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keep giving an accurate forecast. it may not be good news but it will be accurate. on a personal note, what sit like when you re flying through a storm that you know will be hitting your home state? well, don that is one of our biggest worries right now. that of course all of our families up up there in the lakeland and tampa area. we are thinking about them. while we re flying of mission, we have to put full focus on the mission itself and we re always looking for good news. but good news for us is bad news for someone else. we want to make it as accurate as we can. jack parrish, hurricane hunting with nooa flight drerkt, thank you so much for your time. we appreciate the work you do and stay safe. well, don, you re very welcome and we re headed back to lakeland now. we will put two or three more flights into it and one more
powerful category 3 storm a major storm with 115 mile-per-hour maximum sustained winds. and the hurricane center says it s capable of doing serious damage. we re also getting a look now at the center of hurricane earl. look at this. this image from a nasa global hawk drone, one of those remote controlled planes flying at 60,000 feet over the storm. this specially outfitted surveillance drone took off from edwards air force base in california to gather information about it. we re told it s the first time one of these drones has flown over a hurricane. a dangerous mission, really, because as the pilot told one news agency these planes were built for reconnaissance, not hurricane hunting. while hurricane earl may not look too bad from 60,000 feet up. it s a far different story at sea level. rick reichmuth is in the weather center. rick leventhal out in monday talk on the east end of long island. let s get to ocean city, maryland. steve centanni is live for us. what s it there like now.