after hour after hour. but yet here it is. we re going into hour 40 here. the eye continues to be well defined. it s been undergoing restructuring, and it looks like we ve got good news without a major landfall just yet, until we start to see some really big storm surge in the turks and caicos. the radar pulling away from san juan, really sparing the northern coast. 4 or 5-foot storm surge. most of the heavy rain bands stayed offshore because it was undergoing what we call an eye wall replacement cycle, it s like reorganizing itself. typically they lose a little bit of strength. i thought for sure in this 11:00 hour, maybe it would drop a little bit in the wind category, but it has not. the track has not changed much, although from last night at this time, it moved about 16 miles eastward, and maybe another 20 to 30 more have been added on. again, we still have a cone of uncertainty that does head off on to the west coast of florida. but anyone from the keys all the way up toward wilmi
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heavy rain bands, which is some very good news. still warnings for the turks and caicos which started evacuations. as well as southeast bahamas. they re looking at storm surge close to 15, maybe 20 feet. only about 6 feet for the northern coast of puerto rico. they re going to be in the worth quadrant, that northeastern quadrant where the surge and the winds are going to be howling. still now looking for a turn to the north. this track has changed slightly from what it was 24 hours ago. this morning, the national hurricane center pushed it about 60 to 70 miles eastward. keep in mind, we still have this cone of uncertainty. it could still go west but still could stay off the coast of florida. right now, however, the models, spaghetti plots are telling us some time on saturday it makes the turn. we re waiting to see if it s going to interact with the landmass of cuba because that could starve the energy and maybe break this category 5 down to a 2. that would be devastating for cuba. look
mayor of corpus christi, texas. his city to bear the brunt of the storm. and the governor s text declared an emergency for 30 counties and spoken with the president about possibly emergency measures from the federal government, and at 1:45 eastern, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders will believe the press talking how the government is preparing for the hurricane in text. we ll bring that to you live. the leading edge of the hurricane is bringing rains and strong winds to parts of the coast including corpus christi. it doesn t look too bad now. obviously, as hours drag on here it s going to get worse. what s it like now and have people there been heeding the call to evacuate? reporter: about an hour ago, jim, we saw some heavy rain bands come through here at