A powerful category 3 hurricane. Maria is following very close to the same destructive path of our most recent one, Hurricane Irma and it is gaining strength quickly. Meteorologist Allison Chinchar is in the cnn Weather Center for us. You just got an update especially on those winds. Whats the story . The two big obvious things that came out of the newest advisory is were seeing an increase of winds. We are now up to 125 miles per hour. A 5mileperhour difference. That may not seem like a lot, but it is especially when you look at the other thing that changed. We now have an eye, albeit tiny, but it is there. The storm is strengthening and its going through an intensifying process so 5mileperhour increase may not seem like that much, but it shows us the trend that will likely keep going up from here and we expect it to, we actually anticipate getting up to category 4 strength within the next 24 hours and it will likely maintain that for all of the way up to the turks and caicos. The thi