strengthened more and why we are lucky in that way? , with the thunderstorms in the center getting more organized today than it did this time yesterday, over keys, but, also, there was a lost land interaction over haiti, cuba, and some land interaction with florida, and now it is in the open waters of the gulf, and they are plenty warm, mid-to-upper 80 s, and, finally, it seems to be overcoming the impediments and poised to strengthen, the pressure is falling and we will have to see if we are finding the winds increased. it could become a hurricane any time tonight. shepard: we will wait if your updated 5:00 eastern and 4:00 central. thank you, doctor. guest: thanks for helping us get the word out.
27-17, eagles won it. back to baseball. for a little leaguer who had a big game. no-hitter against indiana. the 12-year-old ended the game in dramatic fashion with another strikeout. immediately dog piled by his teammates. connecticut won 4-0. they re a win aaway from playing for the u.s. championship. that s your first look at sports. i m fred roggin. and now for another look at the weather, we check back in with msnbc meteorologist bill karins, who continues to watch this storm in the tropics. it will eventually bei isaac. with this turn, it will put it up somewhere near florida by the time we go into, say, sunday night and during the day monday. there s a lot of concerns and a lot of land interaction to be had over the next couple of days. this is one of those storms that could rake man different countries and islands on its way toward the southeastern united states. not many issues out there right now. little bit of rain in dallas. quiet weather in our country until isaac pot
hour. that may mitigate a little bit of our flooding concern. also as this loops around you re going to notice the bottom edge of the storm system on the southern side is relatively dry. it doesn t mean we re not going to bet rain wrapping around the pack edge of this, but it does mean that it is not full fashion, at least at this point. the land interaction, the friction is starting to break this storm down. we have a tornado watch still in effect throughout new york city, long island, also for new jersey. that will likely be extended into massachusetts, also connecticut. and as we zoom in, some of the heaviest rainfall across new jersey. a new tornado warning popping up right now in ewing, close to central new jersey at this point. if you re in that area, it s definitely time to seek shelter. and we could also be receiving tornadoes even in places like long island. the rains let up a little bit but still a much stronger rainfall still on the way. we have a lot of maps here in our sui
center. the winds now 80 miles an hour. that is a minimal hurricane. it s now moving off toward the west-northwest about 13 miles an hour and in that general motion is going to continue. i want to show you what s going on as far as the structure of the storm. the center of the storm is now just off to the north and to the east of hispaniola. the big question in the next 24 hours is how much interaction do we see here. certainly the inflow of the storm is being disrupted by the very tall mountains on hispaniola and that s really going to have a lot to do with how strong the storm will become ultimately. it may suffer a little bit in this next 24 hours, and if that happens it could also move a little farther west. if it is a stronger storm, it tends to respond more to the upper-level flow and that would drive it more toward the northwest. but beyond that time it is most likely going to be in this very warm water here without much land interaction at all. a very favorable upper-level envi
storm by friday. our chief meteorologist with all the details on this. what do we know, rick? i ll tell you what, it s an interesting one. we ve been pretty lucky across the gulf this year. we won t stay that way for long. this right here is where the storm is and it looked a little better honestly yesterday, shepard, thinking that pretty likely it was going to become a storm. become a little less organized over the last 24 hours or so. and the hurricane center is only giving it about a 50/50 shot of becoming a storm. we ll see all this energy continuing to pull off to the west. this is what the models are looking like, definitely out to the west-northwest. for sure some rain in across florida and we ll see how much land interaction. you ll notice, shepard, most of these models do pull it out into the gulf depending on what kind of storm is intact, we could be dealing with something saturday probably and across the gulf. and across the continent, a lot of severe weather out there,