partner for the landfall of irma. and bill, i ve been watching you all day today talk about this category 53467. yeah, it s hard. we all have hurricane fatigue, and you just don t want to hear about another monster. and there s no reason this should not produce more damage if not worse on harvey and irma. here it is. the storm, well-defined eye. it s not weakening very much yet. we re hoping it will right before landfall, but that will be lucky. still 175 miles an hour winds. we re showing you the wind gusts. only 40 where gabe was located, and they re expecting winds to gust 140 to 160 miles an hour. that s just incredible. we just had a gust in st. thomas of 74. st. croix had a wind gust of 83.
city, we re watching disaster loom. in puerto rico specifically and the caribbean and includes parts that were just hit so hard by hurricane irma. as hurricane maria bears down on the caribbean, we re joined by bill karins. thank you for being here tonight. what can you tell us tonight? we all have hurricane fatigue. harvey, irma, jose. is it dire for this storm or maybe worse? this is the tenth strongest storm we recorded in the atlantic basin and headed for 3.5 million people. we re about 12 hours away from what should be and what i expect to be one of the worst hurricane ds asters that we ve ever seen. i don t say that lightly. we re talking about a storm with 175 mile per hour winds that is going to be heading over st. croix close to it in a couple hours and about 8:00 a.m. making landfall in puerto rico. it looks unavoidable. doesn t look like an escape
as this natural disaster absolutely rocks mexico city and rescue efforts there are starting to hit their stride just heartbreaking pictures of the rescue efforts not just with first responders but regular people joining in to try to protect anybody who might have been saved but buried, while we are looking at that in mexico city, we re watching disaster loom. in puerto rico specifically and the caribbean and includes parts of the caribbean a that were just hit so hard by hurricane irma. as hurricane maria bears down on the caribbean, we re joined by nbc meteorologist bill karins. thank you for being here tonight. what can you tell us tonight? we all have hurricane fatigue. harvey, irma, jose. the message is is it dire for this storm or maybe worse? this is the tenth strongest storm we recorded in the atlantic basin and headed for 3.5 million people. in puerto rico we re about 12 hours away from
today talk about the category 5. we have hurricane fatigue and we don t want to hear about another monster one. there s no reason this one won t produce as much or more damage than harvey and irma. here s the storm well defined wi not really weakening much. we re hoping a little bit before a landfall but that would be lucky, still 175 miles per hour winds, just to the south of st. croix. the wind gusts, it s only 40 where gabe is, they re expecting the wind gusts 140 to 160 miles per hour tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon, what you just saw, add 100 miles per hour. we had gusts at st. croix and saint thomas. here s a look at the current radar. here s st. croix. they are so close to the 175
rico in the next two days. a fearful what happened in what is going to happen in puerto rico is going to be just as bad as what happened in the florida key with irma, with houston and harvey and in areas even that dealt with barbuda and the turks and caicos with irma also. let s show you why it s such a fearful forecast. we all have such hurricane fatigue right now. it s hard to imagine we ll do this again somewhere so close to home. and for the people of puerto rico, you know, the 3.7 million people that live there, this storm is now only 36 hours away from the beginning impact and 48 hours from the worst impacts. so the storm is here. let me get you caught up with the 11:00 advisory we got in a little while ago. it s up to a major hurricane. the hurricane aircraft is flying in that and found winds of 120 miles per hour. it is rapidly intensifying. the million dollar question is when will it stop? as a cat 4 or cat 5 like irma did? that s what we re going to find out in the next 24