the track is the most uncertainty right now. we re we re confident about the strength but it s where it makes landfall that we look for. over the next few days we will solidify that. right now, category 2 storm. sometime today early saturday morning we ll see it blossom into a category 3 with 125-mile-per-hour winds. those are sustained winds. we ll see gusts higher than that. then it s going to near the northwestern parts of the bahamas at 130-mile-per-hour winds. as it goes into the powerhouse of a category 4 storm by sunday morning. saturday in the bahamas you ll feel the winds peck up. the seas get rougher. but by sunday that s when we feel the effects of dorian. now throughout time here and we approach the coast of florida, again the kwoen is getting smaller, right. we have seen it as large as into southern georgia. but it s getting smaller. we re continuing to see it smaller over the next several days. keep in mind we have four or five days to go. it needs a bit of time.
and moving them, not just from louisiana, but other parts of the gulf coast. these protective booms and we even have new video to share from viewers from across america and that video will show not louisiana, but just off pensacola bay and they re using this because of a precaution if that oil does make its way across parts of the gulf coast and start affecting parts of the panhandle. it already is affecting people in alabama and in mississippi and florida. for example, we ve heard reports of people actually being able to smell the oil from all of the way across the water and with the winds peck up, rob has been saying how the wind is expected to become increasingly strong as we make our way into the weekend and we can see it disperse in many places, mainly here first in parts of louisiana, no question. one of the big problems, kyra. we ll see some of the wetlands. we have a nature preserve just