this wind and the rain has come down so far during hurricane alex. and we were talking just a second ago, port isabel a few years ago n. ] saw hurricane dolly. people remember that and remember it well and they re heeding the warnings. are people getting out of there or are a lot of people hunkering down to ride it out? reporter: well, we were on south padre earlier this morning and some people are just going to weather the storm. they re saying it s not as bad as dolly because alex is going to hit down in mexico. it s only a hurricane 1 and dolly was a direct hit on port isabel. they re hanging out over there on the island. hopefully they re doing all right. but getting a lot of wind and the storm surge has started to come up on the beaches. we were over there earlier. already seeing flooding up the our kneecaps on some of the streets. it s coming fast and furious. it s a hurricane 1 but still blowing pretty good and raining pretty hard. david sears, we appreciate you hanging in
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all the way from thursday morning to friday morning by over a hundred millibars. this was a tropical storm one minute and less than a day later it became a category 5 hurricane. that s up heard of. but patricia has shattered so many records and that s one of them. looking at the satellite loop, the storm is breaking up by the areas that we have the bright oranges and reds. those are the higher cloud tops. a little bit more improvement because it s interacting with land. so where we are right now, the storm is about 50 miles south-southwest, moving to the northeast at 20 miles per hour. the pressure has improved but look at the winds, down to 75 miles an hour. we went from the category 5 to a category 1 in less than a day. the track takes this storm further inland. as it works its way through the topography, where it s more mountainous, it will dissipate by a strong tropical storm later today. the risk for flooding throughout the region will persist for mudslides and heavy torrential ra
hey, there. good morning, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt. here s what s happening right now. we begin with breaking news. the damage left after hurricane patricia roared across the mexican coast late last night. it s now a category 1 hurricane with winds topping out at 75 miles an hour. patricia was a category 5 storm with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour. it was the most powerful hurricane on record in the western hemisphere. so the storm made landfall in a relatively low populated area. the central mexican coast. no deaths have been reported and patricia is weakening as it moves inland. but the hurricane is having an impact on texas. rainstorms spawned by patricia and other weather systems have inundated north texas on friday. rivers have overflowed their
how wide is it? a thousand miles wide. if this storm skirts the coast they are going to see potential tropical force winds hurricane force winds. the org nierzs in tampa are watching carefully as the storm continues to move their way. the radar filling the outer bands of this storm as it continues to move west ward and northward. here is the latest advisory moments ago. it is pushing into cuba monday and tuesday watching hurricane 1 minimal hurricane pushing the coastline of florida. because the storm is so wide we are seeing the effects from the keys up toward miami and
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