eric van dam. this is what you get when you have cold arctic blast of air overriding some of the relatively warm waters of lake ontario, lake erie and lake michigan. we have snowshowers in the forecast. buffalo, erie, syracuse.