that gradient is tightening and the winds are ramping up gusting over 40 miles an hour between tonight and saturday. that will continue to pile the water up. we ve got five or six-footers right now ppt the buoys offshore, seven to eight-footers, they ll head up to 12 to 15 feet. and this is without the track of joaquin being etched in stone. but the trend in the overnight and morning hours is with the american model that take it off the coast, keep it off the coast. so we re looking more confident that we will not have an east coast landfall. it s not etched in stone right now, but what we ve lost here is a ton of sand. let me jump down here real quick. don t get in a wave, mike. don t do it. as the tide comes in and eats away more of the sand. we re going to have beach erosion, coastal flooding and the inland flood threat. we could have catastrophic flooding between now and sunday up to ten inches, maybe a foot of rain. we ll be watching the rivers, too, all the way into the
guzman s cartel. so, yeah. he was a very dangerous man, jose. and very, really, really bloody. julio, it s a pleasure to see you, telemundo anchor in los angeles. thank you for being with me. thank you very much. now back to our top story. we re about 30 minutes away from a new advisory on hurricane joaquin. the category 3 storm packing 120-mile-an-hour winds with the bahamas right in the center of the brunt of the hurricane right thousand. state as long the east coast preparing for a possible landfall. the weather channel s mike sidle is live in virginia beach. mike, have the waves already been saying hello to you there? reporter: one just said a real good hello, like a hug and a kiss hello. what we ve got here is nothing to do with joaquin, jose. this is what we went through we were out here for four days last week. this is the atlantic, and the reason it s ramped up is because we have this big high pressure to the north and low pressure to the south. a trough of low pressu
mexico. in or arizona. flagstaff expected to get as much of a foot of snow. yesterday, 300,000 people in town for new year s eve, and they were walking around yesterday, a bit of a chill. most of the folks are saying wow, this is not what we expected. the average high in las vegas, new year s eve. we re not going to get anywhere close today. most of the country will bring in 2015 colder than average. subzero cold from the northern plains upper midwest. it will be typically colder colder than average night. you head to south florida, and the sunshine state. where temperatures at midnight in miami will be right around 72 degrees for. that s what it will be in the casinos in las vegas. uncommonly cold in the west. thank you so much mike sidle for us in las vegas. we re just getting started on this wednesday edition of the rundown. the gop in the house said he
the coldest spot in the country this morning, laramie, wyoming. the temperature there is 33 below zero. brr. that s 4 below zero with the windchill. the weather channel s mike sidle joins me from las vegas. you re used to that stuff. most of us aren t. las vegas, those from nevada they re going to see a very different new year s eve than they ve seen in the past. yeah it s pretty cold here for their new year s eve celebrations. right now, 34 on the strip. we re here at the new tropicana, looking over towards all the neon. it s just after 6:00 a.m. most of the revelers the people that go out at night, either stayed in the casino or they ve already packed it in. resting up for the big night tonight. windchillsters are mid-20s. there s some snow ahead. the air is so dry. higher elevations there. and also in the mountains of new
at this moment it s over the bahamas looming near florida. it will aavoid a direct hit, but there are concerns about what will happen further up the east coast. mike sidle is live near palm beach, florida. i wasn t expecting a sight so visual there. i don t have to ask you what s going on. what s the major concern? reporter: well, the timing is everything here, tamron. one of these storm squalls from outer reaches rolling in here across singer island. he visibility has come down and it s raining very hard. the temperature around 81, you can feel that drop now around 70. that cool downdraft air looking down the beach. the double red flags, not a whole lot of wind. they re sustained winds. we get a brush-by by sandy tonight and tomorrow. we ll have coastal issues with the wind, beach erosion and rip currents out of the water today, tomorrow and saturday.