CNN: Puerto Rico Now Under Tropical Storm Warning and Hurricane Watch

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MYERS: "I hope so, although this isn’t going to be by any stretch of any computer’s imagination to category 3 or category 4 storm. There’s already so much damage on the ground from the old storm that this isn’t going to take a lot to make a significant amount of damage, especially flooding. This is a two-part storm. We’re focusing today on Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. But this storm eventually gets into the Bahamas, and it will make a run at Florida. That’s four and five days out. But the storm right now, hurricane hunters in there, about a 50 mile-per-hour storm, becoming a 70-mile-per-hour storm as it makes a run at Ponce or maybe even Punta Cana. That’s the first part of the storm. Then it gets into the water here near Nassau and turns left. Does it go to the Keys or all the way up to Myrtle Beach? We don’t know that yet. We’re still not that far out. You can’t trust the model 120 hours out. You can barely trust it 48 hours out for that matter. But they all are turning back to the left, and this water right here is 89 to 90 degrees. When that storm, if it’s still a storm after it goes over the D.R. and Haiti and Puerto Rico, if it’s still a big circulation, the intensity could rapidly go up as we see this storm into the Bahamas. We know it’s going to rain a lot, we know there’s going to be wind, ubt for now, we are watching the second part of the storm for the U.S., the first part for Puerto Rico."