Welcome to squawk alley for thursday were at post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange were getting some Oil Inventories in a moment here Hurricane Irma makes its way to florida as a category five storm, slamming into several islands in the caribbean overnight. We have Team Coverage this morning. Wmaq meteorologist is back at hq phil lebeau is in chicago. Lets start with you we have a very strong category 5 hurricane that is going to churn over warm waters and low sheer, those help keep the hurricanes moving at the intensity that they have if you look behind me, you can see a very strong, very wide large hurricane first going to be moving towards turks and cake yoes as it moves forward tonight. Then eventually going to be making it to the southeastern part of the bahamas. And then the eye set on south florida. Still, were watching some questions and some points that we have for you as we move forward in the next few days the potential path as of right now could have this storm moving right
Category 5 storm still lets move on to another update for those of you in florida. Added to the hurricane watch what this means is hurricane conditions could move into your area within the next 48 hours. A lot of you are preparing right now. If you havent started, this is the time to do so. Again, as of noon we are adding to the hurricane watch there has been some updates to the track. Not much slightly off to the east but still the cone of uncertainty through the entire state of florida. I dont want you to focus on track. I want to show you why because if youre anywhere in florida, youre saying, oh, you know, i dont see the ocean, you could still be impacted by the storm with tropical force storm winds. Check this out lets say Hurricane Irma does not make landfall but scoots along the coast, still, Tropical Storm winds could extend 185 miles across that would take up the entire state of florida Everyone Needs to make sure theyre taking the proper precaution and keep an eye on this wel
Good morning its still moving to the westnorthwest it will continue that track through bahamas and cuba these are the spaghetti plots. The actual track has it looking like it will make a landfall in south florida going into early sunday morning between now and then you will start to see conditions deteriorate you have really the rest of the day today if youre in key west f youre in south florida to finish preparations and get evacuations underway alerts going on. A hurricane warning issued overnight for south florida in the purple also for the bahamas, the northern coast of cuba as well and still for the Dominican Republic this is a huge storm out there thats making its way close to the continental United States. If did downgrade to a category 4 storm, but i want to talk about that what its doing now is going through an eyewall replacement cycle. So its weakening because the thunderstorms right outside the eyewall are growing stronger than the thunderstorms around the eyewall, its kind
Remember those 100 delivery fees for water were already seeing shell tell us more about that. I heard much higher gasoline prices as well, but i dont know if that was an urban edge end. Well talk about that and the other big story were following is the mass you have data breach at equifax which may have seen data stolen from nearly half of the u. S. Population. Well talk about what could happen to the stock, how you can protect your personal data from future hack attacks as well. Yeah, with the stock down 13 and the worst performer in the s p 500 today which is down a point and a half right now let start our full coverage of Hurrican Irma it is a does near landfall in florida. Wmaq meteorologist kaylee dieion is tracking the storms path and Jackie Deangelis with a look at final preparations being made and Morgan Brennan with a look at how difficult it is to get out of florida and how the theme parks are bracing. Had an update over the last hour the National Hurricane center has upped t