significant damage across puerto rico and into the turks and caicos. it is now getting stronger and it is getting larger as it approaches the north. want to show you the cloud field associated with the storm from the northern fringe to southern fringe. it fits right into the state of alaska speaking to the incredible size of the storm system. look at the ferocity. the circulation, symmetry, you re looking at a 130 mile per hour sustained wind storm which is a healthy category 4. further strengthening expected. bottom of the screen, the turks and caicos. some of it getting the outer bands. it is gradually moving away from the turks. what we re watching, 750 miles north. the storm system is going to move over there if favorable for further development where water temperatures climb up into the middle 80s. 30 degrees celsius, typically 82
caribbean, at least five deaths have been reported. puerto rico has managed to restore power to 300,000 customers. but, more than 1 million remain without power on tuesday, amid the difficult cleanup. let s turn to meteorologist pedro, what is the latest? this is a category four hurricane with the potential to strengthen beyond where we are seeing it right now. the incredible size of the storm as well. you look at fiona s cloud feel from its northern to southern fringe, essentially inside the state of alaska running almost 600 miles towards its southern friends. notice this, 130 mile sustained wind at the eye wall. we are still seeing some of the outer bands impacting the turks and caicos as the system poles north eight miles per hour. that is the good news for turks and caicos as they have been battered here with more than 10 inches in the past 24 hours.
or an allergic reaction, stop taking cialis and get medical help right away. ask your doctor about cialis. welcome back. want to get to the severe weather outbreak, bring in bill karins. what are you seeing? everything quieted down from last night. there were a lot of pictures of damage, elk city, oklahoma, some of the worst damage was, one fatality. wisconsin, a mobile home park was hit, a lot of those structures were destroyed, too. a dangerous day going into it, and exactly as bad as expected. for today, there s 9 million people at risk. it is not as large an area as yesterday. over the state of iowa, extreme southern portions, it will go into wisconsin. looks like more wind damage threat there and into the quad cities. kansas city, st. louis on the southern fringe, areas to the north highest at risk. tomorrow is one of the classic dangerous days. this is already potential for
after terrifying incident at hong kong shopping mall. upward bound escalator increased speed, sending many shoppers tumbling. at least 18 people were injured in the incident. going very fast there, isn t it? well strengthen tropical cyclone is approaching the east coast of australia. and meteorologist harry joins us now with the latest on the storm, what do we know? we know the storm system is strengthening pretty quickly. this is something we think in the next 12 hours could get up to category 2 storm and measuring the storm system and cloud feel from the northern fringe to southern fringe. if you were to place this along europe, it will stretch out towards warsaw. the winds with this, will land to category one hurricane.
that s about another 18 thundershowers before they get the planes back up in the air. what is the forecast? what can they expect in the coming days? the forecast goes downhill for the next eight to ten hours. we see a bit of an improvement from wednesday morning and back downhill again on wednesday night into thursday. the culprit right here. measure this front. this cold front extends to some 5,000 kilometers. more than 3,000 miles from the northern fringe to the southern fringe. that s equivalent to expanding across the continental united states. we see cloud cover pushing into the region. we know ahead of a storm it s very little in the way of land masses. the swells upwards of 13 feet. some could get up as high as 19 to 20 feet. the images here one of low altitude flying aircraft as it was returning towards perth australia. we know visibility was dropping.