00:00We are tracking the latest here with Hurricane Aaron and it reached Category 5 status over the
00:06weekend. Now we're still seeing the wind intensity maintaining as a Category 4 and this is going to
00:11be a very impactful storm as we go forward. So Aaron right now maintaining as a Category 4
00:16hurricane. It does look like the wind intensity will bring it down to a 3 here as we had throughout
00:20Tuesday, Wednesday, even as we had in a Thursday. But during that time frame a major hurricane will
00:26still be close enough to the east coast of the United States to bring widespread impacts especially
00:31to the coast of North Carolina. But right now Aaron continues to churn just offshore as that major
00:37hurricane. The storm has already brought flooding and mudslides to the Dominican Republic with warnings
00:43in effect for the Turks and Caicos. Bermuda is bracing for rough seas as well as Aaron starts that
00:48northward track. In the meantime a state of emergency is in effect for Derrick County in North Carolina
00:53with mandatory evacuations on Hatteras Island. While the eye will stay well offshore, Aaron's size will send
01:0115 or 5 to 15 foot waves, coastal flooding and dangerous rip currents to parts of the east coast.
01:09And we're going to be tracking this very closely. First let's go and give you a live look at one of the
01:12impacted areas right now, Turks and Caicos. So you can see more rainfall on that lens. But once again I just
01:18want to point out that those waves are coming up. And you can also see those palm trees right there
01:23are definitely blowing in the wind. We're seeing big impacts there to the Turks and Caicos. And that
01:28will continue here even as we head throughout this evening, even as we head into tonight. So here's a
01:32look at the latest. There's that overall view here of the eye path. There are active with exclusive eye
01:37path there for Aaron. The latest numbers on Aaron still maintaining winds of 140 miles an hour which puts it
01:44at a category four hurricane. And overall you can see that the pressure has fallen as well. So we're
01:49going to continue to watch this. But the one thing I do want to point out, the movement right here,
01:53instead of it being primarily westerly, now it's mainly going north westerly. And that's going to
01:58have big impacts. They're definitely going to spare parts of the Bahamas and Cuba as we go forward. So
02:04that's the best news I can share with you. A closer look here at the eye path with respect to the east coast of
02:09the United States, you can see that even though Aaron is going to maintain well offshore by hundreds
02:14of miles, even though that is going to be the case, whenever you get a major hurricane this close
02:20to the east coast of the United States, we're going to see widespread, possibly devastating impacts
02:24to some of these areas. In fact, if you look at the overall impacts that we are tracking, we're still
02:29going to see an elevated risk of impacts across the Gulf, which is well a lot farther away from Aaron
02:36than what we are across the east coast. But for the east coast, you can see that bullseye right
02:40there around the North Carolina coastal areas where we're going to see the highest impacts.
02:43The only other areas we're going to see impacts that high will be for Bermuda. And then the northern
02:47coastal areas you can see right there of Dominican Republic and Haiti. So these are going to be the
02:52kind of impacts we are tracking across parts of North Carolina. Dangerous seas and rip currents will be
02:57possible across the entire east coast of not just the United States, but maritime Canada as well.
03:03So this is going to be a dangerous situation here as we head throughout the rest of the week.
03:07Here's an updated look at our AccuWeather exclusive impacts that we're going to be tracking here.
03:11These are the weather alerts, I should say. We now have a tropical storm watch in effect here for
03:16the east coast of North Carolina or the coastal region there of Carolina and the southern coast
03:21there of Virginia of what we're going to be tracking and expecting here as we head throughout the
03:25next couple of days. On our AccuWeather risk impact scale here for the east coast, we're going to see a level
03:30two there across the outer banks of North Carolina. And one of the areas, one of the reasons why we're
03:36elevating that risk impact scale to lives and property will be because we are forecasting widespread
03:4240 to 60 mile an hour winds here across mainly the North Carolina coast with our AccuWeather local
03:48storm max. Yes, someone's going to see a 60 mile an hour straight line wind gusts. So damaging winds
03:52will be possible, especially there along the outer banks. But the primary issue we're tracking across the
03:57outer banks will be the storm surge. You can see there for parts of the outer banks, we're going to
04:01see anywhere between three to six feet of storm surge. That is going to be dangerous here with
04:07some of those areas, the elevation is under six feet. So a lot of these areas are going to be
04:13underwater here as Aaron makes this track to the north. So because of that, dangerous surf,
04:18dangerous rip currents will be possible across the Virginia and the North Carolina coastal areas here
04:23as we go forward. So this is going to be an ongoing developing, possibly dangerous situation here
04:28that we'll continue to track. The main timeline will be Wednesday and Thursday.
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