mike seidel is live now in alabama with the latest. mike, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lester. bonnie has had a troubled life since its inception on thursday. it is barely hanging on as a tropical depression. here on the coast of alabama, not whiff so far. friday morning when it made its first landfall, basically the same spot where andrew came in in '92. this was much weaker. we had wind gusts to 50 miles an hour and heavy rain for a few hours. then the system went across the state of florida, weakened to a depression late yesterday afternoon. satellite loop this morning, it's hard to find anything that resemble as tropical system. bonnie has been dealing with wind shear, what we term winds aloft. also a lot of dry air has been sucked into this storm, both deterrents to inten-if i intens which is good. we will have impacts across the gulf coast. we're expecting some wind and waves later today and tonight. wave heights probably topping out at five to seven feet much like we saw with alex and with alex, that caused minimal im