Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Im Wendy Gillette in for annemarie green. Hurricane dorian intensified overnight and is now a category 2 hurricane. Dorian is expected to hit somewhere between florida and southern georgia on monday and could make landfall as a powerful category 4 storm. That would make it the strongest storm to hit floridas east coast since hurricane andrew in 1992. This ominous view from the International Space station shows the storm morphing into a monster. Chief meteorologist craig setzer of our miami station wfor is tracking dorians path. Well, the storm strengthened overnight, winds up to 105 miles an hour now, moving to the northwest at 12, expecting to continue because its over very warm waters. The wind shear very low. It will be a category 3 today, category 4 by tomorrow as it breaches the northwest bahamas. Thats the sunday evening time frame here. And then monday evening, labor day, approaching the florida coast
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