hi, maria. hi, martha, you re absolutely correct. looks like the storm is finally making a northward turn we ll been anticipating. looks less likely we ll see landfall for storm. there will be other impacts i mention in just a moment but i want to point out across the central bahamas, this storm is battering area. maximum stained winds at 130 miles per hour. it could produce as much as 25 inches of rain. flooding a huge concern across the central bahamas. they have been dealing with a life-threatening situation more than 24 hours. tough to understand what it must be like across central bahamas right now, still moving slowly, three miles an hour. these conditions con throughout the rest of morning and throughout the afternoon before the storm pulls away from the bahamas. our thoughts with people who are caught out here. models finally coming into better agreement out here.
has been very critical, he says that we ve had a weak hand and we played it badly and putin is, basically doing what he wants to do in that part of the world, filling vacuum. bill: crocker knows it as well as anybody. chris, looking forward to that. chris wallace, check him out on sunday this week and chris talks with jason chaffetz, chair of the oversight committee. they have a lot to talk about. the news breaks over the weekend. sunday with wallace and others. check the local fox fill at for coverage there. thank you, chris. martha: let s get latest on predicted path of hurricane joaquin shifting at this moment. the category 4 storm, drifting north looking less likely to make landfall in the united states which is of course good news, but it is the water and potential flooding that have gotten us before. so we ll be keeping coast eye on that. meteorologist maria molina is live in the fox weather center with more what we can expect.
meteorologist maria molina is live at the weather center. reporter: i first want to show you what s going on with the storm right now. maximum sustained winds stronger since the update from the national hurricane center. 125 miles per hour. it s still a category 3 hurricane. it s moving southwest at 6 miles per hour. it has not don t northward turn we are expecting. we ll watch that closely. but something of concern is we have life-threatening conditions across the bahamas. strong winds and locally heavy rains. especially the central bahamas where the worst of the conditions are expected. and it s for a long period of time. it hangs around the bahamas
you had pretty interesting time getting out of the car which is really dangerous. unfortunately we ll get cut off by a commercial. check that out online, maria, told us what to do in that situation. break those windows. jenna: we ll be right back. i was diagnosed with lung cancer.
that el nino is coming to the california coast as well. speak to us a little bit how you get these sort of, it, flash floods. sometimes you don t even get a head s up on? doesn t take very much rain to produce conditions of flash flooding. maybe a few showers rolling through. a inch, two inches ever rain can compile and run off and produce dangerous flash flood situations out there. another thing to notice. areas recently burned by the wildfires. that ground also doesn t really absorb much moisture. you get more of that runoff across those areas. california, many areas across the west will continue to see that danger. storm system will continue to produce rain out here over the next few days before eventually exiting, high wildfire danger returns again, jenna. jenna: maria, one point in one adventure rouse segment got yourself in a car swept away in mock trial and flash flood.