for a 79th inning miracle. all right, mariana attendancea. mariana stay safe. we are joined now on the phone by william capote. he s the mayor of palm bay florida, which is along that atlantic coast. how is your city preparing for the effects of this storm? right now i m listening to your show at the same time and i was glad i believe his name was phil saying that he s going to stay out there on the northwest and it s not going to come out close to this area. but at the same time as you heard about cocoa beach and mayor malik worried about what could transpire at his location. but here we are saying to ourselves best case scenario we get a tropical storm. worst-case scenario it s a category 3-4.
really going to see the worst of this storm in the next couple of hours. ali. reporter: all right, we re going to get it in the few hours after you. mariana stay safe. mariana atense you oak island about 40 miles northeast of here. let s go back to the studio. stephanie ruhle has more news on the paul manafort plea agreement. please be safe out there mariana. let s take you back to the courthouse where ken delaney is standing by. all right, ken, what have you learned? reporter: just moments ago in the courtroom, a led prosecutor for robert mueller s team referred to paul manafort s plea arrangement as a cooperation agreement. he later said that the charges in virginia on which the jury hung would be dropped pending successful cooperation. now, we haven t heard it officially, but this is a pretty strong sign that paul manafort has cut a deal to cooperate with robert mueller. that s certainly how those comments are being interpreted. i m going to be conservative.