we started out on this wall been way worse across florida several hours ago. now you can see it is just if earlier that category 4 storm would have moved right coming over. the water comes very quickly. into the coast. this is the best case scenario remember in a hurricane the majority of deaths are caused for florida we could have expected. from water, from drowning, not not the case for the bahamas. necessarily the wind. the pictures we see will be because it comes up so fast terrifying for most of us. that s why it poses so much of the models in good agreement. a danger. storms don t have a mind of we ve seen a handful of people, their own. storms go according to a mostly media, or law forecast. sometimes we don t have a good enforcement, down here. sense of what that forecast is there have been a few people going to be. that wanted to come out and see that was the case the storm was it. for a long time. another problem going on is we talked about the options and hutchinson island t
winds at 85 miles per hour and it s moving to the west at 13 miles per hour. it s keeping its speed. we have seen that speed over the past few days. we are going to keep it at a pretty fast clip, and then it s going to really slow down as it nears the u.s. coast and also bahamas. that is not good news because it allows it to kind of sit and spin and just drop more rain in those areas. category one storm as we go throughout time, it s not going to take much and it s not going to take long to go from a category three storm. there is no land interaction to tear this thing apart. we are over the open waters. that is just fuel that is going to help give it its oomph. that s saturday 8:00. sometime between saturday and sunday, a category four storm. so that is the latest change as of the 11:00 advisory. i will be very curious to see what happens at the 5:00 advisory. now it s going over the northwestern bahamas. here you want to have a hurricane preparedness place in plan. i do anticipate a
forecast s path and strength? don, i m going to be honest with you, it is difficult to envision a labor day weekend without significant impacts along the southeast coast of the united states. sustained winds, 85 miles per hour. it is moving away from puerto rico as we speak. very quickly as well, at a northwesterly pace, about 13 miles per hour. leaving the british virgin islands and nothing between here and the southeast coast of the u.s., specifically florida between it. so there is no land interaction to help slow the storm or help disorganize this storm. so all it has is warm ocean waters to help fuel the storm. look at the projected path. this is the latest information from the national hurricane center. still a category 1 by tomorrow morning. look how that ramps up thursday evening to a category 2 to a category 3. really, all of our computer models indicating the potential exists for this storm to become even stronger and larger as it approaches the florida peninsula as we head
the president s policy moves, publicly expressing concerns about the state of america s strategic alliances around the world and the state of our democracy? we re going to get to all of that in a moment, but we re going to begin with the new forecast out for hurricane dorian. it is getting stronger. our meteorologist derek van dam is at the cnn weather center with the very latest. the forecast just came out. what do you know about the forecast s path and strength? don, i m going to be honest with you, it is difficult to envision a labor day weekend without significant impacts along the southeast coast of the united states. sustained winds, 85 miles per hour. it is moving away from puerto rico as we speak. very quickly as well, at a northwesterly pace, about 13 miles per hour. leaving the british virgin islands and nothing between here and the southeast coast of the u.s., specifically florida between it. so there is no land interaction to help slow the storm or help
state of emergency in anticipation of the storm, and now it is moving past puerto rico where more than 3 million american citizens have been spared a direct hit. our meteorologist derrick van dam is at the cnn weather center. he joins us with more. derrick, hello to you. this is a dangerous storm getting stronger. give us the latest, please. by all means, this is a storm that defied the odds. it missed puerto rico, it doesn t get the land interaction to help erode the storm. it s given itself time to organize and organize it has done. just look at the radar compared to six hours ago to where it is presently. we have a perfectly symmetrical eye wall. this is not what we want to see when we talk about strengthening hurricanes. it has become almost perfectly circular. we ve also seen some lightning around the storm which is a good indicator that the hurricane continues to deepen, drop in pressure and increase the winds. this is the latest from the national hurricane center. 80 miles per