we were in new york and andrew decided to take the kids back to the bbi and that was probably a weeke we had any news that a hurricane was on the way. how old are your children? they are ten months old and 23 months old. when did you last contact them? it's about three days ago now. i last heard from them probably half an hour before it was going to hit ina very an hour before it was going to hit in a very bad way. what advice had the island had before the hurricane struck? nothing. i mean we were told, you know, a storm is coming. it isa told, you know, a storm is coming. it is a pretty big hurricane, but it was so it is a pretty big hurricane, but it was so blase. people are used to it there and there is such a thing as having hurricane parties and people we re having hurricane parties and people were just obviously, we were warned to prepare for this, but nobody was told to evacuate, nobody. people we re told to evacuate, nobody. people were talking about should we go? what should we do? a lot of the islanders off—shore, companies, and they were told, you know, in extreme danger t

of the there's the bbi. virgin gore da.chard branson has a big state. this is what it actually got hit. 155 miles per hour wind gusts and the an a mom meter broke. le we have no idea how much it went up from there. there is the storm still 185 gusting slightly higher. i think we're going to see tremendous storm surge right through the bbi and the u.s. virgin islands. there could be eight to ten feet of waters up to those areas that like to have the houses so close to the ocean. they may be underwater soon. 185 miles per hour winds. where does it go from here? into the u.s.? does it turn right or does it just keep going straight? right now the center of the cone is somewhere north of cuba. as it turns we are expecting a significant turn at some point. does it turn into the ba hom mas, or florida? we don't know. that's still 72 to 96 hours away. you have to keep watching. i hate to keep you in h suspense but the computers aren't cooperating. >> we don't know today or tomorrow if the people in south florida have a nightmare co

so i last had direct contact with my husband on wednesday morning at about 12. 30 bbi time, 9. 30 innd we've had radio silence from his phones and from the phones of the people that he was with, our two friends, ever since that time. we have had two very brief messages, one from a tourist‘s mobile phone, communicating a message from one of his friends to say that they are safe. we've had one other message from a satellite phone from an unknown number to say again that they're alive but we have no idea where they are. whether the house is in tact, whether they're in the house or whether they're somewhere away from the effects of the coming storm jose as well. everyone is desperately worried. of course. so you don't know at the point that the hurricane hit whether they were at home or whether they'd made their way to some sort of shelter, is that correct? no, we know at the point that irma hit that they were at our house. what we don't know is what happened after that and whether they we re happened after that and whether they were forced to evacuate the house. because reports that we'

vi and bbi their houses are torn up.oesn't take 100 mile per hour wind to blow things around and they may get 120. here is jose grabbing a bunch of dry air and killing itself. that's the good news. still swells here along the east coast and for new york all the way up to about boston, we will see tropical storm warnings that were just posted from this but really jose is not much to worry about except if you stay out of the water you're in good shape. maria is the one we have to watch for the u.s., east coast, and certainly for all of the islands there in the northeast atlantic. >> and coming, coming fast. that had it going over puerto rico wednesday. this thing is coming. >> it is and the fact that it's moving quickly and not stalled over any water, means it gets to new warm water quickly and so that is more fuel to the fire. when it sit and spin in one spot like this is like jose you lose the water and lose the hot, lose the heat and humidity, so the storm kills itself. when it keeps moving, it keeps getting stronger an

the bbi's and the virgin islands is that most on short looks like it's moved out in the southeast part of puerto rico. last check quantity five miles per hour. just an amazing system and deepens incredibly. we have a system moving to the north and the first possibility of rain for sonoma county, mostly clear this morning and cancel be on the increase as the system is integrated not a lot of moisture with that but it continues to sweep in, the lows are up because clouds are coming in and the breeze has picked up a bit. mainly from the south, some from the north. it's variable but trending more west southwest. so morning sun giving away to cloud coverage as the system deepens into early tomorrow. 60s and 70s, no 80s on the map for the first time in a long time. all right what you have? >> nothing. >> barely awake but here we are. a lot of people that have been on the road for apparently a while because we have some slow traffic and some of the construction here on 580 and north flynn is been picked up and not spite we have a little bit of slow traffic is slower than it normally is and i

to ride this 185-mile-per-hour wind out, everything will be demolished on those islands there in the bbi. and probably not faring much better will be the u.s. virgin islands. this will be a devastating impact. we know about parts of bermuda, as the storm went over, it ripped all the vegetation out of the ground. where does it go next? it goes to the turks and kcaico. then maybe taking a turn to florida. looking at these models, they all turn this storm very much to the right. but when does that happen? does that happen over monroe county, right over miami-dade? that would be the most devastating hurricane in u.s. history. does it go over the bahamas? or does it wait and go all the way over to key west and get west of here. this is less likely, this is somewhere in the middle, and this right here is as most of the computer models are talking, a slight right turn just to the east of miami beach, but miami beach still could have winds of 150, can you imagine what that would do to the high-rises and everything on miami beach. that's still 4 1/2 days away. >> keep in touch with chad myers and

virgin islands and bbi hit hard by hurricane irma and hurricane maria. we have the flood watch through tomorrow night. 2 to 3 inches of rain is all they need on the already saturated ground. heavier rain and wind the next few days, we could see rainfall amounts of 2, 3, 4, 5 inches in places like jacksonville, which got flooded badly there. they don't want any more rain. not much in the way of rain across the northeast, maybe the northwest cooler fall-like air in the eastern half of the county. that's a check on the national headlines here the local forecast. >> reporter: good morning, everybody, i'm meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. very fall like hear in the delaware and lehigh valleys as well. we could use rain here. as we look at the center city skyline it's not raining, we barely have a cloud in the sky. clear conditions. that will change this afternoon, increasing clouds, 67 degrees is the forecasted high. breezy, sunday looks good, most of next week dry and sunny. month with the pink. >> i am getting a jump. >> it's so hot.

they're headed to the bbi, the u.s. virgin islands and somewhere between cuba and the bahamas.haiti, cuba even close it will tear itself up and not be that 140, 130-mile-per-hour storm but right now that is the forecast, probably saturday morning will be the closest approach to south florida. we'll keep watching the typing on that. we know it will be a strong storm. the temperatures in the caribbean are 86 degrees. there's nothing you can do to slow down a hurricane when you have that type of heat and here are the models right through, now there are some models and they have shifting to the left, to the left, to the left, all weekend long, very close or over cuba. that would certainly be a detriment to cuba, dangerous and probably terrible damage there but it would tear the storm up before making landfall in the u.s. >> chad, just any fear of people in the houston area for this one? >> sure. i mean it's not out of the question at all. the models do from when they get to florida, they start to turn to the right again. that could be a charley type scenario, that was punta gorda,

john, going into the bbi and landing on st. thomas. then with my staff we got into an suv and did several days of traversing through st. thomas, meeting with government officials. our emergency management agency there as well as coast guard. as you said, department of defense, navy, marines. our own local law enforcement. our national guard, custom is doing a tremendous job as well. talking with them about their work and how they were making the response. and then i went back to st. croix, which is the island i'm from. that island has now become the base camp for a lot of activities not just in the u.s. virgin islands but also offering support to our british counter-parts which are really close. then just yesterday i was able to go with private boats, you know, individuals, ferry companies, business owners are taking boats and scuttling back and forth between the islands. as i told you guys this morning, it looks like a flow tilla on the oceans between the islands of individuals going back and forth bringing in people, and not just tak

there's portions of the bbis as well as u.s. virgin islands they haven't even gotten to some communities yet because as many islands as there are, some are quite remost and not many people on them, but every life counts and we've got to get to them. it's not just about relief in the immediate term, which is how we're thinking in the continental u.s. it's long term. you do not have and you and i talked about this. you don't have steel or concrete. 200 poles ordered to bring cell towers and three months before they get here. i can tell you, we came over with engineers ready to be camped out sleeping on floors to work to get these cell towers working again. so people are trying. it is a massive massive undertaking. i cannot express how tough it is and how much work they're going to have to do ahead. >> my buddy, i'm glad you are there showing us these pictures, that you went through that effort to get there so we could actually see these roofs crumpled up like tissue on the street and the work and the money and the effort that's go