Slightly more than one year old, proposals to float wind turbines 40 miles from the shores of Grays Harbor are still infants on the timeline of offshore wind regulation.
saint martin at that moment. you think about the strength of the winds. you see how much rain hit there once it does hit the u.s. it won t linger around like hurricane harvey did. that was the real tragedy it kept going up the coast there. steve: winds right now at 185. president trump just tweeted as well at 6:53 this morning: hurricane looks like largest ever recorded in the atlantic. pete: got to be ready for it and preparations are certainly underway. that s not the only big news that s coming. of course, yesterday attorney general jeff sessions stepped up to the podium and said the program known as daca is being rescinded. rescinding the executive order that this white house believes was illegally and unconstitutionally instatued to allow dreamers to stay in this country and not potentially face deportatio deportation. abby: president trump spoke out about this yesterday. this is about putting hard working citizens first. here is what he said.
steve: overnight images, hurricane irma the most powerful atlantic hurricane are in recorded history slamming that island overnight. brand new video showing the category 5 storm hitting with winds over 200 miles per hour the moment it hits saint martin. abby: that video is unreal. it is on the move heading straight towards the u.s., towards florida. governor rick scott activating the national guard declaring a state of emergency as the monster storm packed with winds over 180 miles per hour inches closer to the u.s. pete: our own adam clots tracking its path right now giving us updates all morning. adam: this is a big one. taking a look at 35 miles southeast of saint martin moving that direction at 16 miles per hour. those folks need to be taking cover. wind storm 185 miles per hour. once we move through the lesser antilles, san juan, puerto rico is up next likely passing by in the overnight hours tonight.
powerful. letting toward florida. pete: governor scott declaring a natural disaster emergency. inching closer to the u.s. steve: adam clots is tracking hurricane irma s path. it looks like it s heading to the keys and goes straight up toward florida. adam: we have a very big turn. northwest direction moving 16 miles per hour. it is going to make that turn shooting right up north. we have seen it lesser an tis lease. next big hit is going to be puerto rico. looking at all the watches and warnings stretching across the caribbean. going to move north of the islands passing over the bahamas. next landfall. not likely to make landfall in puerto rico but none the less going to be a powerful one. dropping a whole lot of rain as it moves past. heaviest rain is always on the right side of this storm. all of these islands are on the left side. means it s on the good side. 6 to 8 inches. biggest storm with this particular system is wind damage. winds of 185 miles per hour
currently in place. this is a satellite and radar from the last 12 hours. again, it can only reach out so far. this is a radar on the island of puerto rico. beginning to see those initial bands of very heavy rain moving closer and closer. they will begin with that heavy wind this afternoon. main brunt of that storm coming through the overnight hours. still a category 5 storm. pay attention to 185 mile-per-hour winds. put this in motion. as you run over the bahamas, you are running over land. all this heat and moisture, that fuels these storms. so you hit some land, slows down just a bit. there you are saturday at 2:00 a.m. just north of cuba. we are getting into sunday morning by the time we are just south of florida, continuing to slow down a little bit. there you are monday morning at 120 olympic winds. still a very powerful storm. and, steve, you mentioned something about this a little bit earlier. we get this turn here. this is not a hurricane harvey. harvey sat there five days. we