Officially made landfall . It hasnt made landfall yet and looks like maybe 20 miles. But im not sure if plaquemans pair rish will have landfall. Its hard to defect where the eye is with a satellite, but ill show you with radar. Interesting to note still 90 Miles Per Hour sustained winds, strong category 1. Doubtful to make it to 2. It only needs another 6 Miles Per Hour up to 96 total to be a category 2. A lot of dry air is trying to infiltrate the system, which is good news. We want to see this break down quickly. You notice right in the center, youll see a burst of purple here. Its trying to strengthen somewhat. Thats a batch of heavy activity near the center. Here is the eye. Its hard to see because we do not have much in the way of rainfall to the west of the center and southwest. Thats good news, too. Because this is a fastmoving system, one, they just do not like to move this fast because they cant rapidly intensify and when they move this fast, it keeps your rain totals to a min
there will be some delays. pensacola s airport is closed and most likely will be all day tomorrow. we ll talk about this in the days ahead possibly downing trees and sporadic power outages through the tennessee valley up the spine of the appalachians. you say 10:00 p.m. is maybe when landfall will happen, tom. does that mean the storm surge will start to happen before that, though? it s starting to move in now. in fact, we ve seen a pretty good surge already that was moving in towards parts of the bay areas, bay st. louis we saw pretty good rains. again, as it gets closer, it s up welling a water that throws it in towards the coast. that will be the big concern closer to landfall. thank you so much. great information. tom satar, we appreciate it. new details tonight. men time on a clue left behind by the las vegas gunman. still ahead new information just into cnn on something found inside his hotel suite. you re live in the cnn newsroom. three years in a ro. really. let s see