From ABC News Headquarters in New York City, this is GMA3.

We're going to begin with a severe weather overnight storm slamming the Northeast and the looming tropical storm on its way to reaching major hurricane strength.

Ginger, you know, is tracking it all for us. Good morning, Jim.

Hey, good morning to you, Robin. So here's where we're going to start.

Tropical storm air now less than a thousand miles from the U.S. Virgin Islands. It's east of it,

and it's moving west. You say, uh-oh. Well, we anticipate a turn to the northwest as we see this

strengthen. It's about to go into much more favorable conditions, warmer water, less wind shear.

And that's why we think by the end of the weekend, we have a major hurricane on our hands passing just to the north of Puerto Rico. If you're in Puerto Rico, you might even see some of those outer bands lashing you. You absolutely will see high surf and big rip currents. This is the high pressure system that has been steering it. And why we think it will start to turn to the north is because that high pressure system weakens. We have a cold front here that's going to be moving through the northeast next midweek.

And so that will open a path for this to kind of squeeze between the two.

That said, I want everybody to enjoy their weekend on the East Coast and then pay close attention as we see updates

because every deviation west and, will impact you differently.

But I can assure everyone along the East Coast,

we will have really high surf and rip currents,

if not a little more, the closer it gets.

I know you've been talking about that,

really concerned about the rip currents.

How about those severe storms?

A lot of cancellations.

Right.

And so we had more than two dozen severe storm reports,

and it all came together to lead to travel chaos.

This morning severe storms triggering more than a thousand flight cancellations and more than 6,000 delays across the country.

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