Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight, our breaking news.

A brand new forecast for Hurricane Adalia, the storm rapidly intensifying as it's lashing

Florida ahead of what is fear to be a catastrophic landfall on the state's west coast in just

a matter of hours. Potentially deadly storm surge in hurricane conditions expected not

only tonight, but also tomorrow. I just say that the surge could be a once in a lifetime

event. Adalia is now a category two with maximum winds of 110 miles an hour. It's now forecast

to become a powerful category four before landfall tomorrow morning. We've got 49 Florida

counties that are under states of emergency as we speak. And as they are waiting to see

what the next few hours will bring. We'll be covering everything as only CNN can tonight.

We've got teams out across the entire storm zone. We've got Chad Myers in the CNN Weather

Center. Carlos Suarez is in Tampa. Brian Todd is in St. Marks, Florida and Gloria Pazmino

is in clear water. I want to get right now to the brand new forecast with Chad Myers

in the weather center. What's happening? Just the new banner from the National Hurricane

Center. Just saying that this will be a 130 mile per hour category four at landfall. And

so that's not going to change the surge much. Some surges have gone from 10 to 15. Now

they pushed them up to 12 to 16. Let me show you where they are. There is the eye and

it is a dangerous eye. When you see an eye on a hurricane, it is either really remaining

very, very strong or gaining strength. And because we haven't seen an eye all day, now

we know that this is in the gaining strength category. Hurricane hunters are flying back

and forth through it. But look at that impressive eye right there. This storm is just gaining

more strength. So going from one 10 to 130 just in the next really nine hours is going

to be an impressive intensification here as the category four right there. Not that

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