reporter: and asking people to always pay attention to their emergency management. 100%. we all hope we re wrong. we all hope the estimates, all the guesswork is exaggerated. you have to prepare for the worst. and just to remind people, the kind of men and women who do this work for the rest us, you heard jack casually go past the fact styles it reaches 0 g in the airplane. that means no gravity. and things start floating around. can you imagine? being on an airplane and all of a sudden there is no more gravity. let alone talking about it that casually. thank you for the dedication. thank to crew for us. please let us know if there is any information that we need to pass along. a whole bunch of us will be going down to cover the storm to make sure everybody in its way gets the care that they deserve and the information that they need. be well, brother, and thank you. reporter: thank you, chris.
radius of maximum wind. how low is the pressure in the center of the storm. we have to get up close and personal. in a lot of cases we re targeting drops on instruments in the strongest wind, followed by the central pressure and the opposite side, strongest winds. that s where we get the most action, too. so everybody has to be strapped in and yet still launching these probes, taking these data and getting them out to the various important people. hurricane center and the modelling centers. and people in florida, they re very concerned. they re hoping that you go into this storm, jack, and that you come away and find something that might degrade it, something that might kind of break it up a little bit. you will look for that as well, right? you re right on that. we ve seen many disrupting factors on this storm. i started flying it when it was southeast of barbados last monday. it was a mess the first two days. the third day, northeast of puerto rico, it gained a great deal of orga
our concern this time is it will likely be all three of those things. that s why we re so concerned. that s bad news. we re focusing on florida because that s where it s going. other states are watching this as well. well, yeah, in the short term, georgia and the carolinas need to watch it. they ll get a lot of rain and will cause localized flooding. a lot of models are indicating that it exits somewhere towards the outer banks and meanders and maybe makes another landfall around the canadian maritimes or eastern maine. not as such a strong storm but that s probably say 10 to 12 days from now. we re still have this storm close to the eastern seaboard and we ll still be talking about it. bad news all the way around. back to you with the news breaks. rick reichmuth, thanks. jack parrish joins me by phone. he s with noaa, the hurricane hunters, the folks that fly in an around hurricanes to gather
data and better predict these storms. he went up on one of those flights earlier today. he joins us now. jack, you re busy. i ve give us an idea why you go in and check out what this storm looks like? we re putting a t-3 aircraft in the storm twice per day. my colleague was in this morning s flight. i ll be out there this afternoon between 6:30 and 10:30 p.m. this evening and we ll make multiple crossing patterns around the storm. generate three dimensional winds using the noaa doppler radar. those three-dimensional fields of wind go into the forecast model to continually improve the forecast in terms of both where it s going to make landfall and how strong. you say three-dimensional winds. you re concerned about temperature winds at the bottom of the hurricane, the ones that
safe and keep the airplane safe to go out on the 5:00 a.m. mission. i m going on the 5:00 p.m. mission. we have to keep our noaa $150 million airplane safe. and the quality of the data is everything. those are the things i m looking at. yeah, we greatly appreciate it, the work that you do. best of luck on your trip. jack parrish from noaa, thanks. thanks, trace. just ahead, joe biden responding after the washington post disputed a personal story that he told about a war hero. that and more on the storm is coming up. this heinz mayonnaise is so creamy, one day you ll tell your grandkids about it. and they ll say, grandpa just tell us about humpty dumpty . and you ll say, he broke his pelvis or whatever, now back to my creamy heinz mayonnaise . heinz mayonnaise, unforgettably creamy. too many people a restless night s sleep. there s a better choice. aleve pm.