confirmed dead, 109 still missing. the remaining part of the building is demolished after fears that strong winds could lead to another collapse. megan borowski is a meteorologist in florida. we are expecting 75 miles per hour winds along the core of this storm but it will be over the gulf of mexico and as the storm tracks forward, we are expecting heavy rainfall across the florida peninsula, flooding rains especially right along the gulf coast. tropical storm force wind gusts in the rain and wind will likely combine to down numerous trees and powerlines, we are expecting some power outages especially along the gulf coast. elsa should make landfall right now, it s expected it should make landfall as a category1 landfall as a category 1 hurricane landfall as a category1 hurricane along the nature coast, the coastline of north florida on the west side, just before dawn tomorrow morning,
last, i d say, the last 12 hours or so. they ve been very light in areas especially louisiana. look at lake charles only 20-mile-per-hour gusts. the highest gusts are near the houston area around 40 to 50 miles per hour. most of the power outages from houston southwards down to the coastal areas. i do not expect a lot of additional power outages as we go throughout the remainder of the storm. you can see on the latest close in radar, the houston area, the heaviest rain is over the next hour or two. but the poor people from lake charles to beaumont, it s going to pour all morning long. be very careful driving anywhere on interstate 10 through louisiana during the day today. just ridiculous, mika. the tenth hurricane landfall in the last 17 months in the united states. crazy. all right, bill karins, thank you so much for keeping us posted on all of this. still ahead on morning joe, a look at how security is being ramped up around capitol hill ahead of a far right rally this weekend
bill. good evening, joshua. we are getting in the new 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. we are also now for the first seem seeing the center of the storm on radar. that s the green you see here beginning to show up. that is about 275, 285 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds. the green is the rain bands. and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the overnight hours. this is the satellite imagery and we color it to kind of see the brighter reds. kind of lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of storm are. this is the new advisory. 105 miles per hour so the winds did not increase. that s great. we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don t think it is going to get weaker before a landfall but we do expect it to get stronger. hurricane center still thinks it could become a category 3 hurricane overnight. it may be right before landfall, possibly getting up to a category 4. so we should expect major hur
good evening, joshua, we re getting the 8:00 p.m. advisory from the national hurricane center that we re seeing the center of the storm on radar. that s the green you see here beginning to show up. that s about 275, 280 miles from new orleans at the current time. so the white is the clouds, the green is the rain bands and those will be moving on shore as we go throughout the morning hours. this is the satellite imagery, and we color it to see the brighter reds or top of the thunderstorms, lets meteorologists know where the stronger portions of the storm are. the winds did not increase. that s great. we re 18 hours or so from landfall, we want to keep this as weak as possible. we don t think it s going to get weak before a landfall, we think it s going to become stronger, category 3 overnight, and right before landfall possibly getting up to a category 4. we should expect a major hurricane landfall in southeastern louisiana tomorrow afternoon, direct impacts, grand isle, home of morga
per hour, the bottom line is this storm has 60 hours until landfall and it s going to intensify all the way up into landfall. it s a matter of how strong could this storm get in the next 60 hours, two and a half days. the hurricane center thinks this thing will have a category 2, 100 miles per hour winds midnight saturday night into sunday morning. they are saying a major hurricane landfall with 115 mile per hour winds as a category 3, close to morgan city or homa, that s that center red line. two days out that s about 80 to 100 miles average air so this could shift east or west and then the storm is going to slowly weaken and bring torrential rain and even some high winds right over baton rouge and then it will rain itself out tuesday into wednesday over the southeast. we have excellent agreement with almost all of our computer models this is heading for either south central louisiana or southeast louisiana and of course that puts new orleans on that dirty right side.