hurricane gusts now being reported in key west. a couple of significant things to talk about. this eye is collapsing. which means it s undergoing some restructuring. it s an eyewall replacement cycle which means each time it does that the winds expand outward. now right now, the winds have not changed. hurricane-force winds extend outward 40 miles each direction. that s an 80 mile a wild swath of hurricane winds. tropical storm force winds has not changed but it s well when the cycle changes. already it is almost a 300 mile swath. it looked like landfall earlier, and the timing of course, give us a few hours here, maybe between 4 and 8 pm tomorrow afternoon. the center is changing. what is the new and the latest advisory, don, is that we have been watching and tracking of course this entire system. and each six hours, we get a new track. monday morning, every six hours, look at the trends. they ve all been moving towards the south and east, and in the latest advisory, a few more degree
decade and some of the worst coastal flooding as well in nearly 50 years. and in fact a buoy has already recorded a wave height of over 50 feet and there is also reporre reports of hurricane gusts. and this is continuing to move northward rapidly, but it deepened as it reached the bering sea, the strait that separates russia from the state of alaska. and you can see the flood warnings in place. the national weather service talking about how it will take 10 to 14 hours for the water to recede from the bays and inlets of the western facing shoreline. once the storm finally departs. water levels expected to be as much as 12 to 18 feet above average in some of those bays. you can see the storm system kind of wrapping in on itself,
rain, wind and strong hurricane gusts to nova scotia and as well as bermuda to bringing a full-on snowstorm to greenland by the end of the weekend. so quite a juxtaposition there. quite update on hurricane ola, wind gusts nearing 100 miles per hour, and it is a category 2 hurricane. it will weaken in the hours to come, but the good news is here the storm is expected to move away from the baja peninsula within the next coming days. thanks so much, derek van dam. appreciate it. british scientists say most of the world s remaining fossil fuels should be left where they are. in a new study, they say 60% of oil and gas should stay locked underground by 2050. the same applies to 90% of the world s coal. scientists say the need is to
from friends, and people were freaking out. they re like what s going on what do we do? reporter: today they surveyed the damage the water came up to here at any point did you start to get scared? oh, yeah, yeah. we got scared. we wondered about the foundation and if this house is built in 1927 reporter: like so many in this community, she had no flood insurance. maplewood hasn t seen a flood like this in decades. just a few days ago, what was a hurricane along the gulf coast the eye wall of hurricane ida is now approaching new orleans, and we are feeling those hurricane gusts somewhere around 85 miles per hour reporter: its remnants bringing extreme weather to places that are not used to it warming atmosphere is going to make heatwaves hotter it s making wildfire seasons longer, and it s making these flooding events more extreme. reporter: the question tonight, can cities be better prepared some new york city subways closed down again due to rushing water. it seems t
the entire city of new orleans without electricity. some outages could last for weeks this is a massive electrical power that collapsed during hurricane ida with several feeder bands, all throughout new orleans. a lot of people think this may be one of the epicenters of the city s power problems. so many tonight anxious about how long this could last. reporter: you look at this, and you re thinking we re not going have power for weeks, if not months exactly exactly right. it will be a long time before we get power here again reporter: all of it beginning sunday as the powerful storm made landfall. the eye wall of hurricane ida is now approaching new orleans, and we re feeling those hurricane gusts, somewhere around 85 miles per hour and the sad part is things are only going get worse. and they did winds reaching more than 170 miles an hour on the coast power lines like these stood no chance. the rain relentless. testing the state s upgraded levees, which thankfully appeared to ha