if you re ordered to evacuate, you need to do that. get out now while you have time, while there s fuel available and you ll be safe on the roads. with dorian bearing down on the bahamas as you were seeing there, we re getting an extraordinary look inside the eye of the storm itself. this from a group brave enough to fly a plane straight into the storm. nbc s katie beck has more. reporter: inside the cockpit of air force hurricane hunters, scientists look dorian square in the eye. major alex boykin is at the controls. we ll be reading the waves on the way in and through the eye wall and we ll be able to track its movement and see if it stalls or turns. this one has been very hard to predict. reporter: these air force and noaa high-flying stations travel through turbulent conditions, slicing through the eye wall of the hurricane to determine the conditions at the heart of the storm. probes are dropped into the hurricane to measure pressure, temperature, humidity, wind
dorian baring down on the bahamas at this hour. and we re getting an extraordinary look inside the eye of the storm. from a group of brave enough to fly right into the beast itself. inside the cockpit of air force hurricane hunters scientists look dorian square in the eye. major is at the control. these air force and high flying weather stations travel through conditions. slicing through the eye wall of the hurricane. to determine the conditions at the heart of the storm. probes are dropped into the hurricane to measure pressure. temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction. getting the information that we need vital knowing how strong the hurricane is. and where it s going. they have been given the information gathered from up
enough to fly it to track where it s headed next. nbc s katie beck has that part of the story. watch this. reporter: inside the cockpit of air force hurricane hunters, scientists look dorian square in the eye. major alex boykin is at the controls. we ll be reading the waves on the way in throughout the eye wall and we ll be able to track its movement if it will stall. this one has been very hard to predict. reporter: these air force and noaa high-flying weather stations travel through turbulent conditions, slicing,000 the eye wall of the hurricane to determine the conditions at the heart of the storm. probes are dropped into the hurricane to measure pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction. getting the information that we need vital to knowing how strong the hurricane is and also where it s going. reporter: even given all the information gathered from up above, it s difficult for forecasters to predict exactly what will happen here along the coast. we also
warnings, as this storm emerges, bringing treacherous driving as it moves across the country. so, let s get right back to chief meteorologist ginger zee, back with us again tonight tracking it all. hey, ginger. reporter: hey there, david. the national weather service in the twin cities put out a bulletin today, saying this storm could make history. this, after the twin cities had their biggest april snowstorm just last year with 15.8 inches. we could see numbers like that again. not just in minnesota, but let me take you to the map. you see all of the warnings, from colorado through wyoming, nebraska, south dakota, that s the heart of the storm. i ll time it out for you. most of it wraps up tomorrow in the rockies, and then starts to go into the plains and northern great lakes wednesday through thursday. and it s really thursday through friday that it hits kind of northern minnesota and wisconsin. timing-wise, it again is midweek through late week and we re going to see 6 to 18 inche
was h 69 and here we are expecting 7 5 and we are going to be seeing the significant flooding and damage here in the entire region, and a lot of people are bracing for what could be a catastrophic storm sur surge. there are several streets in this area that they know that are most likely going to be to seeing the worst of the storm surge and everybody in those particular areas are cleared out and still a lot of residents that are starting to hunker down, and these are the kinds of conditions they will be facing over to the next 24 and even possibly 48 hours, ali. yeah, i mean, i am looking at the storm track in the bottom right corner of the screen. you not even close to the heart of the storm, and so places like you and southwest of you on the coast of north carolina could end up getting winds much bigger than you are getting for as you said for 24 hours. this is the destructive capabilities and not just the storm surge that is higher than you r but it is the amount of time that bu