the storm got stronger. it is now a category 2 hurricane. by the time it makes landfall on monday, it is on track to be a category 4. a catastrophic the storm is forecast to pack winds up to 130 miles per hour. now, exactly where dorian will come ashore is still unclear. look at this map. it could be anywhere from the florida keys to southern georgia. that's a stretch of about 500 miles. >> so flooding and storm surge are major concerns with this hurricane. as much as a foot of rain could fall in the hardest hit areas and the storm is still forecast to slow down significantly and stall over the state after making landfall. so we're talking life threatening storm surge along the east coast could cause significant flooding. to make matters worse, the highest tides expected in florida this weekend. this is the fourth straight year a hurricane has hit florida.

the most since the 1940s. president trump canceling his trip to poland to monitor what he says could be a monster of the storm. well, we've got you covered from reporters in west palm beach to daytona beach. i want to begin now with cnn's meteorologist chad myers because he's got the hurricane advisora. what are we looking at. >> julia, 140 at landfall. i think that's the big number. that's the big takeaway from the 5:00 advisory. as it is on land, it will lose a bit of its steam. we've had a wide cone for a long time. now because it's closer the cone is smaller and smaller. the uncertainty goes from the keys up to the space coast at this point in time. as you stated, it started o slow down. the currents in the upper atmosphere that pushes hurricanes around will fall apart. this is just inundated with rainfall. there'll be nothing to push it

along for about 48 hours. this is the 72-hour forecast. this is after midnight sunday night and monday morning 2:00 a.m. now we will move you ahead until tuesday. this is a midnight landfall. one of the worst things you can have is a dark landfall. u yo hear things moving. you don't know how big that thing was that just crashed. then all of a sudden it turns up to the north and centers itself close to orlando. that is the center of the line. let's think about this plus or minus 1 4ur00 miles. how many people are in that cone at 100 miles here and almost 200 miles from here to here? so let's draw this out. if you are considering that this is a pretty good line here, it could be here and still be in the cone. it could go all the way across the state and into the gulf of mexico and still be in the cone. that's what he problem is when we talk about a five-day forecast, what could happen later on in the forecast.

but overnight, the models acted astronomically. better than i've seen them act on this storm all together. the watches are now posted for the bahamas, but look at what's happening to the storm here. 105 miles per hour. moving to the northwest at 12. this is the spaghetti model. we call it that because there are so many lines. you could call it whatever you want. these are just all of the models plotted on top of each other. they are in good agreement for southern half of florida for landfall. even the gfs, the american model and the european model doing extremely the same this morning. somewhere around west palm for the american model. somewhere around west palm for the european model. i'm thinking this turns slightly farther to the right because it's going to slow down more quickly. but all of a sudden we have models in agreement because the noaa hurricane hunters went out there and did their job for us and put their lives on the line. sfl so that's reducing some of the uncertainty here which i think is good news here.

but we've been saying all along there's a chance here that this hurricane stalls, that it's land fixed now over florida here. what's that going to mean in terms of rainfall here? because we've seen that problem in the past. >> 20 inches. >> wow. >> 20 inches of rain on top of the storm surge that you may have which is the salt water flooding. there will be inland fresh water flooding from all of that rain. this is the european model putting down this purple 10 to 20, even 20 in jacksonville. nowhere near where it makes landfall. but on up, it slows down more into georgia. now let's take a look at the america model. what does it do for rainfall? again, purple and white. now, the purple centers near lake okeechobee. that's 10 to 15 inches there. even not near the center of the eye, if you will, there still will be tremendous amounts of rainfall with this. >> all right, chad. we're going to come back to you a lot over the next three hours. i think everyone's got a lot of

questions about the forecast, what that data all means, and what they should be doing right now. please stand by and keep us posted. >> i will. >> obviously florida has seen so many dangerous hurricanes. residents, many of them know what to do. they're stocking up. we've seen the lines stretching out the door. rosa flores is live in west palm beach outside a home depot with the latest there. rosa? >> we just moved inside the store, just opened. but the line started forming an area earlier because most people are looking for generators. you can see right now everybody has picked up their generators. because people are paying for the generators at this hour. most of them looking for gas cans, plywood, extension cords. all of those essential items. the state of florida, of course, preparing the governor issued a

state of emergency across all 67 counties. 2500 national guardsmen have been activated. another 1500 are on standby. the state preparing for this hurricane as the state of florida always does. 800,000 gallons of water have been prestaged. another 1.8 million meals are also prestaged ready for distribution, again, waiting for the hurricane to make landfall. you can see behind me that people are still paying for these generators here, john and julia. but florida bracing for the worst here in west palm. >> we're talking about millions people up the coast a stretch of 500 miles. they all have to get ready because there's so much uncertainty about where it will make landfall. thank you. stand by for us. florida beaches.

this is a holiday weekend. they're normally packed this time of year. and this hurricane is already disrupting plans for millions of people. travelers now scrambling, what do you do? do i leave early? nick valencia live on the boardwalk in daytona beach with the latest there. nick? >> reporter: good morning, john. for those who are still planning on coming to florida this weekend, you're in for a nerve-racking weekend. this would typically be one of the busiest holiday weekends. we have checked with the airlines and airports to see if there's any closures or reports of cancellations. so far we haven't heard that. the airlines, some of them, are offering to waive the ticket change fees. hotel group is offering distressed rates for those in florida, maybe further south in florida planning to evacuate north. this storm is three days away

but making a lot of people nervous. we've heard of cruise lines rerouting the track of their ships. also college football is back. florida state and boise state were expected to play a game in jacksonville this weekend. that venue has changed further north towards tallahassee. another thing we're keeping an eye on are orlando theme parks. they've only closed a handful of times, the last time was for hurricane matthew in 2016. we have checked in with a couple of restaurant owners and local businesses here. i spoke to one yesterday who said his message for those who are watching here in florida, listen to those emergency management officials. >> thanks so much for that. all right. joining us now, someone who's been making reltsed decisions here. the mayor of jacksonville, florida. his city had flooding from hurricane irma. great to have you with us. i know you were just listening to that and you've been part of the decision making, shifting

the college football game in particular. tell me about your biggest concern right now and what preparations you're making. >> good morning. thanks for the opportunity to share and communicate with the public. this model has changed dramatically in the last couple of days. a few days ago it looked like we were going to take a direct hit. now it looks like it would make landfall south of us and moving towards us really slow. just people remain vigilant and stay tuned. just because things have slowed down, we don't want people to tune out. most important thing we want people to know is there is an evacuation zone. in the event we have to evacuate, we don't want them scrambling trying to figure out where that is. they can go to jacksready.com to find that. making sure they're stocked up on all the supplies people need. people seem to be heeding that advice. we need to stay the course. this can be a roller coaster as you follow these models, but we're just going to continue to

prepare and work with our governor and take care of the people of jacksonville. >> we saw and we just mentioned there you had record flooding two years ago. so you've seen what it takes to prepare for this and what the aftermath looks like. what preparations are you making here? we were talking about up to 20 inches potentially coming here. >> we have our public works team out. they're trying to mitigate any potential shutdowns of that due to the storm effects. but the key is to make sure our people are safe. that is they hear us, they listen to us. if we have to evacuate the top two zones which are zones "a" and "b," that's about 2r50,000 people. imagine evacuating a quarter million people at the same time when you could have evacuations happening south of us, people moving in our direction. that's probably the top thing that led us to move the florida

state/boise state game to tallahassee. to make sure we had clear roads for evacuations. >> and also 30,000 visitors as well. >> that's right. >> tell me about the conversations you've had with the governor as well. you just mentioned that. and the white house team working on this. what assistance are they providing at this stage? >> this is my third storm in four years. we work very closely with the governor. it's a great relationship. i was with him yesterday and the day before. he was here yesterday. we're talking about, you know, making sure we're up to date on bridge closures, if there's an evacuation coordinating to make sure traffic's not clogged because of all the people moving around the state. access to resourcing and funds. direct work with the state, the governor, the white house liaison reached out to me last night as they always do when we face a crisis situation. that we have direct access to them if we need them.

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all right. president trump has canceled his trip to poland this weekend he says to monitor hurricane dorian. he has come under scrutiny in the difference to his response to florida rather than when it was headed to puerto rico. there was criticism. joining us no errol louis and joe lockhart and rachael bade. unclear how much the president was dying to go to poland. that said, with the size of dorian coming to florida, almost had to cancel. >> exactly right. you're talking hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets, millions of lives, a high-profile and frankly politically necessary territory that he's going to try to cover. he won florida by, like, less than 1.5%. and it's a state that's going to be critical to his re-election.

so you'll line up all of those realities being in poland for a commemoration at the start of world war ii is not as important as making sure that his citizens are safe and his political aspirations are also safe. >> it is interesting that keeping the citizens safe didn't seem to be a priority when it was headed to make a direct hit on puerto rico. and they've noticed. >> yeah. there's no doubt that the president doesn't view puerto rico as part of the united states. he doesn't view people who didn't vote for him as important. and he doesn't view people who aren't white as important as everyone else. that's just -- it's that simple. we don't need any more examples of how he views the word. and that's unfortunate. on the other hand, it is right for him to stay here. and it's not just symbolic. there are times you remember in -- with katrina where there were problems between state and local and federal and the

president can sort those things out. he can get on the phone and get people to work together. so it is symbolically the right thing to do, but it's also the right thing for the president to do. >> so all americans matter, but some americans matter more than most when they have electoral college votes is perhaps what we're arguing here. rachael, come in here. what do you think? >> i think democrats welcome the president staying here when a hurricane is coming and potentially fwoi lly going to r upset florida and life there. they don't want to see the disparaged treatment when it comes to hurricanes or wildfires. you remember the president when california wuss deas dealing wi those wildfires in california, he suggested he was going to withhold aid to california. ultimately he gave that aid, but again it just sort of comes down to why is he picking on some areas and not others. democrats point to puerto rico and say, look. this is a place that is still recovering from hurricane maria where 3,000 people died.

and the president, you know, as this hurricane was barrelling toward puerto rico tried to suggest that, oh, we've already given them $93 billion in aid. that's a falsehood, first of all. they've only received about $13 billion. they're still really struggling. why is it with puerto rico he can't seem to want to help? but when it comes to florida, a swing state he needs to win in 2020, he's jumping at the first opportunity to do what he thinks is right. >> all right. let's walk through the adventure that is the joe biden story he has been telling for some time about a medal that he pinned on an afghan war vet. first, let's play one of the versions of the story that he told just last week. >> this guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire and the general wanted me to spin the silver star on him. i went to pin him and he said i do not want the damn thing.

do not do that. he died. he died. >> all right. so "the washington post" was the first to fact check this in an article they published. this is what the post says. in the space of three minutes, biden got the time wrong, the location, the heroic act, the medal, and the rank of the recipient wrong as well as his own role in the ceremony. one element of biden's story is rooted in an actual event. in 2011 the vice president did pin a medal on a heartbroken soldier, army staff sergeant chad workman who didn't believe he deserved the award. so there is a story of biden pinning a medal, just not exactly the one he was telling in the way he was telling it which was biden's defense of it now when he was asked about all this overnight. let's play that. >> i was making the point how courageous these people are, how incredible they are, this generation of warriors.

these fallen angels we've lost. and so that -- i don't know what the problem is. i mean, what is it that i said wrong? >> the details were wrong, errol. that's the problem there. now, the thrust of the story, the theme of the story may be right, but he didn't get the details right. so what? >> true but not accurate. right? those kind of distinctions can get you into a lot of trouble on the campaign trail. if you're saying -- you know, what i said wasn't true but it was the truth in some capital "t." which is kind of what he's saying. the point is i think it's not going to necessarily resonate and not necessarily going to damage joe biden, right? it's not like he made up something in some malicious way that it grandizes him. he doesn't say anything. it's really about the situation. it's about what goes on with the afghanistan war, what goes on with the valor that the troops show. what goes on with the foreign

policy which is the real point here. what does he want to do? how is he going to end the forever war? that sort of a thing. i think that's what voters are going to focus on. not so much whether he got the branch of the military service right or the name of the veteran right. >> or the time or the medal or the location or the person or the event. come on. >> the most important thing he loses is his ability to say if he was going to try and do this in a campaign and if he is, indeed, the nominee that donald trump is losing. it donald trump doesn't have command of the facts. he doesn't have a grasp of the details. that ability to say that sort of goes out the window. >> but he basically said he wasn't nuts in south carolina. so he's feeling the pressure of the number of gaffes that we keep calling them that he's p k making here. is this just in the price as far as joe biden's concerned here? >> yeah, i think there's a couple of things here. i've worked in politics for a long time and i don't know any

politician who doesn't amalgamate stories to tell a story. this is very different than, for example, president trump at the g7 saying his team had conversations with the chinese on the trade war when, in fact, there were no conversations and his aides admitted that this was done to try to boost the stock market. that's just a direct lie. but there are a couple things i think are worrisome. one, outside of joe biden's control, which is this. once the media picks up a narrative, they can find on example of it in every story. the second is in his control. i think he needs to do better when he makes a mistake of saying, i made a mistake. i'm sorry i made a mistake. but this guy's a hero. i told the story wrong. there's a nagging problem, i think, with biden to push back aggressively when he's made a mistake rather than saying i got the story wrong. >> rachael, you wanted in here.

>> i think this is one of the most fascinating ple ining poli studies of 2020. it's trump has changed the standard on what politicians say and whether it's 100% accurate. we at "the washington post" have a running tally of 12,000 false or leading statements the president has made when he was sworn into office. democrats are different. and democrats sort of pride themselves on fact checking and making sure things are right typically. so the question is do democratic voters hold this against biden? i think it's pretty clear biden was confused. there were three different instances where, you know, he was either giving an award or hearing a story and he's clearly got jumbled and mixed up there. that also opens him up to an attack by president trump who's going to try to paint these gaffes and confusions as him not

being there and you shouldn't vote for joe biden. it will be interesting to see if democrats can get away with it in the same way that trump largely has with his own base. >> it's interesting because julia brought up how biden dealt with it on the stage in a way. biden doesn't seem worried about this at least publicly. listen. >> i think the number is somewhere between one school psychologist for every 1500 to 1700 children. i don't want to set an exact number because the press will say biden is losing his mind, he didn't remember. >> is the joe biden adventure or experience all priced in already? >> well, that's the key question. and also to rachael's point here, is the bar lowered now? and are the democrats going to be held to a higher standard here of at least pulling the correct facts together even if the story's a good one. >> i think rachael makes the

right point that democrats are holding themselves to a higher standard. but there is this sort of equivalency we all have in the media. in 2016, no matter what trump said or did, the answer was well what about hillary's emails. and there were as many stories about hillary's emails as donald trump's bigotry. we know now that was a mistake on all of our parts. but democrats do need to hold themselves to a standard. i'll come back to it. joe biden are going to say things that are inaccurate. >> they were wrong. he got the story wrong. it's not nuanced. he got the story wrong. >> yes. he got the story wrong and what he needs to do is to say my heart's in the right place, i got the details wrong. and i think the single problem and again i'm repeating myself is not that he got the story wrong. because he was making a point and the story fit his point. when he realizes he mixed three stories up together, he's got to be able to say, hey, i mixed it up. sorry about that. >> you're ape lowed to repeat yourself, joe.

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okay. new this morning, hurricane dorian is rapidly intensifying as it takes aim at florida. it's forecast to become a huge, very powerful hurricane before making landfall with winds of 130 miles per hour or stronger. cnn meteorologist chad myers is back with us. chad, i want you to tell us where at this point we think this storm is headed. i know we're dealing with 500 miles here, but the models have come into greater agreement. >> absolutely have, john. we are somewhere now plus or

minus a hundred miles from where the center of the line would be to the outside of the cone here to the outside of the cone here. now because the storm is getting closer, the models get better and the cone gets smaller and smaller. by the time it gets there, our cone would even be smaller. that's just how it works. this is going to come on shore 140 miles per hour storm. this is just where we think the middle will be. it'll lose a little steam on shore but that's because it's on shore at 130. really landfall will be in that category 4 hurricane. consequences will be significant. destruction will be catastrophic. it will be time to get out of that area as soon as we know what that area is. and then it begins to slow down and in 24 hours it doesn't even make it to orlando. now, this thing still could, john, because of the cone and the way it works. we could be all the way off shore and miss or go all the way

across the state and be on the other side into the gulf of mexico. you can see where the cone still is. it's because at orlando the number one over that area, that is still five days away. five days to watch this thing lumber across a very warm atmosphere. i don't see an eye this morning. and that's good. if you don't see the eye, that means the storm isn't getting bigger. it isn't getting deeper. it isn't getting stronger. but as you mentioned, talking about the models, they are all in agreement now. southern half of florida for landfall and then turning to the right. now, will the turn be slightly earlier or later? you know, that's still to be seen. that's still 70 hours away. but the models came into agreement overnight. finally because they have been d dycotimous. why did this happen? because there was a gulf stream g4 in the atmosphere yesterday

before the models ran. that gulf stream flew out of tampa, came through, sampled the entire atmosphere around the storm and then went back home. now, it wasn't through the middle. it did not go through the core. what it did in its path was drop these little parachutes onto the surface of the ocean from 40,000 or 50,000 feet up. so this is like a weather balloon that goes up but it just goes down. now we have weather balloon data, essentially, all the way through the atmosphere here. and they put that into the models and the models said thank you very much, here is your answer. and that's where we are right now. >> just to be clear and i know that the entire peninsula needs to be on alert and all the way up to georgia, but when we talk about the southern shift of the forecast, that's a big deal. >> it is. >> because as it drifts further south, you're dealing with the major population centers of the

state. correct? >> no question. absolutely no question. miami-dade, broward, now you have increased the population from let's say juno beach to now millions or tens of millions of people in the way. it's a lot like when andrew was heading towards miami but ended up hitting homestead. homestead was destroyed but would you imagine what happened to downtown miami. this is what we're talking about. as the models shift farther and farther south, do they continue that? do they continue that southern shift or do they finally say no this is our answer, this is where it's going to go? doesn't matter. there's going to be 10 to 20 inches of rainfall. there's going to be trees down, destruction all over florida. you need to pay attention to this. this is a big deal. >> yeah. big deal. plenty of uncertainty. chad, we'll be back with you later. thank you for that. all right. coming up, a big development in iowa overnight that could put this state's first in the nation

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major shakeup in the democrat nominating calendar here. stick with me. the des moines register reports that the democratic national committee will reject iowa's plan to allow registers democrats to participate over the phone due to security concerns. now, iowa had implemented a plan to accommodate a new dnc rule requiring caucus states to allow some form of absentee voting. iowa is the first in the nation to caucus, but new hampshire is the first primary. by law new hampshire is the first primary. new hampshire law. so iowa must now figure out a way to let iowa democrats vote without being present and have to make sure it differentiates from how the primary system works to new hampshire can still call itself the first primary. i know it sounds kovcomplicated here, but it's not impossible as we wake up this morning that iowa doesn't go first. joining us now, michael

smerconish. that was a very complicated run-up, but it's sort of like the guns of august. unintended consequences here. i doubt it will happen. i think they'll figure it out. but it will be giant if iowa managed not to be first. >> iowa will not go quietly into that night. every four years it seems there's some discussion independent of the issue that you're addressing as to whether other states will leapfrog iowa and new hampshire. and john, each time that's raised, they make it very clear they will move their dates as far forward as necessary because they don't want to relinquish that control. i'm looking at this in terms of which of the candidates benefit? if in fact they limit the ability to participate by phone. and here's my headline. passion wins. it requires commitment to show up at the caucus. that's one of the complaints. that it takes too long and if you're unavailable that night, then you're shut out of the process. there's a different level of

passion of support for these candidates. someone like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, and to the detriment of a joe biden. biden may have more breadth of support, but not the level of passion among the bernie folks. >> some of the polls around this suggested the virtual caucuses could add 30% more here. >> i don't have the data at my fingertips, but i remember covering four years ago both iowa and new hampshire in 2016. and being surprised at the relative few people who participate. you would think with all of that attention heaped upon you, if you live in iowa or you live in new hampshire and you have not had a personal interaction with one of the 20 or so presidential candidates, that's on you. because they are at a local coffee class.

they are in your neighborhood. when it's said and done, you would think they have 80% participation. but they don't. >> someone asked a new hampshire voter what do you think of mo udall and he said i don't know. i've only met him twice. that's the gist of pit. we have the debate stage layout for the next democratic debate. it will just be ten candidates. not two nights of debates, just one night with ten candidates. but look at the center. the matchup that people have been waiting for. the former vice president joe biden standing right next to senator elizabeth warren. what do you see? >> well, to her advantage, finally that she gets in the same camera shot as the former vice president. if you're not on that stage, there's just no oxygen left in the tent for you. you've got to be on the debate stage in order to be a viable candidate. so the ten who were cut short i think are out. it still remains to joe biden's

advantage to have eight others besides he and elizabeth warren on that stage. the longer it's a crowded field, the more his run as a front runner continues on. unlike what we saw in 2016 with the republicans when they had a similar issue of so many on stage, in the end it's winner take all for the republicans. in this process, it's proportionate. meaning as long as the ten remain on that stage, this could go on for quite some time. indeed, all the way to the convention. >> how does elizabeth warren handle the is? is it too early for her to go hostile and try to narrow the lead that joe biden has in the polls now? because what we saw last time around was kamala harris taking on joe biden, didn't work out so well after all. >> timing is everything. you don't want to peak too soon. i think that the trajectory of where she stands at this moment suits her very well. now, i will also say that i don't think that she's yet been under the media make neemedia mt

from the heritage issue. that time will also come and it remains to see how she withstands that level of scrutiny. i think your very satisfied and slow and steady wins that race. >> i want you to weigh in on what you talked about joe biden. "the washington post" spotory about biden pinning a medal on a veteran. the details were not correct. but a point was made there have been a number of things in this campaign people wondering would it hurt joe biden. the debate performance was one of them. the issues with proximity to women. that was another one. but nothing seems to make a dent in his lead in the democratic race. voters don't seem to care. so is there any reason to believe they would care about this? >> you know, memory is a tricky thing. and from my days as a trial lawyer, memory i'm reminded is

not just always as secure as we'd think. hence your mo udall story. i think the damage to joe biden is in the long-term. in the short-term, is that really going to disrupt the dynamics of this race? no, it won't. but in the long-term, will it be a factor that people take into consideration when evaluating his age and fitness? i suspect it's going to get filed away somewhere in our consciousness. >> does he get challenged on it as well in the debate? we'll see. >> all right. thank you for being with us this morning. all right. coming up, tensions between iran and israel escalating and the threat of full-blown war hanging over the region. we'll tell you about the stark warning israel just had for leb bonn next. is just a button. that a speaker is just a speaker. or - that the journey can't be the destination. most people haven't driven a lincoln.

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welcome back to the show. the conflict between israel and iran is escalating. israel now threatening lebanon warning even civilians there will be at risk if lebanese government does not move to protect hezbollah from

developing guided missiles. >> reporter: israeli forces on lebanon's border already on high alert. then this. >> translator: i told our enemies this week be careful of what you do and today i tell them. >> reporter: arabic for watch out. this hezbollah team launching a drone attack from syria into israel. two days later, the israelis said they flattened this compound in syria to prevent more drone operations. and was accused of attacking hezbollah sites with their own drones in beirut. now a warning of possible attack from israel from lebanon where hezbollah are based. >> they are endangering the lebanese state by trying to manufacture guided missiles in lebanon. >> reporter: increased tensions play well with mr. netanyahu. he's campaigning for elections next month.

>> with this, they can neutralize the infrastructure of israel. and this is why it is so important not to let them have it. it is very important not to let them build capabilities in lebanon. >> reporter: israel has warned it would strike to avoid just that. but doing so could risk a much wider war. concurrent with this, there's been a propaganda campaign on social media even at one point suggesting that hezbollah had waze type applications that could deliver bombs into israeli homes at the touch of an iphone, john. >> thanks so much for being there for us. such a deadly combination of factors there. i don't think i've seen anything like that in that region for

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serena williams. she's now the youngest american to reach the round of 32 at the u.s. open since 1991. and there is little doubt who the fan favorite is at flushing meadows. >> i mean, it gets me super pumped and i'm like, wow. i'm really so grateful i'm playing in front of all you guys and you actually believe in me. this is just the beginning, i promise. i promise to ought fight for you guys. >> osaka meanwhile taking care of business. the world number one player, she had some star power in her box. kobe bryant and colin kaepernick were there watching her win. when it comes to the matchup, the odds heavily stacked against coco. making her debut in a grand slam has defeated a seeded number one. they're 0-67 in those matches. but coco no stranger to making

history. >> so she's due. that says it's all due. does she know how to work a crowd or what? thanks for being with us. we have a big change in the track and intensity of hurricane dorian. "new day" continues right now. all right. welcome to the viewers in the united states and all around the world. alisyn is on assignment. julia chatterley joins me this morning. hurricane dorian has gained strength overnight and is heading directly at florida. we are standing by for a new update from the national hurricane center in just minutes. let's tell you what happened overnight. as we said, dorian got stronger. it is now a category 2 storm. 105 mile-per-hour winds. it is expected to become a catastrophic category 4 storm. winds ash