they might look like mexico beach with michael. that star is there because that s when the wind measurement tool broke. wow. it lost connection. it could have been higher than that. they were eastern eye wall the entire time. grand isle was really the worst part. we talk about it was making landfall at port fourchon. the right side of the eye wall that s where most of the problem is. that s where it came on shore. here it goes for the next couple of days into parts of ohio and almost all the way into pennsylvania by the time we gosh. and that eye wall, even when it came on shore, it was so organized because it s darn wet. they had so much wet. 65 inches of precipitation in new orleans. you usually get that in a year. yeah. it you look at the map of louisiana, it looks like there s
weather center. look at the image of freeport, what i saw with my layman s eye, the eye seems to be right on it. that s when it s not as bad, meaning are they going to get worse? the eye is 20 miles east of freeport right now. they are in the eyewall. they aren t as bad as it will get, they are probably 120 miles an hour and headed to 140 before the eastern eyewall passes over. this is what it looks like from space right now. this the visible slight. maybe you can t from the tv but i can. you can see the ocean through the eye, completely the eye. here is the reporter, patrick oppmann and the other reporter we had on the phone. here is freeport. here is where it s calm right there. they are getting the north part of the storm here. this the south wind here. they are filling up this harbor near freeport with certainly big surge. but this here, this island,
eventually as the pressure rises, the winds will come down. it s going to be a three or four day process watching this slowly tick down. it is peaking, since the pressure is up, it would be surprising if it goes back down. it doesn t matter, it s well past category 5 status and had a horrible blow. now we re watching grand bahama island, western eye wall is heading on shore, and this is a 3-hour loop. in three hours, it travels from the eastern eye wall goes from here to here. i mean, it s like 15 miles. i mean, how painful is that. now, the storm itself, another view of it shows you how close it s getting to the florida coastline. and now some of these outer showers and bands and thunderstorms are starting to get towards the florida coast. nbc s gabe gutierrez is live. gabe, is that what you re
eastern eye wall slammed onb through. so the damage is maybe half of what actually really happened. so it s incredible they got out to show you and how they got the video pictures is amazing. 185 miles per hour winds. gusts to 220 miles per hour and it s about with 140 to 145 miles from ws palm beach. you can see florida and the eye. this is a smaller hurricane right now. at least the extreme winds. so you have to go through the eye to get the extreme devastation and that s unfortunately what s going to happen. it s already arrived on the eastern toiptip of grand bahama island. this is going to be monday afternoon over the top of free port and they could go through about 30 straight hours of 100 mile-per-hour plus winds. that s incredible.
let s go to morgan in the bahamas but first let s turn to meteorologist in new york, bill karins. bill, we just got that advisory in the last hour from noah. what did it say and how does it look? it said we re looking at a rare specimen. let s put this in perspective. the last time the u.s. mainland had a storm this can close was 1935. and the winds weren t quite as strong. this is in rarified air territory. and the picture we ve been showing you so far is marsh harbor. that s still in the eastern eye wall or coming out of it. all the pictures came with a three-hour period with when they went through the eye of the storm. so they had the western eye wall. we showed you the video in the pictures and the same peephole to run back inside as the