a potentially very dangerous situation. that is going to play out as this rain keeps coming down over the next 24 to 48 hours, shep. shepard: jonathan hunt live for us. thanks very much. we ve been reporting the storm at last check from the national hurricane center was down at a minimal hurricane at 75 miles an hour. 74 would be a tropical storm. it was due west at six miles an hour. there is the latest satellite loop of it. let s get an update. ken graham is the director of the national hurricane center. ken, we figured as it moved inland it would get strength. has it? yes, it has, shep. losing strength and still seeing the rainfall. so as we move continue to move inland, we ll see the winds come down. these are the areas that i m still so concerned about. the center of it and the rain bands. if you notice with time, these rain bands continue to bring a lot of rain over the same area.
not done battering. moorehead city. this is more than 14 hours that its unleashed all sorts of water fury. that will create problems as you saw in katrina as we saw last year in harvey with structures. so many roofs ripped off. so much damage to the structures and the homes here. people will be wanting to get in, trying to bring the drywall down. they won t get to because this is continuing here, shep. shepard: thanks very much. griff jenkins. one last look at the big wall where we can see the track of the storm, this is a satellite loop. it shows the hurricane is down to a category one. i believe that it s most likely down to a tropical storm because the last report was 75 miles an hour. 74 is the lowest highest number of a hurricane or the lowest numbers that makes it a hurricane. so we believe it s probably a tropical storm now headed due west at 6 miles an hour.
days but it has been several weeks of on and off again rain and you can see how roadways have been turned to rivers quite literally within this cell phone video sent in to cnn. all right. so let s talk about kenya, what type of weather they would expect this time of year. i mentioned that they have the pique peak of their rainy season occurring basically now through the early parts of april there s a second rainy season called the short rain that occurs between october and december, but look at the satellite loop. right on the board ef tanzania and into kenya it s lighting up there. we ve had a considerable amount of activity in the upper levels of the atmosphere and there s more rain in the forecast. the kenya meter logical agency calling for wet conditions. you can see the floodwaters that continue to impact this region with more shower and thunderstorm activity as the convergence zone continues to light up. let s talk about the northern
california history. things dried up there. we have baron, burned mountain sides and now heavy amounts of rain are forecast for southern california. and that means landslides and mudslides are going to be a s t threat going forward. here is our latest satellite loop. and you can see this just constant stream of moisture that is funneling into the southern sections of california. hasn t quite rained just yet, but it is coming. that low is still churning across the pacific ocean. we have flash flood watches in effect for the greater los angeles area. remember, when you have burn areas that really makes the soil and the steep slope sides of the mountainous and hilley regions in that area very susceptible to having landslides and mudslides, because the soil becomes so loose and so easily broken away from the sides of the slopes. so you have heavy rainfall to that, of course, just this recipe for disaster. so the usgs website indicated
all eyes on the caribbean this morning tracking tropical storm nate, already it s killed 20 people in central america and prompted states of emergency along the east coast. let s bring in derek van dam for the very latest. good morning. we have the latest 5:00 a.m. advisory from the national hurricane center. kurmts sustained winds from tropical storm nate still at 45 miles per hour. . so no official strengthening although the latest satellite loop showing some organization. now it s got the yucatan peninsula in its eyes, places